New "Old" Member

[Dave Hicks]

(04-25-2014 11:23 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  

(04-25-2014 09:29 PM)walter b Wrote:  The only "regular" I miss so far is Karl Schneider (but I missed him in the old forum already). Any information about his whereabouts?

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...and Norm/Captain Zener, Valentin Albillo, Veli-Pekka Nousiainen, Michael Meyer, Luiz Vieira, Hrastprogrammer... etc etc

Luiz was the first (and only) "moderator" of the old forum. I put moderator in quotes because all a moderator could do in that forum was delete posts. Luiz was quite upset when the first spams appeared on the old wide-open forum so he seemed like a perfect fit for spam patrolling. He was a secret moderator because he didn't want to be "special". (And moderating in the old forum was kind of a hack.) But very soon after that he greatly reduced his frequency of visits and eventually emailed me an apology that he wasn't being much of a moderator since he wasn't even getting to the forum. I don't remember Norm posting for a long time. I think Hrastprogrammer has come and gone at various times in the past.

Karl sent me an email complaining about another prominent member of the forum a couple of years ago. I don't think I did anything about it as I didn't see an obvious rule violation - it seemed more like a couple of people who had rubbed each other the wrong way for some time and I couldn't really tell who was at "fault" in the time I was willing to use on it. It looks like he stopped posting after that. Hopefully with 3 moderators, we can collectively come up with a better idea of what to do in similar situations. Then again, sometimes there may be nothing you can do about things like that.