Thar Shaddin

I appreciate the information here although it was posted in the wrong forum. I assume you're from ezboards, probably way back from when I used CG or Sinuous Fortuities, considering it was posted by Memory. Whatever, anonymity is fine.

But if you're posting something political like this I'm inclined to give my opinion on the matter. I've always had the understanding that money in community chests is non-refundable. Old RP posts being lost is a pain in the ass but that's all. I lost some stuff I should have saved, but that's half my own fault for not putting it on CDs. Getting money back won't help that.

Ezboards was always a bad service. I always treated it like a second rate junky assed system, which is what it's always been. It was always too expensive, ignored feature requests, lagged up, and lacked a lot of obvious necessities like a personal backup option. I will boycott their service and I will trash talk them for fun...

BUT I have to roll my eyes when I hear about boards that had hundreds of dollars in their chests and are obviously now going berzerk. For a hundred bucks one can hire a web designer, get a domain, and create a fully customized board. It was always plain to see that ezboards was antiquated and not worth that kind of investment. The word sucker comes to mind. Yeah, fine, I'm being a jackass and siding with the bad guy here, but as the saying goes "it's morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money."

Too much of the internet and too much software thrives on misinformed consumers who happily chuck money at companies and support more garbage (microsoft, real media, AOL, etc). Hopefully this will serve as a slap in the face for some people. Computers, and especially the internet, are tools, and ezboards was a low end easy way of doing things. People who threw lots of money at it were just throwing money at something rather than researching to find something better. A hunred bucks or more per year for JUST a board (no webspace), PLUS the cost of ezsupporter? Dude, you can blame them but only partially... They didn't do anything in the past that would indicate they gave a rats ass about the users, and people expected to get their money back? Why would they give it back?

Considering how not surprised I was when the hacking deal happened, I'm not inclined to link to a "hate ezboards" banner and website. I hate microsoft but I use windows because I'm lazy, not because I expect something good. If I get a virus and my computer dies I'll take it out on myself, not them. If consumers want to be more informed about their choices, the only way to do that is to learn the tools.

That's an excellent argument and I don't disagree at all.

Yeah it really does figure that that would happen. I was already getting fed up with ezboard and I wish I didn't procrastinate so much, or we would have kept some important posts we lost on my board. But I moved, too, and I'm not going back. That was just a motivator... 'Course I'm only mad about the posts being lost but it was my friend's posts and she didn't save them on her own computer >sweatdrop<. And we didn't spend any money on their stupid little Gold stuff b'cuz it's just a waste of money and we knew that.

I think the best part about Ezboard was that it was easy to find new boards, be it RP or not. Or boards with decent people to begin with, for that matter.