One of the ways that the ezboard/yuku staff seek to deflect criticism - in addition to their present toolbox that includes banning people, editing posts, hiding posts and threads and being able to post from individuals’ accounts - is by derailing a thread by posting meaningless waffle in a support thread with the help of their usual band of sycophants and ezApologists.

This is particularly used where the complainant makes the mistake of posting in the yuku support chat forum rather than the bug forum. Well I say ‘mistake’, but if it’s not a bug, they’re stuffed in terms of the lack of a general customer service forum.

Take for instance this thread in the yuku support [sic] forum by someone complaining of harassment by means of a yuku board having a pop at individuals. After setting out the issues, the individual writes that: “I have sent numerous emails to YUKU and they’ve come back to me. I’m not sure the actual address I’m supposed to complain to.” Shortly after this, the thread is derailed by the ezApologists and yuku staff talking about trout-slapping, squirting with silly string, etc. After 41 replies, mostly of that ilk, the user posted something else that has since mysteriously disappeared and one of the cronies writes:

“I really don’t think we needed that posted Chloe. Just as long as the staff has been alerted they can look into what needs to be done. Even is she does it in private, the staff can find out.”

Now is it just me or is that reply sanctimonious in the extreme, especially considering the poster is just another user (even if they don’t seem to see themselves that way)?