The fact some members have moved elsewhere is unfortunate - but I fail to see how a poll before the upheaval would have signalled anything.
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Really ?
Properly done it would have plainly signaled the moderators were properly serious about doing something and those that have gone to greener pastures would have been able to signal their thoughts although as it happens the outcome may not have changed, at least they would've felt consulted and a poll taken then would have be properly representative.
Enough with your select retelling of this. The initial reason for this was completely off topic Bullshit that got modded. You continuing to stir the pot here and elsewhere including disparaging Dave and the mods as some sort of wedge to curry favour with the problem children is out of order so pull your head in!
This Forum is not a democracy as I have already stated but You, I and others have raised fair points in the past when aggressive postings by a mod was done in particular where they injected their opinions into the subject to increase the temperature allowing them to hit the ban hammer. This is not the case here and if anything so much rope was given that one or two in particular seemed to feel emboldened to carry on a public fight over a few weeks over what was a 'request' from Dave to get it more on track after the initial content was stripped.
This initial re entry into the TEA thread was as a result of a slab of very off topic content no more and no less, there is/was and won't be anything conspiratorial about it other than some of the other member of this forum were pissed off enough to hit the moderation button, this is as this and all forums should be. Got a problem or see one of the RULES being bent out outright and flagrantly being broken hit the button.
TEA has had a location for really off topic rambling for a while long before this but the more I think of that the more I see those same ramblers brought that totally off topic content back here. The TEA thread is not a place to discuss your bunions or politics or guns ..... But as it always was a bit of OT was always the 'normal' but until more recently never the 'majority'
Leave the 'alternate facts' to places like Faux News and if that is to hard then you know where the door is.
If TEA gets 'special status' not under the rules then the entire forum will just point next time another topic goes OT and see you allow it over here but .... Seriously bad idea.