I am limping by on it, but I really don’t like it. You can’t follow conversations. People are trying to use the forums, but there is already a group there, and they are very different from the discussion board folk.
I don’t like that people can mark you “unhelpful” because there are people going around marking me and a number of other people down just because they have a bone to pick. My last straw happened the other day when I saw a way that you can really abuse the system there. Someone asked a question that was pretty much little more than troll bait (it came directly from a political talk show that people have strong opinions about it.) A poster called them on it—and the asker called the poster a BITCH right on the site.
Because the way the new system is set up, the asker gets no penalty at all for doing this. But the friends of the asker could all mark down the person who was called a bitch. I know that this person is no saint, but I don’t like a system where anyone can ask any flame bait question and then insult and mark down people who disagree with no negative consequences for themselves. I’ve seen this snarkiness on both sides of the political aisle—I just noticed this once because I was surprised by the language and it really swung home what the new AV is going to be like.
I will post a little bit so that the few people I know who are on the site and won’t come here may want to know my pregnancy updates, but after I deliver, I think I’ll be totally done with he site.