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Originally posted by Rev
Jim, you do seem to have forgotten that we as members do look at ads that do generate revenues for the site. I don't think anyone can argue with that. I also think we all realize the effort that you put in without any outright compensation.
You do seem to want to exercise quite a little bit of control over what members say on this board. Sometimes it doesn't go over that well. You might want to re-think how you relate to members. They are the lifeblood of the site.
Rev
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My job is maintain decorum on the messageboards. I do that as Dan and I think best and that will occasionally generate a certain amount of negative reactions from folks who don't think
they should follow any rules or be told what they can and can't do. Too bad.
99% of our members never have - or make - a problem. I don't have the time to hand-hold and ever-so-gently explain everything I do here to people that are supposed to be adults. The idea that I should never say a harsh word to some member complaining about something or other is absurd.
Visit sites with little or ineffective moderation. They are almost useless and very frustrating - but no one 'controls' anything, do they? It's a mess and people hate it when there is no control as the jerks take over, quickly. MW has never been like that and never will, as long as I have anything to do with it.
Control is what I do, Rev. I try to be invisible about it as much as possible but sometimes I have to close a thread, chastize someone or whatever. If this is offensive to you or anyone else, so be it. I'm not in a popularity contest here and we now have over 20,000 registrations so we must be doing something right.
I'm aware of the members being the 'lifeblood' of the site, Rev. Dan doesn't run MW for his personal amusement and the help I've given to members over the past five years is well known by longtime members of this site. I need apologize to no one. I do my part and always have. That you or anyone else finds fault with my approach or my methods is predictable and beyond my control. Everyone thinks they can do a better job than the guy doing it.
Thanks for reading the ads. Really. It's appreciated but doesn't change the fact that we have a few rules and when the occasional problem arises, we deal with it.
Dan and I used to be afraid of hurting anyone's feelings until we got royally flamed and wasted a ton of time attempting to make happy-face with this and that unhappy member. We now realize that we have a great Mustang site and if a few folks get P.O.'ed and leave or want to be jerks about some little rule or something, let 'em go - we don't beg them to stay. Life is too short , MW is too good a site and neither Dan or I or any other moderator has the time or patience to play baby-sitter to folks who are adults.
Thanks for wading through this long post, but I wanted to take the opportuntity to state some basic truths about MW and my philosophy as messageboard administrator. Nothing personal intended, just some honest response to your comments that might benefit other members.