jm5
January 9, 2018, 1:55pm
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@dirvine I appreciate you replying and take everything into account you have said. I understand it may be a lot to ask of you to read through this. I feel you are missing this point
That is exactly part of the point. There is no difference on this forum, it is all swept under the rug.
Jabba:
Since 2015 I’ve seen so many people leave the forum because of the modarchy’s stubbornness regarding its own inalienable right-to-power. The meta move pisses off everyone you do it to. You guys piss off users faster and more frequently than I’ve ever seen in any community.
Key forum contributors have been driven away, folks like team_2e16, tonda, safety1st, alkaffir, jm5 (a mod himself) now ken… god knows how many more I can’t recall off-hand, but certainly several more than that. My PMs have dozens of threads that hit the 500 post limit. All of that content wasted. Some it real gems and fascinating discussions, much of it between 3 or 4 of us ata time. All of it hugely valuable. All wasted from SAFE Netowrk’s pov, hidden away, no place for it on the forum and contributors who refuse to post here while there is no voice for them or direct business management.
You guys don’ just fail to leverage content by preventing people posting off-topic stuff visibly (god forbid), you actually create cliques and drive content off the forum and into PMs in huge quantities.
Anyway, there is no changing this. This has not been a community run forum since the reins were handed over and the separation between mod and community was created. Many many people have said it, we’ve all been censored and had our opinions removed from public view. We’ve all had to abandon the forum because of it. I wanted to rage-quit two years ago when poor tonda fell victim to (as he put it) “this self-righteous bullshi1t”.
It would be one thing if this was a private forum run by a private company, or a community forum run by a community, but it is not. This forum is run by a very small clique of like-minded people with no experience in marketing and no appreciation for the consequences of their decisions. As I said before, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
A must read but to highlight my personal feelings
'Fate, it seems, is not without it’s sense of irony’
A decentralised project that will entirely remove all restrictions on internet users (within the scope of SAFE), having as it’s main community forum a very centralised, and, in the opinions of some of us, a censored and controlled course of discussion. Almost absurd enough to be funny, seemingly required enough to be unremarkable to most, and annoying enough to deeply irritate and disillusion the souls of some of us who saw in SAFE a solution, finally, to problems the human race is in dire need to rid itself of: centralisation, control and censorship by the few over the many.
So it seems that us that see the absurdity are banished to
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