Brice Burrell said:
Matthew Schenker said:
....I'd love to know what the people at TF would do if someone here were to go there and publicize the FOG. Anyone care to try?
Thanks,
Matthew
I'll take you up on that, in the morning I'll post a message that promotes the FOG. I believe the membership there won't care one way or another because they know the FOG is a great asset to the Festool user community.
Brice,
Since you are so incensed about me simply moving a topic from one board to another, and you're already heading over to TF to see what happens when you publicize the FOG, let me ask you for one other thing: ask them what happened to the people who previously mentioned the FOG. I happen to know of three individuals who were banned from that forum for mentioning the FOG, and all their posts were deleted --
without comment.
Unlike other forums, where administrators delete posts whenever they see fit and don't feel the need to inform the members about it, here in the FOG, I have taken unbelievable pains to delete almost no posts at all, and any posts I have deleted were always discussed openly.
People are free and welcome to criticize my management. That's fair. But it's also fair for me to respond, and in my opinion any suggestions that I "disrespect the membership" or somehow "manipulate content" (Brice's terms) are outrageous. It's especially outrageous at this point in time, when I have taken on extra administrative work to create a whole board for posts I don't want or like, and which a lot of members complain about. Really, my life would be a lot easier if I had less respect for members and just deleted this kind of stuff. Instead, I have taken on the extra burden of trying to listen to all sides, and to manage the new systems as well as possible. What disrespect!
The irony here is that Brice is openly accusing me of disrespecting membership and manipulating content, and yet his posts stand for all to see, uncensored and uncontrolled.
So Brice, please report back to me when you get to the bottom of the membership bannings and post deletions over on the other forum. Since you hate any kind of administrative control, I assume you will raise the general issue of respect for members over there as well.
Thanks,
Matthew