Being a moderator here is certainly a thankless job. no action taken by any moderator is ever 100% agreed upon by the masses.
you always upset someone while making someone else happy...tis the nature of the beast.
The discussion regarding the marriott points program has generated more threads in the past few weeks than anything else I can recall, its simply overwhelming for someone to keep up with everything.
Dave has, and always will have my support. Hes and a handful of other volunteers are one of the main reasons TUG even exists in the first place.
If any of you feel that Dave is somehow "censoring" you using some underlying or devious motive...well....thats perhaps the most absurd thing ive heard in quite some time.
TUG moderators (at least the ones that spend any length of time here)...volunteer their time to help maintain the calm and peaceful nature of the forums and enforce the posting guidelines as they interpret them. You would be sadly mistaken to think that any of them are "out to get you".
Quite frankly if you feel you are being constantly "moderated"....perhaps you should take some time to adjust your behavior here on the forums and it wouldnt happen as much.
The free exchange of ideas and discussion are what these forums are all about, however there are right...and wrong ways to go about doing that.
TUG guidelines are in place to ensure people follow the "right" ways (or at least TUG's interpretation of the right ways...and we've been doing it for awahile now)...because in the past (and currently for that matter)...people tend to feel they dont have to abide by the posting guidelines and or see how far they can bend the rules before someone steps in and takes action.
We dont have the ability to come to your house and smack you upside the head if you continue to break the rules...our only recourse is to "moderate" people...this starts with simple edits of posts that violate the posting guidelines...and if that isnt enough, entire posts get deleted as its simply not worth the time to go through and continually pick out snippets of posts from the same people over and over (you know who you are).
However, even as I finish typing this...im sure a large % of people will disagree with what ive said...and another % will agree with me.
Quite frankly I could hand out gold bricks on the corner and SOMEONE would complain...its just the nature of the beast.
you always upset someone while making someone else happy...tis the nature of the beast.
The discussion regarding the marriott points program has generated more threads in the past few weeks than anything else I can recall, its simply overwhelming for someone to keep up with everything.
Dave has, and always will have my support. Hes and a handful of other volunteers are one of the main reasons TUG even exists in the first place.
If any of you feel that Dave is somehow "censoring" you using some underlying or devious motive...well....thats perhaps the most absurd thing ive heard in quite some time.
TUG moderators (at least the ones that spend any length of time here)...volunteer their time to help maintain the calm and peaceful nature of the forums and enforce the posting guidelines as they interpret them. You would be sadly mistaken to think that any of them are "out to get you".
Quite frankly if you feel you are being constantly "moderated"....perhaps you should take some time to adjust your behavior here on the forums and it wouldnt happen as much.
The free exchange of ideas and discussion are what these forums are all about, however there are right...and wrong ways to go about doing that.
TUG guidelines are in place to ensure people follow the "right" ways (or at least TUG's interpretation of the right ways...and we've been doing it for awahile now)...because in the past (and currently for that matter)...people tend to feel they dont have to abide by the posting guidelines and or see how far they can bend the rules before someone steps in and takes action.
We dont have the ability to come to your house and smack you upside the head if you continue to break the rules...our only recourse is to "moderate" people...this starts with simple edits of posts that violate the posting guidelines...and if that isnt enough, entire posts get deleted as its simply not worth the time to go through and continually pick out snippets of posts from the same people over and over (you know who you are).
However, even as I finish typing this...im sure a large % of people will disagree with what ive said...and another % will agree with me.
Quite frankly I could hand out gold bricks on the corner and SOMEONE would complain...its just the nature of the beast.
Dave, your posts have been very much appreciated over the years by most of us. It's because of you that we found out about Marriott planning a brand new program several years ago so we knew that it was coming and now it is here, we can debate the pro and cons of the program.
