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Originally Posted by Frank
However, it does appear that those managing the trial are quite happy to recruit users for their trials using this forum and the admins are happy to cooperate in this. The problem I have is that these users are then forced to move to chetnet, a site which is regularly spammed on here by certain people, and to not post anything concerning the trial on this site. I appreciate the confidentiality of the trial, but it does not sound to me (from this thread) as though the trials forum is being very well managed.
Perhaps if the trials team had approached the moderators on this site about running a trial forum here, then the trial would have been slightly better managed, but instead the audacious move of recruiting users from this site and "moving" them to another site was made. Having your cake and eating it springs to mind...
I would guess that a larger percentage of users on the trial came from this site rather than Chetnet, just because of the total number of users on each site. It is therefore a bit rich that this site is not involved in the trial and Chetnet is, just because certain people involved with the trial have withdrawn their support for this site and are mates with the admins of Chetnet.
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Thanks Frank
We recruited most of our triallists by direct e-mail, but also added posts here, ntlhell.co.uk, chetnet and digitalspy.
I don't agree that people are forced to move to chetnet, they don't need to give up NTHW to be a member of Chet, and they are welcome to be in as many forums as they wish
The choice of Chetnet was simple logistics, a forum run by people we knew who are ntl staff and can be expected to conduct all aspects of their involvement with the trial in a fair and positive way.
Chetnet has never portayed itself as a "hell" site but always as a help site and from that point of view I felt that it was and is a more suitable place for us to conduct our trials forum.
BTW, we did run a very successful Xbox trial forum on .com and I have no complaints how that was run, but I do feel that .co.uk is sometimes more antagonistic about ntl than even .com was and therefore chose chetnet as a home for the forum.