Well now that you have opened the book, lets have a look. Shall we?...

Where have you been dude?

Once the change from itT had occurred and the color change tumult had finally died down, someone did take the reins and began to organize this place in preparation of what he knew was coming. No one liked it but then again no one likes change. Most people accepted it because this member was a well respected member of our community as you were also then.

You however began to proficiently post about your displeasure with the direction that the organization of the forum was going.

The basis of your arguments had merit and you wanted more acknowledgment for members who used alternative OS's that you had invested a lot of time previously supporting. You trotted out post cards from Spain and whatnot,and whipped up popular opinion in your favor. I'm thinkin that because of the "Us vs. them" theme in most of your posts then this organizing member I spoke of earlier, appeared to throw up his hands in disgust and say. "Fine, let the community decide by popular vote or suttin'."
It was also clear that this member had a limited amount of time to accomplish this organization and you, based on the vast number of threads that you opened that were really just variations of the same topic, had all the time in the world.

In the end, whole forums and sub-forums were opened to your exact specifications but then you went away and although useful, these forums and sub-forums were actually hardly used.

But that "Us vs. them" theme hung around like the haze in the old smoking lounge at Heathrow.

{End of chapter one. Chapter working title: "The way we were."]

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(I'm going to jump ahead here because I'm anxious to get out into the real world and barroom test a widget on my N900 that a working member recently provided. )

It is funny that you apparently are referencing my loosing the recent Council election. The reason I eventualy decided to run was because the two members I admired most and who I thought best represented my point of view decided not to run. One, after fighting the good fight for two terms was now tired. The other, who ran on the "Us vs. them" ticket hadn't been heard from since he won a seat 6 months earlier. I waited almost two weeks for you to enter before I decided to pull the trigger.

I have been a Member/Mod/SuperMod (then back to Mod at my request because of time constraints) on the granddaddy of all cell phone/device forums for over 7 years. These "ideas" you speak of are based on experienced fact as that forum rapidly grew to over 800,000 members with more than 10 million posts and has on average 6,000 unique visitors per day. This is one of the few times I have mentioned this in my years on this forum. I only do so now to add perspective and to substantiate some of these "ideas" and not to get into a pissing contest. (Although I have metaphorically received quite a few "postcards" from Spain as a result of this experience )

I didn't expect to run and when I did decide I didn't expect to get even the number of votes I did get. What I did expect to do was use the time to voice my opinions about the "strong medicine" I thought. and still think this forum was/is going to need.

Incidentally, the "idea" of separating the council from forum administration that I was promoting would have meant that if I was elected, I wouldn't be the doctor delivering this medicine.

I was looking toward the next council election when the "Us vs. them" party could possibly use the fact that because a good candidate was also a mod it somehow meant he was one of "them" and had an unfair advantage.

I of course don't think so, I'm just tired of seeing the chicken shyt threads that this kind of thinking produces.

The actual fact may be that because as a Mod a candidate had to prompt or make necessary but unpopular decisions, it could be an unfair disadvantage.


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