I said this morning I would reply to the (now hidden) comments made in the EV thread overnight/early hours

No, "The HonestJohn" is no longer associated with the website. I thought most knew it fell into administration and was bought by Heycar.

Compared to others forums I think you will find that HJ is more tolerant of views than other sites.

Yes ORB has retired as a mod so for the time being it's just me. The mod team will be expanded but these things take time especially as the IT person mods used to deal with has moved on.

Heycar have their business priorities, it's probably fair to say the Backroom is not particularly high up the list as it's not directly revenue generating.

I do not have any desire to suppress discussions but whether we like it or not we need to reflect on what finances the website. I know some people disliked the phrase "anti-EV" I used, so let's describe them as threads that are not portraying EV in a positive light. I think some people are still struggling with the difference between the content of these threads and the number of them. It's the latter that I have been trying to address. In addition to that we've had a situation in the last few days where we've had several threads on the same article: two on the MG brake issue and three on the Tesla £9k insurance quote.

Moderators cannot create new sub-forums so the next best option is a separate EV thread where people can discuss all these EV articles. That way people can discuss them but for others who do not then it's not quite so 'in yer face' and looks better when viewing the forum to see a more balanced list of subjects.

As I've mentioned in the header post of the EV thread, there are some EV discussions that might continue to be better suited to a thread on their own and I gave two examples that sprung to mind. There might be others and discretion will be used.

Yes this is a bit of a compromise and like all compromises not all will be happy. We've had these separate threads before over the years, I see no reason why this one can't work. More to the point it has to work because I've largely come to the limit of how much time I can allocate to all this on top of my full-time work.

I will leave this open for now and will read the replies and probably lock it later.

Edited by Xileno on 09/10/2023 at 18:06