Last year, TWOP ( Television Without Pity) a very funny and large posting community on all sorts of TV shows disbanded after MANY years of being a very witty, pithy and usually very entertaining place to post or just read. I read most of the time- I never felt that I had the background knowledge of some of the fans.. I was also very scared of certain moderators who had some really outrageous rules.. You had to follow their copy and paste rules. You couldn't post 2 posts in a row on one thread.. It got to be a hassle because it was like the police.
There are now other forums on quasi TV- specific sites for " TWOP Refugees" of a certain show or genre- soaps, the Duggar family show, some parody sites.. But it's not TWOP. I STILL miss TWOP's " Frasier" and " Doc Martin" forums.
I hope that we, the posters of MuT, will still have a place to come and discuss, well, makeup right here.
I hope the owners keep the site open and people find enough positive things to post about here. " Splinter" groups are rarely as successful as the original...
I've seen
hugely massive administration/ moderation disagreements on another site with many thousands of active members, and a huge paid sponsor base. I was a close friend of the site owner at that time, and for a while, she was really afraid that the forum wouldn't survive without the missing people, some who left voluntarily, others who didn't. We talked on the phone many times.. I was really worried about her. I saw my friends, my fellow posters from all over the world leave en masse'.
That forum is dedicated to missing people and being supportive of crime victims, to simplify things a bit.
It's still VERY active, and is the top site which shows up in a Google search about a specific case most of the time again. The downside is that the " new crop" of moderators moderate to an extreme extent, often removing 3/4 to a whole post or pages of posts from various posters with lots of research in it... It's different, and I'm not involved much at all, but a lot of people who didn't know what the site used to be, do like it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that there are ideals and so forth, but life is hardly ever " ideal". We take the ups and downs and we try to make a site stronger if we want to be there.
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I hope MuT survives and thrives, even while being sad about those who are upset and left their positions.
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