I have not been posting here as of late given how much a certain user made a complete joke out of a thread i made which a lot of people agreed the subject was valid.

While he is part of this site i can't see any point trying to talk about anything to do with profiler as he will always comes in with his wall wall of carefully constructed language made to look constructive to the topic at hand yet in fact is detrimental and the loss of this user is a result of that.

Really sorry to see you leave, Matthias. You, your hard work and your great tools will be missed!

Oh, and I fully agree with Srehtims.

Take care,
DJ

Quoting DarklyNoon:

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Very sad to see the next one leave

I hope you will reconsider your decision.

What I do not get is the following:
If I were offended by someone, why not put this person simply on ignore and enjoy all others here ?

cheers
Donnie

I would guess it is as much a reaction to one user's behaviour as that to the policy of the people "in charge". And that I can understand; if he feels that one user here is behaving inappropriately and offensively, AND that Ken is not doing anything about it, I can understand his decision for not having ANYTHING to do with the online community of this program anymore - even if we have here people he might "enjoy".

And I'm not taking any bias here, I haven't seen the threads this might be connected with.

It's a pity to hear that you leave.

Read sometimes of members of leaving, this sucks. Something like this is living from its members so it's hard to hear somone's keaving.

So good-bye goodguy. Machs gut.

Now I am sad.  Please reconsider Matthias.  Just block him.  Your plugins are most helpful.

Quoting goodguy:

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After witnessing the latest unchecked amok run of skipnet50/Dr. Pavlov/Woola/ Prof. Kingsfield in this thread, I have finally decided that I don't want to play here anymore.

Frankly, it escapes me why a single user is allowed to continuously poison the atmosphere in these forums. Free speech is one thing, but that is more like letting a drunkard running around in a pub and permanently harassing the guests. I don't need that. If the owner is unwilling to take care of it, I go to another pub. It is as simple as that.

My website goodguy's DVD Profiler Tools will remain active for a few weeks and I will provide means for existing customers of Profile Comparison Plus to get an updated version of the plugin once DVD Profiler 3.6 goes final.

Bye.

I fully understand you, sorry to see you leave. However, what I don't understand is the unwillingness of the owner of the pub to do anything against it. How much more must happen?

While I am sorry to see GoodGuy leave, I have to agree with The Lord's comment about "taking my toys and going home mentality."

Most of the people posting here act as if Skip were the only one who is rude and nasty.  Don't begin to pretend that Skip is the only person to behave badly (in your opinion) or that he is always the instigator of any disputes.  That is simply a lie.  There are people, like Surfeur and others, who go out of their way to jump into a thread in order to disrespect Skip.  They have gone on to start topics specifically as a means of criticizing one person (Skip).

This is not to say I think Skip is innocent of any charges and only reacts when he is attacked.  But it's become clear to me over many years of visiting these forums that there are people out there who are every bit as mean spirited and nasty as they accuse Skip of being.  And, even though I appreciate and support Good Guy's contributions to the plugins he's put a lot of time and care into, I do remember that he can be just as nasty as anybody when he's upset.

And Skip's not the only one who the moderators don't act against.  My impression is that they seldom censure (or censor) anyone.

These arguments are all so childish.  And both sides are accusing the other of making the first strike.  There are a lot of people here, not just Skip, who should be ashamed of themselves and their childish behavior.

Quoting Cyrille:

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I think if the moderators closed topics sooner before it begins to degenerate it can avoid lot of issues... It's only my personal opinion but allow continuing people to "fight" them isn't a good thing in a forum. As soon as we see the topic degenerates they should close it...

Honestly, this would not work because the person(s) who are either being rude or are hijacking the thread aren't really being punished for their action(s).

What needs to be done is suspension of forum privileges in an ascending rate of time.

1st offense - Written warning by PM from a moderator or Ken.
2nd offense - Suspension of posting privilege for 3 days
3rd offense - Suspension of posting privilege for 14 days
4th offense - Suspension of posting privilege for 60 days
5th offense - permanent banning from forum.

Most people would get the hint after the the third offense, but a true troll would need the further punishment to eradicate.