At Kirupa forums, you’ll find some of the most talented flash designers around, it’s really an interesting place that we have checked out, lots of creative people there and the contests seem to be of the highest caliber. Thumbs up there! But, we are sadly reporting what seems to be a black patch, or is it a black cloud, that lingers over this great forum. Members, who believe it is ‘their’ forum, seem to have a venomous way with new members. Bashing them? Embarrassing them? Calling them names? There must be something wrong here. Time to find out I guess.

Are new members falling victims to cyber bullying and forum trolling/flaming by older members? Are Kirupa.com’s admins/mods allowing this to go on under the radar so as to keep older members happy? We’re not sure, but from the screen shots we were sent by one new member there, we’re sickened as to how things were left.

Threatened? Called names? Disrespected and ridiculed, some might think we’re exaggerating, but trust me, we’re not. Now we looked into it to see if this sort of thing has happened before, and to our disbelief, it has, several times. Why are people allowed to be offensive if it clearly states otherwise in Kirupa’s rules?!?!!? Come on Kirupa, do something about it, they’re messing up a beautiful and respectable forum there! Screenshots sent by the victim show comments such as “have you missed an additional zero perhaps” (for the budget) and things like, “Someone didn’t have their froot loops this morning…” as well as accusations of trying to cheat people and scam them, noting that some kirupa members look out for each other?! All this because someone had a low budget of $150?

The section highlighted above shows a topic in question, $150 for a simple edit of a tool it seems, this is the topic in question, the one that was deleted by request of the topic starter because he was slammed with hate comments for offering an on budget price? Are you kidding us? Why have a LOW PROFILE section if you expect people to pay $x,xxx!?

This is beyond being rude and offencive, maybe someone from Kirupa would care to enlighten us? Maybe explain how things are done there and why new members don’t feel welcome. We’re sad to report that a great forum with so much creativity like that is now on our black list of bad services.

If you want to look for help, advice, and not get hated on, Kirupa, sadly, does not seem to be the place for that.