It's nearly 20:00 on a Friday evening so yeah, I'm drunk, even then I amended my post immediately for clarity...
You have to realise the people are emotional and people will over-react... so, knowing this, why in the ever-loving giant, jumping fuck balls would you force the implementation of something as idiotically stupid as this for a fucking karate forum?
Forums are dying out as it is, even if you lose only 20% of the members, it can be catastrophic for the viability of the product.
I know, I just find it funny that what I assume is grown ass men, overreact on a karate forum.
A grown ass man should know to step away from the interweb and take a break.
Not meltdown and e-suicide.
Well... this is years old and do NOT reflect on the current owners who I know nothing about.
But when I was in the gaming industry I contacted the owners of Sherdog to try and make a deal to make avatars on here "build your own fighter" stuff with the potential to also create content and sell, like custom shorts and on and on.
I had a few discussions with them but it mounted to nothing well as you can tell..
They could not get into their thick sculls that they had a forum...
All focus was on the main site.
Zero fucks was given about the forum.
Now as I said that was previous and +15 years ago.
based on that old story and my ass, I some times wonder how big deal the forum really is to the owners. As you say its a dying format and I am sure traffic has gone down over the years.
well the future will tell. Personally I did the 2 step, I provided no new info to Sherdog that they did not already have.. It was and is a nothing burger to me.
IF they start with validate your account (like LinkedIN) and want a scan of photo ID, I will leave. But this? Naw man .