Any interest from the LA board in moving to HO?

So everything needs a discussion around a goal? Here I just create boards on request. It’s a service, not a project.

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Thank You Robert for creating FTC . I’m sorry you have to baby sit the site now .

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Im cool,with a merger if it means mote discussion but first off, wat is HO?

Hungry Onion

the kindest answer i can suggest is that they’re food generalists while the current majority of posters here are more specialized in their interests. i personally am most interested in authentic ethnic cuisines that are accessible locally. and while i retain a strong interest in cooking, i’ve found that just googling for certain recipes was more effective than searching the CH boards. so i have little to no motivation to start participating on HO for that.

and in threads addressing the topic of a FTC/HO merger, posters to a (wo)man all seem to despise a prolific use of the f word in one poster’s writing style. it’s ironic because in one of their early threads, they note that all we did when we first got here was rant about CH - whereas on one particular thread discussing a merger, seemingly all they did was complain about that poster.

i also note that just about every LA based post had NO replies. unless a group chooses to move en masse, individual posters are going to despair of doing the equivalent of shouting into an empty chasm looking for LA-based responses. i’m not inclined to start lurking just to see if others start responding.

it’s probably fair to describe FTC as a subset of what HO aspires to be, but there are reasons why we’ve remained separate and i’m ok with that.

and since i’ve not said so before, thank you, robert, for giving us a place to land.

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Secret Asian man . Well said . Even though I don’t live in LA . I have never read any more prolific posters than on the LA board .WSG was my hook when I worked in So Cal . She’s awesome .Turned me on to great food . Also a shout out to Bula ,Ciao ,Weeny Mob… , Chow seeker , Ips , Kev ,Porky , Nosh ,and all of you . If anyone is going to visit the area there is no better to ask . Why even mess around with the rest of the talk .Leave HO for that . LA all the way . Do what you do best .

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everyone outside s.ca is going to have their opinions of the area, and there will be some provincialism involved. to be fair, it’s not realistic to expect some to appreciate the breadth of the diversity of ethnic cuisines accessible to those who live in the southland, nor to appreciate how assimilating that can be a full time passion in and of itself.

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As an aside, there is IMO a really bad clique developing on HO that the owner seems reluctant to address.

We are all guilty of that Cat .

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He does seem to address notorious trouble makers by banning them. Maybe the “clique” isn’t the problem.

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We have no blocked (can’t post or reply) or suspended (can’t log in) users.

There was one guy who left on his own because I was deleting his trolling topics, so I didn’t have to block him.

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Cliques are always a problem. When a new poster get overtly criticized and quits but the post that criticized remains, that seems not so good.

@robert it seems that most people play pretty nicely together here.

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I was referring to HO, not here.

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I think a move is a bad idea.

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Where, Catholiver? I’m curious to know as I have not seen it.

Have we had people suspended at HO? I know a couple who left.

I was specific with the owner of the site and will leave it at that.

I think people would move to whichever site has the most reviews and posts.

It doesn’t seem like the folks on HO seem too enthused about the LA centric FTC toxic posters.

Gotcha. Well, I have had no issues on HO and I like it there. We’ve gotten the NY/CT board going pretty well. I have had no issues with snarky people, but I’m not overly sensitive either. We have been fortunate to get a lot of the old CH posters from that board to HO and we have a great community.

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[quote=“js76wisco, post:44, topic:3497”]
LA centric FTC toxic posters.
[/quote] L.A. centric maybe. But who’s toxic?