As some of our new members may be wondering why we have decided to move to a brand new discussion forum, I am posting a detailed explanation of what happened.

We had been sponsoring the Free To Air forum on Digital Home Canada for a few years now and were spending close to $5,000 per year. However due to severe accountability issues with some of their staff and previous owner Hugh Thompson, we have decided it would be in our best interest to discontinue our sponsorship in that forum.
 
 As part of our forum sponsorship agreement, we had been provided full moderator access for our sponsored Free To Air forum on Digital Home Canada. However, our DrSat user account was banned for over 1 full month (34 days to be exact) by moderator Jase88 simply for trying to close a cross-posted thread as cross posts are against the Digital Home forum so called "rules"! Normally this would not be an issue but as that thread was opened by Hugh himself, it is apparently not subject to the forum's rules.  This is especially disturbing as our authority was subverted by someone at the very same level as us in that forum and is akin to a police officer stopping another police officer from arresting a criminal!
 
 Most of you are probably saying at this point “WTF, a sponsor who spends 5 grand per year gets banned 1 month for closing a cross-posted thread in his sponsored forum?!?  If this was Apple or Microsoft, the matter would already be dealt with legally but as we are a much smaller company, we attempted a more diplomatic approach.  During the whole ordeal, we have been very patient and more than understanding in trying to resolve this issue.  As our sponsorship agreement is between Dr. Sat – The Satellite Doctor and VerticalScope, our legal counsel had advised us to deal strictly with them in order to resolve this issue.   
 
 We were hopeful that making an appeal to the forum administrator and VerticalScope management would allow to eventually get this matter resolved but alas, this is not the case.  The only solution they are willing to accept is to remove our moderator rights from our sponsored FTA forum and create a brand new sub-forum in FTA which we would have moderator rights to instead. This is unacceptable to us as it does not solve the real issue at hand which is Jase88's improper issuance of a forum ban.
 
 Furthermore, we have made a significant effort over the years to build up traffic on the Digital Home Free To Air forum which was pretty much dead before we began sponsoring it so it would not be fair for us to flush that effort down the toilet and start fresh with a new forum.   We have lost significant trust in VerticalScope as they apparently have little control over the forums that they apparently are supposed to own and refuse to accept responsibility for the actions of their volunteer forum moderators.
 
 I would like to state that even though Hugh sold Digital Home Canada to VerticalScope and pretends to no longer have anything to do in operating the forum, he is very much still in control via his moderator puppets who all still have their privileges on the forum.  Ironically enough, he still had moderator access on the Free To Air forum at the beginning of this ordeal which has since then been removed but he still has moderator access to the Television Industry / Channels and Providers forum at http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=12 where he continues to post his tirade threads about anything he disagrees or has an issue with.

I don't know or care about the detail of what forced a new forum. What I do know is that years ago I determined Digital Home moderators were out of control. I left that forum at that time, but I eventually returned to it since it was the only gathering place of Canadian FTA enthusiasts. Now that this forum has been created, I will encourage all I know to gather here. And happilly I can delete the Digital Home bookmark. 

Exactly! I was given some kind of punishment because I attempted to understand why a moderator had deleted a swath of comments by myself and others. But you are punished if you talk to a moderator. It was all so grade school-like. I thought they were going to make us write "I will not talk back" 100 times.