I don’t really know where to start with this post so I’ll just be direct about it as I am known for.
As many of you have noticed I’m sure, there have been a lot of changes on this board lately. The current managament has been forcing it's morals upon us whether we like it or not. Yes I am talking about Koolbear. Something his closed minded approach clearly doesn’t consider is that this community, in his many years of inactivity, has done quite well. Not only that, but it has matured much further then he is willing to allow.
Koolbear has leveraged his new take over to a place where people of this community send him money for something that was always free. He wants to force us to live by HIS moral standards, not the standards that have developed naturally over the years in his absence, and in the process has managed to alienate many long standing members to the point of disgust and ultimately quitting!
The most recent fiasco was Koolbear's censoring of a post where a DBB member used the words "intense sex". The commotion that followed disgusted the member to the point that he will no longer come to this board. Koolbear claimed he edited the post because it was innapropriate in the context of the rest of the thread. A lot of mods argued that Koolbear broke policy by doing this and fought for our right to speak freely here according to the standards that we've naturally adopted over the years. More than one of the mods tried to explain to Koolbear that the member in question had done nothing wrong and that his post was completely within the guidelines, and that our community has matured. Some suggested that if Koolbear wanted to change these policies, he should do it officially and give people the opportunity to "know the rules" before going in and butchering people's posts. He would hear nothing of it. A quote from the private VIP forum illustrates his disposition on the topic:
This post prompted one of our most well respected and longstanding moderators to step down claiming that he couldn't work with Koolbear. Xciter, Topher and the majority of the active mods continued to try to talk sense into Koolbear, but were met with resistance.Koolbear wrote:I'm sorry but I'm at my wits end. Do I give a damn if the DBB lose a smart ***, do I give a damn if the DBB looses all the smart asses and is left with Cap and me? NO I DON'T.
There's the door, go start your own BB and let people do as they have here for the last few years on your site.
I'm not going to apologize anymore, people don't like it I'll show them to door.
Going forward The NHB was created for the smart asses, they will have to be content with that. The E&C is fine I agree the users there do well, rarely will they ever carry any of thier discussions out side of that forum.
Over the years, many of us have made offers to host or take care of this bulletin board, myself included. Now, with Koolbear's encouragement, we have decided to hit the door and continue the DescentBB elsewhere. You as an individual will never be shamed into paying a dime for something that has always been free for you to enjoy. No grand standing of those that have by putting them on a pedestal. Quite benevolently, it’s a continuation of where we were as a community.
What does this mean? I truly think that if this community is to survive it needs to be given the chance to do so. Not by chopping off limbs and making it grow sideways to some single vision polar opposite it’s not used to. You should expect the new to be a bit more casual than here. There is too much “moderation” happening here. Also, the NHB will be truly No Holds Barred! As we have matured as a community, the things we talk about have matured along with us. We have all done a lot of growing up and I think many of us would like to discuss topics
as adults. It doesn't mean we are smartasses, as Koolbear stated. This is something that will be given the chance to see.
My involvement in the new site is that I am the domain owner. The site was created by a group of DBB moderators and members that thought it had to happen. Punisher, JBomb, Xciter and myself are the admins of this new board.
We're going to need some moderators. If you'd like a moderatorship, please contact one of the board admins. Out of respect for their hard work and dedication over the years, we'll be giving current moderators of dbb.net special consideration.
So, without further ado, I'd like to welcome each and every one of you to our new site! Try it out for yourself and see if the new shoes fit. No pressure.
http://www.descentbb.com
A continuation of our family
Stresstest
DBB member since 97’
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