Create Ebay Forum or Ban Ebay Discussions Message #20 Posted by Valentin Albillo on 2 Jan 2007, 5:48 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dave Hicks
Hi, David:
Thank you very much for your prompt addressing of this serious problem.
I vote for "Create Ebay Forum" and if that's not possible,
then for "Ban Ebay Discussions".
It should be obvious to any well-meaning contributors and/or visitors of this forum that its spirit is being horrifically abused when among the latest 500 messages posted, just some 193 are *not* eBay-related, and of those a very large percentage are just the seasonal Greetings, Happy New Year, and Merry Xmas.
This is obviously badly damaging the quality of the MoHP Forum, and some usually active members like Hrastprogrammer and myself, have already expressed our reluctance to enter here or contribute in any way just to see our postings lost among wave after wave of the latest adventures of Coburlin et al, or the latest unwanted announcement of yet another scrap of mostly worthless info from eBay auctions.
It's also plainly obvious that something is very wrong when a search in the archives will reveal that there are many times more postings with "Coburlin" on them (or its many aliases and mock-names) than with "HP-25", "HP-15C", or "HP-41", so that even the archives are getting very badly corrupted with tons and tons of rants, crybabies' postings, and such garbage.
I don't think you want your once magnificent Forum to degrade to such useless and embarrassing depths, which is what will happen when the people who once thought of it as the worthiest site for sharing advanced information and discussion on vintage and modern HP calculators will have left the place, fed up to the dregs with Coburlin, its peers, and its fleas.
HP became KinHPo when they utterly disregarded quality and alienated their loyal customers' base. Only you can avoid your MoHP Forum to fall in the very same trap and go the way of oblivion and irrelevancy.
Best regards from V.
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