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someotherdude
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I may be new to this forum but I'm not new to Forums in general. I've been a member of several and some I'm in good longstanding. What Marc has created here far surpasses all of them that I have seen as for looks, ease of use, variety,and thanks to the mods family freindlyness. I am more than Impressed with Marc not only as the owner but just as a person in general. I've read his terrible background story of having been ripped off by some shady dealings. As well as I've heard from some one else here that His ex wife really screwed him big time. Yet I don't here him continually whinning as some others would. I even saw him post what he thought at the time was a legitimate gripe about Bush jr. only to get responses that led him to take a different tack and change his position, and this he did openly on a world wide forum site. I'm not sure how many people here really understand what a special kind of guy that takes.
Well enough of that, down to the brass tacks as the saying goes, I've come here to say good by for awhile and explain why. Hopefully you'll take my last suggestions and make this place the best it can be which In my mind would make it just aboutthe best site of its' kind anywhere on the world wide web. It's simply this, like I said before I'm not new to forums and I've seen more than my share come and go. The number one way I see them fall is the constant in fighting. I'm just as guilty as the next guy of being gullible and easy to bait as you'll see in this Thread http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,168596.0.html
But I'm not complaining about offhanded remarks that people will make in the heat of the moment. Nor am I complaining about being attacked for no reason as you'll see here post #188 and #197 http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,114614.0/all.html#lastPost
What I'm talking about and suggesting it needs to change is the ongoing all day arguments and abuses that take place all over this site. I'm not just talking about the politics and religion forums BTW( nice touch with naming the area the rubber room), but I even found an argument taking place in the Humor forum about wether something should be posted more than once. I'm not talking about lively debate here. I'm talking knock down drag out fights that reminded me of my high school days. If they were talking in person I get the sense it would take an extra ten people with five to hold one back and another five to hold the other one back.
So here's my suggestion; I've seen it work at other forums with the samne kinda problems and not nearly a quarter of the membership. First unload the dead weight. I know noone like the banning process, but with a forum this large it's the one and only way to keep control. Get ride of the repeat offenders, you know who they are and if you don't you really should. I've been here two weeks and I could name quite a few already. It's easy to find them just do a search for key words like Ignorant, idiot, retarded or anyform of that word etc... you get my point.
There are people here who's only purpose is to disrupt and ruin perfectly good discussions. Lastly make it a rule that all posts must stay on point, that way these posts can't degrade into kids school yard fights over things that have nothing to do with the original posts. It's simple really if I wanna take part in a fight I can post in a fighting thread but if I wanna talk to someone about death traps and spanish gold I can, without fear my thread will be highjacked for a fist fight.
I'm gonna leave you with some links to just a small sampling of what I saw yesterday.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,168646.0.html
BTW, there's an awfull lot of people posting despariging remarks about politicians by name. I hope your insurance is up to snuff Marc cause your sure to be named as a defendant in any defamation or slander suit that arise from what someone posts here. I've seen other forums shut down because a court veiw their sites as publications and everything posted there is being published on the www. Thus if some one slanders lets say Barack Obama, who has incidently made it a point to let everyone know they're going after just such things at other websites, you being the owner Marc are considered by the court to be the Final editor and have thus editorial discretion to edit any and all depariging posts etc...etc...
Anyhoo I'm leaving for a short while and then gonna come back and see if anything has improved or changed. Not that I'm demanding anything I'm only one person and I really don't matter in the whole scheme of things. Hmmm or do I ?
May peace be with you always.
Jim
Well enough of that, down to the brass tacks as the saying goes, I've come here to say good by for awhile and explain why. Hopefully you'll take my last suggestions and make this place the best it can be which In my mind would make it just aboutthe best site of its' kind anywhere on the world wide web. It's simply this, like I said before I'm not new to forums and I've seen more than my share come and go. The number one way I see them fall is the constant in fighting. I'm just as guilty as the next guy of being gullible and easy to bait as you'll see in this Thread http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,168596.0.html
But I'm not complaining about offhanded remarks that people will make in the heat of the moment. Nor am I complaining about being attacked for no reason as you'll see here post #188 and #197 http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,114614.0/all.html#lastPost
What I'm talking about and suggesting it needs to change is the ongoing all day arguments and abuses that take place all over this site. I'm not just talking about the politics and religion forums BTW( nice touch with naming the area the rubber room), but I even found an argument taking place in the Humor forum about wether something should be posted more than once. I'm not talking about lively debate here. I'm talking knock down drag out fights that reminded me of my high school days. If they were talking in person I get the sense it would take an extra ten people with five to hold one back and another five to hold the other one back.
So here's my suggestion; I've seen it work at other forums with the samne kinda problems and not nearly a quarter of the membership. First unload the dead weight. I know noone like the banning process, but with a forum this large it's the one and only way to keep control. Get ride of the repeat offenders, you know who they are and if you don't you really should. I've been here two weeks and I could name quite a few already. It's easy to find them just do a search for key words like Ignorant, idiot, retarded or anyform of that word etc... you get my point.
There are people here who's only purpose is to disrupt and ruin perfectly good discussions. Lastly make it a rule that all posts must stay on point, that way these posts can't degrade into kids school yard fights over things that have nothing to do with the original posts. It's simple really if I wanna take part in a fight I can post in a fighting thread but if I wanna talk to someone about death traps and spanish gold I can, without fear my thread will be highjacked for a fist fight.
I'm gonna leave you with some links to just a small sampling of what I saw yesterday.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,168646.0.html
BTW, there's an awfull lot of people posting despariging remarks about politicians by name. I hope your insurance is up to snuff Marc cause your sure to be named as a defendant in any defamation or slander suit that arise from what someone posts here. I've seen other forums shut down because a court veiw their sites as publications and everything posted there is being published on the www. Thus if some one slanders lets say Barack Obama, who has incidently made it a point to let everyone know they're going after just such things at other websites, you being the owner Marc are considered by the court to be the Final editor and have thus editorial discretion to edit any and all depariging posts etc...etc...
Anyhoo I'm leaving for a short while and then gonna come back and see if anything has improved or changed. Not that I'm demanding anything I'm only one person and I really don't matter in the whole scheme of things. Hmmm or do I ?
May peace be with you always.
Jim