GDE sanctions the Rx: You have ignored me and there will be consequences

[GreenDoberman]

I made a not unreasonable request to look into the removal of the balloons, e.g. post preview, and was met with considerable agreement by the posting community.
Promises were made and not kept by management.
Yesterday, I set a deadline of 4pm for some action to take place regarding this matter.
Since that deadline has come and passed with silence, the good folks at Green Doberman Enterprises are left with no choice but to impose the following sanctions on the Rx:

1) All posters and moderators will be put on ignore. You may still read and respond to posts, but I will not be able to acknowledge your input.

2) I will confine my posting activity to one single thread in the rubber room. Essentially I will be conversing with myself, but I suspect for the majority of the time that will only increase the intelligence of the thread as well as raise the quality.

3) The one exception to this will be the BCS Breakdown thread which will continue to its conclusion.

4) When American Idol season comes, serious consideration will be given to other options for the popular discussion thread.

5) Unless dialogue is met to lead me to believe the balloon problem is taken seriously or at least given a democratic chance, these sanctions will continue indefinitely and/or increased.

I apologize to those remaining quality posters who I enjoy interacting with that will suffer the consequences or these actions. However, nothing great was ever accomplished without some suffering. Pain is a vital part of progress and the powers-that-be have left me no choice. Otherwise, I will be just as guilty of apathy as those that have put me in this position.

The process of modifying these posting standards will take a brief period but I suspect by the weekend all sanctions will be put in place.

Thank you for your consideration.

Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe
Attorneys-at-Law Representing Green Doberman Enterprises.

 

[GreenDoberman]

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We had quite a few requests for this function to be added to the website.

Tomorrow I will run a poll -- keep or dump the balloons - majority rules assuming the software for this new version of VBulletin will let us disable the function.


Fair enough?


wil.
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Read my lips, no new taxes. Congrats on the lack of a poll.

 

[GreenDoberman]

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Fuck the balloons



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Doesn't mean I'll stop posting, just that I'll be posting completely to myself.
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[Wynn]

4) When American Idol season comes, serious consideration will be given to other options for the popular discussion thread.

OK, mods it's time to take his demand seriously.

 

[TTinCO]

:cryingcry

 

[royboy_3831]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Illini]

This is the first time I've ever booed GD.

Boo.

 

[GreenDoberman]

I can still read some of your posts as sanctions and the tedious process of placing everyone on ignore will take a while, at least I have the free time.

There are times when a man needs to stand up for his beliefs and be heard whether it is the popular opinion or the party line. That is what this country is founded on and if "one man standing" can make a change or if he falls to the wayside, so be it.

I am not naive or smart enough to think that I am right all the time, but a wise man told me once, "find something you believe in and stand up for it".

The fact that a simple request was completely ignored is endemic of the arrogance pervasive at this time.

 

[viking611]

I am signing off, not coming back til a vote is done. I'm with GD. These balloons suck and a vote is needed. What a better week than election week. Already screwed up one election, let's try to get this one right!:drink:

 

[Woody0]

What are balloons?

 

[teazeman]

simply out of respect i support greendoberman on this issue, but i too would at least like to know what the baloons we are referring to are.

 

[Illini]

simply out of respect i support greendoberman on this issue, but i too would at least like to know what the baloons we are referring to are.

He doesn't like how you can scroll over a thread and read the first post without opening it. I have no idea why he doesn't like this feature. It is great.

 

[tatehill2000]

you know this is Pathetic, not on GDs part,,,, but the fact that someone that knows more about computers than GD (thats you TT) doesnt tell him how to fkn block them???

lol,,, Im sad

(Im not meaning to put this on you bro, but I know your solid with your computer knowledge?? but why cant he AMP up his security??_)

I dotn see anything, my blockers are all in plcae??

tater

 

[Boxslayer]

I love post preview.

 

[REDEYE]

You have to much time on your hands man :think2:

 

[goodcall]

keep the balloons!


but find a way to keep GD too

 

[Cusipz]

Hmm, through all these posts until now, I thought he was talking about:

arty:

But, now that I see it's the scroll-over display, I'm with GD 100% - it's annoying as hell, a totally unexpected disturbance of browsing the subjects on a main forum, for those of us who have been reading for a while.

Let's at least put up the damn poll.

 

[wilheim]

Fwiw

I have been off duty for the last two days but had planned to post the ballon poll as soon as I find out if we can disable them. There is no sense having a poll if I cannot accomplish the result of it. I simply do not know if we can disable the function without going back to the old version of the software.

Personallly, I think the entire issue in a tempest in a teapot but heaven forbid Green Doberman is unhappy about a new feature that appeared on the site when we upgraded the VBulletin Software to it's latest version.

There is simply no way to please all of the people all of the time. Regardless how hard you try.


Wilheim

 

[Mr.Smith]

I made a not unreasonable request to look into the removal of the balloons, e.g. post preview, and was met with considerable agreement by the posting community.
Promises were made and not kept by management.
Yesterday, I set a deadline of 4pm for some action to take place regarding this matter.
Since that deadline has come and passed with silence, the good folks at Green Doberman Enterprises are left with no choice but to impose the following sanctions on the Rx:

1) All posters and moderators will be put on ignore. You may still read and respond to posts, but I will not be able to acknowledge your input.

2) I will confine my posting activity to one single thread in the rubber room. Essentially I will be conversing with myself, but I suspect for the majority of the time that will only increase the intelligence of the thread as well as raise the quality.

3) The one exception to this will be the BCS Breakdown thread which will continue to its conclusion.

4) When American Idol season comes, serious consideration will be given to other options for the popular discussion thread.

5) Unless dialogue is met to lead me to believe the balloon problem is taken seriously or at least given a democratic chance, these sanctions will continue indefinitely and/or increased.

I apologize to those remaining quality posters who I enjoy interacting with that will suffer the consequences or these actions. However, nothing great was ever accomplished without some suffering. Pain is a vital part of progress and the powers-that-be have left me no choice. Otherwise, I will be just as guilty of apathy as those that have put me in this position.

The process of modifying these posting standards will take a brief period but I suspect by the weekend all sanctions will be put in place.

Thank you for your consideration.

Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe
Attorneys-at-Law Representing Green Doberman Enterprises.

I can take over the American idol situation, although my record after Carrie Underwood has been spotty at best.

As far as threatening I'm not going to post anymore rants go around here, you gotta give this credit, its well written.

 

[GreenDoberman]

Never said I wasn't going to post anymore. Reread, I would just post in a different manner. If I wasn't going to post anymore, I simply wouldn't.

Please join the PABST alliance and vote NO on prop balloon, Mr. Smith. Your Idol bankroll will thank you later.


PABST- Posters Against Balloon Stupid Things