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Mike, no offence, but you've made your point, harping on is only going to cause ill feeling. If you've no interest in the thread, there's no need to stir things any more. It'll die when it's ready or when it's locked.
 
dymetrie said:
Feek is anything but conceited and there are a lot more people that appreciate his posting and like him than those that know him and why he left...
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And others that have let his posts passd them bye completely. Such are forums. :o


He'll probably be back as a thug ,on an assumed identity, - yes I know its against the rules, but, possible none the less - for all anybody knows, something that has always me smile about internet forums. :rolleyes:

Cue the next hero. ;)
 
MasterMike said:
If he were less conceited he'd have left without any of this. He clearly knew it would cause a response this big. I remember him solely for shooting guns and drinking beer, and this whole thread has tainted my view of him.
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Maybe it wasn't conceit that made him post it....

*looks shifty*
 
Davey_Pitch said:
Mike, no offence, but you've made your point, harping on is only going to cause ill feeling. If you've no interest in the thread, there's no need to stir things any more. It'll die when it's ready or when it's locked.
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Point taken Dave, this is my last post in this thread.
 
Spie said:
It can run, be locked or deleted. I have no feelings either way.
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Having just read all through it again (and no, I have no idea why I bothered), I went back and read Feek's opening post again. Unless it was intended to be provocative, I still can't see why it was so obscure and oblique.

My view .... he either ought to have given a clear reason why he was leaving, or just said "bye". Or better yet, just gone. The inference from the opening post is that it's forum posting quality ..... or at least, that's the best guess I can come up with on available information, not being one of the cogniscenti. If it's an oblique reference to "other" issues, why post about it at all when most people won't have a clue what's going on, and for some reason aren't allowed to be told?

So what does the thread actually achieve, other than irritate people?

My view, for what it's worth .... delete it.
 
Sequoia said:
The inference from the opening post is that it's forum posting quality ..... or at least, that's the best guess I can come up with on available information, not being one of the cogniscenti.
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It's not actually too difficult to see what the most recent changes have been (especially as several people have stated that it is not the general posting style or content).

oh well, lock/delete if you wish Master Spie...
 
Sequoia said:
Having just read all through it again (and no, I have no idea why I bothered), I went back and read Feek's opening post again. Unless it was intended to be provocative, I still can't see why it was so obscure and oblique.
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That's Feek's style. Unless I have a bad memory or have been jaded by his posting style over the past few months :)

why post about it at all when most people won't have a clue what's going on, and for some reason aren't allowed to be told?
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I think that may have been Feek's exact intention, to show how the mood has changed.

That's just a guess though, and it's based on the sort of atmosphere I've noticed quite a bit (not necessarily recently) - but that may just be me & my really-really-boring opinion on huuuge threads where people get very worked up for very, very little reason.
 
dymetrie said:
It's not actually too difficult to see what the most recent changes have been (especially as several people have stated that it is not the general posting style or content).
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It might not be that difficult for you, but there's some of us that don't have a clue ..... and aren't bothered enough to try to work it out. But why post in GD about something we aren't allowed to talk about?
 
Goodbye Feek, thank you for all the time and dedication you have put into the forums for all these years. I hope that someday you will return, when you feel the time is right.

Its sad when members that have deadicated so much time to these forums feel that there is no way forward, but to leave. This has happend in the past (from what I gather for similar sorts of reasons) and no doubt it will happen again in the future. If feek was truly upset with the way GD or any other forum was degrading, I am sure he would have put in the effort to improve things.
 
Beansprout said:
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I think that may have been Feek's exact intention, to show how the mood has changed.

That's just a guess though, and it's based on the sort of atmosphere I've noticed quite a bit (not necessarily recently) - but that may just be me & my really-really-boring opinion on huuuge threads where people get very worked up for very, very little reason.
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If your speculation is correct, Beany, then what the opening post amounts to is poop-stirring, by provoking an indirect debate about something he knows isn't allowed for open discussion. As I understand Feek is an ex-Mod (or even ex-Admin??) isn't that kind of oblique circumvention of the spirit of rules if not their letter, rather disloyal? If, of course, that it what this is all about. And if it is, I'm disappointed, because it reminds me of school playground politics, and that's just tacky. I thought better of Feek than that, so I hope I'm wrong about this.

I understand Freefaller's comment about Mods getting moaned at whatever they do, but FF, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do it whether people will like it or not. That is, after all, why forums have, and need, mods.

As I said earlier, I don't see the point of this thread .... or not an honourable one anyway. But maybe it's just me, missing something.
 
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Can't see the issue myself, if those that control/own the forum decide that they require mods more focused on hardware sections rather than the life forums then so be it.

Hardly worth throwing any toys out the pram, at the end of the day it's an internet forum which people choose to participate in, if it's all so upsetting just close down your browser and do something else.
 
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dymetrie said:
*cough*

*cough cough*

*cough cough cough*

which came after other threads....
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Yeah, I'd noticed those. But how are we supposed to assume that he objects so vehemently to some need 'staff' that he'd walk? Besides which, as a policy, I read the rules and do my best to follow them. As a result, I don't run foul of mods, etc, and who is or isn't one doesn't really register on my radar.

And my point remains .... what's the point of this thread?

If I objected to new appointments, I'd either just leave, or I'd bite back my objections and ignore it. But an oblique thread designed to moan about something I know I wouldn't be allowed to object to openly (if that is the case)? In my opinion, it's just peurile.
 
GSXRMovistar said:
Can't see the issue myself, if those that control/own the forum decide that they require mods more focused on hardware sections rather than the life forums then so bit it.

Hardly worth throwing any toys at the pram, at the end of the day it's an internet forum which people choose to participate in, if it's all so upsetting just close down your browser and do something else.
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Precisely.

Either live with it, or if you can't, go find somewhere else you like better.
 
Sequoia said:
If your speculation is correct, Beany, then what the opening post amounts to is poop-stirring, by provoking an indirect debate about something he knows isn't allowed for open discussion. As I understand Feek is an ex-Mod (or even ex-Admin??) isn't that kind of oblique circumvention of the spirit of rules if not their letter, rather disloyal? If, of course, that it what this is all about. And if it is, I'm disappointed, because it reminds me of school playground politics, and that's just tacky. I thought better of Feek than that, so I hope I'm wrong about this.

I understand Freefaller's comment about Mods getting moaned at whatever they do, but FF, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do it whether people will like it or not. That is, after all, why forums have, and need, mods.

As I said earlier, I don't see the point of this thread .... or not an honourable one anyway. But maybe it's just me, missing something.
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Feek's an ex-Admin, I think many people forget that. And an ex-Don, and now apparently an ex-MOH :(

if it is, I'm disappointed, because it reminds me of school playground politics, and that's just tacky. I thought better of Feek than that, so I hope I'm wrong about this.
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Me too, but I always hold reservations until I know what's actually happened. In this case I'm not really sure but maybe it was an act of desperation? As I'm sure Feek wouldn't break the rules and deliberately cause distress on something he's put so much time into... he's a good person and if a mutual friend of his and mine also still thinks that, that gives me a good reason to still believe it :)

I've found that if people really want to know X about Y on the forums, a quick e-mail to the relevant people will have the issue explained - if said people trust your maturity, of course, and the issue under discussion isn't private/personal.

sometimes you just have to bite the bullet
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That was awful.

I understand Freefaller's comment about Mods getting moaned at whatever they do, but FF, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do it whether people will like it or not. That is, after all, why forums have, and need, mods.
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He's just a moaning Frenchie, wouldn't worry about him.

(But on a serious note he does raise a valid point, and I replied in the thread (was it this one? I'm confused now))
 
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