Member there, same id. Tried only once and I got approved. Don't remember there being a long time till I could freely post. Don't remember being a suck-up in the registration form, just was myself. I think sometimes being frank helps, and it helps to do that with a smile (a person reading can usually tell whether the writer was smiling, as long as the grammar is correct). It was under moderation, for sure, but that didn't weigh me down - everywhere you start new, you start from scratch. I'm not one to notice any of that, no ego to speak of. The mods may be a little more uptight than other places, but it's the nature of that community. If one doesn't like it, they're free to leave.
Frankly, (and this is not an aspersion on the mods here, just an observation) TE is mildly undermoderated and thus we have some issues with the quality of posts - specially in language and comprehension. However, my assumption is that the average tech-gadget owner is far younger than the average car owner, and some gap in maturity and experience may be expected.
So... posts like this....are actually quite poor taste and if someone cares, it's not such a bad thing.
And let's be fair, there are enough users who have been banned from various forums (or left of their own volition) that have differing viewpoints on who was right and who was wrong. I have myself ejected from a forum where things were getting very nasty, and I blame the mods for that incident. Not because they were interfering, but because they were not. On their part, they will have their own tales which blame me for the impasse. So there are enough stories on each side of the pond.
But that is how life is.
Now can we move on from forum-bashing and go back to discussing tech?
