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[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Reflecting over this current topic it ocurred to me that MEW is the only one out of several publications I have read and subscribed to over many years where the editor has such a 'hands on' approach. Maybe there are other magazines with forums that have editor involvement but I know of non. My lifelong impression was that 'The Editor' had overall control over what appeared on paper but was primarily a head figure and did not soil his hands dealing with the hoi polloy, certainly the editor would never have dealt with subscription and similar problems.

Whatever you say about DC, he does muck in, often offering answers to the normal engineering questions on the forum as well having to deal with many subscriber administrative matters

I have one other observation. One of the forum headings available to us is 'Website comments,suggestions, etc' It would seem from reading the posts on this and similar threads that there was never much point in members using that forum area as no one in the website management was ever likely to take much notice of it.

Lastly, if anyone in the management is reading this thread with the intention of making any changes to the forum software, please, please, repair the spell checker or let me use the one in my browser!

Ian

[DerryUKParticipant @derryuk]

I don't think anyone should resign their membership. After all, any club is made by it's membership and although some parts of this thread are bizarre I still like the club.

Derry.

[David ColwillParticipant @davidcolwill19261]

"PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER".

Groucho Marx

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Does anyone else think it's time to close this thread?

David is aware of the problems now and I am sure he will do his best to correct them if we leave him to get on with it.

Russell

[Harold Hall 1Participant @haroldhall1]

Well said Russell, sanity at last.

Harold

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Posted by Versaboss on 20/05/2012 23:49:21:

Has anybody else also noticed that DC's writing style in his editorials is completely different to his style here? Maybe he exists in several incarnations???

Before this degenerates into utter chaos, can I point out one or two things?

I'm a forum moderator (no not here) who's been doing the job for a long time now – well longer than this forum has been around, and I've learned a few things about it in the process. With forum moderation, it really is very easy to say things a) that you don't really mean and b) use irony when it really doesn't work – ie, on forums where nobody can hear you speaking. And to get over these things takes a long time – I've been accused of similar things in the past too. There's a considerable difference between writing something yourself, where nobody's having any sort of a dispute with you, and responding to forum posts, and yes, it could seem like it was two different people.

Whilst people might be quite happy to follow the lead of one person, and start ganging up on somebody, I really don't think it's very productive. Everybody would be better served by dealing with issues that arise without bringing personalities into it. So stop treating DC1 like a whipping boy – he doesn't deserve it.

[Duncan Armstrong 1Participant @duncanarmstrong1]

I'm going to lock this thread now as i think it has run it's course.

If anyone wishes to contact David privately, please do so – david.clark@myhobbystore.com

Many thanks

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