I think the original poll was funny enough wording that I'm not really sure what it answers. It seems to have only brought up more questions. Like is coming back to this board with a new user name ever ok? Do you have to admit who you used to be? Are there reasons why it's ok to pretend to be someone new like safety, privacy or just need for a do over cause you stuck your foot in your mouth on the Internet? Is it ever ok to have two user ID? What if both are regular harmless Id? Even though community said they wanted a pm sent What should it say? what do they want to come from a pm? What's the next step after a pm is sent, monitor, warning etc When does this step up to a ban situation Cause I've seen bans come pretty swift without warnings etc
I actually think a simplified FAQ post answering these questions would be a great start.
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I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I also want to know was I absent with mod titles were passed out? Cause it seems like everyone and their momma is a fucking mod. Not that I want to be or anything cause I mean people threaten to quit and shit just saying.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
As to the mods- they either came over from the dump when we all arrived and retained their title if their board came over, or they were voted on by the members of their boards once the boards were made here
I'm sorry if I caused any of you any hurt feelings. It wasn't my intent but I got spun up trying to prove a point and it went places I wish it hadn't. There's no point worth proving if it hurts someone's feelings. I really do apologize for any hurt that my words caused.
I really don't feel you did anything wrong. I think your intent (Answers and clarification) was clear. Sometimes people get their feelings hurt when they are too close to a situation or when something that should be handled as a business situation is perceived as personal.
Anyway, I say all that to say I don't think you said anything wrong.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
As to the mods- they either came over from the dump when we all arrived and retained their title if their board came over, or they were voted on by the members of their boards once the boards were made here
Ok, but do you recognize that this is weird as fuck when all 3 of you are in a thread and then you have TCF News talking?
And no I am not talking about people who brought their mod status over here for their board.
Is there a org chart for boards that came over wholly with the mods from there to here? Doesn't matter I am not talking about that.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
If you're not paying you're the product, actually.
What the fuck do you guys want? She apologized. What are you actually looking for?
ETA: I don't want to drag this out, actually. I love this community, I think our admins are trying hard, and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I'm really confused as to how we are a product of the board...? Maybe customer isn't the right word here... constituent? Consumer? Client? Patron?
No matter the vocabulary used, the point still stands. An internet forum that wants to be profitable for its owners can not do so without the posters on that site. Advertisers will not pay to advertise on a slow forum. The more users, the more traffic, the more posts, the more clicks, the more money the forum can make. Keeping posters and attracting new ones is the primary goal of internet forums that are trying to turn a profit.
And I know you said you don't want to drag this out, but I just needed to respond. Feel free to ignore me. I also love this community, which is why I get so passionate about problems when they occur. I know our admins are trying hard and will again say how grateful I am for them and what they do. But I also want to see this forum grow not shrink, so when a thread like this asks for opinions, I will share mine. Especially when I think a practice is going to hurt the ultimate goal of helping this place thrive.
Let me see if I can break this down -
You are the commodity.
The page views, site traffic, a whole groups of people coming to an area day after day is a hot commodity to a lot of companies with products and services that they would like and or need new customers for.
So in would come advertising, sponsored shit, etc.
So what makes this place hot? the traffic, the people, you
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
I feel like some of you are getting a little unglued over this. I sort of get your frustration/point, but it seems over the top.
I get that. For me personally it's a pretty deep annoyance at the seemingly constant Naria dick suck and "thank you so much for all of your hard work" nonsense that goes on. Don't get me wrong I'm all about acknowledging hard work but that's often used here as a way to silence anyone who dares to speak up/out against general ridiculousness. And after all of that, she shows what she really thinks of the community with a guilt trip and a sorrynotsorry.
IMO it's insulting and I'd never let another business treat me like this nor would I patronize one who treated its customers as such but it's a Catch-22 because I have friends here so it's not like "just leave" is a really viable option.
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this was what I have said before, I few times. It was never received well. I end up being the "bad guy." It just resulted in my finally not really commenting on much of the board related stuff.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
People are not truthful now. People put online the version of themselves or not that they want known. They share what they want to or not.
I also don't think anything happened in this thread that we have not seen before. It was pretty tame from my point of view and having been on the receiving end of callouts and flamings. I think this got hot at best.
I think some people were too close or maybe jumping in for a friend but I felt it was clear frankenboom was speaking for herself and point of view.
I feel the "posse" used was hilarious cause it's like the same as saying clique and people go BSC when people say anything about anything here being cliquey.
I also didn't think it was a pile on. I mean if you ask someone a question and they are repeatedly answering their need/POV/and or opinion and you don't respond well anyone would get annoyed and flip.
Also LTR show that my issue with branding and advertising and all of that in the beginning would be that we are the commodity and ultimately there may come a point where certain people "don't fit the brand." No one got what I was saying back then.
When you want someone to move on - telling them to drop it, minimizing their feelings, cursing at them - it never works and is not received well.
I know Larry happened. Please do not try to convince me otherwise. Please don't talk to me about coffee. I don't drink it. I don't caffeine. When I state my opinion, that is me chiming in on a topic. This is not me saying you suck at life if you do or feel differently. If I want to say that, I will. If I want to speak on you, I will.
Two week wait. I think it was post about tww on the trying to get pregnant board or whatever it's called here. The post was linked way way back there somewhere like page 4-6 maybe.
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