Just my 2 cents here and don't want to offend or upset anybody who does still read/post at bt- this is just my opinion. First, I want to say that to me, this forum is run like a forum should be run- with respect toward the posters and giving us a place to offer help and state our opinions without fear of the gestapo coming down on us. In other words, it's run professionally by people who seem to really care about the forum and the people who post on it- and not like a forum run by jr. highers- in other words, with IMMATURITY. That's a pretty simple word but it totally fits. The moderation was heavy-handed and blatantly one-sided and if you weren't in a particular clique (or to put it less nicely, if you didn't kiss the mods or "another person's" @%*, your posts were censored, you were warned, or you were banned) you didn't have a snowball's chance in ^#@% there. And I'm not talking about JL....It was so obvious that you couldn't miss it. And if we're honest, those of us who posted at bt for several years knew that there were certain people on each forum who were bullet-proof. As far as those "in charge", I saw this one particular person who ran the place and was suspected of being a mod (take a guess what #) come on there and reply to people with such sarcasm and be a real smart alek. Obviously "they" derived great joy from the power they had on there, possibly that was the only power they had in their life and it went to their head. Seems like I've always heard that power has the potential to corrupt some people- but not all people. I think it was a severe case of "swelled head", but this person probably acts like this both on and off the forum....For the record, I don't even go there anymore- I stopped a long time ago- not long after it came back when one of the ladies who had been there for quite awhile was banned unfairly- particularly when there were some who had done alot worse and nothing was ever done to them. But, I have to give someone some credit that's due- after this incident I PM'd a number of times with Zombieslayer and he was the first person from there who seemed to actually listen to my complaints and would return my PMs, even though he really wasn't in a position to do anything about it. I had hoped that maybe they'd learn something over there after so many people here had voiced opinions and offered advice as to how they'd like to see bt run if it came back, but no, nothing changed. I decided that that wasn't a place for me- too much childishness, too much rudeness and sarcasm, too much "Adolph Hitler",etc. instead of the respect, kindness, fairness, and open moderation that's offered here. Going back to bt at this or any point would be like putting your hand back on top of a red hot stove after you'd already done the same thing yesterday and got burned. As snoozie said, "fool me once...."