[deanhills]

Agreed. FVPS also have really big standard for each post, which is really hard to make. (Hey, sometimes I'm passing the post standard requirement, sometimes I don't). And that's making their forum go down. I've feel the new member conditional. Like, I post, then it gone. And I will say "What the heck is that? Is that a spam? No!".

Totally agreed with this.  I thought the comments in the OP of that thread with reference to the lack of quality membership was insulting to the membership without the intention of being that.  I felt that presentation reflected badly on the staff and revealed everything at the same time.  Most of the statements in it were flawed.  The way it was handled too by not engaging the membership of the Forum ahead of time with the problems said that they didn't really want any input from the members.  They're not that very interested in what we have to say.  If they had been we'd have had the discussion before the announcement.  Not after.  It became pretty pointless after that.

What I found pretty ironic was just after that Announcement there was an addendum about joining a new discussion group for the community to keep in touch.  They must have been thinking like this for a very long time to have been prepared with something like this already.