The forum administrator at seca2.forumup.com (a motorcycle forum) has not been active in years and we can't get a hold of him. While the site has a small community, we are pretty active and would like to change the organization of some things. I would like moderator capabilities and if I could be given some information on how to contact the admin I'd appreciate it. If there is no information on him, what is the process I need to follow to become a moderator (or, if necessary, admin)? Can I be appointed by staff at forumup central?

Hello, Pseudonym
The link you provided leads to a non-existing forum. Please, check it and give the correct URL of the forum.

The only way to become a moderator or admin is to get appointed by the current forum admin. You have to contact the admin and ask him to give you permissions. Try sending him a private message or an email through the form on the forum.

The only contact information ForumUp staff can see is the email used by the admin for the creation of the forum. You can request this email address by one of the staff administrators on .com. However, this is private information and they may decide not to share it with you.

It is not ForumUp staff's business to appoint moderators and admins on personal forums. It would be highly unethical to allow regular users to take over forums. People create forums for a specific reason and we cannot be sure that the user's intentions will not be in conflict with that reason. Imagine that the forum admin is unable to visit the forum, but if we suddenly comes online, he would not be happy to see his forum messed up.

If you cannot contact the admin, remember that you can always start a forum on yourself and invite the users from the first one to join.

Thank you for the information! Very helpful, complete response and in short time as well. I will continue to attempt to contact the admin and if I can't get a hold of him I will talk to the other members of the current forum and see about setting up a new one. Again, thanks for the help!