>You seem to have a personal vendetta against a certain moderator - now whether he is wrong in his assumptions or not that is your opinion...
And he doesn't whether it is toward me and perhaps others!? Opinion(s) notwitstanding they are quite weighty all the same!
>I will however not tolerate your using expletives here - no need - If you are as you seem, quite a well read and educated person you can lose the swearing.
I'll respond in reverse. Yes, and short of tooting my own horn, I'm a very well-educated and sharp fella. By the same token I'm 'human, all too human'. Trust me when I say I don't care to be using expletives; however, sometimes they are much needed. Beyond that little caveat I have more to say further below regarding my strident and/or over the top demeanor.
>Second this is not the place to be telling other users what to do - how dare you tell people not to submit images here
Stopping way short of stating that I'm the 'Pied Piper', it almost goes without saying I'm not exactly saying anything new that others haven't picked up on before or now. In short, Elvis has left the building.
>1. You tell people to go to album art exchange - hmmmmm can you get to it in the UK ? - even via VPN ? - interesting.
Where there is a will there's a way. All the same, and putting aside that I'm not to be held responsible for that nonsense on AAX's part, I feel the same way you folks do over in the U.K. Be my guest if some of you want to engage in a bit of 'Yankee' bashing. I just might join you. Just don't go burning any U.S. flags. By all means shoot off fireworks or a few firecrackers as a bit of payback for our annual July 4th celebrations. Need I point out what the latter is about?
>2. Album art exchange isn't used by people who have home theatre systems as a rule which is what this site is (mainly) used for.
Interesting, but I get this feeling that *might* be a non sequitur when all is said and done.
>3. If this site isn't worth spit then leave - it IS as simple as that - your diatribes, as you can see, seem to have fallen on all but a couple of ears - so I think you are wasting your time attempting to lead the charge with some sort of verbal bashing with the hope of ...................well actually I don't know what you are trying to accomplish.
Firstly, I intend to do just that! Secondly, and more importantly, I'm not a gambling man let alone was I pushing the envelope to see who would react and actually ban me. But way in the back of my mind I wondered all the same what I was ultimately accomplishing. Short of asking for a show of hands, unlike earlier on and during the middle part of this thread I presume very few or no one really cared at this point in time. (I also presume very few if any have the sort of backbone that I have *and* which says quite a bit about them!) The bottom line is that one has to rant and rave at times in order to get things done *and* have someone (i.e., yourself or some other admin.) finally step up to the plate. Even a post like your own is 'Exhibit A' of the very thing I have in mind. It's not a be all and end all, but it's a start all the same.
>4. Remember it's not just a site for music covers - this is just an additional string to our bow - the masses will still upload despite your best efforts to upset the apple cart
Oh, I get that. But once again, short of asking for a show of hands I gather a good deal of folks just don't care at this point and have gone on to greener pastures. That is, they have cancelled their accounts and/or sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what happens. All in all *NO ONE* from the latter group is putting up any images and dare I say you folks are losing and have lost some of the 'best and brightest' contributors.
>I do not believe that you initially, way, way back in this thread contacted the correct people and if you did maybe it did fall on deaf ears.....who knows, but reading through the thread watching you get more and more verbally abusive I'm not surprised that your messages were ignored - would you reply ?
There was little to no reason in doing so other than reaching out to ArieS (and Zorensen) recently. Let's just say I know what the hell you characters were saying behind my back in the month of May during one of your meetings. Let's just also say that 1) I have a little bird perched on my shoulder who tells me things, and 2) I know a couple of 'techno gang-bangers' who have a way with "extracting" much needed information by way of a few swipes of a keyboard. Where was I? Leaving Zorensen out of the picture, I had to wonder if it was even worth bothering to get a hold of ArieS. And I only did so because enough was enough. In other words, and short of asking if you know why the 'name that shall not be named' did what he did, doesn't it strike you as incredibly odd that many months later a perfectly good image (i.e., 'British Steel' by Judas Priest and a favorite of mine if I don't mind saying so) was not just pulled but deleted?! No doubt you're just as privy to what occurred as the next person since I made quite a stink about it in a previous post. But I would love to know the *REAL* motives he had for doing so beyond the totally ludicrous and idiotic comment: 'Bad crop at bottom & duplicate'. I think know what they were; though I would love to hear it all the same.
>You may have had some good quality arguments as to why certain images should be approved and would have been listened to IF posed in a proper manner - but sadly no
1)
may have had some *good quality* arguments?!?! Short of sitting down with pen and paper, sizing up the entire situation from beginning to end, and coming up with a percentage (give or take + - 10-15%) a good half to three quarters of them were on target. It's an aside but I'll mention it all the same. Are you aware of the fact that *I* asked for a number of my images to be taken down because *I* felt they weren't up to scratch (e.g., a few from September [Petra Marklund], Janine Jansen, et al.)? It doesn't take a degree in astrophysics to wonder why despite the 'name that shall not be named' asking me why I did so and quite possibly thinking I was out of my mind. It wasn't hard to figure out: I felt they were a notch below the high quality that not only was I capable of but what is expected by Fanart. As to the latter it's open to interpretation and an unwritten rule of sorts, but one that can be gleaned from the very modus operandi of this site. 2) If I didn't know any better I'd swear you're engaging in what we here in the States (and perhaps the world over) would call 'wagging the dog.' Granted, you have to deal with my silly ass to begin with. But let's take a giant step back and look at the bigger picture. You have a moderator on your hands that quite a number of contributors have a beef with, and for all the right reasons! What the hell are you folks doing about that??? Forget me. What is being done to curtail or simply nick in the bud the situation at hand!? That my dear Mr. Penny is the center of things *and* the $64,000 question. (Be my guest and convert that figure over to pounds or Euros.)
>You will, i'm certain, reply to this...
Is the Pope Catholic?
>Either way I don't think a change is gonna come.
Thanks. That's all I and many others looking from the sidelines is what we needed to know. If I may speak not only on my own behalf but that of others who feel more or less the same way I do, you can have him!!! Don't blame me if my prediction of this site by year's end becomes a mere shadow of what it was and could be based on the actions of one particular moderator. As for me I'm just a "messenger" passing by and who knows for better or worse that one individual can single-handedly bring down an entity to its knees. I hate to be the one saying, "I told you so!"
