So I sat on this topic for a couple of weeks and thought I would post it as I find it truly amazing. As a 15 year member of Speypages I watched Dana grow the site and forum from its infancy. I appreciate how Sinktip handled the transition into the role of moderator and appreciate his demeanor and steady hand in the role.
Sinktip recently stepped down and 2 new moderators were named. In the new role, one of the moderators demonstrated a very different vibe in handling a couple of threads (of which I was no part) - shutting them down without much of a warning or reason.
Then the new moderator moved on to his first agenda item - the self-bumping of Classifieds. Mind you, as a member this moderator probably had the most self-bumped classified ad in the past 24 months - the listing of 4 Sage Brownies - that was constantly updated and bumped (rather than simply Revised - which does not bump the thread).
I had corresponded with the moderator on an occasion over the sponsors use of classifieds and it was a point on which we didn't agree. I bumped 3 sponsor classified posts to raise the point. I received a PM to which I responded. I receive another PM to which I wrote that I found the new moderators actions 'capricious and ill-directed' and that he was clearly set on running the site with or without many of the existing members. He then banned me for life!
So I contacted him on this site through PM - told him that he took his ball and went home. To which he responded that I better watch out as I only have 44 posts here and he could have me banned here too! And so that did it. Speypages is changing and it is too bad. If I get banned here for raising the point it's a chance I take. I hope one of the common members here will inform the members of Speypages as I have a number of acquittances through the site. I attempted to clean up all of my pending transactions on Speypages but have no way of communicating or checking my PMs there.
Peace.
Sinktip recently stepped down and 2 new moderators were named. In the new role, one of the moderators demonstrated a very different vibe in handling a couple of threads (of which I was no part) - shutting them down without much of a warning or reason.
Then the new moderator moved on to his first agenda item - the self-bumping of Classifieds. Mind you, as a member this moderator probably had the most self-bumped classified ad in the past 24 months - the listing of 4 Sage Brownies - that was constantly updated and bumped (rather than simply Revised - which does not bump the thread).
I had corresponded with the moderator on an occasion over the sponsors use of classifieds and it was a point on which we didn't agree. I bumped 3 sponsor classified posts to raise the point. I received a PM to which I responded. I receive another PM to which I wrote that I found the new moderators actions 'capricious and ill-directed' and that he was clearly set on running the site with or without many of the existing members. He then banned me for life!
So I contacted him on this site through PM - told him that he took his ball and went home. To which he responded that I better watch out as I only have 44 posts here and he could have me banned here too! And so that did it. Speypages is changing and it is too bad. If I get banned here for raising the point it's a chance I take. I hope one of the common members here will inform the members of Speypages as I have a number of acquittances through the site. I attempted to clean up all of my pending transactions on Speypages but have no way of communicating or checking my PMs there.
Peace.
