Much was made by ezboard about its community spirit.

Labatt referred to ezboard’s customers as the “ezboard Family” in the early days after they lost over a year’s posts from our board because they didn’t have proper backups.

One of the reasons for not leaving ezboard for self-hosted options was that you wouldn;t benefit from the ezboard community and ezboard “board hops”.

But I reckon this thread over on Yuku dispels any lingering doubts about the ezboard community spirit being in truth only so much hot air:

“I would add names to the ban list on ez to prevent known morons from even getting one nasty post in.”

and

“On ez gold communites it was a nasty trick of competiting communites to go pile into your board and drive your gold cost up. Others would harvest email addresses from profiles or harass members in PMs. Some steal pictures and repost elsewhere stealing bandwidth in the process the list goes on and on.”

and

“There are other dirty tricks competitors would pull to drive you renewal cost up, I’m not going to mention them here but we picked up on them and paid the jerks back with interest.”

That, by the way, from one of the ezApologist faithful…

So we’ll leave the last word to Alison “Let It Rip” Harrison, a Yuku staffer:

“We’ll look into adding a way of banning people without actually inviting them.”

Good stuff!