Hey Everyone! It’s amazing how the forum has grown over the last 2 years! We’re now at over 1700 users and averaging over 130k page views per month! It’s rad to see the consistent, high value conversations happening on a daily basis. For the most part the crew here is positive and helpful with very little negative, which I believe reflects the foiling culture more broadly. With regard to the negative, I want to reiterate a few of the ground rules before I take any action against a couple users and will refrain from calling anyone out personally.
Let me start by saying I believe fully in free speech. The forum has been a great test for me personally as from time to time folks will say negative things about a foil I’ve spent months working on, it would be so easy to just delete it, but I never have, and won’t. We all have different feels and are optimizing for different conditions and there’s value in those discussions.
That said, over the past couple months more than a few users have sent me notes about posts that they feel have crossed a line. One of our rules here is that you can’t use the forum just to promote your own products, and when that is happening in an egregious way I send a note to the user. It’s now time to inverse that rule and say that it is also not permitted to use the forum to denigrate someone else or their products. Posting a review is ok, but hijacking an unrelated thread to throw shade isn’t. Nor is posting private emails or messages. If this applies to you please take it as a fair warning, the next step will be your account being silenced.
The forum has grown into an amazing learning tool and it needs to reflect the stoke and positivity that we all love about foiling.
Thank you, Erik
