[QUOTE="EinSV, post: 2322134, member: 43059]
I don't spend much time on the other site but my understanding is that it is not moderated by Tesla so I seriously doubt Tesla censored your post as you claim. Actual owners can "flag" a post if they think it is trolling or otherwise violates the terms of service and if enough owners flag it it disappears. I suspect that's what happened to your post. I doubt it was your only one on the subject.[/QUOTE]
Finally some accurate verbiage about the Tesla.com fora. Their forum app is not homegrown - it’s Mollum. There’s a lot less kissing/sucking up because the heirarchy there is flat. Nobody cares if you owned a Roadster or how many posts you’ve written.
Further, any post can get vaporized if enough people flag it. And in general the tone is far more civil because there isn’t omnipresent and uneven moderation. Nobody to impress or limits to push. The posts stand or fall on their own.
Is the app perfect? Hardly, but none are. The spam filter, for example, is just odd.
The best feature at the
tesla.com forums is being able to have owners-only private threads.
The biggest problem with the that site is the lack of decent searching. Not a problem for most who know how to either a) google effectively, or b)
Volkerize.
So simple.
In the end, however, content, ease of use/familiarity and primacy are king, with real-world crossover making a good run (see the success(es) of TMC Connect).
In the end, as with so many thIngs, the answer is not “or”, but “and”.