I rather have a website where I can express my feelings openly, negative or not, than a website where a Nazi administrator sensors everything and keeps everything "mild". We've had our share of hissy fits here on socaljetboats, and so did hotboat but they had more people on there everyday. IMHO hotboat didn't have much drama on it, if you saw a thread or something that had some you didn't have to read it. No one's forced to be dragged into being part of drama, or even acknowledgeing it's existance. Hotboat was a good site, lost of info with people who can answer questions. Them shuting it down I hope sure isn't because of the way "people acted", cause if that's a case I wouldn't want to visit anyways. It's an open discussion forum in the Sandbar, BR and PR. And allmost all threads that we're in the tech sections that had became a shouting match was moved to Bench Racers anyway. And the moderators did plenty of their share of locking and deleting threads. I enjoy this site as well, and I don't think if someone starts disagreeing with others, that Brad is going to go all Nazi on their ass. He moves the threads to the appropriate places.
Ok I think rant over.