Well some of the comments were not nice bassically bagging him
I was on the Flow forum until a year ago. I asked a question and I was mobbed by two old aussie guys. I'm a beginner with only a couple of Flow hives so that forum is ideal for me. When I brought the issue to the attention of the moderator she was very condescending and unhelpful. I left the forum and deleted my account. Occasionally I have a look and always find some sort of nasty argument going on.
One of those old guys, although sometimes nasty, is actually quite knowledgeable and did enjoy his input. He used to answer almost every question. Now he got kicked out of the forum for ever because he used to point out problems with leaking and AFB and better to harvest off the hive.
The Flow forum has a serious problem with moderation. The moderator is not a beekeeper and never participates. Occasionally she pops her head up and fires someone out for complaining about something. I've been told by a couple of members that it used to be good with the previous moderator but now it's gone downhill.
Last week there was an american girl asking about preventing swarms, and some boofhead suggested to just let them swarm. Not only the advice was not corrected, but it got 'likes'.
I now just joined this one because without that old beekeeper they just kicked out, their forum is dead.