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I have been unable to access the aos forum for 2 days...anyone else able to
get it? Tennis |
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I just tried and got a blank page.
"tennis" wrote in message ... I have been unable to access the aos forum for 2 days...anyone else able to get it? Tennis |
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Tennis,
I bet they are installing their new forum software - I saw Andy Easton posting about it over the last few weeks, and I've heard from people at the Society meeting in SF that every post will have to be approved by a moderator before it's made public. I've given up on the AOS forum and I am probably not going to renew my AOS membership. And if I am ever introduced to Andy Easton I am going to simply excuse myself and walk away. His unprofessionalism on the AOS forum the last few weeks has been beyond appalling. -Eric in SF "tennis" wrote in message ... I have been unable to access the aos forum for 2 days...anyone else able to get it? |
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Could you elaborate? What did he do?
"Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Tennis, I bet they are installing their new forum software - I saw Andy Easton posting about it over the last few weeks, and I've heard from people at the Society meeting in SF that every post will have to be approved by a moderator before it's made public. I've given up on the AOS forum and I am probably not going to renew my AOS membership. And if I am ever introduced to Andy Easton I am going to simply excuse myself and walk away. His unprofessionalism on the AOS forum the last few weeks has been beyond appalling. -Eric in SF "tennis" wrote in message ... I have been unable to access the aos forum for 2 days...anyone else able to get it? |
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Jerry,
Fully participating in vicious childish personal attacks on the forum while posting as a staff member of the AOS. Yes, they were in response to others doing the same, but a professional would have simply not taken the flame bait. -Eric in SF "Jerry Hoffmeister" wrote in message s.com... Could you elaborate? What did he do? |
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In all honesty I see that forum as Cliquey and pretentious.
I don't go there much at all, they have nothing to offer me. "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Jerry, Fully participating in vicious childish personal attacks on the forum while posting as a staff member of the AOS. Yes, they were in response to others doing the same, but a professional would have simply not taken the flame bait. -Eric in SF "Jerry Hoffmeister" wrote in message s.com... Could you elaborate? What did he do? |
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tennis wrote in message ...
I have been unable to access the aos forum for 2 days...anyone else able to get it? Tennis I didn't have any trouble with it yesterday or the day before. I have had problems in the post when no one else seemed to -- I suspect it's a problem with the networks, not the forum itself. |
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It goes even farther than that. Some of the advice he gave in the magazine's
Q&A column advised building against code, and made light of a certain state's politics (It may have been California, but I can't recall right now) both out of the range for a Q&A column. While Andy might be a great raconteur, unfortunately it doesn't carry over into print. Eric has alluded to his unprofessional responses on the AOS Forum. Some of which, IMHO, were down right mean. I like Andy Easton. He has been very nice to me. He has helped me of his own volition without my asking for it. Therefore the meanness of some of his posts on the Forum I take to be out of character, since my personal experience with the man has been otherwise. I can only assume that working for the AOS was more stressful that he imagined when he took on the job. I may be wrong, but that's how I'm choosing to rectify the dichotomy between my personal experience with the guy and his actions (or people's interpretations of his actions). That said, I too have stopped posting on the Forum. I find it cliquish. Which could be an amazing comment coming from me, because OrchidSafari has been labeled cliquish to the extreme. That's why I persisted in posting to the Forum, because I knew OrchidSafari wasn't really cliquish, we'd talk to anyone, so I assumed the same misperception applied to the Forum. Not so. I got sick of posting to the Forum only to have members of the clique say the same thing I just had, yet they got acknowledged while my post went unread, for all I knew. I don't know about you guys, but it takes me a long time to write a post. I read and re-read it several times to be sure it says what I really want it to, then after that I read it again. It probably it takes me 30-45 minutes to write what seemingly is a simple post. So why work so hard just to be ignored? So I left. Not that anyone noticed, LOL!! But my orchids have been watered and fed every week now that I'm no longer wasting time writing for the Forum, and I've won 2 AOS awards. And I've lost 31.2 pounds since I stopped hanging out on the computer in general. So there. A note about OrchidSafari, for those of you who've tried it and gave up. Please come back, because I'm sick of talking to the same old people. *G* To my everlasting chagrin 95% of the talk on OS isn't about orchids. But hey. I don't moderate the talk. We just have a Credo - a code of civility - and if people want to talk about their grandkids, then there you are.... HOWEVER! I take the attitude that you get the chat room you make, and if you don't like the subject stop lurking and change it back to orchids. But do it nicely please, we *do* have a Credo to uphold. *G*. That said I think our classes are still one of the best orchid features on the web (held the second Wednesday of the month, and please don't interupt the speaker!!). One of these days I'll get control of the domain name, and then I'll be able to move the archives all to one place, instead of having so many scattered archives. Lastly, rgo remains the best place on the web for orchid information, IMHO. The tenor of conversation can be at any level here, and it can get pretty complex, which I like. Plus no one has even tried to set themselves up as newsgroup king because they'll get ripped a new asshole if they do (*G*). It like the wild west. Well, I seem to have blathered on long enough. So I'll shut up now. K Barrett "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Jerry, Fully participating in vicious childish personal attacks on the forum while posting as a staff member of the AOS. Yes, they were in response to others doing the same, but a professional would have simply not taken the flame bait. -Eric in SF "Jerry Hoffmeister" wrote in message s.com... Could you elaborate? What did he do? |
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I've read the AOS postings for the past couple of months. Some of the stuff
that goes on there is childish and just plain stupid. It's a shame that adults can't rise above the comments that are made there. I also find the format there difficult to read. You have to scroll through so many postings to find a topic that interest you. All in all, I agree with KB that RGO is the place to hang out. Although we do have a few tense posts now and then, overall this is a great group and meets all of my needs. OK.....GROUP HUG! Good Growing, Gene |
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Okay, now it's time for the death ray...
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message thlink.net... OK.....GROUP HUG! |
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Some of the advice he gave in the magazine's Q&A column advised building
against code I saw that. Whew. What one might say quietly and privately was thrown out for all to ponder, including any building inspectors who might have read it. About the AOS forum, I made an attempt to get involved a couple of years ago, found it non-inclusive, political and a pain to navigate. Here, newbies are welcomed with open arms. So here I am, and here I stay. Diana |
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Prefer the group hug to the death ray!
Diana "Al" wrote in message ... Okay, now it's time for the death ray... "Gene Schurg" wrote in message thlink.net... OK.....GROUP HUG! |
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LOL! Warn people before you do that! Half my beverage came out my nose!
(Water, not Pacifico, alas!) K Barrett "Al" wrote in message ... Okay, now it's time for the death ray... "Gene Schurg" wrote in message thlink.net... OK.....GROUP HUG! |
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Did someone call me?
-- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message thlink.net... Prefer the group hug to the death ray! Diana "Al" wrote in message ... Okay, now it's time for the death ray... "Gene Schurg" wrote in message thlink.net... OK.....GROUP HUG! |
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got sick of posting to the Forum only to have members of the clique say the same thing I just had, yet they got acknowledged while my post went unread, for all I knew. I Have never posted to the AOS Forum but have noticed this happening to me sometimes on RGO or ABPO |
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