fter my dust-up with Colleen and Tony, I got a warning myself and deserved a bann. But truth be told, the Tavern lately had gotten so bad that I was in a mood that I did not give a flyin F*** whether I got banned or not. Could be partly why I let go as much as I did.
Anyways - I don't think a boycott will do much good or carry weight with Taunton. They're more likely to just think, "Good Ridddance"
Splintie has good points but I would take them farther...
I tend to be an all or nothing kind of guy. Pretty peacefull up to some certain point. Go along to get along, but
IF
I were in on trying to reform the mods at BT by doing war with them, I would not only organize a boycott, I would include phone calls to the office - hundreds of them.
And I would incorporate Splinties ides,
And I would have us use alternate IDs to loggin and do guerilla warfare not only in the Tavern, but in the main boards as well. No outright WRONG advice that would hurt any innocent bystander trying to do his own DIY. But a lot of dilutory cr@p that would have the effect of watering down everything there and rendering the entire site nearly worthless.
THAT is their calling card and the value of the forum - those of us who participate in the main forum with GOOD advice that helps people. Taunton gets that for free, and we get whatever kick we get for out egos out of helping somebody else.
It does not get Taunton's attention when Tavern members have to go crawl home on their knees drunk from a nights fighting, not when they crawl back again begging permission to participate in another brawl. But IF you wanted their attention, two weeks of diluting the value of the main forum with silly songs and suggestions, along with dozens of false IDs would do that.
But I can tell you how I would re-act to such a tactic if I were Kevin, and it would not be pretty and you would not win. I would know that the end result of dealing with a bunch of guerilla revolutionaries is that they fragment and once you bow to their demands then a yet more revolutionary group splinters off and demands more, and then more again, etc, etc, etc. So regardless the cost, I would win that war.
So once you start down a road like that, you need to be willing to drive the knife in to the hilt and twist, not afraid to get blood on your hands.
I'm not there. I don't think a war like that benefits anybody. I pick my battles, and this ain't one of them. I do sympathize with those of you who got booted unfairly and without warning and I could easily have been amoung you, but I knew ahead of my fighting with Tony that had I gotten booted, that I would have been just like he did, in waiting out my time.
Meanwhile, my main reason for being at BT is to help DIYs. Maybe it's time for me to focus more strongly on that. If I get bored, maybe it's time to go play with the dog instead of clicking threads in the Tavern.
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