great imagination Dave and it would have to be in Mongo's case because he virally does not turps at all. Just as well, he is after all, a handful as he is.
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Mongo knows it sounds strange Dylan, but Mongo could not put it down to anything else. Mongo gave him an opportunity to explain his actions but he failed to do so.
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Mongo says thank you Graeme and says its all mutual.
What a bunch of ninnies, and as other's have said, it is their loss! I love the third person speak of Mongo, as we know that Mongo is a fictional, hairy, bird and animal eating culinary expert and your wordcraft in the third person that makes for very entertaining reading.
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I have to admit that it took me a while to get used to this site in a navigation sense and I disappeared for a good while but I have never found the administration a problem.
As a moderator on another site I can appreciate the careful monitoring of a newbie but not the rude response.....john
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Mongo should re-join that forum and speak instead in the FOURTH person. Lettem try to fix THAT!
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I deliberately put myself in a situation to get myself band from a forum because I had had enough of the being put down for my thoughts. They would start topics for members to comment on and I found that if my beliefs differed from the majority I would be ridiculed and in a nasty way..
**name removed per forum rules** You and your members Suck
Thanks Lance - Mongo hopes he continues to contribute, entertain and amuse .......he certainly loves trying to.
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Yes David, it seems so but Mongo thought he was the strangest of them all ....that is until a couple of days ago. someone else is now wearing that crown.........
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Interesting thread.
Sometimes AP is criticised for being too heavy handed in terms of rules and moderations, but that is exactly why AP is safe
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Sometimes we just shake our heads as well. When you join AP we send an automated PM to you, both welcoming you to the site and linking you to the Getting Started on Ausphotography guide.
Below is a reply to that PM. There were no other communications with this new member, just this...so I banned them straight away. Member name and email etc redacted.
Whilst this is not the case with Mongo's interaction with the moderators on another site, but from an Admin/Mod point of view, sometimes we just shake our heads..and ban people.
-----Original Message-----That was it, no other contact. Not sure whether they did not like my PM, our site rules, or what. But something obviously annoyed them.
From: AusPhotography:: Australia's Premier Photography Forum::
[mailto:rick@ausphotography.net.au]
From : *redacted*
Subject: New Personal Message at AusPhotography:: Australia's Premier Photography Forum::
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!
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Dear *redacted*,
You have received a new personal message at AusPhotography:: Australia's Premier Photography Forum:: from ricktas, entitled "Welcome: Getting started on Ausphotography (AP)".
To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/private.php
This is the message that was sent:
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Welcome to Ausphotography. I, the moderator team and the members are looking forward to seeing you on the forums
To help you get started I have included below a link to an Article on the site that gives you an overview of Ausphotography, and how to go about participating on the site.
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...etting_Started
_on_Ausphotography_AP
Once you start posting, most of the site will open up to you (including the photo forums), within 60 minutes of your first post.
I hope you enjoy the site as much as our existing members do. Welcome aboard Australia's Premier Photography Forum.
Regards,
Rick
Site Owner/Administrator
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From : *redacted*
[mailto:rick@ausphotography.net.au]
Subject: New Personal Message at AusPhotography:: Australia's Premier Photography Forum::
You are such a shallow and very weak spirited person. You are not worthy of operating any sites
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Here is another one. A member had created a thread then posted into the thread that he wanted the thread deleted. None of the moderators or I noticed his post, thus the thread stayed on the site for a few hours. I came home to an email demanding I remove the thread. When I went and looked, by that time, one of the moderators had actioned it and removed it.
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Ricki Kean <rick@ausphotography.net.au> wrote:
I came home this evening to your email requesting your thread be removed. I then viewed the thread and saw that the moderators had removed your thread. I apologise this was not done sooner, but we cannot always be online and do not get to view every thread. If you use the report post/thread icon in the thread, every moderator is sent an email advising them of this and whoever is online can action it in a more timely manner. However your last posts to the thread, venting your frustration at the lack of moderation are not appreciated. We actioned it as soon as we became aware of it.
Yes it took several hours to remove your thread, cause we did not see that you wanted it removed.
Below is the reply I received:
Hi Prick, never contact me again via email or elsewhere! Your a ####ing Rude Pathetic ####### ferret looking ####sucking Bastard, so Go and #### YOURSELF and your bitch #####!**************************************************************
#### you very much!
Ah the joys of running a website....hehe
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LOL those responses to moderation were ......interesting........someone having a bad day with a touch of coprolalia ?
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Some people don't get it that AP is run by a voluntary team (and the members for that matter) and is a free site.
AP (Rick) gives out prizes and awards; runs with significant costs (hosting and software licenses); and does this purely from great sponsorship and advertising.
A quick calculation tells me that prizes and awards etc. since Rick took over amount to nearly $10,000 and the running costs over that period were of a similar amount.
Some forums can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience and some just leave you shaking your head in utter disbelief as to how people wish to portray themselves.
Another hobby of mine is online car racing simulations which I have been doing for the last seven years.
There are numerous forums ranging from the company who makes a sim, sites dedicated to sim racing and then private leagues who have a site/forum which people can join and race in structured series thus providing good clean racing with a regular and known crew.
I have been involved in several Australian league sites over the years and was a moderator on one.
I was always proud of how 99% of the members acted and respected each other to an extent that moderation was not needed.
Just a bunch of fair dinkum Aussies wanting to enjoy their hobby, exchange a bit of good ol' Ausie 'don't take yourself too seriously' banter and remembering we aren't racing for sheep stations.
Then we go to the overseas forums and you'd think you've been dropped in a war zone.
Inability to accept other peoples opinions, racism, adults acting like 10 year old spoilt brats, teenagers who need a large dose of manners shoved down their throat, threats of violence whilst using in-game voice chat plus on the forums, deliberately provoking arguments ( even has it's own name, trolling ) I could go on and on and on.
A lot of the times it seems moderators don't want to do much as they have to keep the paying customers from leaving thus losing revenue.
At other times moderation is taken to extremes.
I heard of someone getting a forum ban for several months for posting a picture of a carrot. I didn't see the picture but how offensive can a carrot be?
So to sum up, I've found Australian forums to be the most polite and enjoyable ones around.
Yes, you'll come across the occasional bad apple, or should that be carrot, but that will always be the case.
Sites like Aus Photography can hold their head up high and be proud of it's members and the civilised manner in which they act whilst providing a popular and helpful service to enrich our hobby/passion/job.
Anyway that's my two cents worth, happy new year, it's time I got myself a coldie.
No, this post wasn't a coldie fuelled blurb, just an observation of the good and bad ways forums are used.
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Adro. My ears are still ringing from your endorsement of Aus Photography and Aus Phorums in general
I can agree with some of what you say. I am also on another forum, which, until recently, didn't "bother" to indicate who were the
moderators. No matter what anybody posted, it would soon descent into a vitriolic bath of tirade, insinuation... etc.
Well, now there are 3 or 4 mods with their roles indicated after their names. The discussions are now still robust, but lacking in the chaotic
diatribe of aforetimes.
(Actually, the general level of the pictures presented is not as high as on here, although they do range from really top ones. Oh, just musing.)
Am.
One of the most entertaining photography ones I love to read is a certain landscape forum. A lot of the MF brigade on there. Some superb 'togs and good cc and advice. But a cc thread can turn into 10 page debate about French food vs American food, rights and wrongs of vouyeristic street photography, or the meaning of life. and don't ever mention Mr Rockwell or the hasselblad lunar........
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Mongo has lived anything but a sheltered life and even his jobs can be pretty confronting at times. However, he felt a little naive when he read Rick's last post with very prime examples of what sometimes goes on and is said in the background. Hard to believe and head shaking stuff.
You must have had bad luck than. I am a member on several forums, some Australian, a couple US ones and several Dutch ones. Topics range from photography to cars to golf to hifi to work-related subjects. I have been a moderator at a couple and a juror with one of the largest Dutch photography forums. There are badly run forums out there, sure - but many others are just as welcoming, open-minded and controlled as this one. Just weed out the bad ones and continue on the great ones like ausphotography.
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Mongo's story reminds me of this scene from the West Wing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAB858elJOw
Even if you're not a West Wing fan you can get the picture of what's going on. The internet is a crazy place.
I'm a forum veteran despite my relatively young age (23) - I've been hanging out on online communities for nearly half my life. I've seen some horrendous stuff in some forums and been an active member of some very good ones, but I've never been in a forum that's as welcoming and as engaging as this one.
Poor, misunderstood and maligned Mongo.
The forum of which you speak used to have a great sense of humour, but a few years ago, it lost it, for some reason or another, which is why I also left it................
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