Quote: "I dont think Guy leaving hurt here much, mainly because this is the main forum. It certainly didn't help the American market & boards though..."
GuyS' original forum problem and subsequant leave, ment RGT members down-poured into here.
This forum just wasn't ready for a) that many additional users, b) people who weren't used to having such a low moderated forum.
Rather than respecting how this forum worked, the RGT membered treated this place like thier forum. And the lapse of Moderated Supervision ment they were 10X worse on here than they would normally be on RGT.
Although it didn't seem bad at the time, it was a Catalyst for something which is still getting progressively worse.
Rich said that they'd only be here temporarily so we had to let them adjust, but they clearly didn't adjust to our ways. Instead they altered this forum to thiers.
By the time the majority had left for LLRGT which was put up the damage was already done. Some members still terrorise this place with thier attitudes (Hense why members like myself and yourself end up locking horns with a few of these members on more than few occasions), but more over it was a knock on effect because during that time we recieved a number of exclusive newbies, and they saw how the forum was working during that time rather than how it would normally work, as such they took it as green that, that behaviour was 'standard', which then ment it continued followed by other newbies.
Then the whole Blitz problem soon after that because some dumbass RGT members were taking it out on them so they came here.
LLRGT is now harder to find and as such no longer a target for newbies or blitzers, add to that they now have places to contain each type of person and thier personal language preferences, with a much smaller userbase loyal to just there really.
It might seem weird looking at it from the small picture, but on the big picture GuyS leaving hurt everyone.
Not because of the fact he left, but the way he just vanished.
If there was a safety net for him disappearing, some sort of backup plan it would've been good but then kinda defeated the whole point behind it.
