Originally Posted by allstate1 (Post 1468195)

Is it just me or has Admin. become increasingly irritable??

Originally Posted by aegsm76 (Post 1468212)

I don't do the "goodbye cruel world posts", but with the current admin attitude, I am losing interest here.
Never been on a forum where the admins regarded themselves as the "thread police", before.

Originally Posted by houston (Post 1468220)

The proper thing to do would have been to contact admin, not start a thread.

Originally Posted by houston (Post 1468220)

The proper thing to do would have been to contact admin, not start a thread.

Originally Posted by votivesoul

This is getting ridiculous. I ask that this thread get redirected back to its original purpose, because we all know how much we just "love" our threads getting high-jacked by others down some rabbit hole of unrelated minutiae, and some of you are trying to call me out on it like I'm the one in the wrong?

Derailing a member's thread is disrespectful of the person who created the thread. We don't and can't catch every thread this happens in, but the fact it's AFF's bread and butter, should tell us all that there is a lot of disrespect floating around these here parts (Granted some don't really care that much about their own threads; but then again, some care a great deal, and it bothers them, and it gets expressed to us admins, sometimes privately. Should we be partial then, and try to mind-read who does and doesn't care all that much? Or be impartial and try to keep as many threads on task as possible in the event the person who created it does care but doesn't speak up?).

The fact is, not a soul is stopping anyone from creating their own thread to discuss the side issues raised in this, or any other thread. But some of you never even think to do so, you just go ahead and tank someone else's thread with whatever comes to mind.

And when an admin tries to get things back to form, I get one apology (thanks, EB!) and a lot of gruff otherwise.

Do I need to log-in to the admin log-in every time to handle a situation just to appease some of you? Shall I send out infractions for openly challenging an admin, as some of you have done repeatedly over the last few days? Or should I let it slide?

Hey, I'm just Aaron from podunk/cow-town Wisconsin. No one here owes me squat. There are no strings attached here, as far as "me" is concerned. But since you all signed up and agreed to the rules and regulations for membership, you all have an obligation to this forum and the admins who help and oversee it, to do what you agreed to do when you signed up. My obligation is to oversee the forum to the best of my ability, within the parameters granted to me through my admin-ship.

If that is too totalitarian for you, you can create your own forum here:

https://www.proboards.com/

And run it however you please.

But going forward, there are going to have to be some changes, because some of you are out of line right now, and you don't even see it.