That's a bloody excellent document Jacques!
I'm keeping it.

It really illustrates the concept of a "digital native" as opposed to a "digital immigrant".
I particularly liked the concepts of a "digital singularity" and the "Monkey Wrench" project.

Really excellent stuff.

I concur, I only saw this now after a link in your OP in the other section.

Very very good!

Hehe thanks, but more than that, thanks for taking the time to read the article.

As an aside, this forum's existence is actually in part due to events on another forum, that sprung up when Gregg Stirton got the boot up his arse from Rudolph Muller. We all met on the other forum, and then a certain individual and his girlfriend threw their weight around and we all left.

We all met on the other forum, and then a certain individual and his girlfriend threw their weight around and we all left.

If you want to tell stories, tell the full story... and not just your half of it.

post it! post it! post it!

I wasn't going to post and drag this out into the open. But then got the notification of this post and what Jason has to say.

Jason, you know pretty well that Debbie hasn't really posted there much in years. Her "crusade" you mention here is one that you happily took part in. There was no arguing from you as someone knowledgeable in RF how it doesn't have any negative effect. In fact you shared the sentiment of most of the forum that it is still unproven either way. Or was this just because of your hatred for Rudolph and Jannie?

iBurst and mybb made in into Noseweek on their own. Are you forgetting that it was because he censored his forum and used his "news" site to further the iburst agenda? Techcentral didn't take too kindly when Jannie tried to use the media to lie for him and refused to publish the one sided stories like real journalists do. BBLounge was the only place where you could find the whole uncensored story to decide the truth for yourself. That's quite an achievement for a small forum. I am proud to have been a part of that and to still be.

If you don't like it then why not just stay away? Instead from time to time you post in exactly the topics that some of you claimed was a problem. Is there some agenda there? Funny that when you lot left all those topics that you were complaining about quickly died down. They were never a big part of it in any case and are now an even smaller part of it.

Epsilon, if RF radiation has nothing to do with it then why mention it as if it does? That is my only reason for posting here.

What attitude are you talking about? The one of ignoring the trolls? It was assumed that on a small forum everyone else would be mature enough to do the same. Apparently this wasn't the case so the attitude changed to banning them. A select few then disagreed with that so the attitude changed again from temporary bans to unbanning them.

Or was it not having any rules in place? You were all given the opportunity to discuss that but there was no agreement. You couldn't even decide if there should be another mod or not.

Or was it the attitude of ignoring your petty arguments that followed? You were one of the main culprits that kept nagging for the "people in charge" to get involved so don't complain about what resulted when that happened after the arguments turned to unwarranted attacks against the only mod at the time.

I do agree that the trolls should have just been permanently banned from the start like usually happens with trolls. But none of us were mods before so we were not used to doing things that way. I'm not going to fault anybody for that attitude though but you can be sure that from now on if there are ever any more trolls they will not feel very welcome for long.


So which "attitude" is it and who do you consider the "people in charge"?

Jason now thinks it's RF radiation disagreements between him and Debbie that I never saw. Can't remember what your arguments were about and asked me to refresh his memory.

Kage/Spam/Jay/Human blames everyone but himself for getting banned after starting an attack on the mod. Now says there were no trolls and that mybb is a very good place, something Jason will take exception to.

You had every reason to create your own forum if you wanted to do things your way even though you were never able to decide what your way was. Fact remains you were given much more freedom than on any other forum so you should deeply consider YOUR real reasons for doing so and not blame others when it resulted from your own actions.