If you read through the HS site you will see that they did not just borrow the name. The organizational structure, rewards, ranks, and patch system are all borrowed heavily from BSA. So while it is convenient to label BS the bully here, HS does not pass the smell test of non-infringement. Not by a long shot. As a long time scouter, and maker, I fully appreciate what HS is trying to do. But creating a scene and yelling "but, we did it for the children" does not make it any more legit. You would need to be as ignorant as the poster to not see through the ruse. The act of "crying wolf" to twist the social media scene to falsely swing sentiment in your direction is getting old. I was happy to see the majority of posters see through the smoke screen and call it what it is.

This debacle started around Tuesday of last week. The implementation has been so bad, it is like somebody in the Groups team woke up last Tuesday and decided to just piss all over everything. There was no warning it was coming. They just flipped the switch. Moderators were not able to approve users or messages for days. Images have gone missing in many cases. HTML formatting is broken or has been removed completely, leaving pages of gibberish. A week later there are still broken features. The problems are not even uniform across Groups. Of the dozen or so Groups I belong too, I never know from one logon to the next what will work or won't work. Thousands of people have been complaining in the support forums over the changes. This is not a case were a few people had their panties in a wad over changing a web feature from brown to yellow. Thousands of users have been dog piling onto support entries with comments. Some constructive, others, not so much. What was interesting to me was that there was virtually 0 coverage of these problems in tech media. This is the first story I have seen. If Google had done this with their groups or docs or other applications, I feel there would have been significantly more coverage. The lack of the tech media to take notice, I feel, has had a significant impact on how Yahoo has addressed these problems with the Groups changes. If Yahoo pisses off thousands of users and all the tech journo's are deaf, dumb. and blind, did it make a noise?