they (alex and his mods) do a good job of trying to poison everyone against the opposition (ie sites like this, mainly this one) early on, so most of the members there just assume this place is a lot worse than it is, without actually coming here to form their own opinion on it
The MOST ridiculous case is QM, who
shoots the site down, without having
even visited it. MrMark, long before he
made his known persona here, was claiming
how much good it did him to vent here, and
suggesting (in the mod forum) that we actually
direct the hard-cases this way (something I was
doing anyhow); Alex shot that idea down, claiming
that whatever temporary respite we might get, would
just be worsened by their association here. TM never had
much to say about it, even though he lurked here.