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Originally Posted by ksb51rl
Nic Case's World Record vehicle is amazing, but really had nothing to do with Traxxas. The video was certainly in conflict with the Rules written by corporate. FWIW, thankfully neither "crap" (I guess that was a while ago, BrianG) nor "hellfire" are filtered any longer. It must've been really hard to get banned because of only two infractions. Were you an  ?
Anyway, surely you have Rules here too? (Rhetorical question.) They are simply different there. We have a few thousand different types of butter here in the USA. Surely there is room for a couple/few different styles of forum moderation. You guys are in large part self-policing. Can you see that working for the Traxxas forums?
I get that an AWFUL LOT of you may be what you consider "past buying a Traxxas," but consider that whole new market may be opening up due to this car. New people, new members here, new RC products in general, new RC companies opening up. Even if all the above are "strengthened" instead of "new," isn't that a good thing for all concerned? |
I am a Traxxas forum member also, been a part of it for years and have standing warning points (or whatever they are called) for a similar infraction. I show up from time to time but definitely don't participate the way I do on other sites.
While Traxxas owns the forum and can control the community however they like and there current growth curve indicates they are doing some things right they could do more to not erode some of their base as many very knowledge users that benefit the community and in turn Traxxas will not take part in the boards.
I completely agree that the community on the Traxxas forum can't self police in any sense of the word but that does nothing to justify how the mods (including you) handle situations since it's the policies being enforced that are being questioned more so then the need to moderate.
The company has no motivation to address the concerns and won't unless money motivates them at some point in the future, it's a different point of view and while I can respect Traxxas success I and many others do not agree with how the company conducts it's community relations.