reptile forums and herpcenter

First off if the mods find this to be advertising another site and want to delete my post, I apologize and by all means do so.

Do any of you go to either of these two forums? (reptileforums.com herpcenter.net)

It looks like the mods from reptile forums made their own site secretly (herpcenter), then posted on the message boards at reptile forums that the site was closing down and the new site was herpcenter. The man that created herpcenter also used tools from the owner of reptile forums to create his site. His site is almost the exact same format of reptile forums as well.
I thought it was a pretty unethical thing to do...
what are your thoughts?

its sneaky and i would never do such a thing but maybe they did it for a good reason even so they don't need to trick people they can just tell them there objection.

I agree with DP - it is silly, and very deceptive what's the harm in telling the truth? If what you are doing is truely correct others will see it and respond accordingly, why lie unless truth hinders?

Velveeta, man - not even real cheese.

I was a member of reptile forums at one point then a mod on there decided he was king thats all she wrote and I left. Good info on that site though. As for the other one have no clue on that one. But it is kinda messed up stealing someones site idea.

Damn, I'd be so ripped if I were the owner.

By the way, I'll kill all my mods if they try to over throw the Godfather :P

j/p!

I guess you really got it coming to you when your mods get so pissed at you that they decide to make a site without you.

Yeah.....Godfather rules with such an iron fist around here that we wouldn't DREAM of trying to get out and make it on our own! I have no desire to try on the latest fashionable cement boots.... (Godfather may be cruel and ruthless...but he's not stingy! He would never kill us with last year's fashions!) :wink: :P

I've never visited either of those sites, so I have no idea what's gone on. Seems like a pretty crummy thing to do, though. I wouldn't follow someone that sneaky and conniving, even if I didn't like what was going on at the original forum. I'd move on and look for a place like......here! :D

Isn't Naara a moderator there?

I beleive so, unless she went to herpcenter too?
maybe she could give us a detailed story...

From what I've heard so far, the owner was being a total nincompoop and disrespectful of members. So the question is, should the mods have turned the other cheek instead of screwing him over. My theory in life is, what goes around comes around. Nothing good ever comes out of situations like this!