05-30-2015, 10:13 AM
(05-29-2015, 01:04 PM)Wyche Wrote: So....just popped in to that "other place", and noticed that they pulled all of our avatars and sigs. I think that might have pissed me off the most. I don't really know why it bothered me more than anything about the situation....... it just did.....oh well, lots of time invested over there, but I am very thankful for the work that Bengalholic and WhoDeyWho did over here. Over the years, I have really come to enjoy this dysfunctional family we have became....even you Stooler putzes.....
Anyway.....anyone got any "big finales" planned for the last day at our old "home"?
Yeah, that would have pissed me off too, and hearing it second hand pisses me off. And what possible use could that have had? I mean, shutting down a website or part of it isn't like tearing down a building is it? It isn't like you have to remove the fixtures and other things you are going to salvage, is it? Just when you think a bad decision by a clueless manager can't get worse, it does: "I've alienated a huge segment of my customer base. Let me see if I can't find a few more ways to make sure they are completely alienated..." seems to be the thought process. Amazing.
So I typed that bit above and I kept thinking, about salvaging and archiving and could that be someone's purpose in stripping the avatars and sigs? But what would they do with them? Then I thought, wow, maybe one of the moderators over there is thinking. Maybe when the genius plan to migrate everyone to Facebook and Twitter blows up in failure and traffic to the Bengals website trickles to a crawl, this moderator thinks, he will be asked to relaunch the board. He could contact everyone by email and quickly resurrect profiles and have a big welcome home party. And how sweet of him to think that, if that is the case. But there is one problem, hypothetical moderator holding out hope for this. The management doesn't want us, so even if they figure out what a bad business decision this was, I suspect most of us will just stay here.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
