The BelowEmpty situation is frustrating. Rik and Ivy who created it did amazing work with the live archives and what not, great stuff and I admire their work ethic with all of that, but right now I totally disagree with the way they're running the forum/site. The name of that section is ridiculous, even for the people who disagree with keeping the name, the reality is the name of the band is Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! It just makes the forum look like a clusterfuck and is probably confusing to any new fans who go on there. Closing the board for a few months was lame too, and they wouldn't even link to the one I made so I had to frantically find members on Twitter to get the STP fan family back together. It took me an all nighter/5-6 hours to contact everybody.
I was cool with everybody leaving STPfans.com and going back to BelowEmpty.com when it re-opened but now I'm not as sure. While there definitely should be discussion on the merits of using the name and fair criticism of Chester, there is blatant trolling going on on BelowEmpty, shit that should all be in one thread is in EVERY thread. I've kept STPfans.com opened though in case a group of fans get fed up with BelowEmpty and want to go there, or for if BelowEmpty closes again.
