The CEO of a major domain registrar takes the time out of his busy days to come to NamePros and do things like offer major discounts on registrations and renewals, buys domain names for EPIK projects from NamePros members, delivers personalized customer service to current EPIK customers, discusses current EPIK projects and future EPIK projects all designed to help domain investors, answers questions and accusations from any and all trolls, some of whom are competitors, at a thread called, "What's going on with EPIK and Rob Monster"and then complain about him, call him names, mock him and criticize him!
How about if you guys go back to the Everyone Welcome's Thread and The Political Thread and spread your hate and propaganda if you don't like what's being discussed here! Thanks!
I have seen very few of the discounts, offers, personalized customer service on this thread and they probably don't belong here anyway. I'm glad that he offers these things everywhere - it's good use of a forum. I'm sure many people here on Namepros post in threads that are relevant and provide things like names for sale, offers for names, and discussions on the latest industry news. This is, after all, a professional forum.
I've seen some mention of future EPIK projects and those belong here - TrustPilot was one [Correction: it is TrustRatings] .. some other domain service another. The idea that these are "designed to help domain investors" is debatable and I view many of them as deluded pipe dreams but they are attempts to make a market move and the domain industry is full of people willing to jump into bed and follow the pied piper with the cheapest domains and the cheapest platforms. It's a bottom line business and people in this industry suffer from fairly low ethical barriers. There are historical lapses in judgment, missed markets, and failures in the Epik back-catalog. It's not unique to them but some of the fan boys for $5 registrations will always let it slide. The main starting topic for this thread - the tweets, the moral character of the CEO of a company is relevant but this thread has meandered on.
Epik is missing an opportunity to actually provide information on products because it's lost in a morass of drivel. Not my loss. It's still more evidence that domainers will jump on whatever cheap registrar comes along regardless of ...well anything.
There is espousing of ideas and a confused defense of free speech. I don't know why people feel the need to defend statements from CEO Rob Monster by thinking that Christianity is directly equatable with "love" and "forgiveness". The righteous believe they are fair, believe they are a positive influence etc.etc. but when you have sold and bought into your own conviction you are preaching a fundamentalist view no matter how you slice it. Every other perspective becomes seemingly radical. You're well within your rights to defend your view and speak your piece;however, it's a very dangerous path when intolerance is allowed to pass because of a misunderstanding of intent. When you close your eyes it's very easy not to see anything wrong. It's also convenient to let things happen. It's the Capitalist/Libertarian way - whatever the fuck is good for me is good for me...I'm sure God will take care of those he wants to take care of.
As is often the case, the best posts in this thread belong to John Berryhill who I sometimes feel is slumming in here for the pure enjoyment of seeing how the masses are so easily swayed:
Slave owners in the United States used to like Africans so much they bought them, but that doesn't really prove much either.
I would recommend people read his posts in most threads as he doesn't mince words and he's very good with them.
But most of that above is irrelevant but it's been a while since I wrote a long post that no one reads so I'll leave it.
Everyone Welcome's Thread and The Political Thread and spread your hate and propaganda
Please find an example where I spread hate or propaganda. You can tell me you hate my post. You can tell me you don't like what I wrote. You lose me and a lot of your argument when you accuse me of something I don't do. I haven't been in the Political Thread for a long long time and my time in there was mostly trying to stamp out some of the rampant racism that existed.
When I was in the Everyone's Welcome Thread I have reported multiple posts that crossed the line - sometimes the mods refused and sometimes they agreed and sometimes I caught slack for reporting people (some people kick and scream when videos of a soldier shooting someone in the head get removed. I feel for the mods here, I really do).
I don't and didn't ever control the content that was over there - I personally found it got extremely sexist and posted less and less as time went on for that reason. Obviously NP moderates content but I do regret being so positive towards "safe for work" pictures of men/women because I didn't realize (stupidly) that this is something that some people obsess over and wouldn't grow out of it. Why grown adult men want to constantly posts semi-naked women
all the time is beyond me. Some regular posters also felt the need to spill politics over from other threads which was frustrating.
I would love to know what review and what products Epik provides that have value; however, it seems that it's cheap domains and empty promises for a better future internet.