Ironbear opened this issue on Jan 17, 2003 ยท 256 posts
Jack D. Kammerer posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 10:57 PM
Tim, I can understand and appreciate the situation that you've found yourself in the last year. Truth be told, I think it has been hard on everyone in this Community, myself included, but still we trudge on and try to make the best of our situations as possible. The biggest problem that I see occuring now, is that your actions are going to be under a microscope and hopefully, your prepared with the fact that you will have to earn a measure of trust earned from a lot of the Community. For too long now, things have been ignored or left untended to, or plea's unheard or unresponded too. Many people know your the man behind the show, but you're rarely seen or heard from. This Community is used to seeing the operators of the Community sites that they visit being in the trenches with them... and ever since I've left my post here... you've not been around. All of us, myself included, make mistakes while operating these sites and as the owners and operators of our sites it is our job to take the flak, to wear the targets for the Community to pitch their bitch at. That's the role you assumed for yourself when you took over operations here, and no offense, it is long past time that you fill that role. You are the end of the line, the last word, you have the final decision... don't make your admins and moderators the ones to answer to your choices. Right or wrong, you are accountable... not them. Understand, I am not saying this out of animosity, I am saying this because this site needs a leader. It needs someone to make a final judgement call. It needs someone who has a clear direction, a mission and goal in mind and the balls to get into the trenches to make it happen or someone who can take the flak when shit goes sour. We need to get away from seeing the moderators rules and statements conflicting with each other publicly because they are without solid guidance. In short, you may be the biggest site right now by way of traffic and numbers... but your also the site with the most misdirection and faulty operation. You want this to be a successful business, sir, then start treating it like one and give it the attention it requires to be so. Truthfully, Jack