I'm not going to say you are whining, I'm just curoius. What is the problem with including Venice in a GREATER Tampa Bay area thread? Is that somehow offensive? Are Venice residents bothered by this? I know a lot of people in the Tampa area that make the relatively short drive to Venice to dive on a regular basis. I've made the trip myself and am thinking about doing it again in the next couple of weeks. It certainly wouldn't bother me at all if info about Clearwater diving was included in a thread titled "Greater Venice area"...
There were many of us who did not want the division in the first place. I do not dive in Tampa, not even in a greater tampa, and do not visit that forum. If I'm going to drive that far to dive, I'm going to the other coast. It's the same distance.
So now, I'm being told to visit a forum I do not visit to view a sticky for the dive I dive most frequently. It used to be a sticky in OUR forum, but was removed and when we asked for it back were told that the dive was not a scubaboard function and therefore could not be a sticky. Yet now it is in the tampa forum.
I don't know how others see it, but to me this is just a slap in the face.
I have nothing against the members of the tampa forum, just do not appreciate the seperate forum, nor having to check it for my most frequent dive.
This is one of the main reasons that I have gone from logging in and posting several times a day to logging in every couple of weeks.