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simonfrewler

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So does anyone have an explanation for this strange happenstance?

How does a mild, unimaginative troll, become staff....and how do they expect people to be cool with it?

Just asking, generally curious?

Any thoughts?
 
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Doesn't look banned from tgp to me.

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Has been changed... nothing to see here.

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It was a simple error, that was corrected.

Carry on.

Sorry for the pointless thread.
 
Yeah, for those who don't know it's just default behaviour by the board software when someone's first assigned mod rights, which he's just received for his Manu sub-forum.

I alerted admin about this and it's been fixed. Nothing to see here. Literally.
 
Monkey Man said:
Yeah, for those who don't know it's just default behaviour by the board software when someone's first assigned mod rights, which he's just received for his Manu sub-forum.

I alerted admin about this and it's been fixed. Nothing to see here. Literally.
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You can delete this thread if you want. It serves no purpose.
 
Just throwing my few pennies in on this

I get the whole staff member thing is a default setting for a person that has a manufactures sub forum and it's been fixed.

The part that's off-putting to me is after rolling in for a couple of days with nothing but troll posts dude gets a sub forum. I know there's sort of an unwritten rule that if you have a business you can have your own sub. But at the same time it's under the RigTalk banner and in a way is representative of the main forum and staff/moderators. When some rando who is not a well known manufacturer (like Friedman for example) and no real previous RT history starts off trolling everyone then given a sub forum... It breaks the trust of staff members. Like okay, I guess they'll just any ole scammer start a sub and we all get ripped off.

Now, I'm not being accusatory towards the kid about the scamming part. I just feel if someone gets a manufactures sub forum and they're not a major producer, they should at least have to build a little forum cred and be in good standing first. Show that you are trustworthy and a good contributing member first. Starting with troll posts isn't the way to do that. At best it's a rocky start. It also looks bad on staff to hand a privilege over to someone starting out like that.

Think of it from this perspective; you have to get 50 legit posts and 2 step authentication just to post in the classifieds, but someone who started guns a blazing, trolling a giveaway thread is handed the privilege of a manufactures sub forum. That doesn't sit overly well.

Remember it takes a long time to build a person's trust in you, but only a moment to break it.
 
MadAsAHatter said:
Just throwing my few pennies in on this

I get the whole staff member thing is a default setting for a person that has a manufactures sub forum and it's been fixed.

The part that's off-putting to me is after rolling in for a couple of days with nothing but troll posts dude gets a sub forum. I know there's sort of an unwritten rule that if you have a business you can have your own sub. But at the same time it's under the RigTalk banner and in a way is representative of the main forum and staff/moderators. When some rando who is not a well known manufacturer (like Friedman for example) and no real previous RT history starts off trolling everyone then given a sub forum... It breaks the trust of staff members. Like okay, I guess they'll just any ole scammer start a sub and we all get ripped off.

Now, I'm not being accusatory towards the kid about the scamming part. I just feel if someone gets a manufactures sub forum and they're not a major producer, they should at least have to build a little forum cred and be in good standing first. Show that you are trustworthy and a good contributing member first. Starting with troll posts isn't the way to do that. At best it's a rocky start. It also looks bad on staff to hand a privilege over to someone starting out like that.

Think of it from this perspective; you have to get 50 legit posts and 2 step authentication just to post in the classifieds, but someone who started guns a blazing, trolling a giveaway thread is handed the privilege of a manufactures sub forum. That doesn't sit overly well.

Remember it takes a long time to build a person's trust in you, but only a moment to break it.
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MadAsAHatter said:
Just throwing my few pennies in on this

I get the whole staff member thing is a default setting for a person that has a manufactures sub forum and it's been fixed.

The part that's off-putting to me is after rolling in for a couple of days with nothing but troll posts dude gets a sub forum. I know there's sort of an unwritten rule that if you have a business you can have your own sub. But at the same time it's under the RigTalk banner and in a way is representative of the main forum and staff/moderators. When some rando who is not a well known manufacturer (like Friedman for example) and no real previous RT history starts off trolling everyone then given a sub forum... It breaks the trust of staff members. Like okay, I guess they'll just any ole scammer start a sub and we all get ripped off.

Now, I'm not being accusatory towards the kid about the scamming part. I just feel if someone gets a manufactures sub forum and they're not a major producer, they should at least have to build a little forum cred and be in good standing first. Show that you are trustworthy and a good contributing member first. Starting with troll posts isn't the way to do that. At best it's a rocky start. It also looks bad on staff to hand a privilege over to someone starting out like that.

Think of it from this perspective; you have to get 50 legit posts and 2 step authentication just to post in the classifieds, but someone who started guns a blazing, trolling a giveaway thread is handed the privilege of a manufactures sub forum. That doesn't sit overly well.

Remember it takes a long time to build a person's trust in you, but only a moment to break it.
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Agree ☝️
 
War_in_D said:
All I'm gonna say about this whole debacle is, a wise man once told me that if you're going to shoot yourself in the foot, make sure your foot's not in your mouth when you do it.
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Wait. Are we still doing the giveaway???
 
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