Z-Peller wrote:
Was a fellow on RV. Net many years ago that had clashs with mods over various postings and rules so decided to start his own RV forum....called it NATCO
I know about more forums created the same way.
Years ago, not only rv forum was new baby, but whole internet chat had lot of baby teeth.
When it was "work in progress" the definition of "troll" was still in the making, hardcore advertisements was the highest priority and "political correctness" was still thing of the future.
That said at this time RV.net forum helped in organizing several rallies, one in So California had over 100 members on it. Great times and I still have rv.net T-shirt.
We all made lot of things that now are consider wrong (cost me my original handle in the process) but eventually everything ironed-up over the years.
Same thing happen on Ford Truck Forums and thousands of others.
When some private forums are really great, where you can find honest information without sale pitches, they lack the power of advertising forum on other sites, so commercial forum like this one prevail.
Sad part of life, you can't have honest forum with lot of posters.