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"San Jose is not San Fran." New pinned thread outlaws San Jose reviews.

Runon99

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For those who haven't noticed, there is a new pinned thread from @rAMPage on top of this discussion page and the review page. The headline reads: "San Jose is not San Fran. All reviews will be rejected and you will be banned."

The body of the two posts read:

"There is not a San Jose section. Take this constant violation of the rules somewhere else. San Jose is not allowed to be reviewed on this site."

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"There is not a San Jose forum. Stop writing reviews about San Jose, Go somewhere else that has a San Jose forum and stop fucking with this site."

I will humbly suggest that virtually nobody who posts reviews of providers in San Jose is doing so to fuck with this site or has/had any clue this was a violation of any rule.

San Francisco proper is very small -- 49 square miles and a population of approximately 815,000 people. The overwhelming majority of reviews (and discussion) on this site are for places and providers outside of the city of San Francisco. It's not just reviews for San Jose, it's the entire peninsula and Silicon Valley, the entire East Bay (Oakland, Fremont, Pleasanton, etc.) and the North Bay (San Rafael, the rest of Marin County, etc.). If reviews and discussion on this site are actually restricted to San Francisco itself, traffic on this part of the site could severely dwindle. I just looked at the first page of reviews and only ONE is for a place that's actually in San Francisco.

Those of us who live here (I live in the city itself) often hobby all over the area, which has an official designation as the San Francisco Bay Area, which is comprised of the nine counties surrounding the San Francisco Bay. San Jose is part of the SF Bay Area. More on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

I love this site and I love the San Francisco section, but I fear its utility would be vastly diminished if reviews and discussion were restricted to only the city of San Francisco. I don't know if something behind the scenes was the impetus for these pinned announcements, but without knowing anything else I would humbly suggest that the San Francisco section be inclusive of the entire SF Bay Area, as virtually all of its local participants have considered it. This is just one member's opinion. Thanks for reading.
 
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rodneyfarva

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I am curious if there could be additions to the forum section for California. Perhaps a San Jose or Southbay forum. Perhaps a Peninsula forum for outside SF if San Mateo, SSF, and other cities outside the hard definitiojn of SF. I don't know how forum sections are added or created here, so just asking a question. Thanks.
 
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nxp

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sounds like someone who doesn't live here and doesn't know the area. very bizarre policy to enforce anyhow. SF forum has always been the SF Bay Area forum as far as i can tell going back years and years.

maybe just change the name of the forum to SF Bay Area and not make a big deal out of nothing for no reason. there's tons of quality content and reviews from all over the bay. banning people for that is just a disservice.
 
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MegaEggplant

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I wonder what must have ticked him off after years of San Jose reviews posted in this forums.

It should be renamed to Bay Area though. Or granulated to Peninsula, South Bay Area, and East Bay Area but now Admin's have more forums to manage.
 
Susanlixxx

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I think it would be proper that the admins create a San Jose section to cover sjc ,. Sunnyvale , Cupertino , mountain view etc so we can migrate there .

I'm puzzled by the message but want to comply (this account does help me and in return I try to return the favor with Intel ) .
 
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Susanlixxx said:
I think it would be proper that the admins create a San Jose section to cover sjc ,. Sunnyvale , Cupertino , mountain view etc so we can migrate there .

I'm puzzled by the message but want to comply (this account does help me and in return I try to return the favor with Intel ) .
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Although that leaves east bay in the lurch....
 
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nxp

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right but why granulate it? unless i'm miscounting, there's barely enough SF reviews to warrant SF having its own forum instead of the forum being renamed to "San Jose Area"

it's mostly south bay at this point i think
 
Susanlixxx

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Looks like we are now homeless . Unless we want to create reviews in the "board wide general topics" , which too will , I am sure , invite a swift ban of some sort.
 
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