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Topic: Help folks! I need photos of Elmo GS800
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 17, 2005 10:29 AM
Hi Brad,
I have always admired the way you run this Forum. It is without doubt the best run film collectors forum on the web, and it is nice to know that it is a place where civilized conversation is the norm, and loud mouthed jerks are immediately relegated to the cutting room floor! Having said that, I have to agree with Kev that this 'teaser" buisness is nit picking on your part. I mean, it's not like commercial switch and bate, where someone is trying to con you into buying something you don't want. I suspect that, like me, everyone enjoys your forum so much that they visit every posted topic, regardless of the title.
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The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection,
Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade
Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar
Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 525
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 17, 2005 05:15 PM
Anyone who does not agree with the teaser subject title policy is free to leave. Really guys, I'm sick of hearing about it and it's one tiny rule to follow. Here is the reasoning. While it may be great that YOU read every thread and titles don't matter much, lots of people are on very slow dialup access, and some people pay by the minute for internet access. Not sticking to the "no teaser subject title" policy is terribly disrespectful of those people who don't have the time, bandwidth, or money to keep clicking on threads that do not interest them. It also helps with the archives. When teaser subject titles are allowed and you do a search for some information that was posted in the past, it makes finding the older post VERY DIFFICULT. None of this is hard to understand, and the no teaser subject policy is effortless to abide by.
Need I also remind the complainers that this site is free and has hardly any stipulations of using it.
What are the rules? Simple!
*Use your real name.
*No teaser subject titles.
That's it, and most certainly not asking much. The next time you see a teaser subject title, rather than ignore it when you reply, why not post a quick note to the newbie at the end of your post to please edit the subject? This benefits everybody.
Re: people who think I am "too harsh" or need to "chill out", the biggest thing I have learned in moderating web site forums for several years now is to put the rules plain and straightforward with no bs or sugar added to the members. Years of this has proven that this recipe products the highest signal to noise ratio possible from an online forum. You will never find me whining about wanting people to send in money to keep this site online, and you will never see me bending over and kissing people's asses in a desperate plea to gain membership (both of which happens on other collector forums). Likewise I don't fire up new threads talking about how wonderful this site is and how terrible another site is in another pathetic effort to generate more traffic by initiating controversy. Seriously, I would hope everyone here is above that. 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. This is not asking too much.
As my free time is random and limited (hence my moderation posts generally being short and to the point), if there are a couple of "regulars" who would like to handle the moderation, I will certainly entertain the idea. For the most part this forum trots along nicely on it's own and doesn't require much intervention to keep the signal to noise ratio up. Email me privately if you think that you are a good candidate (please have 100+ posts to your name) and we'll see where it goes. It would indeed be nice to not have to zip through the posts every day when I don't really have the time to do so, but being a collector site, none of my regular moderators want the gig since they aren't collectors.
I am closing this thread now since further replies are pretty much a wasted effort since it is no longer on subject. If Ugo needs more replies to the initial topic, he may feel free to simply open up a new thread titled "Help folks! I need photos of Elmo GS800 part 2" (or something to that effect).
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