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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3226591, member: 76863"]Not until recently over the last year. It would take days for things to come down that you knew were going to be poofed for sure earlier in the year, not to mention countless things that would have gotten one banned from here. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would bet that the major reason Heather was assigned to take over the boards is that the higher ups were sick of all the email and complaints they were getting about the forum. Will there be a feeling out period to the new moderation of course, but part of why it seems so heavy handed is because of how lightly moderated it was for quite a while. I certainly enjoyed reading the anything goes style better, but it's better for their company to clean up the board some and get rid of posters that spend a lot of their time talking down the company and/or grading in general. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There's a right to vote, a right to an attorney when arrested but there is no actual right to have your complains remain public on a companies website. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said there is a right way and a wrong way to express concerns. Publicly blasting a company on their own web site which is what many of the banned were doing is not the right way. Just how you approach the situation matters. I was surprised how long people were allowed to make accusations against them, publicly talk them down like they know nothing ect. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the bans were bans that would have happened on other company sites as well and most other companies would have done them a lot sooner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3226591, member: 76863"]Not until recently over the last year. It would take days for things to come down that you knew were going to be poofed for sure earlier in the year, not to mention countless things that would have gotten one banned from here. I would bet that the major reason Heather was assigned to take over the boards is that the higher ups were sick of all the email and complaints they were getting about the forum. Will there be a feeling out period to the new moderation of course, but part of why it seems so heavy handed is because of how lightly moderated it was for quite a while. I certainly enjoyed reading the anything goes style better, but it's better for their company to clean up the board some and get rid of posters that spend a lot of their time talking down the company and/or grading in general. There's a right to vote, a right to an attorney when arrested but there is no actual right to have your complains remain public on a companies website. That said there is a right way and a wrong way to express concerns. Publicly blasting a company on their own web site which is what many of the banned were doing is not the right way. Just how you approach the situation matters. I was surprised how long people were allowed to make accusations against them, publicly talk them down like they know nothing ect. Most of the bans were bans that would have happened on other company sites as well and most other companies would have done them a lot sooner.[/QUOTE]
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