I'm not going to call anyone out in particular, but that's exactly what I said. Almost every board was created to offer the *good* posters of the PD an alternative to a board where a few extremely vocal minority dickheads try to ruin their experience.
This is the internet where people get to come and go as they please. Offer people a better alternative and they will flock there. That's the free market system at its finest.
If your site sucks and people leave then it's your own damn fault. You then have two choices, 1) fix it and moderate it, or 2) circle the wagons, whine and point fingers at others.
As someone who didn't want to switch forums at all, I am thrilled with this place. At RamsTalk you had a front page of 12 topics with at best maybe 3 or 4 that weren't just Hating on Bradford or Hijacked at some point by just a few posters. Take away RamBill and there was even less. The Hijacking is the worst to me. As much as I now like this site I don't think you are drawing people here (which I imagine is very hard to do.) as much as they are driving people away. You have a great site here. Keep up the good work!
There are three important aspects to having a good site:
1) the coding and software makes it easy for the member to access and use the site. One example: have you noticed that there aren't 15 or more quotes that you have to wade through before arriving at the post you want to read? That is by design. Have you noticed how easily this site loads? RamsTalk has always been a power sucker on my pc's. That's fixable but has been ignored over there for years.
2. content - RamBill, myself and others make sure that the latest news is posted here a.s.a.p.
There are different sections were those articles and posts are placed in order to keep things organized for the reader.
3) good moderation - no one here is breathing down anyone's neck so that they will conform and be a happy camper. But if someone has an agenda to tick people off day after day, post after post, they will be dealt with.
Once a new member has 100 posts he can take part in the self-moderation here by clicking the inappropriate button in a post. Once enough of those inappropriates have accumulated, that post is sent to the mods who can delete it or let it stay. What could be fairer than that?
If an admin or mod in a site doesn't want to put in the time, money, and effort to address those three areas, then they should just shut the heck up, and certainly they shouldn't be baffled that members are coming over here instead of staying on their site.
