Hi the hare,
Please go ahead and post of all the things t2w does well. I certainly wouldn't consider it boasting, I would find it educational, and it would help me understand your perspective a little better. Post em, and I promise I wont comment or criticize.
I have to say that I'm surprised that you appear to be having such difficulty in finding things about T2W that are praiseworthy. Here are three examples I would have thought you would have mentioned:
1. Your own posts (and those of your previous incarnation, zupcon). Are none of those of any value? What about the posts alerting members to the scams - are they worthless too?
2. What about all of
SOCRATES posts - do they hold no merit, interest or value for members in your opinion?
3. What about the help and advice you received from a fellow long standing and highly respected T2W member in your early days? At the very least, surely T2W deserves credit for bringing the two of you together?
Those are just 3 examples off the top of my head - I'm sure you can think of many more if you wanted to. As you've already commented in your reply to Jon - you'll no doubt be keen to point out to me that these are old highs. But, be fair, even you don't expect new highs on a thread less than a day old surely?! Anyway, rest assured, there's a biggy coming very soon when Sharky makes his announcement - so you won't have long to wait!
In your post on the "A New Low ?" thread, just before you went off into your "I have a dream" spiel, you made a comment that I've edited slightly to make it a little more readable
"I believe the bulk of the membership want T2W to pull through the current malaise that it's in. I'm confident it will do just that because changes are afoot as Sharky has indicated in his post on the other thread."
That to me indicates that you believe there are problems, that the site is in a "malaise" and that changes are required. When I or any other member makes exactly those same points we are ridiculed and demonized. It sounds to me rather like you are not currently making new highs, but that you are anticipating highs after the changes that Mr Sharky is about to announce. When it comes, your next challenge will be to resist the temptation to put a negative spin on it!
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I might have missed the announcement, and I might have missed the new highs cos I've been out this AM, but clearly no one else saw them, or if they did they didn't post em.
As Jon has rightly said, it's a question of balance. You, s-n-d and others love to polarize things and make out that the site and its staff are evil and corrupt etc. That's not helpful to either of us. In the eyes of the bulk of 'moderate' members with a sense of balance - I seriously doubt that any of them recognize the extreme picture you like to paint about us. If you adopted a more reasonable tone, I'm sure more moderate members would take what you say seriously. It's ironic that some members may well disregard some of the good points and posts that you and other detractors make for this same reason.
Yeah, of course I admit that T2W is in a malaise right now and has been for a while. Everyone is aware of it, but there is a big difference between constructive criticism and the extreme polarization and confrontational stance that you and a few others like to engage in. I have never objected to constructive criticism about where we go wrong and what we need to do to address problems. Indeed, I make a point of welcoming it. Similarly, I readily admit that we make mistakes. I make mistakes, I screw up from time to time, I admit that. However, making mistakes is a different kettle of fish from knowingly and deliberately doing anything that will cause problems or financial loss etc. I have never done this and never will. It's about intent and my intent and that of my colleagues is to make the site the best it can be for the benefit of its members.
Tim.
