From @sargonas on Discord :
We are aware that that forum has grown a little unruly and unmoderated over the past few months. We have attempted to reach out to the forum’s owner to let them know that their right to use chia in the name is in jeopardy if they don’t put a steady hand back in controlling their community…
We have established some deadlines in our communications and are trying to get them to acknowledge and/or respond to do something about this. If they do not, we will take things to the next step and presumably revoke the right to use the Chia name.
The problem is that when the owner of the site is apparently MIA, our options are limited since if we revoke the name, it doesn’t actually mean anything short of requiring the owner to take the name off the site… Which if they are mia we can’t exactly do that now. Can we?
There are other options we have beyond that but they are very lengthy for us to enact, think on the scale of weeks and months to get formal/legal resolution on. We already set down this path a week or two back when this first came up , but the options of what we can do in the short time are very limited unfortunately. This is simply the reality of the situation and we’re doing what we have the power to do in the background, which is unfortunately quite limited at the end of the day because we simply have no control over that site.
This forum is probably going to close in the next few months. I’m not happy, but it’s better than newbies being scammed.