Essence_Smith wrote:I think he was trying to say that he was always the one held accountable for the vibe on the site...you or I could post anything we wanted good or bad, but when the band or anyone else would read the board they'd probably look at the guy running it as opposed to individual posters. Its a tough call to make...I understand why people are disappointed, but I don't think it taints anything that he chose to do things the way he did...it forced people to make quick decisions to try and keep things going & I think it also taught people a few things...when you have something good going, appreciate it and try and act as if you value it...I don't know that he went about it the best way, but it definitely is making people think & that ain't a bad thing imo...Pandemonium wrote:Yeah, well said. The thing that unfortunately sticks out in my head that taints Sonny's overall massive positive contribution to the community is that day of arguments a couple weeks ago he had primarily with K-V where he's going on about how "yr nothing, a nobody except a name on my board. It's my board, blah, blah, blah" all because of some obvious joke K-V made. It was like he was looking for a fight and perhaps a reason to pull down the board. I'm pretty sure I made a comment along the lines of "I can see where this is going...."hokahey wrote:I think he should have left them up but it's his content.
Sonny did a lot right for a long time. He also made some questionable moves. Can't say I agree with how he handled killing the board considering our only alternative. Also, my desire to be part of a daily conversation with many of the members was satisfied via that board, hence I never reach out to them in other venues. If it wasn't for the quick thinking of a few this would have taken much longer or never happened at all in this format, and I think we would have lost a good portion of the community. Not cool considering we were the content of that board, even if Sonny was the manager. If nothing else, he should have posted a link here. I think he let ego get in the way there. I feel like that was more of a move against some of us instead of one to help most of the others.
I hear what you'r saying, but we're not children. We don't need to learn lessons from site admins about valueing things blah blah.
No members, no Xiola/bored.
We deserve some of the credit for the community there and he left us high and dry.
Yes the good he did outweighs the bad. Yes I respect Sonny and freely proclaim him the best Jane's board admin yet.
But it doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't discuss our dissatisfaction with how he burned the house down to teach us a lesson, and then did nothing to help those that couldn't be reached find where the community.
I understand us needing to build it on our own. And he's right to insist this place live or die but how we run it. But that will happen regardless of whether he helped people know where we went. If it sucks here it sucks and those people will jump ship. But don't leave people in the water without at least mentioning everyone else found a a new boat. That's just screams ego to me. Like he just tolerated us more so than was in it with us.