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Originally Posted by padrino
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.
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Have to reply to my own post because I was reminded that I no longer have warning points. Apparently they eventually get removed but after a number of months I stopped watching.
My opinion on the Traxxas forums is shared with many here but I will give a compliment to those moderators that almost seem to be conflicted sometimes, they are supposed to enforce the rules but don't seem to always agree. Then there are others (cough cough dadx2mj) that ban a video of the XO-1 for not being family friendly because someone in it is drinking a beer.
In any case the company is making money hand over foot and the Zealot like loyalty of many members and moderators confuses me but I guess it fills some sort of void for them.