Martyn B said:
Seriously, why is there so much TPR bashing nowadays?
I'm not wanting to start any bashing, I just want to know why it happens, a lot. It even started up on that Valley Mania fanboysite (lightwater)!
Okay, just to set this straight. It's no tan open invitation to make this about TPR or start "bashing" :roll:
TPR are their own community. They are a much tighter moderated site than most. This is the way they want it, so people on TPR can enjoy the site without people who don't get along with them ruining it for the majority.
As such, a lot of people fall foul of their rules and the way the site handles moderation. So they go elsewhere and let people know about it.
Every site is different. We tend to be too easy on people, and we've certainly taken a "bashing" for allowing vocal and "aggressive" members to have too much of an open arena here. By allowing those members to have a voice, it makes CF "unwelcoming", so we lose members sometimes due to not having as much of an over-bearing control over the forums; almost the complete opposite of TPR.
Hence why it's good that there's a site for everyone to go to. Personally (and I think Ian feels the same), I prefer a site to let people loose with their personality, rough or smooth and let people find their own place. That doesn't mean people on TPR don't have personality (or on any other site), we are just more tolerant of forum knobs
Obviously, people who fall foul of a banning or "over moderation" are likely to go and bad mouth the site responsible somewhere else. That doesn't mean they're not justified, or the site wasn't justified - it's just human nature to have a moan
So you find there's the "bashing" and TPR get it because:
a) they're big
b) they're well known
c) they won't tolerate people they don't like
Each to their own and all that then*.
Now, back to ridiculing Will's footwear please
*If you wish to respond to this, please do it to me through a PM. I know people will want to, but not in here.
