The great debate!

This is bigger than the carbon tax & NBN put together!

Some history:
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The Seabreeze forums were started because I'm passionate about my watersports. They are about people helping people. A forum where people get together, help each other, solve challenges, organise get togethers, make friends, and share the stoke.

The red thumbs were provided to give people an extra opinion on a topic. Much like a group of people standing around in a circle, talking, there will be people who raise the eyebrows, shake their heads, or roll their head back laughing - there are many ways of communicating.

Unfortunately, in this SUP forum individuals and groups of people used the thumbs in a negative manner by 'ganging up' on other members, and red-thumbing every post they made, regardless of content.

Businesses, team riders, people with agenda's also used them to show their disapproval of competing businesses, brands & team riders. Essentialy they were being abused. We spent time & money tweaking the system, but to no avail. We rang people, again, to to no avail.

We ran a poll, like this, and the vote was to remove them, so .. remove them we did.

The thumbs were added with good intentions, to make great forums, greater. On the whole, they've been hugely successful, and in the other forums, there haven't been the challenges faced amongst SUP crew.

So now we have another poll:

"Should the SUP forums have red thumbs"

To vote, either write yes or no, or click the thumbs ... both will be tallied after 1 week (20'th)

Let see where this goes!!

Enjoy .. Lozza