Oh come on! We all get our feelings hurt from our posts being moderated! But its inevietable! I just do mu best and hope nothing gets edited! Dont take it personally! As you said it is an exciting time and you should not bail out now!
You have been a great member of this board before it became the "cool" place to be. It is a shame to leave now when things are just getting going! Stick around!
I have learned this long ago while posting on multiple automotive forums (I am a car guy - lol) Whatever you do in the forums, do not take it personally. So what a couple threads got moved/deleted - big deal.
Really wish you would stay - this .tv thing is just getting good now!
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There are times, that my post will make no sense whatsoever, so just move along please.
Without explanation? learn how to read the rules and follow them. Bottom Line this is not kindergarten. The only two threads I know about that were edited or moved was an auction you tried to run with a reserve price against every domain forums rules, and a domains available thread that you did not post in the domains available thread.
People who want to take a cavalier attitude that they will do whatever they want without reading and adhering to the rules will have threads deleted, moved or edited when they are not following forum rules.
You are one of the people that welcomed me when I joined in May of 2006 and learned alot from your posts....In fact your reg of ED.TV was my inspiration for EDUCATION.TV......
I know exactly what you are talking about with regards to posts getting edited or deleted without explaination........
I do think this is something the moderators need to discuss. It just comes across as a little hurtful to be moved without a reason given.....
Now sometimes Equity will give advance warning of what will happen if people post this that and the other.......fair enough......but its not like the mods are moving thousands of threads every day.....
Like when I changed my name to Allthings.TV....I got 14 reponses and then suddenly whooosh...thread gone and moved to the Break Room......the fact is no one knows me there and I know no one there having never been to the breakroom before......but my point is, a quick PM saying it has been moved to the breakroom would have been nice.
THen I would have known that A. it had not been deleted B. I had not done anything wrong C. I could tell people to go there as Searching.Tv had asked, if I had changed my name???? I culd tell him and did tell him yes, go to the breakroom its there... http://www.namepros.com/1895734-post1516.html
I had to PM RJ to find out what had happened to my thread. And RJ replied pretty promptly and courtesly.
But I am sure a notifying email would go very far in making sure that members didn't have to go through a negative experiance of wandering what they had said and why was it deleted or moved........
Do the mods have time for this???? The answer is yes - if its worth it...........the question then is - is it worth it??
I know that it would be something I would do on my WEB 2.0 forum, no matter how busy it gets
But all this of course is JMO............
The bottom line Grant is that we will miss you on this forum......and for those who have known Grant over time, is one of the stalwarts of the .TV extention
First off Millers on this subforum every rules is spelled out, and people here have been told to read the rules. Your post which was moved by another mod who did not tell me, was correct in moving a break room post. READ THE RULES before you post.
And you have no idea what time mods have the fact you feel they should pm you or someone else for their lack of attention to the rules is an opinion I disagree with 100%. With your own forum do whatever you like but in this forum people should read and will follow the rules
And Grant every other available threads post is in the available thread you want be to believe you did not know about that or understand why your post was moved ?
As I stated, it is JMO.......not holding anything against you or any of the mods.......yes, people should read the rules.........but if they don't, perhaps a one time only email/PM reminding them of the rules, so at least it can be said that an attempt has been made to connect with the member.....
Rules are rules.....but sometimes making room for human error goes along way....people want to feel like they are in a easygoing environment, with mutual support, not where if they step one foot wrong, their post will be removed.........
And I hear loud and clear when you say this is how you run the forum here.....
Millers If it was something unique I can understand where you are coming from and I have pmmed people on Self Promotion. The only thread of grants moved was an available thread, Now do you believe someone who has been here for this long did not know there was only one available thread ? Its been run that way since day one
and please deleted and moved are two different things..... Someone moving a smoker to the smoking section of the restaurant is not the same as kicking them out of the restaurant
Its just a shame when a member of Grants stature decides its time to move on - the fact that he will go and check out Allthings is obviously nice for me on a personal level...
But I love this forum too, it was my introduction to the world of domaining full stop never mind .TV.....and to see Grant go is not a good day, any which way you look at it.......
Well Millers grant is leaving on his own valition no one told Grant to go anywhere, no one deleted his thread. Hope no one here ever sits in the wrong seat on an airplane
"Sir you sat in the wrong seat"
"Really ?
"Yes sir your ticket says row n and you are in row x"
"Well give me a parachute I am jumping out of this plane Nobody moves me "
But seriously, rules are rules, and in other forum communities I have been in they usually do email or PM the user letting them know exactly what happened.
but I also agree with EQ, this is NOT a babysitting job, and I am sure that the mods have enough work to do without being concerned about certain post's popping up where they do not need to be.
Regardless of rules, personalities and parachutes, from what I know this is a strict environment, and I even though I love this forum, it is kinda harsh. But can you imagine what this place would become without the rules? SPAM CENTRAL if you ask me.
I am glad we have rules, and I am glad I am still here - wish that Grant would stay and just get a little thicker skin, dont let it bother you so much!
I remember what someone told me one time I got mad (on another forum - audiworld.com - lol) They told me not to take it so personally, its just the internet!
And it is, just the internet.
Now move along, nothing to see here, please move along now.
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There are times, that my post will make no sense whatsoever, so just move along please.
Actually, a LINK to an Excel or Word file of 52,000 domains would've been very useful for us to use our own methods to find the premiums we wanted. You know, since Enoms interface for that was absolute crap.
Did DTVF make a thread with the entire 52,000 names listed? I wish I could've copied that before it was deleted.
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we did joined the .TV forum and namepros.com almost the same time. we have discussed about loads of stuff related to .TV on PM and forums. Now I know somethings hurt, but everything in life hurts at some stage or the other. This has been our little .TV family. It will hurt us to see a brother of ours leave this community. I would sincerely request you to reconsider this thought.
Equity,
I am sure everyone is happy here since you have made this place. Thanks for it.
Briman Nothing was DELETED if people are looking for a pm on a move that's not happening......... As I said deleted and moved are two different things. Let me get this str8 you first posted in the wrong area and someone had to move it , now they should spend more time pmming you to let you know they moved it? anything else ? Are you hungry I will order you lunch from your favorite restaurant.
Generally when people put something in the wrong place and someone fixes their mess those people are happy since they didn't have to do it themselves
People should focus on maybe some real development or sales instead of semantics IMO
I think it is time for another NamePro's .TV Auction...
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James, IMO Equity or any of the other mods should not have to send a PM or warning before keeping the board in order. Of course it would be nice, but as this board continues to grow so does the demand for order. I'm not sure of Equity's schedule, but I assume that this is not a full time job for him. If I was in his place I probably would have done the same thing. For all of us who have been around on this board for the last 6 months or longer knows that Equity has run this board very fairly and with patience. I don't know if this board would have been the same without him.
As a forumite, it is really annoying to not see any reason why something is no longer there. No redirect, no pm, nothing. You spend a moment checking other sections, although not the bottom one, who has the time to scroll down that far? You give up and think you must have missed it.
As a moderator and admin at several other places, I completely see that equity basically doesn't have the time to pm everyone for every action he takes. You know how I know if I really crossed the line here? I get a warning from an admin telling me my count is up to 8 on the warning scale. I have no idea what that means, but there is a nice link in the pm that tells me what I did wrong. I look at it and I think, "Ok, I can see the point", and I move on.
Realistically, this place is pretty loose as forums go. I have no problem with threads or posts I have had deleted, I assume there is a good reason. (Although I do feel a Certified, stamped, signed letter from Equity should be required) ((sorry, had to)).
As i think I have already mentioned, but just in case I have not, this is not about Equity, cause I do know Eq has a job and this is his other unpaid job, its about what would be the ideal situation.......
I am the first to admit...I have not, until extremely recently, had any experiance in running a forum, never mind owning one.....and perhaps that shows by my utopian views......
But fact - Equity says neither he nor the rest of the mods have the time to inform people that their posts have been moved........
Also fact - It still hurts when your post has been moved to a part of the forum you have never been to before and you are NOT SURE if your post has been deleted or not.....
Another fact - It can get frustrating if this happens on numerous occassions....
Solution:
1. Well, we as forum posters can do our best to get it right in the first place by reading all the rules and regs.....
2. How about instead of a PM, putting a thread moved post in its place?? Or does this also take up too much time?? This is a real question, not a smart alec remark..does it take any less time to do this than sending out individual PMS?
Millers I did not move your thread ok and that you have never been to the break room I can understand that I don't go in there either. Grants post can easily be seen as the last post in the available thread. But there can be a note showing moved sure.
I am lost how anyone is hurt by having something go to its proper category unless that person intended on breaking the rules.
And if it happens constantly tells me we have a lot of members ignorant to the rules of the forum.
MOVED is not DELETED not even close to being deleted.
