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Originally Posted by Dean Plejaren
Hey Karen,
You had a meeting about how to keep on purpose? Feel free to share the main points with everyone on the forum who are part of it.....
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No, that was not the topic of this meeting, though it might be in some future meeting. Have you ever run a discussion board of this size with its initial growth rate? Have you ever had 100 lies proclaimed about yourself and your mission and your intents?
If you think a handful or two of banned members in a forum with over 5200 people is a big deal, think about this one ... the attrition rate of the moderators is astronomical. The work load is crushing, for some the mountain of abuse and lies about the mod team and owners simply becomes intolerable. Considerable meeting time was spent getting all the new mods on the same page, so some of the past problems can be avoided in the future. If there is a problem on the forum, we all want to come up with the best solutions, none of which of course, will please everyone. I assure everyone of this -- the mods are not the power tripping ogres that a handful think we are. We are just everyday people who have volunteered our time to help out. None of us are perfect and we all have a flaw or two or maybe even three. Very few of the previous batch of mods remain. So its a new day!
I'd say 50% of it was about technical issues connected to using vBulletin. Almost every answer about changes we wanted was "no this program cannot do that." And I asked a lot of questions about all the crazy things people are writing and spreading around. No, George Green has not funded Kerry and Bill. It has all been their own money they spent to provide this information to people for free, and a small portion of small donations. They will probably make a section and answer all these types of lies about them themselves. Dean we are here for the truth and you are posting some erroneous assumptions and calling them truth.
Here's a fact: Many members are complaining to us about your swastika avatar - as we all have various levels of "truth" knowing. I happened to read the thread about what the true meaning of that symbol is - if I remember correctly, it is unity. I think it would be a great idea if you could put some explanation in your sig file, something clever or witty or with a real stickem point. You do ask some good questions. Keep advocating for the truth, but be careful about those assumptions you make.
To UNITY!
To the TRUTH!
Karen