UG Staff said:
That is certainly one of the future options (pay site), and as the boss said, he's waying them right now. Perhaps one of the things he is doing is seeing if it's worth the bother to do the back end work to make this a pay site using this as a yardstick?
Or maybe he's just trying to get a message across to the whiners and complainers that the don't have to stay and complain (because although he tolerated it for years, no one else moderating this place will - it's the reason I won't be much longer).
Or maybe he just wants the hookers who have been getting free business by sending people to post ads for them here and then getting business that if you don't feed the gerbils, they die and then you get no more free electricity.
I don't know which of those he's thinking (or something else entirely). What I do know is that while it was an intersting little diversion for me to be a mod here, I have come away with a fairly sizable hatred for most of teh people on both sides of this sordid "hobby" as a result, so to some extent I got an education I never wanted. At first, I thought he was harsh, a control freak, overbearing, too many rules, and a bunch of other things I don't even want to repeat. After stepping into his shoes for just little bit, I'd put him closer to Saint. but none of you will ever see that because (as I learned from him) the people in this "hobby" have one thing in common on both sides of the fence: it's the most self centered and selfish group of people which walks the planet.
This will be may last post on UG (in this capacity); I'll let the other "UG Staff" do the rest of the talking. When the rest of the boards re-open, I'll be back to posting only as "me". I hope the rest of you take this wake-up call seriously, otherswise you will get what you deserve: only boards which are commercially viable because every word on them is bought and paid for.
Or maybe he's just trying to get a message across to the whiners and complainers that the don't have to stay and complain (because although he tolerated it for years, no one else moderating this place will - it's the reason I won't be much longer).
Or maybe he just wants the hookers who have been getting free business by sending people to post ads for them here and then getting business that if you don't feed the gerbils, they die and then you get no more free electricity.
I don't know which of those he's thinking (or something else entirely). What I do know is that while it was an intersting little diversion for me to be a mod here, I have come away with a fairly sizable hatred for most of teh people on both sides of this sordid "hobby" as a result, so to some extent I got an education I never wanted. At first, I thought he was harsh, a control freak, overbearing, too many rules, and a bunch of other things I don't even want to repeat. After stepping into his shoes for just little bit, I'd put him closer to Saint. but none of you will ever see that because (as I learned from him) the people in this "hobby" have one thing in common on both sides of the fence: it's the most self centered and selfish group of people which walks the planet.
This will be may last post on UG (in this capacity); I'll let the other "UG Staff" do the rest of the talking. When the rest of the boards re-open, I'll be back to posting only as "me". I hope the rest of you take this wake-up call seriously, otherswise you will get what you deserve: only boards which are commercially viable because every word on them is bought and paid for.