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Thursday Apr 03, 2008

The Dominatrix

I'm sad to say that our Digital Interactive Services Director Dom Waghorn will be waving goodbye to TheSite.org at the end of this week. You may be wondering - what's the big deal? People come and go from jobs all the time. This change is a big deal though as Dom has pretty much become part of the furniture at TheSite towers having notched up a grand total of 9.5 years 'service'! So if you count backwards then you'll soon realise that Dom was involved in TheSite.org when the internet was a creaky and let's face it, pretty ugly, domain. This means that he's seen a lot of changes and helped shape the website to create the brilliant resource we've come to know and love.

Anyway, that's enough from me. I asked some TheSite.org users who have been kicking around for a fair while to share their thoughts on his departure. Here's what they had to say:

Aladdin

"Thank you very much for a splending job for all these years! It seems you were at the helm when the internet had barely been invented. Moderating a forum cannot be an easy job at the best of times, specially one catered to helping young people.

All the best for the future!"

Man of Kent

"What can I say about Dom?

Those of us who have been on the boards for years now have missed his witty inputs over the past couple of years as he's moved to other jobs in YouthNet. That doesn't mean that we won't be disappointed to hear that he's finally completed the tunnel and is on his way out of "thesite towers".

Seriously, for a Charlton (ha!) supporting colonial, he was alright I suppose."

go_away

One of my favourite Dom moments came from that satirical article published by the register:

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The editor of the site, Dominic Waghorn - obviously a pseudonym for some drug-crazed Nazi - attempted to justify his site thus: "We try to provide information and advice. We don't tell people how to live their lives or what is right or wrong." Ridiculous. How would people know what to do if we didn't tell them? It'd be bloody anarchy.

I'm trying not to write from a perspective as if I was writing an obituary, but Dom put so much into TheSite.org and I'm sure hundreds of people (including myself) benefitted in the many ways that TheSite has to offer. I was 17 when I joined, I'm still rattling about at 24, which says a lot about the community that was created, and the effort put in from the people above, much of which came from the Dominatrix!  

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