Bladeforums Reviews

I m disgusted with the mods here

I m disgusted with the mods here banning people and leaving nasty messages and attacking people

If you re an aspiring knife maker avoid

If you re an aspiring knife maker avoid this forum unless you like being ridiculed and defamed for asking critical questions especially of the asshat moderator Stacy E Apelt The forum is cliquish and borderline cultic If your goal is to become a butt kissing lackey this site is for you Otherwise avoid at all costs

A toxic and bigoted environment full of

A toxic and bigoted environment full of good ol boys and patriots who talk about which knife is best for killing people

It s an immature knife cult that likes only certain brands

I was a member on Bladeforums for almost seventeen years and I left this year I had less than 1 000 thread posts and became more of a reader due to the negative atmosphere of the knife cult that took over The cult is a pack of brown-nosing consumers of certain knife brands staff members of certain knife manufacturers and knife retailers as a mesh of members and moderators You re a liar or hater in their eyes if you bought one of their USA made knives and had quality issues with it Then they go on their Whine Cheese forum and cowardly speak ill of other members It s past reflecting a great place to do research on knives new and old domestic and foreign history and steel grade information due to older contributors Most of those older contributors have been banned or don t partake in the site anymore due to how hostile and snobby it s become

Nothing but immature whiners

Nothing but immature whiners at a Knife Summer Camp I have never read one constructive comment and if there was one someone was standing by to tear them down Too much time on all of these kids hands

They will take your money and then ban you from the site

There is a growing tide of people leaving Bladeforums com due to Blues banning people and just being an all around bully here is another example Look at the dialog between Blues moderator and kod paying customer on a simple change issue that just required the owner to revert to the old site setup and likely pay the increased monthly fee to the internet provider for storing extra emails Typical on Bladeforums com - Blues threatens the paying customer that he can and will revoke his ability to access the forums which the customer paid 35 for just becauseBlues - That s considerably snarkier than called for If that s your attitude I ll be happy to send Spark the cost of your membership when you leave This was in response to -kod- Similarly it s solely up to the customers of the site whether to continue paying for the service I am more than happy to volunteer my time to help solve a basic technical problem if the suggestions given so far don t work for some reason If the owner is simply unwilling I ll be voting with my wallet Which is just stating the truth Blues is in this case goading the customer hoping that they will say something to or about him so that Blues can enforce the Bladeforums rule Abuse to Staff Sassin the Mods - 40 points Major Spam Trolling - instant ban This rule allows Blues to immediately ban the paying customer - In this case they relented and many customers then kissed up to Blues for fixing it Typical bully and mob behavior When there is a problem even a big problem causing a potential business shutdown sit back and don t say anything hoping that someone else bring it up shoot the messenger Then when the bully does relent and fix it praise them so that you remain on their good side Remember - in this case all the owner Sparks - Kevin Schlossberg had to do was revert to the way the system worked before That is the climate on Bladeforums com right now Since kod has both Gold and Basic member under his name that means that he had to pay first for the Basic 10 and found that he couldn t send enough messages to do anything so he paid for Gold 35 So that s 45 - all in one year This is pretty common on BladeforumsIt appears that onestopknifeshop com is part of the same business Oh- and try to search them online for Google Reviews google reviews one stop knife shop louisville ky You ll find that you ll get Heimerdinger Cutlery Company - Shady

I am a long time member who decided to

I am a long time member who decided to renew a paid one year membership Several months into the renewal my account was abruptly banned despite being a member in good standing with no history of infraction or warnings Emails on the matter went completely unanswered It seems like a scam to get people s money and then ban them to save on server fees or some other unknown reason

I ve been a member for a long time but

I ve been a member for a long time but over the years have started to become more and more irritated Politics outside of political sub-forums is strict no-no as long as it suits the taste of the boomer echo chamber Any arguments are met with suitable closure Lots of discussion - no matter how appropriate - is met with hostility by tired frustrated members The sub-forums that allow more freedom with discussion are filled with yahoos of antivaxers flat earthers and tinfoil hats The whine cheese used to be sub-forum for bullying members that they seemed to put it behind the paywall now Such a weird place and sad testament to the death of forums I d suggest going somewhere else where the looneys haven t figured out to go yet

Incorrect information imagical design knives

24 year old out of date threads containing incorrect information about my flip knives Some of them are posted before I won the Blade magazine Most innovative imported knife if the year award in June 2000 Blade forum refuses to remove these posts which are comments on my prototype models and ideas and written by members who had never seen the final production knife the - I D 2000 dpi flipknife