The mods are a bunch of jerks on that site. They claim to be all about encouraging debate and welcoming newcomers. Then they constantly edit, censor, and even steal your content. They claim to have the right to do this in their terms of service however their TOS has a clause stating they can change their terms at any time with no notice to users. This actually makes their TOS unenforceable. Look it up there are legal precedents set against that. The users are of course people some nice some judgemental but the mods have this “see me after class” attitude and are very passive aggressive. After I experienced this I realized once you post something you cannot remove it without explicit permission from said mods. I asked politely to have my account removed. No answer, so I asked if my content, which legally belongs to me, could be removed from their site. They really do not care about the users. They care about sales and marketing. They would like to have the appearance of having over 111,000 users even if this means a good portion of them are completely unwilling participants whose intellectual property has been stolen from them.It’s sad because the platform is really cool and could be used in a much more positive manner but they don’t give a rats behind about the actual users. I see in a reply below that they “take copyright infringement very seriously.” Apparently only they(mods and admin) have the right to steal peoples intellectual property. What a joke! The more reviews I read it becomes more and more clear that fishlore is a truly toxic environment. And in their response comments I have seen lies, and their typical cordially unapologetic responses.I am somewhat surprised by the way mods seem to arbitrarily pick out people to discipline or “correct” over minor forum use mistakes. Yet someone who bears the label of article contributor on their site tried to tell a newcomer that you should adjust temps for a betta according to how active the fish is based on flawed logic, comparing it to humans/mammals acclimating to low temps by exposure to lower temps. Uhh hello fish are cold blooded! You will never get a fish to acclimate to a temperature they haven’t evolved to exist in. Mammals are warm blooded. This is basic biology and goes to show the level of knowledge that a lot of the higher ranked individuals on this forum claim to have. I used the report comment button that they mention repeatedly in the replies to reviewers and they have yet to correct or eliminate the potentially harmful pseudoscience.I believe a forum like this has great potential but the way it is run is ethically and scientifically flawed. Too bad people don’t realize until they have been reeled in..
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