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Thank you to Gareth Preston! |
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Posts: 1278 (07/16/03 02:49:12) BTR Producer |
I just wanted to post a quick public message to thank Gareth Preston for his wonderful donation of $10 to the BTR Opinion Forum Community Chest! It's our first ever donation, and I can honestly say that it will definitely help come December, when we have to renew the board! Thank you Gareth for your wonderful contribution - it means a lot to me!
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GazHack |
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Posts: 395 (07/16/03 04:01:20) Phantom Frame Producer |
Oh that's very kind of you Matt! Well the new Phantom Frame forum has been a terrific success in its first couple of weeks, so thanks to you again for setting it up. Plus I always like to get my round in at the bar, so to speak.
And I loathe banner ads  Gaz |
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mkopelke |
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Posts: 1278 (07/16/03 13:25:02) BTR Producer |
Hehehe - I agree Gareth. Banner ads definitely are the scourge of society. Am just mostly pleased that your new forum has been such a success for you - I noticed that in only a month you've had more posts made there than you got on the old one, and that had been running for about 18 months!
I think it's mostly down to people using other Ezboard's around the globe. That's why our forum here tends to be more popular than, say, the Floorten forum is now. |
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witold tietze |
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Posts: 1023 (07/16/03 21:41:08) BTR Story Editor |
Quote: well, that's oen factor, but i'm sure there are others we could guess at. mind you, according to the f10 site, the forum is quite a busy place at the moment, which i have yet to see but there you go. mind you, the sentence in question appears to be grammatically incorrect, so it's always possible some words were accidentally omitted. nothing is certain. maybe.
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GazHack |
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Posts: 395 (07/17/03 06:26:03) Phantom Frame Producer |
I know BTR have had some lively times there but I don't want to diss the F10 site, since Howard kindly set the place up off his own bat, gave me a place there and has generally been as helpful as he could be.
That's why I'll still be putting up announcements there, answering any questions and generally looking in. But as with VHS and MP3 , its hard to ignore a popular format, such as ezboard, almost regardless of the technical specs. Mind you, I wouldn't use Yahoo Groups if 90% of people were using it. It has become unusable as a web forum. Gaz |
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mkopelke |
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Posts: 1278 (07/17/03 14:00:31) BTR Producer |
Quote: That's fair enough Gareth, and I agree entirely - but it's not the actual forum that annoys me, but it's some of the people who populate it. Any time either Witold or I post a message that is in any way a review of someone else's work (and remember that we always post honest reviews) or we make some kind of comment, it always opens a can of worms and the same 2-3 people always attack us with such verbosity and arrogance, that it just annoys me to high heaven. That's why I no longer like the F10 forum - because there's zero moderation, but that's only to be expected when some of the moderators themselves have such immature and limited world views that they attack anyone who dares disagree with their own warped visions of reality. I mean, I've never been so personally offended on any forum in the 6 years I've been on-line than I have been on the F10 forum - some of the stuff that's been posted there has made me cry, and that should not be allowable. And when one does cry "moderate this thread!" the "police" step in and always side with the wrong-doers! I know Witold has similar stories to tell... |
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Posts: 395 (07/17/03 14:42:11) Phantom Frame Producer |
Oh I agree that most of the threads that you had to suffer on F10 site were pretty horrible. Your opponents frequently got personal and abusive at the drop of the hat, whilst their arguments were rather weak, often relying on an obtuseness and pedantic reading of your words that was head bangingly stupid.
I'm relieved I seem to have escaped most of that and you have my sympathy. In fact I should have come to defence sometimes. I just wanted to put a gentle brake on a line of discussion that seemed to have changed from a simple of exchange of thank yous into an F10 critising session. I appreciate now that your complaints were really about certain posters. All the best, Gaz |
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mkopelke |
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Posts: 1278 (07/17/03 15:29:54) BTR Producer |
Oh, I'd never ever criticise F10 - it's because of Howard and his team that BTR actually started! I owe them quite a lot, and I have a lot of respect for the people who populate the F10 board who actually have maturity and reasonable points to make on their side. I've never complained about F10 as a gestalt, because if I did I'd not only be lying, but I'd also be falling into the same trap that the posters I have referred to have done themselves - confusing individual people for a company as a whole.
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Posts: 1023 (07/18/03 04:11:38) BTR Story Editor |
since a few comments have been made on my behalf -- and especially since i'm the one who started dissing the forum here -- i might as well speak.
as matt says, it's not the forum itself that's the problem, though i do have to wonder about the claim that it tends to be a fairly busy node. i have the occasional difference of opinion with howard himself, but i do appreciate his civility, and in fact we've often come to complete understandings with a minimum of fuss. it is indeed the few bad apples who spoil the theoretically perfectly fine forum. they're a pain in the arse, quite frankly, and seem to have the debating skills of a bit of plankton within spitting distance of a humpback whale. but i suspect everyone's pretty thoroughly aware of this point (well, everyone with thinking skills beyond those of plankton..., etc), which is why the english teacher in me had a light-hearted go at the somewhat inaccurate publicity currently sporting the main f10 site. mind you, it's probably just my current fixation with publicity which seems to be advertising a product completely unlike that to which it is attached. though this is only because i've been seeing a hell of a lot of it coming from a particular camp (remaining nameless, etc) lately. but i think matt knows who i mean. nothing is certain. maybe.
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David H aus |
Excuse me? (was: Cheers) | ||
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Posts: 67 (07/19/03 01:33:49) BTR Production Secretary |
Quote:So why is there one on each of your posts in this thread, Matthew? Shooting yourself in the foot pretty badly there, don't you think? "History never repeats, I tell myself before I go to sleep..." |
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mkopelke |
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Posts: 1278 (07/19/03 03:03:29) BTR Producer |
It's OK if I use them - anyone else and I hate them.
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