New Scaratings

While I certainly understand the business case to close the forums (I'm surprised they lasted that long), I will miss certain aspects.

That said, I was hardly ever posting anymore, but I would scan posts.

I'm not a Twitterer or (as my Dad says) on Spacebook, so maybe all the good stuff is there, but it seemd the forums where just less interesting than they used to be.

You couldn't say George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words so the place was fucked from Day One.

I guess I disagree with most everything posted here so far. I think the forums were somewhat useful early on when many people had not previously had an opportunity to discuss or explore numerous topics but I really think it became a joke once BT took a much more active role and creatd a much more obvious presence for themselves. Don't get me wrong, I have no hard feelings towards any of the BT staff but when they appeared in mass it was not long before they were clearly playing favorites and turning a blind-eye to any number of jackoff's idiocy repeatedly.

Seriously, the forum went along reasonably well prior to the period when all those green accounts started popping up every day. Later, I thought their attempt to integrate players as moderators might help but too little too late I suspect.

IMHO
The idea of player moderators sucks, they should't have that kind of power to ban people, especially for trivial things, while other got away with "murder" so to speak
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