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Found this in the archives.
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=17392
Followup to Shaun's post
There are a couple of interesting points in this post:
1. It reads like you are a little fearful of complaining, and that I believe that is going to be an increasing issue around here. Why would that be an issue. Only by complaining or letting your feelings be known can change for the better come about This forum needs moderation,You're dead right there, it certainly does but if it goes to far then we will all either tow the company line What company line. There is no company line. If you find one point it out to me cause it ain't mine. or be forced to leave. No one has ever been forced to leave. The odd trouble making rat bag may be banned but that is a very, very, very last resort. This is quite a friendly and definately a helpful resource Thats 2 things you have got right. It would be a shame to see it change to a powerplay. There is no power play, just a long over due enforcing of forum rules.
2. Yes, this forum is a business tool WHAT ROT. It is used as traffic generation to ubeaut.com.au, What? The 1 link hidden at the bottom of the pageadvertising for ubeaut SHOW ME AN ADD FOR U-BEAUT and increasingly revenue via advertising. So what! Would you prefer to have a free site or pay a yearly subscription. There are a lot more ads now than when I first came on board, You have been here for 14mth and in that time there has actually been a decrease in adds on these forums and I imagine they pull in more than a full time wage for the board owners. Where did you get this fantasy from - these forums cost around $20,000 a year to run do you actually think I am making that much. If so go start your own forum fill it with adds and go retire. I sure as hell can't
Every post by volunteers is leveraged to income to ubeaut. RUBBISH This is fair as they have hosting costs that makes three things you've got right and a business to run WE MAKE POLISH - I can make more money from one sale of polish than these forums could generate in 3 years, but I would hate to see all the work by members around here manipulated so that the only appropriate use of the forum is helping ubeaut at the expense of members. I'm really lost for words here. I'm sorry but this would have to be without a doubt, the greatest load of absolute twaddle I have ever read on these forums.
There is a fantastic community here That's the forth thing you've got right. I hope that the admins and membership can work out a way to keep everything going happily while remaining within reasonable boundaries. As far as I can see everything is already going happily and none of our already reasonable boundaries have changed.
shaun Neil :)
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well sed neil.....
Neil
Goodonya for defending yourself! Keep it up - more power to your elbow.
My two-bobs' worth: This website is a marvellous mixture of expert knowledge, sensible practical advice, dumb@rsed opinion, brilliant dead-pan humour and Aussie mateship and irreverence (that's a small selective list, by the way. A comprehensive description of the contents of these forums would run to several pages).
If youngsters interested in woodwork want to join up and contribute, we should welcome them. The one or two who have already done so seem to fit in pretty well. Young Stirlo is a great example.
If teachers want to suggest to their students that this is a good resource for them to use, we should encourage that, too.
I don't think we need to change anything. We certainly don't want to lose the BB's unique flavour by crude censorship or bowdlerization. If the moderators continue to keep a watchful eye in the way they have for the time I've been on board, I reckon this website will survive and prosper.
Col
See - even Driver makes a reasoned arguement occasionally :p :p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Driver
(R) stands for repeat in the tv guide ( at least the one i get )
Well I wasn't going to get involved in this thread but then I realised that strewth, I already had. :eek: :o
All I can say is that if Neil (or one of his minions :p ) sent me a pm saying "Craig, your Kookaburra avatar is offensive to a lot of forum members and I'd appreciate it if you'd change it."
Well, then I'd change it to something less controversial (although I'm not sure what could be less controversial than a Kooka).
We should all always remember that we are all merely guests in Neil's house.
I realise that sounds like I'm crawling but I'm not.
After all, it's not like I'm a moderator or anything. :p :p :D
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Originally Posted by Driver
Hear Hear.
Peter,
BTW Col, is there something in your Code of encouraging the upcoming generation of woodworkers and something about cautioning blokes about biting the hand that feeds them?
Can you guys please play by the rules like Neil says ! Once a thread is successfully hijacked, you are forbidden to put it back on the rails again. :cool:
:D :D
Fair call Gumby
here goes ......
R I P this thread:)
Well said boban:) If everyone took that stand this thread wouldnt even be disscusion pointQuote:
Originally Posted by boban
Well I know its not about getting home from work and looking to argue with people. Too much crap in my working life for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
As for the grand scheme, each to his own I think. Lets just say that my perception revolves around being a decent person.
How about a midge that looks more like a mosquito?Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
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:D :D :D
Is there something I've missed, but isn't this like 'sins of the father'? Just a thought. Happy to be corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by ozwinner
No, fair call I reckon.Quote:
Originally Posted by boban
You might have missed this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by boban
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=34203
Squashed mosquito anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Sorry Peter. :o
What is it with your avatar anyway? I remember when it used to almost dance around below your screen name. :confused:
I don't think this is the right thread to be talking about avatars. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Yes, but to get banned for that seems a bit ott to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Awww geez. I'm not gunna get banned am I?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
I think there was more to it but as they have said, ask and you shall receive.
It depends, what is the Kooka doing ? Looks a bit sus to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
I guess it may be academic then but people seem to say stuff like that all the time and return to post another day.
Even Two-Words has picked up and left now. Or has he?
still here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by boban
Good to see you back, even if some thought you hadn't really left Gumby.
Doug did have some good contributions but that avatar did wear pretty thin after awhile and had started to look purile to the point that I am glad to see it gone. But perhaps that's because I'm the one male in an almost all female work force and saw it as condescending and demeaning towards those around me.
John
I was expecting something more like
"sanctimonious crap"
from Two Words
me too :cool: he's such a disappointment that guyQuote:
Originally Posted by boban
That was an almost surreal post Pete.
Thnaks :)
How's the dust extraction going Pete?