After the recent flamage involving Girl97, and the unpleasant departure of Victoria Lee, I decided it was time to do some digging through the review archives.
Guys, this site is a mess. The sheer volume of misogynistic posts, flamage, shill-screaming, useless reviews, accusations against the SPs, etc. is sickening.
The fact that Howie Meeker is still on this board after apparently trying to stalk an SP is not only shameful, but a disgustingly willful acceptance of a potentially dangerous situation. I don't deny that G97 seemed to fan the flames, but that doesn't get around the fact that this guy was essentially threatening an SP.
The moderators here are essentially invisible, never publicly warning the offenders, and never leaving any trail if they're deleting offensive threads or posts. As a result, the juvenile antics continue unchecked and unflagged.
The disrespect to the SPs in some of the reviews borders on abuse. Certainly it's a "style" that would get the poster's face slapped or worse if they were to speak to the SPs that way in person.
I've seen no alternative but to flag the problems to the TERB mods, in hopes that they will work with Fred and the PERB mods to come up with some changes to address the state of this board. Quite frankly, I would not be surprised if they opt to just shut the site down.
It's high time many of you grew past the mental age of 14. It's a shame that the decent members and SPs who remain here despite the abuse might end up losing this potentially valuable resource because of the childish antics of a few adolescent-minded fools.
Guys, this site is a mess. The sheer volume of misogynistic posts, flamage, shill-screaming, useless reviews, accusations against the SPs, etc. is sickening.
The fact that Howie Meeker is still on this board after apparently trying to stalk an SP is not only shameful, but a disgustingly willful acceptance of a potentially dangerous situation. I don't deny that G97 seemed to fan the flames, but that doesn't get around the fact that this guy was essentially threatening an SP.
The moderators here are essentially invisible, never publicly warning the offenders, and never leaving any trail if they're deleting offensive threads or posts. As a result, the juvenile antics continue unchecked and unflagged.
The disrespect to the SPs in some of the reviews borders on abuse. Certainly it's a "style" that would get the poster's face slapped or worse if they were to speak to the SPs that way in person.
I've seen no alternative but to flag the problems to the TERB mods, in hopes that they will work with Fred and the PERB mods to come up with some changes to address the state of this board. Quite frankly, I would not be surprised if they opt to just shut the site down.
It's high time many of you grew past the mental age of 14. It's a shame that the decent members and SPs who remain here despite the abuse might end up losing this potentially valuable resource because of the childish antics of a few adolescent-minded fools.