I should not have to join a spider hole to be frank with my fellows.
Originally Posted by StoneTemplePilot
Here's why that portion is SO relevant to this thread.
years back, ASPD Houston had a group of members who knew each other off the board and they would talk shit to each other on ASPD and the Houston staff allowed it because some of them were part of that group.
They even created their own web site that was pretty much invite only and there were NO rules at all except to fuck with others and insult anyone and especially those not on the site.
Once people get in that habit of gaining "cred" with a group who do that, of course it spreads to the outside even worse and that fucked up attack attitude spread beyond Houston.
Like many people on a keyboard, those fucktards would try to get a reaction from members in other cities and it worked for them.
ASPD died and that same crowd from the same website moved here and the same bullshit attacks kept going only to get worse.
This is only my opinion, but the mere fact that ECCIE allows a private sub-forum here, the Spider Hole, which is mainly made up of the original people who created the other Houston based site means that ECCIE not only condones that sort of shit but because they are getting money from the forum, they sanction it.
Hard to keep the attacks in that spider hole forum, as hard or harder as it was to keep the YMWV attacks just to that site. What they feel is funny becomes very hurtful to many providers and then the providers friends and especially their white knights get all pissed and it only goes downhill.
The only cure is for the ECCIE owners to step up and have the moderators crack WAY down on that sort of attack. no more pussy footing around when it comes to attacks at even a small level. You do it, heavy points first time, 30 day ban the next. Try it again and 90, next time you go a year.
Let them have their spider hole fun elsewhere. Pretty sure that ECCIE would be 100% better without ANY of the members who are active players in YMWV or the Spider Hole.