Venting a little

[YogiTKE]

I'm sure I'm going to offend someone, but it's ok. I'm an American and freedom of speech is what I'm entitled to.

By writing posts on here and reading others, I think that this iacas moderater guy is a little ridiculous. It seems his only response is to "search the topic" or "get back on topic". Do we have a Sand Trap Nazi now? Maybe he needs to realize that a new guy isn't going to spend 30 minutes trying to sort through thousands of past postings. I suppose we shouldn't print new editions of books either. Just stick to the first runs.

I'm sure this post may get deleted, I'll get negative feedback, or I might just get kicked off here all together, but I'm tired of his snobby, "I know all about golf" remarks.

One more thing, multiple quotes putting people down or answering every question in the world doesn't make you look cool and your words come off stuck-up.

Remember Mr. iacas,
MY opinion. Check your feelings at the door.

[JKilgore44]

Dude, if you didn't ask redundant questions you wouldn't get the "use the search feature" answer. As a moderater, it is his obligation to provide answers to the questions and make sure that the same threads aren't re-started every week. Established members get tired of reading the same things over and over.

With that being said, welcome to the forum!

[ChiChiIsMe]

Remember Mr. iacas,

Last time I checked, as an American, you don't have a constitutional right to free speech on a PRIVATE message board. I guess you didn't catch that part of the agreement when you "signed up". Don't like it, you can leave. You have that right.

[Eore]

this could have some repercussions. iacas knows a lot about golf, and i think a lot of members are tired of the same "new irons" and "new driver" posts.

you have a right to your opinion, but so does everybody else. if iacas or somebody else thinks that they know a lot about golf, then they are free to post it.

[pjsnyc]

While I will agree with you one some of those points (I'm not gonna name which ones) I've come to learn to never look a gift horse in the mouth - this is completely free to you and the public at the expense of the moderators' time and money for that matter.

[Ceej]

Dude, if you didn't ask redundant questions you wouldn't get the "use the search feature" answer. As a moderater, it is his obligation to provide answers to the questions and make sure that the same threads aren't re-started every week. Established members get tired of reading the same things over and over.

Expecting every new poster to use the "search feature" is a lost cause

[rudygu]

Maybe he needs to realize that a new guy isn't going to spend 30 minutes trying to sort through thousands of past postings.

Why is it too much to expect people to use the search function when asking a question that has probably been discussed many times before? Maybe people need to realize that being lazy and cluttering up the forum with redundant threads is frowned upon here.

I'm sure this post may get deleted, I'll get negative feedback, or I might just get kicked off here all together, but I'm tired of his snobby, "I know all about golf" remarks.

His style is blunt, but I don't see that as "stuck-up". I see it as straightforward. I much prefer this to having to guess what someone's true meaning is.

The only time I see him "putting people down" is when they say something truly outlandish (ie. factually incorrect) or if they were out of line in their post first.

[iacas]

MY opinion. Check your feelings at the door.

That doesn't even make sense.

In my opinion, you're an ignorant boob who's done more name-calling and foul-mouthing in one post than I've done in the past year. Oh, but "check your feelings at the door." The other thing is, this is "my house." If anyone would be leaving something at the door, it'd be you, not me. You're free to post what you like here, but yeah, "moderators" and "admins" (and there are more than just me) have a responsibility to ensure that posts aren't duplicated and all sorts of crap. You didn't get much support, and that's because the other long-time members are tired of sifting through the same old stuff too. It doesn't serve anyone when a thread wanders off topic, and that's something that's universally despised as well. Furthermore, I'm happy to have people disagree with me when something is a matter of opinion. Go ahead, disagree: but you'd better have a good foundation for your opinions, because I debate pretty hard. You can read "nastiness" into the tone of my debates if you want, but none's coming from my end, and I don't read any into the posts I see except when it's blatantly obvious; name-calling (which you did several times) is one of those obvious times. Furthermore, if you want to vent about ME, you do so in a PM to ME. You don't do so publicly. It's childish and obnoxious. If you would like to throw a temper tantrum, go elsewhere to do so.

One more thing, multiple quotes putting people down or answering every question in the world doesn't make you look cool and your words come off stuck-up.

Multi-quote is a useful too. You should perhaps learn to use it. I use it, and quite effectively so, to respond to select portions of a longer post, as I've done here, or to respond to multiple posts in one reply, also as I've done here.

Using multi-quote does not make someone "stuck up."

Dude, if you didn't ask redundant questions you wouldn't get the "use the search feature" answer. As a moderater, it is his obligation to provide answers to the questions and make sure that the same threads aren't re-started every week. Established members get tired of reading the same things over and over.

Yup.

But hey, feel free to send me a few thousand dollars a month, and I'll run the site the way you want, Yogi. I'll even take PayPal.