One thing to keep in mind is that @terminills started the community site and it did have a wider scope given Tim's interests as a promoter and supporter of many things.
I see the same change as you do, and agree it is obviously his right to do so and perhaps long term will benefit his plans.
But still...how hard is it to have a company section and "everything else". Anything less smacks of a controlled environment for the fans.
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I ran a forum myself and I know that it's not hard to moderate sections, so long as you have the moderators to do it, so that certain things remain in certain sections and so forth. However from what I have seen there is only a handful of mods and then I have not seen any of them really enforcing anything other than Leo and Barry. Which means it's pretty much a single sided show.
like you I saw that it was certainly a site that had primary focus on CUSA but also allowed for discussion for classic and so forth at the start. But the current environment is one of a engineered community. Where anything that doesn't correspond with the plan that Barry has is either instantly locked or deleted outright without warning or explanation.
At the end of the day it's now Barry's place. I think the initial perspective of the site that terminills had is now long gone. It's a marketing vehicle for CUSA and engineered in a way that anyone who is prone to impulse buying without too much research will see only good things about them without seeing the flip side.
Nothing wrong with it but I just don't agree with it. Again sorry if some of this seems rushed or a little lacking in explanation but no sleep makes me very dull lol.
