Okay, I see another poster here has posted on the old boards. Time for a vote!

Until such time as an alternative community (not consisting of trolls) develops on the Harper Collins board, that board is the old board of [i:8b557f2253]this[/i:8b557f2253] community. Talking to the people there means talking to trolls, and it is just the same as if you got friendly with trolls on this board.

It doesn't help our anti-troll security system to continue talking about their activity there. They can't hurt us now. We have moved on from that board in terms of the URL, and we need to do so in terms of our thoughts.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was actually a decent site, but it isn’t, it’s a total shit hole at the moment; if it wasn’t we wouldn’t have left. All there is on there are a bunch of no brainer threads started by regicide and answered by regicide under different names. All the reasons why we left are still there – the trolls are still there, the spam ads are still there, and Harper Collins still couldn’t care less about either.

I think going back to post there is just totally lame, I mean what’s the point? The place is crap and the people are idiots at best, assuming they are people and not just one person. Are you really missing the opinions of Gooner and the like that much?

And besides, we don't want them coming here, so it only seems fair that we don't go there?

[quote:35df0feea6="Maljonic"]And besides, we don't want them coming here, so it only seems fair that we don't go there?[/quote:35df0feea6]

Exactly.

Let them have the old boards to do with as they wish, posting over there is going to cause nothing but trouble at the end of the day. I can't understand why anyone would wish to post over there unless of course they wish to make '$$$$' on paypal and if they do there probably better staying over there.

What board? would be my reply if such a place were mentioned :roll:

I agree with Grace 100% on this matter. For the moment, it is stupid for anyone who knows and agreed with our reasons for moving to keep posting over there.

What about newbies here?

Edit - oops. Didn't notice the "prior to August 19th" bit. Ignore that last bit then.

I took it for granted that when everybody moved to this site it was a case of 'all or nothing'
By that i mean if a poster came to this site it was 'instead of' rather than 'as well as'.

All or nothing was one of my tenets for coming here. Still is.

I'd think that folks who join the community after the 19th would want to follow community protocol, but they wouldn't be expected to have made the same group committment to moving away from the trolls.

Now, this raises the question of what if someone who refused to support the move has come along with it, but still posts on the old site.

To both newbies, and the non-signatores, I'd say that if you're going to join this community, you're going to abide by it's rules. still, I'm only looking at a very narrow and specific focus for right now. we can extrapolate from there once this issue is settled

Since the poor old place is completely overrun, and I would be in serious danger of exceeding my asshole quota for the rest of the year, I won't be going.

I can only speak for myself in this situation though. I don't know if imposing sanctions on the people who post on both would work, that may add ammunition to the statements made about the community being intolerant.

I know that we are only intolerant to the intolerable, but you know as well as I do that they don't see things the same way...

Not much else I can say really

Since I'm the only one who voted no as yet, I'll try to argue my stance .

Actually it's quite simple, who am I to forbid someone talking on another board? It would be stupid, because all the nice people are here, but if it makes someone happy, why not?

I'll admit that I'm not a die hard poster, not on this board (as yet) or on the old one though, so I'm not sure if my vote will count as much as some of the others .

And if a person really wants to post on the other board, he can just take another nick and be done with it can't he/she?

There is no problem with posting on 'another' board. But the board in question is one populated by people who spent several hours every day trying to piss us off. So much so that we had to leave the board. I group of people who are both watching this board and have said that they have accounts here. It's clear that these people *don't* like us, so the only reason they would start to post here would be to, at some time, anoy us.

We want them to get on with having there own board, so we can get on with ours. We want them to leave us alone, you've seen the problems Juggy can cuase if he wants (though we can deal with them now, i'd rather we didn';t have too) we want them to forget about us. Too do that we have to stop posting there at least for now.

I have to ask why does anyone want to post on that speific board- the only people there are the people that *drove* us off it? Why would you want to interact with them.

Posting on *other* boards is fine, but that is a board filled with people who hate us. Why hang around with them?

I voted yes.

Even as a Lurker, I too think it's important that those members [u:823eb52773]who agreed to the move[/u:823eb52773] complete that relocation and leave the HC board alone; to be rebuilt or deluged by spam, whatever the case may be.

The HC Board members already seem to think that Elders are interfering anonymously. I would be shocked to think that any member here was behaving in such a manner and am rallied by the fact that I have never seen such Machiavellian behavour in anyone on this Board. However, it [u:823eb52773]is[/u:823eb52773] a particular trait of those few remaining on the HC board who proclaim to have initiated or partaken in the coup d'etat.

Even an innocent post made on the old Board by one of the moving members raises controversy to the fore again, on both Boards. To paraphrase Buzzfloyd, conversing with trolls is not something which has been condoned so why make an exception. Obviously it was frustrating at the time but let's make it clear by our vote that we, as a Community, wish to leave well enough alone.

I voted yes. For the reasons pointed out above.

Yes vote

There is nothing there that you don't have here. Except trolls.