Everything I'm going to write here is written as a forum member, not as a member of the staff.

I appreciate a few things you've done here- foremost being the restoration of the original forum posts. There was a great bit of history lost when they were removed, and I'm very pleased to see them re-emerge. I see you've also hidden the posts that were intended to be private, so kudos for that.

Frankly though, at this point I don't see any reason to view an active Brickfilms.com as anything but a competitor. We can claim that BiM and BF can coexist, and they can in the short run, but eventually it seems likely that one will obtain a position of dominance and the other will die off. It's unfortunate, but both sites serve identical functions in what is already a niche community. Personally, it seems to me that BiM is the clear leader in the race for relevance, despite TaaB's claim that "Brickfilms is still the biggest and best resource for Lego movies on the web". As far as I can tell, Brickfilms.com has little to no (current)user-created resources in its heralded resources section; the vast majority of your content was written by people who have either moved on from the hobby entirely or now primarily visit BiM. Brickfilms.com's primary draw isn't what it is- it's what it was.

As an aside, how receptive would you be to requests from the original content-creators to remove those articles from the site? I don't mean this to sound rude; I'm genuinely curious about the site's current policy.

Look, it's great that someone who appears to be enthusiastic about brickfilming is trying to actively participate in the hobby, but I think you (and everyone else reading this post) should really consider whether attempting to revive the largely opaque and thus far terribly managed website that Brickfilms.com has become is really the best way to move the hobby forward. Regardless, I think everyone should be aware that in my opinion, Brickfilms.com and BricksinMotion are in direct competition. I believe the community behind each site will be the primary factor in deciding which remains relevant going into the future.