I think some clarification needs made here because it always seems to get misunderstood in this thread and crap over yonder at RS.
There is no "hate" for that site... There's certainly dislike for certain people at that site. There's certainly dislike of how the forums are handled at that site which is to criticize that "community" in general. There's lots of good people there, but they're shadowed by 2 things that the vast majority here dislike...
-ignorant users in mass abundance. Lots of people who wouldn't last a WEEK here are over there. They'd either be told to shape up and ship out, or they'd simply get banned for things they do. We tolerate a certain level of "douchebaggery". We also know when to drop the hammer.
That's, to me, the A#1 problem with Scum's boards... They don't give 2 ***** who is there. They want the traffic, regardless, and only react to people who make it to the administration's radar. Everyone else, and every other member's disgust with certain people, is ignored. I could name one specific person who's been there for YEARS, who is a total prick. I'll say it proudly that the guy has no personality other than a bad one, and adds nothing but misery to other people with every post he makes. He's condescending, a total dip****, never has anything but negativity to aim at OTHER people (not even the toys, just other people). He's an ass, always has been, he wouldn't last a week here, and yet he's let slide routinely... Only because he doesn't bother the admin.
-And next, staff that are, or can at the very least behave like, the same ignorant users cited above... Sometimes it's been Philip acting this way. Sometimes it's been moderators abusing their "powers". Sometimes it's simply telling your readers when they make suggestions to go piss off because it's your site and you run it how you please... No explanation, nothing cordial, just a big "go toss off".
It's maybe the fact they are left dealing with children a lot, or with people who can't grasp the concept of proper "netiquette", I don't know. I do know that the people who have dealt with these "leaders" and got disrespected have generally left. Good for them.
But, with that said...
There's not some blanket hatred between our site and theirs. We mention them, they mention us. They have their world, we have ours. They've always been friendly when we met them, we've always been friendly in return... We're friends with some of their staff here... Some of them probably dislike some of ours, and some of ours dislike some of theirs. Nothing major, and there's no actual major dislike.
This thread exists for one simple reason... It CAN exist here. It CANNOT exist there.
Maybe some of you view this thread as negative... I don't. I know you cannot say the things there that are being said here. I know if you've got a beef there, from past experiences, that you ran into a brick wall and any complaining you did was mysteriously removed. ALWAYS.
We let this thread go because it's everything you cannot do there. It only ever bumps up when something dumb goes down over there. Something so dumb that people get banned over it when they say, "Yo Philip, this is dumb". And let's face it, this thread's back because of the "All Caps Title" rule over there. And that's a pretty dumb rule... and it sounds like it was a sour grapes incident from Philip... again. I don't even dislike Philip personally, he seems like a personable man at times, but then I see him on the forums there and he seems like a guy on a power trip at times with something that I admittedly feel he "stole" from under another person.
As far as between-site incidents (Outside of Scum)... Knowing the **** I've seen, not just the public stuff with Scum, I can safely say that there's TONS of bull**** between sites. And some of them act like children about this hobby and like to hold major beefs over the pettiest of bull****. Like Chris I won't get into specifics, and I'm not even an admin at this site and I can tell you I've seen some comical stuff in just recent months much less the years I've worked here.
I've got a buddy who is in the hobby... I've wanted him to join up here. He won't, even though he likes our site a lot, because he went through the bull**** of between-site-politics at another place and hates it. I dont' blame him because you wind up putting up with a lot of people that take the hobby as serious as if it's their real job. They treat this as life, and people like that are pretty much impossible to deal with.
At the end of the day though, we actually do get along with Scum here. If we didn't we'd not be mentioned by them ever, and we'd never reciprocate I'm sure. Their forums though are generally the focus of this thread... Sometimes the front page, but not nearly as much as the dumb things that go on in the forums, and i don't think many here can deny that this thread got bumped because of a pretty dumb thing that happened there.
Compounded by another dumb thing you (Josh) brought up yourself here (the swearing rule). This thread exists for a pretty solid reason then. But there's never been any real "water" to put a bridge over. Our guys that are banned don't WANT to be there and happily avoid that place (and this thread for the most part) while the rest of us just comment on the dumb as it crops up. It cropped up this past week I'd say.