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12-06-2013, 10:44 PM
Well, I'm disappointed that Austin felt the need to ban me. He told me to direct my complaints to him, so I did. Guess I shouldn't have taken him at his word. I asked him to please contact the mailing list and inform everyone of the change so that members aren't lost forever, but I guess he wasn't in the mood to listen to any of my suggestions. I can, of course, create a new account there (I could do that even if he IP banned me--you learn stuff when you run a gaming forum for a living), but what is the point? I don't wish to antagonize the man on purpose.
I also don't wish to "advocate" a smaller forum. A community should be allowed to grow organically. But my idea of a community is a group of people who share an interest. We might just as well have been thrown into a pack animals site with mules and llamas. I simply wished to not be jumbled into a larger forum without our own identity and without even being told about it. Consider my confidence in the leadership shattered more by the way it was handled than by the fact that it happened.
I am in touch with folks who might help me get the old email list so I can contact all the old members directly. I've also talked with Larry Robinson of Goat Tracks magazine. He's going to put something in there about what happened. I'm also going to see if I can get up the monthly drawings again. Those were fun and kept things happnin'.
I also don't wish to "advocate" a smaller forum. A community should be allowed to grow organically. But my idea of a community is a group of people who share an interest. We might just as well have been thrown into a pack animals site with mules and llamas. I simply wished to not be jumbled into a larger forum without our own identity and without even being told about it. Consider my confidence in the leadership shattered more by the way it was handled than by the fact that it happened.
I am in touch with folks who might help me get the old email list so I can contact all the old members directly. I've also talked with Larry Robinson of Goat Tracks magazine. He's going to put something in there about what happened. I'm also going to see if I can get up the monthly drawings again. Those were fun and kept things happnin'.