anyhorizon wrote:If you'd have refrained from answering the silly dude every time he uttered his silliness, he couldn't have kept coming back with more venom
Sorry, I just can't do that. I tried ignoring him many times, but he just kept disagreeing with my posts and insulting me. I don't like to be insulted in public, and I don't like be offer up good information only to have someone come out of the blue and say that I'm wrong, when it's he who's wrong. He does the same thing on other forums, to me, and to others. Someone from the PreSonus forum told me the name for the mental illness that describes that condition. Apparently it's recognized by the shrink trade.
The Mackie forum policy states that the moderators won't get involved unless it's to clear up incorrect information being presented in the forum. But I've never seen them do that. Where were they when we had a disagreement? One of us must have been right and the other must have been wrong. But the issues of correctness may have been obscured because when I gave a clear explanation of why what he said was incorrect, he just spouted off about something unrelated. It's really frustrating, but it was kind of fun, too, to see what he'd come up with next.
He reported you and I imagine it must have been a fairly lengthy tirade including that he was attempting to have you banned.
Do you really believe that he "reported" me? And if he did, do you think Mackie would actually believe it? Every time I talk to one of the Mackie folks, they always thank me kindly for all of the help I've been on the forum. Surely they wouldn't ban me based on one complaint. On the other hand, maybe he wrote a letter to the board of directors, or called the CEO. Those are all new people, I don't know any of them, and they don't know me. Maybe Rodney (CEO) said "Hey, that forum has been a burden for too long. Close it down and we won't get any more complaints" and nobody talked him out of it. I don't know. And frankly, at this point, I don't care. I was tired of all the bickering, but unfortunately it's not in my nature to just ignore the jabs.
BTW, if you have access to Tom, why don't you call him and set the record straight?
I suppose I could try to hunt him up, but I doubt that closing the forum was the work of a single person. It didn't sound like his "etiquette" post was saying goodbye. He indicated that he was interested in the outcome of my experiment. And I think it was a good idea to delete the irrelevant posts (though if I was moderator, I would have edited them, leaving in the relevant parts, rather than deleting them entirely).
I don't think that closing down the forum was a spur-of-the moment decision. Woody told me two years ago that they were planning to shut down the forum soon, and what better time to do it than a holiday weekend? The d8b and HDR are both discontinued products. They don't have any more parts for them. The current batch of support techs have no experience with them. I hear that they're in pretty bad money troubles, and they may be looking to cut corners wherever they can. Maybe they were able to let someone go because there are now two fewer forums to "monitor."
It could have just been time. But it would have been nicer if a message were delivered with it. And if there's fear that my presence here will jeopardize this forum's existence, just say the word and I'm gone. I can't be insulted if I'm not here.