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Greenthings
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I created this post well knowing that perhaps only a few will be able to read it, for if it is classified by Heather and company as as "inflammatory" it WILL be taken off the forum and moved out of sight.
I have therefore sent this post by private e-mail to several of my friends who belong to this ST forum. Just a safety precaution.
I have just received the following private e-mail, after I asked where I could find the thread "Storm Brewing at the RHS over registration etc," which no longer seems to be where it was, at least when I looked there. Things can change here in seconds and it may be back there as I write this.
Here is the part of that e-mail, verbatim:
"The administration (Heather) have created a new section on SlipperTalk called OutBack. They will move all "inflammatory" and argumentative posts to that section. Readers need a password from the administration, so you need to PM Heather for the password. Phrag has already slammed you in the Outback"
Thus soon we will only see "KISSY KISSY" post and no more civil dicussions and arguments, all because a few administrators could not behave in a civil manner?
It seems to me that this Administration has no intention to change and make this forum BETTER and MORE RESPECTABLE, as recommended, NOR DOES IT SEEM DETERMNINED TO SHOW MORE RESPECT for its members.
They are thumbing their noses at all they were told by people like Eric Muehlbauer and John Marcotte.
To avoid having to improve their own "condemned by members" actions, on this forum, they simply created another section on the forum, OUTBACK, where the administrators can carry on as before. Vindictive attacks as before. I think this OUTBACK was simply created for them and for another reason, which I will discuss further down in this post.
The fact that one of the first posters in OUTBACK is PHRAG, according to te e-mail, who continues his vindictive attacks on me, proves it.
This is unbecoming any PUBLIC forum, for it is more like a Mafia back room where a few decide which decent and civil forum contributor they are going to stuff in the concrete box next.
The second danger of OUTBACK is that any regular forum post, no matter how decent and civil it is, can simply be classified by the administration as Inflammatory and moved to OUTBACK, when they do not like it.
Thus we now have a much easier censorship vehicle giving the administration complete power as to who will be heard and who will be gagged,for all they have to say is: " WE are the administration and WE have
classified your post as inflammatory." You may think this can not happen, I think it will happen!!
You, S.T "administrators, do neither have any idea about, nor do you understand what the definition of a public forum is. If you have to take your own UNCIVIL posts out of sight, they should never have been posted in the first place.
So you created a vehicle where no one has to apologize for their bad behaviour, but can carry on as before, but now one can stuff a lot more material in OUTBACK, on which to take out your frustrations.
So much for taking advice from decent subscribers recommending that this forum needs to change and so much for some of you given a tiny glimmer of hope that you would make a chance for the better. My conclusion is that you have just made it worse.
If you believe this will encourage people to post on ST, think again and take off your blindfolds, please.
peter
I have therefore sent this post by private e-mail to several of my friends who belong to this ST forum. Just a safety precaution.
I have just received the following private e-mail, after I asked where I could find the thread "Storm Brewing at the RHS over registration etc," which no longer seems to be where it was, at least when I looked there. Things can change here in seconds and it may be back there as I write this.
Here is the part of that e-mail, verbatim:
"The administration (Heather) have created a new section on SlipperTalk called OutBack. They will move all "inflammatory" and argumentative posts to that section. Readers need a password from the administration, so you need to PM Heather for the password. Phrag has already slammed you in the Outback"
Thus soon we will only see "KISSY KISSY" post and no more civil dicussions and arguments, all because a few administrators could not behave in a civil manner?
It seems to me that this Administration has no intention to change and make this forum BETTER and MORE RESPECTABLE, as recommended, NOR DOES IT SEEM DETERMNINED TO SHOW MORE RESPECT for its members.
They are thumbing their noses at all they were told by people like Eric Muehlbauer and John Marcotte.
To avoid having to improve their own "condemned by members" actions, on this forum, they simply created another section on the forum, OUTBACK, where the administrators can carry on as before. Vindictive attacks as before. I think this OUTBACK was simply created for them and for another reason, which I will discuss further down in this post.
The fact that one of the first posters in OUTBACK is PHRAG, according to te e-mail, who continues his vindictive attacks on me, proves it.
This is unbecoming any PUBLIC forum, for it is more like a Mafia back room where a few decide which decent and civil forum contributor they are going to stuff in the concrete box next.
The second danger of OUTBACK is that any regular forum post, no matter how decent and civil it is, can simply be classified by the administration as Inflammatory and moved to OUTBACK, when they do not like it.
Thus we now have a much easier censorship vehicle giving the administration complete power as to who will be heard and who will be gagged,for all they have to say is: " WE are the administration and WE have
classified your post as inflammatory." You may think this can not happen, I think it will happen!!
You, S.T "administrators, do neither have any idea about, nor do you understand what the definition of a public forum is. If you have to take your own UNCIVIL posts out of sight, they should never have been posted in the first place.
So you created a vehicle where no one has to apologize for their bad behaviour, but can carry on as before, but now one can stuff a lot more material in OUTBACK, on which to take out your frustrations.
So much for taking advice from decent subscribers recommending that this forum needs to change and so much for some of you given a tiny glimmer of hope that you would make a chance for the better. My conclusion is that you have just made it worse.
If you believe this will encourage people to post on ST, think again and take off your blindfolds, please.
peter