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I agree people can disagree without resorting to throwing insults around. On that yes, I would agree that is the biggest issue with TAZ. People there don't seem to be able to have a proper conversation "not agreeing with one another", but keeping snide remarks and insults out it.

Exactly! Well, I don't want that in my life but my attempts to resolve the matter with TAZ proved unsuccessful so I "slung my hook" so to speak.
It's sad because there WERE people on there who appreciated what I was doing, especially the "next version showcase" threads I did, which pointed to this demo site. It enabled a wider audience to ask questions, which they did, and I also took bug reports from them and logged them in the Tracker, a dozen or so of these got fixed in the beta phase ready for full release.

It was an excellent and fruitful exercise, but TAZ decided it was also ok for the usual gang of "haters" to wade in and destroy the threads and post lies in them, with me being told I couldn't challenge them (at one point I was even thread-banned from one of my own threads!) so....out I walked!

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I've just had a "guest-nose" over there, and I notice the Brogan-bashing continues unabated.

I'll tell you something about Brogan...he does an absolutely fantastic job of providing support (and no he is NOT Kier either) and those toxic people trying to destroy his reputation on a third party site he doesn't even post on, over a minor and insignificant remark he made should be ashamed of themselves.

The continued "bashing" of him is exactly the same sort of thing that I got fed up with. No wonder nobody from XenForo actually posts on there...I wonder that is? The answer is that they probably now take the same view as myself and practically everyone else from any software company. Only a hardy few remain.

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They don't bash Brogan on TAZ, not really.

You cannot be serious!

That Cambion who started the topic about him ended up getting a forum ban for it

Then that should be accompanied by closing or deleting the thread with an explanation that they don't allow attacks on staff members of software companies in their niche. That's what most similar sites do. Try going and Paul.M's CableForum and start bashing a member of Virgin Media staff - they don't tolerate it. And that's because the site needs Virgin Media staff posting on there. If they just get bashed, they stop and the site loses relevance and credibility - which is exactly what's happened to TAZ.

And let me tell you, in CableForum's early days, it was called nthellworld, because Virgin Media used to be called ntl. And believe me ntl was hated and despised on a far grander scale than anything vBulletin has to deal with. Yet they still managed to have ntl staff helping out on the forum, I know because I was one of them.

So yes, the way TAZ handles it is all wrong. They prefer to go with the drama.

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I don't know? I don't take much notice to be honest with you, I'm not really interested in what TAZ does or any other forum. All admin forums in general are boring places anyway, you need a bit of drama to liven the places up. Think you taking it a little too seriously, just a bit of fun half the time.

I'm sure it is, I'm sure when I'm called: corrupt, dishonest, a liar, a scam artist, a disgrace to humanity, and that someone hopes I never have any children, that it's all meant in fun.
I'm sure I could sign up an account there now, go and say all of that to some of the members on there, and then say "Ha! it was all a bit of fun" and obviously nobody would mind.

I don't want to be a part of any site that continues to allow the sort of people who make comments such as the above, to continue posting. I have no desire to be on the same planet as them, let alone the same forum.

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Hmm, never seen anyone say that to you. Who said they hope you never have children?

Can't remember, might have been Brent, he's said some pretty vile stuff to a lot of people. Can't be certain who it was now, I have forgotten most of them.