I don't mean any of the following as any offense to any of the hard work that goes into running a large website such as FP or AF as I know how much of a pain it can be to just moderate a site this big.
Ouch@hoping this becomes a big hip hop forum and members going to AF for tech-oriented questions. I'm coming from spending so much time and effort at keeping this site a good place for tech-related questions, specially in the recording mixing and mastering forum which was a great destination for people while I was modding and keeping the forum clean.
I don't mean to offend the others mods at FP because I know there are various that do what they can to keep things clean but all FP really needed was better moderating and more concensus about moderating amongst moderators.
I never wanted to be a dissenting voice even after lurking and seeing all the changes and perhaps I should have read this thread much sooner but this pretty much seems as letting the FP ship sink with the hip hop heads and hoping the rest of the people flock to AF.
FP has a lot of great tech-related information and it's a shame to just dump it instead of fixing what's wrong. As much activity as the hip hop forum gets it's still just one section of FP and rather and trashing the entire sink for one leak the leak should just be fixed with better moderating. I know the posts/threads will still be here but if people see this as a hip hop site, why would anyone bother to search for the audio-related posts if they wouldn't imagine they were here?
I hope everything works out in the end but I can't help but agree with Moses on a lot if not all of his points.