"Nicky" is setting up a "bitching" chat site for Cooperites who just want to get into it. Maybe it will take off, maybe not.
But at the Mountain News I just couldn't find the "sweet spot" for animated discussion, Blevins' stuff, and the young bucks spouting their most recent findings. Some of it was good, some not, some of it Blevins' backstabbing. It got to the point where I just couldn't select the worthy and surgically remove the unwanted, so I had to shut it all down.
We saw this go on for years at the DZ, and it came back in full force at TMN - there were over 600 posts in about a month's time - so there is a desire for this kind of interaction. But I just don't have the time or energy to monitor it all.