The thing with the boards as they are now, is that "Activist" is just too vague. You can go in here at any given time and who knows what threads you will see. Everything from religion, spirituality, politics, diet, news articles,etc. are being discussed. Even a couple UFO posts sprinkled in for good measure. Of course you can do searches, but with its own site, these forums could be subdivided further. And it wouldn't have to stop there. The forums could be the core of it but you could have staff writers, interviews, point-counterpoint debates, real-time chat, maybe even organize events of (y)our own. And of course you could always branch out later into publishing after establishing more of an audience. This might be more than you had in mind, but I'm just saying the possibilities are out there.
3 Problems I see is :
• I wouldn't want this to become some great schism from this site, some sort of exodus of the okayactivists starting up their own thing. We would have to work together with Okayplayer in some manner each party saw fit.
• It cannot, simply CANNOT be unilateral. To do this would be failure.
• And here's a BIG problem for me : How do you go about respecting everyone's right to free speech while still maintaining some sort of validity of information ? This site would be a huge responsibility in that your whole purpose is to educate. Now as much good information as there is on here, there's a whoooole lot of misinformation. And ultimately very few if any of us would be recognized as "experts" in the academic world or any other world besides okayplayer.com. And yet now some propose publishing a book or starting a site for others to learn from. Sure you could put all the disclaimers up that you want, but I think more measures would need to be taken. Like at least provide users with some means of locating the original source of the information (books), if law won't permit actually posting the information on the site.
Anyways.... somewhere in all this there is a good idea. So keep "building" as you kids like to say.
peace