CBS Big Brother Forum Fans Call for Boycott!

The CBS Administration Team put forth this letter to their fans on the Big Brother 10 forum. The result of this is not only the Big Brother fans upset, many of the fan forums are now upset about the change of forum format. Fans are now calling for a Boycott!

This article is written and owned by: Arnelle Durocher

Letter from Big Brother Administrative team to their fans:

Hello Big Brother Fans!

Welcome to the new Big Brother Community. As you’ve noticed and as we’ve acknowledged, we’ve gotten off to a bit of a rocky start, but looks like we’ve gotten things stabilized a bit and we’re hoping that you are starting to get comfortable with the new board format. We know change can be tough, but we sincerely believe that what we’re building will be even better than what we had before.

In addition to our new forums we’ve released some fantastic new features that we want to make sure all you fans are aware of:

- The ability to connect with your fellow fans by adding friends to your profile and sending compliments (go ahead and add us – and feel free to send us a few compliments if you like as well )
- The ability to upload multiple pictures of yourself and share with other fans
- The ability to link to your own blog or website and share it with other fans
- The ability to rate your favorite videos
- The ability to comment on your favorite videos, cast members and recaps
- The ability to declare yourself a fan of your favorite videos, cast members, recaps (just look for the I’m a Fan button located below each video, cast member, recap next to the Add This bookmark button)

This is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks we’ll be rolling out even more great features that will provide you with the ultimate Big Brother experience.

Thanks everyone! We hope you all once again enjoy this season of Big Brother

CBS.com Big Brother Team

Unfortunatly for the CBS and Big Brother Adminstration it is almost too little to late, the fans hate the forum and are advertising on the boards and elsewhere of boycotting the new forum. CBS your fans not just from the Big Brother forum but your other fans are speaking to you, you may want to listen to them.

In response to the CBS team’s letter on the Big Brother 10 forum. The CBS forum fans that frequent the CBS site have issued this letter and are calling for a Boycott.

CBS is changing the formats of the message boards. There are a lot of problems with the new format. Even if things are fixed, there will still be problems. There is no way to reply to a particular poster. Replies move you to the end of the thread and you lose your place. The type is very small. And this is just the beginning. There is a proposal for people to completely boycott ALL the CBS message boards on Thursday and Friday. This means both posting and lurking. Hopefully CBS will realize just how unhappy we are. For more information, see this thread in “Guiding Light”.

( You will have to go to the Big Brother 9 Forum to see the post as well as the link)

CBS intends to change ALL the message boards to this new format. If you care, join the boycott AND e-mail a message to CBS using the Feedback function at the very bottom of the page

Thank you!

CBS your Big Brother fans are angry, discontent, and disgruntled. Even though you put out a nice letter and are attempting to reconcile your fan anger it is not enough and almost to little to late. Your fans that frequent your forums feel that you should have been better prepared for the new season. I tend to agree with them.

Last year, you threw together a forum that your fans were not happy with , however they adapted as best as they could and they felt it was user friendly. This year, you really erred and now your fans are fed up. You have to remember that there are many different groups out there that post about your shows on your different forums. Fans do updates, spoiliers, feeds, housecalls, general, off topic, discussion, banter just on BB forum alone, but your fans do this for your other CBS shows. These people have been part of the Big Brother and CBS forums fan family for a long time. I think you also need to realize the age of some of your fans that like the old format, because of their eyesight.

If you are going to change your forums you may want to pick a format that is user friendly and simple so all of your fans of all ages, that frequent your forums can particpate on the forums of their favorite CBS shows. You may want to consider your fans discontent, objection, and listen to your fans, not patronize them any further. CBS you really need put up decent fan forums for all of your shows. Your fans are really reeling from this and are quite perturbed and angry. Today they are calling to boycott just your fan forums. If your fans continue to be angry, you need to look at future possiblites and what else the fans may consider boycotting. Somebody dropped the ball CBS and it is time you pick it up and run with what is being conveyed to you. Better late then never!

Just one more teeny bit of advise. Your mods deletions of this discussion is not doing your organization any favours, they are just pissing off your fans further. Your fans are trying to convey how they feel to you. It is time you read what they are saying, have someone respond without patronizing them and do act on what is being conveyed to you. Look at this way CBS, how do you think your older fans feel when they cannot even read the new fan forum because of their eyesight.

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