I'd say I agree with Josh... to an extent.
I don't believe guys like Dave, Dustin, Philip, etc. are scalpers or support the notion... Contrary to what they may think, the staff here doesn't truly hate their guts like that... Dislike their actions? Dislike how they treat their forum members who DID show loyalty and were an asset at their site, and not a problem? Yes, some here feel that way, but I think this is how many here view the situation:
The site maybe doesn't have the mods it needs, but at the same time the staff are there, they are active, and they really just don't give two ***** when things come up that are big problems. Unless it's trashing Rebelscum's actions, unless it's open criticism of the way things are run there, the Scum staff don't care about their forums near enough and it shows.
Scalping is let slide... I don't think the aforementioned staffers are scalpers or support the notion, but I do think they have htis "meh, who cares" attitude sometimes, and that scalping's something they can't control on their forums by saying "we're too busy". I'm busy too, but if it comes up here it's something any one of us will nip in the bud right quickly... It's just not tolerated, and yes it does come up, and yes our staff is as busy as anyone... Sometimes it seems moreso because we don't always seem to have the time to do our "jobs" here for the front page too.
So do I think the C2C motto is something they believe in? Probably, I only know Curto really well and I know Philip didn't ask high prices on anything he's sold, even rare stuff, so that's cool he's a good egg like that, but at the same time their forums are neglected... Youc an't leave what mods they have to make the decisions it seems, and if you're membership quality is so low you can't promote reliable help from anywhere in this supposedly vast pool of "talent", then to me that just says an equally low commentary about what goes on at your forums overall. Not to say there aren't people I think you could trust who are there regularly, it's just that nobody's seemingly on the same page... Nobody cares enough about the job except the few mods they do have, and they're not on the same page with the rest of the staff a lot of the time. Thus people lose their "job" who were mods, mods are overruled at times by staff, etc... Nobody cares from the top down, and thus the forums have suffered and are a sham in their overall quality compared to what they were several years back. The BHC worked because it was run by guys like Burn, mousedroid, jedicrippler, etc., who actually gave a ****. And like I've always said, some places run their site one way, others like it another way... I think the "it's so big" excuse is getting old though.
