Bob Savage":37rnymw6 said:
Scott Ians Beard":37rnymw6 said:
Ive been away for a few days, something has obviously really blown up. The last I read it looked like there burying the hatchet thread. Ill have to catch up later, but its really sad that its come to this...
However, selling RT is not cool in my book. I realise that Bob, Chris and even Mitch put in time to set up the board and run it and should get something out of this, but at the end of the day many of us put up money to pay for hosting and upkeep. I cant remember how much I put in (and I dont want it back), but selling it destroys the goodwill we put in. I also feel we should have at least a bit of a say in the matter?
Furthermore, who knows who is going to buy this. We have personal data in this board, at the very least working email addresses, which people pay top dollar for. For all we know we are about to be bought for our emails and get spammed to high heaven.
Whatever monies you donated (I'm assuming this was 2 years ago, since we sold a pedal last year to raise funds for hosting fees) were donated willingly with no promise of being a shareholder or having any other type of ownership on this board. I'm sorry if you perceived it as such, but everybody that donated two years ago did so because they enjoyed their time here and wanted the place to continue on.
As far as personal information, if you have anything personal in your profile, you've willingly made that information public because most of what's entered in your profile with the possible exception of your e-mail address is visible by anybody wanting to view it. I would suggest you remove the information if you don't want others looking at it. As for your e-mail address, if you somehow have a pristine address that has escaped the spam address generating algorythms and you would like it removed, send me a PM and I'll change it to whatever address you use that isn't immune to SPAM.
I recall you as a level headed forumite so I apologize if I am coming of strongly, but I believe you're out of line with your comments.
Hey Bob, didnt mean to come off as "out of line," certainly not my intention. Neither is it to cause trouble.
Im not claiming to have an official stake in the board or anything, I donated for the very reason that you mention in your post, for the good of the community and because I enjoy hanging out here and wanted to to continue, I just feel that selling it isnt really in the spirit of the community we have here. Would it not make sense to offer it up inside to the community first? Like I say, im a bit behind and you might have done this.
Im very careful about my personal info, others might not be. I happen to work in world of advertising and I know what goes on with peoples information, others may not. I have a seperate account for forum registrations/newsletters and alike, so im fine. I learnt the hard way a few years ago...
I hope everythings cool here, thanks for all your hard work,
Steve
