| My story(most of it) |
Subject: My story(most of it) by Mr_Mojo on 2008/1/20 15:53:54 Well as most of you already know, I was stripped of my moderator duties at CF. Does it hurt? Yes it does. Does it leave a bad taste in my mouth?Yes. Will I still post at CF? Yes, but not like I used to. The story starts back in 2001 whan after 18 months of membership, Troy asked me to become a Moderator. At the same time, Marcho Polo and thrills were also asked. The C4 sections were always the busiest sections of the forum thanks to many people who are now here at Guru. Yes we had a lot of arguments and fights and people got banned or whatever. To be honest, I don't remember most of the people I ever had to slap a wrist on. I've had a few minor issues with some folks here and it's nothing personal, I hope you know that. I was also the lead Moderator of the Northeast Events section, probably the most troublesome section outside of Politics, Religion and Controversy. I was accused of being a Nazi dictator on more than one occasion and I banned a lot of trolls in that section, some as many as a dozen times(with new names). For the most part I got respect from the general membership. I've been to every single Cruise In, most of the Skyline drives, I missed Carlisle last year, but made the previous seven. I've run seven of my own Crab Trips to Delaware, sometimes twice a year. I've cohosted the 4th of July Megabash for the last six years. Planned many road trips, attended many carshows throughout the year. In other words, I've met a lot of people and made many friends both on and off the forum. I'm always willing to help anyone, anytime.(one reason why I got divorced). The new wife to be is a lot more understanding, so I will still be able to continue as I always have. That brings us to the recent trouble at CF. We'll start with the NE EVents section. We started a "bar" thread in order to restore order to the section. Personally I think bar threads are senseless, but it was a solution to a bigger problem. I had to shut down the entire NE section to sort out all teh trouble posts and PM those involved to get things back on track. The bar thread was the answer and it worked. About a year later, the members became more relaxed and started going against the rules and guidelines the forum had in place. Me, just doing myjob, would just edit, delete or move the offending posts and reply with a reason. Since the guys are too lazy to go back a page or two to catch up, the simply went on doing it again. So I shut it down to get their attention. It worked. During the shutdown, a member contacted Savewave and said I was being, for lack of a better word, a douche. This is the second time this member has done something to me that makes me want to smash his face in if I ever see him again. So Savewave reopened the bar, removed my privileges in the NE and C6 sections, and kept me on the C4 sections. The people of the NE still continue to break forum rules, some of them the same rules that got many of you guys banned, but yet they can stay. This was all going on at the same time the multiple bannings were occurring in C4. So you can see I had a lot on my plate. Add to that that some of my Drag Racing friends were having trouble as well, so that was three problems all laid on me. The short sweet answer was to remove me as a Mod and let whatever hapens happen. Not a good decision if you ask me, but hey, they are the bosses. I fought for you guys to get reinstated and they wouldn't accpet it, they stated my loyalty to you was greater than my loyalty to the forum. Not necessarily the truth, but not exactly false either. You guys are my brothers and I will do anything I can to help any of you no matter what. I am now one of you more than I ever was. I had asked for help in the C4 sections long ago and never got it. I nominated bogus for C4 as well as Audio,CFI-EFI for C4, Rex Ruby and corvetteronw. There were a few others as well, but none of them got the job. The Admins never really gave me a reason why and then shit started happening with one or more of you on different issues and then all of a sudden, it didn't appear to be the right thing to do making any of them Mods. Instead they gave me a slew of C5/C6 guys to mod. These guys don't visit as often as I do and only handle reported posts. Sure some visited at first and cleaned up a little, but it will wear off once they get settled into their other sections. So now the C4 section has no true C4 Mods, only night watchmen. That section will crumble and become a free for all of trolls and misinformation. I won't go into all the reasons why everyone who got banned, most of you know already from the message you received when you tried to log in, and also, I really don't know the answer. Jeffvette had 10 usernotes against him which was one reason why he isn't allowed back. Andy was promoting this site which is the reason they gave me for his ban. Unfortunately now, I can't look up the usernotes on any of you to show past history. But the bottom line is, does it matter anymore? I think not. We have a new home here and can make it better than CF ever was since most of the guys here made CF what it was. There is no C4 brotherhood at CF anymore and likely there never will be. I'm sure I left out a lot of details and at this point, I won't post the PM exchanges between me,Cor07vette and Savewave. That may come at a later date. I can't wait for this site to take off and become the best resource for Corvette owners of all generations. :thumbleft: :thumbright: |
