Im not even going to sit on the fence on this one.
Yes i don't know what way geo spoke to any of the staff ect, but none of that actually matters.
If you were all that aggrieved by it then by all means go start a new forum, but for gods sake start it from scratch,
and don't rip it from his forum.
Socks if your as capable as what's being made out and kept his site going when it had problems, then you should have been able to do so no problem.
And if the majority of members wanted it to happen as is being insinuated, then there would have been no need to rip all the user accounts on to your new site either.
Behind all the smoke and mirrors of, oh geo hurt our feelings with nasty words, the spite all of the staff had to do that to him still shows through.
In my opinion all you have done is tainted your new site from the start and ruined the fresh start you claim everyone wanted.
One of the first things you are taught as a child is two wrongs don't make a right, it is apparent this was forgotten in this case.
I don't buy any of the excuses for what was done, because of the way it was went about.
And yes im Scottish, but i dont know geo as Scotland is more that 3 miles square.