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Topic: Kev Faulkner Banned?
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Ugo Grassi
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 506
From: Avellino (Italy)
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted January 19, 2005 09:19 AM
What's up in the this forum Brad? I have an opinion and I hope you want to listen it. Brad, in an other topic, you wrote "The bottom line is that this site is here and if you wish to use it, help yourself. If you don't want to, then don't. It's called freedom of choice. However if you do enjoy this site, please simply abide by the rules when you participate." Well, this is right. But it's also right everybody respects forum rules: the administrator too! Now, Brad, you remember the problem we had about the way to upload a pic in a message. I wrote to you to have an help and your answer was: "this is a your problem I cannot loose my time with every forum member to explain that's in the FAQ" You know the end of the story: I discovered the problem, and it was in the link page: it means it was a your problem! A guy which know the netiquette would have had write "excuse me, Ugo" Don't forget Brad that due to your wrong link in the page I saw three times a face which said to me "piece of shit". Do you think is it an netiquette? Brad, I don't want you say "excuse me". This is an example only. I want you understand that sometimes you also do some mistakes. It's only human.
You said "please, no teaser title". Right, but is a title with three points instead of a word a teaser title? I think no. If you write (like you did it to an other guy) "Use your brain for a minute and think about it..." you loose your time and you obtain... nothing! But if you say "this is an incomplete title, which makes finding the older post VERY DIFFICULT" I think: right! Well. I respect this rule because it's a right rule! You wrote: " please simply abide by the rules when you participate (to the forum). This is not asking too much." Right! I agree with you, but, please we like you are a little bit more polite with us.This is not asking too much.
"I still don't understand why Kevin doesn't just email me" I think the answer is in these my words. Brad, really, I don't want a controversy. Now Brad you have two ways: you ban me and close this thread. Or you think there is something of true in this my opinion. To listen the opinions which we don't like has a name: democracy
-------------------- Bye Ugo
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 525
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 19, 2005 07:58 PM
Personally I believe any issues should be handled off site. However for some reason a few people here from the 8mm camp really wants to air out any dirty laundry here, so fine, we'll let this thread continue longer for their benefit.
Yes you are sort-of correct on the image upload story. The instructions are indeed there as I stated, but the problem was you found a link to "click here to upload an image" that I never realized existed, and as of yet have not had the time to try and figure out a way to correct. I do also specifically remember apologizing to you for that. Someone asked just a couple of days ago about image uploading and I posted a screenshot of the correct link to use so that same confusion wouldn't happen again.
I have put out the request for moderators, but no one has signed up, so until such time I will have to continue to handle the moderating. I do think it is important for everyone to remember though that I am insanely busy and often have to race through these threads to handle the moderating. Some days I have time to sit down and read through the discussions and enjoy the 8mm hobby, but other days it's just something I have to do and I don't have the time to sit down and compose something extra nice. (It's far quicker to just say "no teaser titles - edit your post" than it is to word it otherwise.) So if there are a couple of members here who would like to take over that for me and keep things extra friendly, it's all yours. Really, I don't have the time to do this properly.
Please bear in mind that the one thing I won't do is let the site run completely un-moderated, because I've seen what happens to those. They turn into nasty places with everyone using handles so you don't really know who you are talking to, and then as people get angry about something they start registering with more handles, arguments ensue and escalate, the moderator doesn't step in (or if he does it's too late to effectively do anything) and then sooner or later (and it always happens), the forums have a terrible signal to noise ratio, meaning hardly anything worthwhile remains after dredging through all of the crap. Nobody wants that.
Still though, if anyone here has any issues or questions or opinions or suggestions, I will always take them more seriously than when someone fires off a complaint post. By posting your issues rather than emailing, remember you are just increasing the noise and lowering the overall quality of the site. Hopefully that answers your question.
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