Competition versus Co-operation

Sorry to have to share this, it makes me feel a little grubby - but sometimes other people need to be called out.
Our 'competitor' site has now adopted a slogan, 'DPR Users, unite'. On DPReview, this thread, promoting that forum' has been put there by a moderator:
www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66975658
Which contains the line
'Cooperation over competition'.
Which is fine, except that it was the owner of that site that decided that there should be competition. Below is the discussion that we had:





If he wants competition, then that's fine. But presenting it as though we were the ones wanting to compete is just untrue.
As you will see form the DPR thread, I made a polite post simply raising the issue. You will see what the outcome was. As a result I have been sandboxed by this moderator (I suspect that he knows that he won't get away with banning me).
I just wanted people here to know who it is that is interested in co-operation, and who isn't.

Actually, I agree. The reason for wanting to co-operate at the beginning was to avoid fragmenting efforts so that none achieved viability. Now we have more than 1500 members, there are lively discussions going on, and we are viable so long as we continue to progress and make this site better for its users. The problem with the behaviour was not the unwillingness to collaborate - that's fair enough - but presenting things as though we were the ones not collaborating. That wasn't honest.