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Anybody else notice that a very active thread just vanished? (kinda like a few of our friends) This doesn't bode well, not well at all.
Deleting a thread like that never helps it just makes things worse... That said, near the end of what I saw things were getting nasty.
Cwbullet seems to feel this was directed at him (a personal attack on his character) and was insulted and issued the infraction.
The rules are whatever the owners decide they are. They do not like a thread they delete it- temporal incursion complete.
An issue came up and was discussed. We all got our feelings out. No need to leave a monument to it.
Back to the corners and wait for the next issue that pops up.
Here are the TRF rules:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?13110-Rules-and-Guidelines
If the new owners have decided those rules are no longer in effect, or there is some other set of unpublished rules, this needs to be stated to the members.
IIRC, this online community has never been run by the "I am owner, I will do whatever the [blank] I want" no-rules type of mentality you describe (other now-gone rocket sites were run that way). So if that were indeed what is going on, it at least needs to be acknowledged. OTHERWISE, the TRF rules should be followed.
There have now been two mysterious instant perma-bans that do not seem to have been carried out under the TRF rules. As well, an infraction given without an obvious TRF rule being broken, and that infraction publicly posted in violation of past stated TRF policy of privacy in such cases.
- George Gassaway
I think the owners are probably wondering why they are bothering. They cannot make that much money from this forum. Maybe people will be happy when one day the owners shut down TRF.?
Yes, that might be true. The issue becomes if the site becomes to much of a pain is the arse for them. When folks start calling them out and posting the address of the owner. It is totally stupid.
Frankly, folks need to grow up a bit. You are playing on the owners site- what they say goes. The mods should likely be on folks who do not understand this. If not, chaos reigns. If the rules change, and maybe they should, they rule set should be posted.
If the site goes down the tubes and is a pain for the owners I think shutting it down works. You may not agree, but I have seen a person driven a bit goofy by their website, and money or not it is not worth it. Also, why do you think Troj sold it, and does not have essentially any involvement in the site?
If the site goes down the tubes and is a pain for the owners I think shutting it down works. You may not agree, but I have seen a person driven a bit goofy by their website, and money or not it is not worth it. Also, why do you think Troj sold it, and does not have essentially any involvement in the site?
I was referring to the instant perma-bans. The TRF rules which have existed for many many years do not allow for that unless someone made some outrageous posting, which does not seem to have been the case, at least by those two people.
Not until the internet coward who posted late last night with his personal attack on cwbullet, and tmacklin's posting the site owner's address and phone number suggesting people call to harass the owner (amazing that Shrox apparently got perma-banned for nothing that violated the rules and tmacklin is still here after all the "stuff" he's pulled, plenty of which is not allowed under TRF rules).
And ironically, it's the site owner who lit the fuse on the events of the last few days by banning Shrox and Uncle Mike, out of the blue, without consulting the moderators or admins. And left them to deal with the resulting mess. For which some have handled it well and some have not (IIRC only two mods or admins being involved in the Shrox thread. I sorta wonder if some mods are "sitting it out", or whatever, possibly upset by what happened without their input. I sure would be if I was a mod here).
And now it looks like there are no rules anymore. I've asked if they are in effect or changed, and lack of an answer to that in light of screwy things going on outside of the TRF rules, leaves the impression that the rules do not apply anymore.
It makes no sense to buy up a special online community, then set about doing things in a manner that will upset the membership of that online community.
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