Moobunny is just another place for spam. and insults flying!
Well, to its credit, Moobunny, as an essentially unmoderated forum, lets people say what they want and lets threads run until nobody's interested anymore. Of course you have to put up with the bad to get the good, but I like the fact that no heavy-handed moderators stop conversations because they don't happen to like the tone or whatever.
You're right that the freedom leads to abuse for some immature people. On the other hand, there are good conversations there, with people who know what they're talking about. This ebbs and flows, like at other places.
I think the best way to summarize the Moobunny character is "skeptical." There's little patience with "fans" of whatever persuasion, if they don't have a rational basis for their enthusiasm.
I think bbrv posts at Moobunny because, once you get past the frothing of immature jerks, there is a core of intelligent and articulate people frequenting the place. That's my take, anyway. And compared to some other sites, he hasn't been confronted by pages of posts by people wishing him to die, give up the computing business, improve his sex life, and other nicities. Of course he draws these guys like a magnet. Once he refers to any subset as "morons" or "idiots," a whole bunch of people rise up to a) take offense, and b) by responding with even lower, braindead insults, prove his words well-chosen. Not the way for a company president to act? Maybe not, but at least he's been involved and in touch, which is a lot better than how that other CEO has handled things. I wouldn't say things the way bbrv says them, either. But I'm also not on the receiving end of what he and Genesi have had to put up with every since introducing products in this market.
-- gary_c
