a reply to:
ManBehindTheMask
Well at least OP got to post their e-store before they ran.
I mean if any other new account did that... well we know how it goes.
Also on this site we know how it tends to go when we get a warm up post instead of just the content from the get go.
How often have we had people do the "big things will be revealed in the future" for it to go nowhere?
Too many times.
"Something big is happening on 25th of July, stay tuned!!!" and it ends up being "My old UFO organization has just released a book and is opening up
investment opportunities into our new organization Magic School Bus to the Stars!"
For some reason I want to Blink 182 times at the thought.
It's ATS, we question things, especially posts like this, and especially when they admit to having a financial incentive to support the (still
unknown) owner and site. And those tend to get torn down pretty quick.
Getting 403'd when you look at OP's post history doesn't exactly help.
Maybe the owner and staff can sit OP down and explain how ATS works and hold OP to the same standards as the rest of us. (Some lessons in post
formatting wouldn't go astray either.)
And heck, lot of interest and support shown to the subject and OP, yet a couple of people criticize and all of a sudden its "I know how this goes, I
am running away" on their first post after only 2 pages.
And by an 'adminstrator' no less.... (This is why I don't give friends jobs)
To the admins, you have to understand why people are going to feel like this and ask these questions. Again if I or anyone else made a post like this
and commented like this we know how it would go.
Stating they're good friends with owner, stating financial interests, not just having a moderator but an administrator jump in and defend them and
tell everyone to 'play nice' before they even get going you know we're going to question that.
Heck it's an introduction post in the wrong forum.
Lead by example, administrators should be held to the same rules as everybody else and don't be surprised when people point it out when they're
not.
And OP I suggest if you do make another post you stick to the rules and get to the point.
Instead of writing about what you will one day write about, just write what you're going to write about.
This forums is "ancient & lost civilizations" not "Introductions"
Put up or shut up as we're allowed to say to anyone else.
And welcome to ATS, if you don't have a thick skin and cannot take being questioned or criticized you're in the wrong place.
Then again, maybe it's becoming that it is the rest of us that are???
Mystery ATS owner and staff, don't throw your user base under a bus for a single person is my advice.
Don't get me wrong, I'm interested in what OP has to say and give them the benefit of the doubt, but I'll admit this thread has left me with nothing
but doubt.
edit on 23-4-2023 by AtomicKangaroo because: typos. probably more in their they're there
edit on 23-4-2023 by
AtomicKangaroo because: manually added reply info as that didn't go into the post for some reason.