CAUTION – think before you post!

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I have been informed that someone on this forum has badmouthed me to one of the suppliers often mentioned hereabouts. This has resulted in an accusatory and unpleasant email from said supplier.

This sort of mischievous tittle tattle has made me wary about posting further on this forum and for that reason I intend this post to be my last. Go cautiously my friends, like me, you to are probably being monitored and may be vulnerable to the gossip of an idle tongue.

Rik

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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600 posts.!

Well at least you are leaving on a nice round number.

Nick

[Raymond AndersonParticipant @raymondanderson34407]

Hi Rik, I certainly would not let that bother me in the slightest You shouldnt leave because some balloon has got

nothing better to do. if it wasn't you that was being bad mouthed you can be sure as hell it woulld, and

{probably is} some other{s} The curtain twitchers are irrelevant, forget them.

[Steve WithnellParticipant @stevewithnell34426]

Fact is anything you have posted is stored on the site and can be retrieved "My Posts"- so "tittle tattle" gets killed stone dead as soon as you retrieve the post. If what you posted was fair and reasonable, tell the supplier to suck it up. If what you posted was damaging to their reputation, then watch out.

Also bear in mind that suppliers are also present on the site even if they only read posts rather than contribute.

Better you stay and contribute than leave – if you leave the other guy won.

Steve

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

If looked at logically for all sorts of reasons it's not a good idea to use one's full real name on the web. Lots do and don't suffer in any way at all but some do. Rather badly in a few cases.

John

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[Ady1Participant @ady1]

If anyone sent me a threatening email I would post it up in here in all its glory with no edits for the entire world to see forever and ever

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

If posts are made in haste, and a poster would like something edited out or removed, then just let me know.

Anyone who thinks it's amusing to wind up or make life difficult for forum members, should think again.

Neil

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

…” there’s no decorum in the forum”….
F. Howard

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

…” there’s no decorum in the forum”….
F. Howard

( again odd behaviour from this forum s/w)
Well it was a chorus so maybe…

Edited By jason udall on 18/07/2015 09:51:23

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Just to recap

A third party has “told tales” to a supplier.
Said supplier has been in direct contact with you.

Now whats the issue the supplier has?
Did you “diss” them ?
Did you make a later regrettable comment on goods or services?
Did you make comment you are willing to stand by?

My point is this ( forum content) is not nor should it be considered ” in private or off the record”. So as the op says…think before you click.. ( good advice at all times).

[JAParticipant @ja]

Writing something in anger etc at the spur of the moment can be a great release of ones feelings. If you feel you have to write it in a WORD document, store it and sleep on it. When you awake, calmed, read it and then decide whether you want to post it. If so it just a matter of copying and pasting.

JA

Edited By JA on 18/07/2015 10:16:34

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

Posted by Ady1 on 18/07/2015 09:36:49:

If anyone sent me a threatening email I would post it up in here in all its glory with no edits for the entire world to see forever and ever

That sounds like an extremely good idea to me. It's a little like having a supply problem and getting no where, posting on some forum and all of a sudden it gets fixed.

There is another aspect to this area. I was posting in another forum and the thread was locked by a mod. I emailed him pointing out why the quoted reason for locking it was invalid. Probably wont get a response. The most likely reason for their action was when I used telescope mounts as a comparison to buying hobby lathes pointing out that lathes were not so bad. I mentioned an EQ1 mount. The world would be a better place if it and some of the others just were not sold as far as astronomy goes. Just about every body who would read the thread has been there and is well aware of that but suppliers wouldn't be very happy about it getting around.

Just used as an example that shouldn't cause any upset round here. My feeling is that when such things are true they should remain up what ever suppliers think but people have to remember that in this forums area they have a tough job. Selling cheap, keeping people happy and running their big BMW and some do at least try.

John

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[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire

[alan smith 6Participant @alansmith6]

Jason,

It`s not a satisfactory post to quote the opinions of dead people, what is your opinion!

Alan

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by alan smith 6 on 18/07/2015 10:19:59:

Andy

I like your sentiments but do you think that this covert Email by a supplier would be allowed to grace the pages of the Forum. Think again, there are unknown political undercurrents at large here.

Any magazine that relies on advertising from suppliers cannot be impartial when Forum posts upset their advertisers.

I love the ME forum but the lack of impartiality is a negative aspect that is deplorable!

Alan

Alan,

Once again you make unsubstantiated comments and rely on other's imagination to fill in the gaps.

Please give some examples of this lack of impartiality.

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 18/07/2015 12:34:35

[LambtonParticipant @lambton]

Rik,

Please don't stop contributing to the forum.

The vast majority of contributors are decent, honest and helpful to others. But just as in everyday life there are a few strange and bigoted people at large. Please don't give up or they will have won.

[VicParticipant @vic]

Hhm, not sure what to think here, or to say which is not like me!

First off folks leave forums all the time for many reasons and many quite frankly aren't much of a loss when they do go. Sadly this doesn't seem to be the case with Rik so I for one would much rather he didn't leave but I do respect whatever he decides.

I'm intrigued to know which supplier made these threats and the reasons for their actions but I'm not about to trawl through 600 posts to try and find out! If anyone else does you can send me a PM if you like!

It's sad when things get nasty but it happens a lot on Internet forums and sadly you just have to ignore some folks or walk away. I don't go on many forums with US moderators/membership any more because of their poor attitude. With a few exceptions most of you blokes on here have pretty good manners!

[Involute CurveParticipant @involutecurve]

If any supplier sent me an email accusing me of something I didn't do! I would turn up at his door and have it out with him face to face, I care little if its the other end of the country, its a ride out, and at the most a couple of pages on my large scale map book…….

Shaun

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Involute Curve on 18/07/2015 13:48:42:

I care little if its the other end of the country, its a ride out, and at the most a couple of pages on my large scale map book…….

Shaun

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Man after my own heart.

Shaun, if you get a larger scale map book it's only a page. My girlfriend lives 110miles away from me, one way but it's only 3" on the map.

Makes it far easier to belt up there twice a week if it's only that small a distance.

Takes 1 hour 50 minutes in the car but only 1 hour 45 minutes in the van as the brakes aren't as good.

[VicParticipant @vic]

Remind me not to mess with you two John …

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Posted by alan smith 6 on 18/07/2015 10:49:39:

Jason,

It`s not a satisfactory post to quote the opinions of dead people, what is your opinion!

Alan

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Mmm

1 ..Sorry I didn't know you were the arbiter of "satisfactory" or otherwise on posts.

2. Quoting dead people is widely accepted.

3. It is generally accepted that quoting someone living or dead is a way of ( hopefully) articulating a point better than one might in ones own words.

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