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Originally Posted by LunkHead
I have had it with the people who come here only to bash, whine, complain and cause havoc! Just about everyday there is someone who has something to complain about!
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I've tried Howard Forums, CellPhoneForum, WirelessAdvisor, T-Mobile Signal and Boy Genius forums (and probably a few others) and found all lacking.
I agree with one of the other posters in this thread who noted that the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty constructive.
One of the problems with free speech is that some abuse it.
I'm new here and recently posted an article with a URL LINK to the original article about the release of the new Blackberry Curve on TMo and some ill-mannered type demanded that I "prove" the release date. Some people are just amazing.
Boards like this will either live and flourish or shrivel up and die based on CONTENT. Some of the other boards put up with off topic nonsense and childish behavior that just turns off serious posters. CONTENT IS KING.
I've quit three other boards recently simply because the moderators at those sites weren't doing their jobs.
On one site, there is a joker in love with railroads who adds large lists of railroad links on every post he makes. I'm not interested in railroads and if I develop an interest in that, I'll find a forum for it. But filtering through that cr*p in thread after thread gets real old real fast when you are looking for serious content about cell phones on a cell phone site. Mods over at that site do nothing about these long off topic lists of railroad links. I said adios.
Over at Boy Genius' forum, the mods allow one illiterate kook to fill the forums up with trash posts of gibberish so this nut can run up a big post count next to his name. I don't get it. I said adios there too.
Free speech is great. But it comes with responsibility. I'm curiously optimistic about BlackBerryForums. So far I've seen mostly serious contributors and not much nonsense. But I agree with your points and share your concerns.
Sick and tired!
