But that is not the truth though Planet Louise.
The owners of AFF decided to not be as involved but in leaving AFF pretty much to its own devices (Gareth was heavily involved in his litesim.com project and Amy was raising her baby) the forum membership basically had to run the place and chase off trolls and protect and look after the membership.
Now like anything there is going to be times when "the victim" has said something crass, sexist or nasty and others will jump on them. Now being that the people jumping on the are the more active posters and the more expressive, passionate, vocal and opinionated, they are likely to be backed by others in the community who think similarly. Friendships certainly were developed. There was a lot of really good stuff and good memories on the site.
Why Amy decided to do what she did is something only she knows but trying to call out "bad cliques" or "mobs" or whatever is pretty ignorant and not fair or nice.
If you listen to the people who left or were banned, you will hear of people that their forum and a second home to many in a two week period was wrecked and that the reasons for some of the de-moddings, bannings, deleted posts and whatever were either not expressed, badly expressed, irrational or without merit.
Yet here are you guys saying "Hey come to Wrongplanet, unless you are part of that separatist corrupting movement and therefore troublemakers. Kinda mean-spirited.
If you listen you will find plenty of "victims" who talk about bullied and high-handedness what you probably won't get a sense of from them is whether or not they were insulting. On whether they were nasty. On whether this "mob" was always in agreement, had a list of names, what kind of characteristics they had in common, whether they kept the forum buoyant, whether they had passion for the site and whether they were fair in what they said by and large.
Let me be even more frank. only 5 or 6 members were banned. Why did so many chose to join the new site? 10:1? If it was a bad clique and the troublemaker were thrown off - then wouldn't the rest of the members wipe their brow and say good riddance and desert these "horrible bullies";
Something to think about isn't it? Perhaps it is not all that it seems and inviting all people from AFF here yet insulting some of them for nothing more than ill-informed bigoted judgment is not the way to go.
04 Sep 2008, 9:24 pm
