Some things I need to address

[Enfuego]

What are you missing or not reading???

You won’t answer a very simple question.

If guys started complaining about this situation on the 19th of January in the contest forum, how did you not know about the situation until 2-3 days ago? You’re a moderator here.

 

[Enfuego]

It wasn't his job to monitor that situation in the first place. He wasn't moderating those contests. I doubt every moderator monitors every single situation here.

What the fuck is the job of the moderator then? A moderator doesn’t skim all the forums each shift?

 

[HotshotGambler]

If he had a heart attack, he would have said something or had someone in his defense trust me.

Look at all this emotion, within the forum not good seems to me he is hiding out hopeing to hustle up the cash. IMO

 

[skins85]

What the fuck is the job of the moderator then? A moderator doesn’t skim all the forums each shift?

well in truth thats what we had greenbacks for

 

[PatsFan1283]

We appreciate your stance and agree that this was not a situation handled well by anyone. For some background, prior to the contests taking place, these contests were moved to the community sub-forum (prompting backlash) where it was made clear the contests are for the poster community and not endorsed by The RX. What our response today was about is that it is troubling an individual with forum moderator rights has not answered any questions from members waiting for well over a month to receive their winnings, even when there is time to sign in and post on other topics. We expect better from any forum moderator and can do better.

We do accept that it was probably a poor idea to allow the contests to take place for this very reason, as any contest where funds are held particularly by an individual and not a company or a group of individuals is not scalable, but as the contests had run for many years without incident we didn't want to take away from the user experience from longstanding members.



BAS is still free to post and signed in as recently as Wednesday. Moderator status is not what's important right now, before he returns to the saddle we need some idea of when the winners are getting paid and what steps we can take to avoid this from happening in the future.

Good post RX Forum. I know it wasn't until page 15 which will rub many the wrong way but honestly, when I read this it was just very, very refreshing to hear someone around here be able to say "Yeah, we made a mistake and lagged with communication. We'll do better next time." Thanks for admitting you guys handled the situation horribly wrong by waiting 15 days as well as the fact 1 of your employees handled it wrong.

BAS logged in, he thought his little blood war w/ Greenbacks was worth posting about rather than posters being owed 34k. That's bizarre, he was wrong, life goes on.

There are a few rogue types in this thread saying crazy stuff (most of them with < 500 posts) but many of the normal posters are just trying to say what I said above and that most of this situation could've been avoided.

 

[Avocado33]

What the fuck is the job of the moderator then? A moderator doesn’t skim all the forums each shift?

In a company, do you think every manager monitors every situation? No, that's why you have decentralized leadership. It's not every single manager's responsibility to look over every situation all the time. That would be a horrible management strategy

 

[4nic8ing]

For some background, prior to the contests taking place, these contests were moved to the community sub-forum (prompting backlash) where it was made clear the contests are for the poster community and not endorsed by The RX.

Fair enough, thank you for the clarification. I did look at the Contest sub forum and noticed the only warnings of any kind though are about financial transactions between posters. There really should be something up letting everyone know that the contests are not endorsed by the site and everyone is on their own. Of course if this ends badly this time I am not sure anyone will want to play in a contest anyway going forward.

 

[Enfuego]

In a company, do you think every manager monitors every situation? No, that's why you have decentralized leadership. It's not every single manager's responsibility to look over every situation all the time. That would be a horrible management strategy

The RX isn’t a company guy. There’s only a few paid employees. Terrible analogy.

 

[Enfuego]

well in truth thats what we had greenbacks for

Haha

 

[PatsFan1283]

Captain Lee in the contest forum says he told Hache about it on Feb 3rd and Hache just said he thinks he'll be back in a week.

That wasn't 2-3 days ago. More like 2 weeks.

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=1117761&page=9

Post #220

 

[HotshotGambler]

If the RXForum pays BAS in some fashion and can’t get a hold of him or his emergency contact, he needs to be canned. Fuck being nice I’m pissed now this is a daily thing that shouldn’t even be happening.

 

[Avocado33]

The RX isn’t a company guy. There’s only a few paid employees. Terrible analogy.

It's a fair analogy. Why would every moderator look over every situation? That's inefficient and illogical as hell.

The RX could've handled this better as whole, and hopefully they will change their methods of handling these situations down the road, but to start throwing shit at a moderator that did nothing wrong is flat out ridiculous.

 

[Defying]

Good post RX Forum.

Surprise you think this is a good post...

They throw BAS under the bus... distance themselves pretending they are absolved of all responsibilities... SBR should be held accountable for the monies owed to winners.

 

[slapshot]

Wow BAS, signed in as recently as Wednesday I’m fucking doneeeeeee thought he was hampered by that pesky heart attack and stroke.

That’s odd cause you would think he wouldn’t have stay logged in set up on his laptop or anyone know his password

Not with the access someone would have if they got onto it

 

[bigbet1234]

What are you missing or not reading???

He likes to argue Hache, remember? Lol

 

[Enfuego]

It's a fair analogy. Why would every moderator look over every situation? That's inefficient and illogical as hell.

The RX could've handled this better as whole, and hopefully they will change their methods of handling these situations down the road, but to start throwing shit at a moderator that did nothing wrong is flat out ridiculous.

Because it’s their job. They’re hired to moderate the forum.

 

[PatsFan1283]

I just meant the part about handling the situation wrong, which was the main critique from many posters in this thread and was getting pushbac for some odd reason.

As as far as SNR being responsible, I wouldn’t expect that to happen but don’t think it comes to that.

 

[Enfuego]

Surprise you think this is a good post...

They throw BAS under the bus... distance themselves pretending they are absolved of all responsibilities... SBR should be held accountable for the monies owed to winners.

Agree 100%.

 

[HacheMan]

He likes to argue Hache, remember? Lol

How could any of us forget

 

[Enfuego]

How could any of us forget

15 pages. 15 pages and I didn’t say a word about this situation. The moment I offer one opinion, I’m arguing?

You just said you only found out about this situation 2-3 days ago. We now know that’s a lie because Capt. Lee posted he told you about it on Feb. 3. Stop pointing fingers and own up to another debacle the RX has caused. And stop lying.