reptile forums and herpcenter

Raj I totally agree with you on this one... karma dude - it can bite you in the butt, or get you help on the highway. What goes around most certainly does come around .... but for some people it takes too long to come around... I think most of us know those people, and many may have worked for them. :)

Oh yeah - Green Man, it's good to see you around! :)

Seriously...if the owner was being such a jerk, and it wasn't an isolated occassion due to some stress in his "real life"...then the mods have every right to leave if they've done all the can to right the situation. And if they've the means, then they also have a right to start a new forum so their community can stay together...and let's face it folks, we ARE a community. We enjoy each other's company and learn much from one another. I for one would not like to lose it.

All that being said...to make a near identical forum and then to say falsely that the old forum is closing and re-opening as the new one...that's just wrong. And as you say, Raj...what goes around comes around. If they cannot act honorably in this, then I would not trust them to act honorably later, when new conflicts arise. And conflicts will come...because they always do when people gather together in any numbers greater than one.

It may appear that "good" has come of it in the short run...but I seriously doubt that the new forum will last long if it is built on such a foundation.

Just my overly philosophical two cents. :?

Wise words will never replace money Judy :D

I already have my own forum...does that count as mutiny? LOL :D

to each his own, if they wanted to make a new forum more power to em, but the way they went about it was wrong I think.
You shouldnt step on others just to get your site up and going ya know?

That other site looks like crap anyway.

Ya, to tell you the truth they both do compaired to this one ; )

Aw shucks :oops:

I design the site to work great under many resolutions. And to work quickly for dialup users. Image heavy complex sites don't make a good site. IMO let form meet function. Do I really need snazzy looking 50kb block headers that'll make the site slow and deplete my bandwdith, naw.

I get so much praise for my color selection and how over all user friendly the site is. I doubt I'll ever use an image heavy layout again.

Well, back to herpcenter.com, based on how they got started, I doubt I'll ever join. You got some bad sites out there, sites with some bad people and a bad community. Based on how this site started, sounds like it's got a pretty dark future.