In addition to the three webmasters from both sites administrating the forum, there is also a neutral party which administrates as a safety net to keep either website from gaining too much power.
In fact, iSoaker.com is now planning on joining and supporting Water-Talk once he comes back. Here's what he's said on his forums...
I encourage all of you to check out Water-Talk, but don't stop posting here! This place needs you to talk as much as ever!Just to clarify why I've put up notices on some of the forums here. Basically, once I'm back more consistently (~2 weeks from now), I'll be revising the set-up of these forums in part to support the growth and development of the Water-Talk.org forums as well as to streamline this place. For me, I never wanted to run a full-fledged community forum off of iSoaker.com. The creation of a more open-concept forum for the community is good (at least, it looks alright so far). As well, I'd like to take some time to let others do their part in shaping the future of online Soakerdom and I'll be taking a back-seat community-wise for the time being. This break will also give me more time to do some developments on iSoaker.com, itself, that I've been wanting to do. Of course, this all must wait until after I resume normal online activity. While I've posted a fair amount in the past couple of days, I doubt I'll be posting more for awhile after this post.
I will, however, be leaving this board running. It will serve as an online submission medium as well as being a back-up message board people can consult in the event there are problems on other servers. I have put up notices to forewarn members of some of the changes I have in mind, but they are not necessarily the only parts that will change.
As for Water-talk.org, I'll properly join there once I'm on more regularly (~2 weeks). 'til then, Soak on!