Post by LS on May 26, 2005 14:34:22 GMT -5
Author Topic: In Reply To "I'm Stunned" (Read 337 times)
accurian
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In Reply To "I'm Stunned"
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∞ ConqueringWolf ∞ProBoards.com Moderator
Since the staff here is so very power happy and LOVE to lock threads that dare to challenge them, I am starting a new thread that more than likely will get either locked or deleted. I will probably be banned, but seeing as that I moved my forum to a much better forum service than this and will delete my own membership after posting this (which I signed up for just to post this), I really don't care. I want to say my piece.
The 24 hour notice thing on our forums DID NOT serve any purpose, because after about a WEEK we all ignored it. If the 24 hour notice thing had been updated with new information, maybe then we would have all paid attention and a notice here would NOT have been necessary. Therefore I totally agree with Chips....with any other business, if you don't keep your customers happy and informed, you lose them. What happens when a real brick store closes down "due to illness"? Customers come to the door and read the closed sign, then go somewhere else, it's simple as that. Shut out your customers and they go elsewhere. Without the forum owners, which are Proboards customers any way you look at it, Proboards is nothing.
This is one of the most shoddy, unprofessional services that I have ever seen. What kind of business chastises its customers for their honest feedback (not a very good one)? We are not allowed to say anything unless it's "good job, Patrick"?? And even then, people get warnings for that, too...I think the staff here need to all get warnings for being so "lock-happy". In the discussion board that gives you tips on running your forum, there is advice that says that admins should not get power-happy, because that will clear out a forum faster than anything...take your own advice, people!
The rest of this is geared toward Patrick. We realize you were sick, but big deal, everyone gets sick...you still had a business to run. You left your business wallow in the mud while you sat on your butt and wiped your stuffy nose! Thousands of people were out here waiting for you to get off your butt and finish what you started...Patrick, if you can't do it yourself, HIRE HELP. That's what real, professional businesses do, and it's what YOU should do, too...if you were a professional businessman you'd know that.
V4 is a shoddy, messy excuse for an upgrade, is missing majorly advertised features and is full of bugs that are still not fixed, and most of the servers were and are STILL not done, with the "24 hours" notice still sitting on them. Not too professional, Patty! Do you honestly think that people adore your service so much that they will just sit like adoring minions and wait until King Pat decides to bestow V4 upon them??
You're not fooling anybody, we all know you make money off of Proboards forums..all those idiots that think their board is totally free and you're some kind of saint....what a LAUGH. Do you realize how much money you're going to lose if everyone gets tired of Proboards' nonsense (which they ARE, believe me) and moves to another forum service?? The entire Proboards staff should really think about that. Meanwhile, everyone will be moving to a forum service that's a heck of a lot better, something that won't be too hard to find. Believe me, I sure did.
Oh and to all the Patrick/Proboards groupies who like to kiss butt: if you don't like this message...TOO BAD. You know you all are thinking the SAME things...you're all just too chicken to say it.
accurian
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In Reply To "I'm Stunned"
« Thread Started on Today at 9:34am »
<<Thread Locked on Today at 9:44am>>
∞ ConqueringWolf ∞ProBoards.com Moderator
Since the staff here is so very power happy and LOVE to lock threads that dare to challenge them, I am starting a new thread that more than likely will get either locked or deleted. I will probably be banned, but seeing as that I moved my forum to a much better forum service than this and will delete my own membership after posting this (which I signed up for just to post this), I really don't care. I want to say my piece.
The 24 hour notice thing on our forums DID NOT serve any purpose, because after about a WEEK we all ignored it. If the 24 hour notice thing had been updated with new information, maybe then we would have all paid attention and a notice here would NOT have been necessary. Therefore I totally agree with Chips....with any other business, if you don't keep your customers happy and informed, you lose them. What happens when a real brick store closes down "due to illness"? Customers come to the door and read the closed sign, then go somewhere else, it's simple as that. Shut out your customers and they go elsewhere. Without the forum owners, which are Proboards customers any way you look at it, Proboards is nothing.
This is one of the most shoddy, unprofessional services that I have ever seen. What kind of business chastises its customers for their honest feedback (not a very good one)? We are not allowed to say anything unless it's "good job, Patrick"?? And even then, people get warnings for that, too...I think the staff here need to all get warnings for being so "lock-happy". In the discussion board that gives you tips on running your forum, there is advice that says that admins should not get power-happy, because that will clear out a forum faster than anything...take your own advice, people!
The rest of this is geared toward Patrick. We realize you were sick, but big deal, everyone gets sick...you still had a business to run. You left your business wallow in the mud while you sat on your butt and wiped your stuffy nose! Thousands of people were out here waiting for you to get off your butt and finish what you started...Patrick, if you can't do it yourself, HIRE HELP. That's what real, professional businesses do, and it's what YOU should do, too...if you were a professional businessman you'd know that.
V4 is a shoddy, messy excuse for an upgrade, is missing majorly advertised features and is full of bugs that are still not fixed, and most of the servers were and are STILL not done, with the "24 hours" notice still sitting on them. Not too professional, Patty! Do you honestly think that people adore your service so much that they will just sit like adoring minions and wait until King Pat decides to bestow V4 upon them??
You're not fooling anybody, we all know you make money off of Proboards forums..all those idiots that think their board is totally free and you're some kind of saint....what a LAUGH. Do you realize how much money you're going to lose if everyone gets tired of Proboards' nonsense (which they ARE, believe me) and moves to another forum service?? The entire Proboards staff should really think about that. Meanwhile, everyone will be moving to a forum service that's a heck of a lot better, something that won't be too hard to find. Believe me, I sure did.
Oh and to all the Patrick/Proboards groupies who like to kiss butt: if you don't like this message...TOO BAD. You know you all are thinking the SAME things...you're all just too chicken to say it.
They're not offering anything "unique," there are very few messageboard hosting services that charge for them. There are hundreds of them out there and 99% of them are free, so there must be money to be made in them. 
...who- in reality- is far from it. Now I'll openly admit- TM knows his way around computers and has more knowledge in his little finger than I'll ever know about them in my lifetime...But come on, when even I can spot the screw-ups from miles away and the totally illogical moves- that's saying something...and it ain't good. 
And with him- it's always someone or something else's fault...never his. 
From what we've been told, nothing is going to be fixed or corrected until all the servers are updated.