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I was a member on Bladeforums for almost seventeen years and I left this year. I had less than 1,000 thread posts and became more of a reader due to the negative atmosphere of the knife cult that took over. The cult is a pack of brown-nosing consumers of certain knife brands, staff members of certain knife manufacturers, and knife retailers as a mesh of members and moderators. You're a liar or hater in their eyes if you bought one of their USA made knives and had quality issues with it. Then they go on their "Whine & Cheese" forum and cowardly speak ill of other members. It's past reflecting a great place to do research on knives new and old, domestic and foreign, history, and steel grade information due to older contributors. Most of those older contributors have been banned or don't partake in the site anymore due to how hostile and snobby it's become.

A toxic and bigoted environment full of "good ol' boys" and "patriots" who talk about which knife is best for killing people.

If you’re an aspiring knife maker avoid this forum unless you like being ridiculed and defamed for asking critical questions, especially of the asshat moderator Stacy E. Apelt. The forum is cliquish and borderline cultic. If your goal is to become a butt kissing lackey this site is for you. Otherwise avoid at all costs.

I'm disgusted with the mods here banning people and leaving nasty messages and attacking people

I joined bladeforums because I buy a lot of Busse and within a few days I was being trolled and any response or any request to the mods was a ban. They have banned me, my grandfather, at least 6 of my customers and a lot more of my friends simply for calling them out on lies and price gouging and silencing competition...much like jerzeedevil the place is just plain toxic and the few 'admins', which are actually the same people who run and work at the knife companies- are there to perpetuate lies about their own customers, which they have an entire thread for. If they find out you're making more money on a knife than they are or they just don't like you they will IP ban you and everyone you know, slander you on facebook, meetme, gab, twitter, slander your business, harass your family and all kinds of other stuff. They'll put you in their 'bad and ugly' forum after banning you because they know that slandering people this way is completely illegal and they don't want anyone arguing the other side...any time this forums gets a bad review they somehow make it disappear..time for that to stop. Spark, the owner of the forum, and Jerry Busse are a part of these lies and yes Amy and Garth and the others know about it as well and allow it to go on. Bladeforums is a dishonest community of trolls and slanderers and they are about as adult and mature as a bunch of 4 year old children.