In response to the title of this thread "What's going on?" it's very clear what's going on: The administrators of the board are re-establishing order over an Internet forum that a clique of 10 or 12 snide, sarcastic people have somehow come to dominate. The place is full of silly, unfunny inside jokes and rude secret code.
It's simple, really: The Dis Board is an Internet forum about Disney World. It exists for one purpose, and it's not your perceived "community," it's to make money from advertising. Period. End of story.
Rude behavior, inside jokes, snarky comments, and crude language discourage new members from posting, which cuts into the Dis Board's business model. So guess what? You people need to go. Take your little "community" over to Facebook or some other private venue and make your dumb jokes about cupcakes. Let this place be for normal people who want to talk about the subject matter and ask the occasional normal question and get a respectful, helpful answer. Or how's about this: Go start your own forum. PHPBB is free. You can have a whopping membership of 15 and can post any rude thing you want. This place, meanwhile, can get back to what it's supposed to be.
My point exactly. Do you not get it? Do you not realize how sad it is that you had to ask to be "let into the fold"? It's a free Internet forum, not a country club or an exclusive socialite club. The people who run this place want dozens of people to join each and every day and just start posting. They don't want people to feel that they have to be "let into the fold" by other nobody members who paid nothing to become members themselves. If your forum has that kind of an air about it, as a forum operator, you have a serious problem. It's like a bar. You want as many people as possible to come in and buy drinks. You don't want a small band of thugs scaring people away with their high school whispering and giggling and only welcoming people in if they're "in the fold."
Evidently not. The administrator came on and hit the nail squarely on the head. Order needs to be restored if they want to keep the place profitable.
Really? Misguided? Really? No, the moderator understands the problems oh too well. It's just sad that she had to be put into such a position that she had to lay down the law. Grow up.
See ya!
Exactly. That's the idea: An Internet forum, not a private stomping ground. Go to Facebook for that. It's all you.
For every one of you that leaves, there will be 1,000 that sign up.
I hope the administrators stick to their guns and continue to break up the disruptive, abusive clique that has unfortunately congregated in, of all places, an Internet forum dedicated to a fricking amusement park.
...and a follower of a bunch of bullies. Wake up call: High school is over. You don't have to ask permission or get approval to join a stupid Internet message board.
. This is a public forum that has gained significant popularity in the years that I have been a member. To see so many of your regulars, who I might add have brought to you an exponential number of new followers 
, are being banished for very unclear reasons 
. I myself have introduced many friends to your boards for the wealth of information that it provides 
. Not to just the camping boards either. Yet this poster 
, and I use that term lightly, can come on and spout horrible insults and is still here! Personal insults, completely unaware of the full story and out just to make trouble 
. 
? Why not have fun? 
I don't see Disney being as successful as it has become if it had taken the path that some of power that be here have taken. Look at your business model and surely you will see that this is NOT what you intended. To make one customer happy at the expense of soooo many 
? Not in any business plan I ever studied. 
Who peed in BWFC's Wheaties this morning?
) over the years.
