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‘Give it to Retro.’ I was told.
A reasonable suggestion, though it never seemed to be presented as a suggestion by people, more some sort of order.
Unfortunately when thinking about that I remembered the reaction to our discovery of the ‘Proto Blaze’ picture – namely that despite being a community mainstay for years our word apparently meant nothing on the subject. Unless it was discovered by someone more important it was fake. As much as I like the guys there, I admit their community reaction was a factor as I mulled the decision over and ultimately decided no. What then? Give it to our friends at Sonic Stadium? They're not in the position to go through this stuff either. Crikey they've been trying to get their Media section organised for as long as I've known them. I'm not sure me dumping probably terabytes of stuff on them is going to help matters. I'm not saying this stuff is some sort of holy grail, but if we've been custodian of it all this time I want it sorted properly.
That seems a bit unfair. He's getting mad because of people's reactions on the forums, even though most of them have nothing to do with the actual running of the site?. And the second half of the topic (which is only two pages long) is about "no, guys this image is real, there's no reason for AAUK to fake it?" If it was a sprawling 20-page topic claiming that everything Kevin Eva ever said was wrong (like over at the official Sega message boards when people complained about him saying certain games weren't canon), I could see him being more upset about it. But this? Eh. Seems like a non-event. Really, the only thing I questioned in that topic was people getting super excited over his own fan conjecture about when the image could have been drawn, and if it had anything to do with Sonic Adventure 2 based on the color scheme. But even then, he never said "oh yes this was drawn in the year 2000," he just made an idle comment and people ran with it.
At the end of the day, if he wants to just slowly reupload it over on tumblr, fine. But there's a reason the wiki connected to this site is referenced by many people. If given a pile of data, people are going to go through it, sort it, and archive it in the most accessible way possible, even if sometimes real life makes that uploading slow. I know if a terabyte of images dropped into my lap, I'd get super excited and go through it, even if there are alot of things in there that we probably already have backed up on the wiki.
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