Now a hand full of people who dont play well with others have gotten AW to pull the GD Boards...It is so sad...I am disgusted...in some of you, in my self and in AW...I have my boards and they are free ...you say what you like.....feel free to come by sometime...
Andy I cant say I am for this new thing, I think there must be a better way to resolve some of these issues...but this is your boat to float.
Yes, it is sad that he whole thing got thrown out....
Isn't it strange that so many of us were here BEFORE and never had those problems with GD?
The BAD apples must be paying an awful lot of MONEY to have the rest of the significance of US erased.....
Don't you think?
Why else acknowledge them.....
and NOT the rest of us?
Vivian lovely, I know where you are coming from :) Fear nothing in here, mail it to me instead :)
The confusion drove me nuts, literally, and drove many others away, but I always knew my good friends by thier none changing nics :) and portfolios with work in them that constitute actually being art :)
On another note, I was surprised by the tones of dialogue over on Saatchi's boards. Here was very tame by comparison, yet rarely a complaint.
Had a very good run in with a troll over there in my first post and thoroughly enjoyed "letting rip" on it. Twas great fun :) I even got applauded for it by some regulars running scared of its presence.
Here when we slap down a troll all hell breaks loose and the "defenders of AW" get whalloped by staff. I guess even they got confused by it all :)
I hope life is treating you well (mail me ;) and thanx for being YOU :) Its always been an absolute pleasure lovely, yours Laz.
A troll is the only 1 who sees themselves as the victim :)
Why else would anyone want to belong to a group where they are so not wanted ? Its not like they have never been offered an olive branch over the time.
Hope you are keeping well anyways, and hopefully, a life I think I had a while back will come top side up again real soon ;) Until then darlin, as my friend Dory says in Nemo "all I can do is just keep swimming"
Had a spare few hours tonight, so its a shame we can't go all monumental for a while. SOON I hope:)
Take care Debs and regards to the whole family, yours Laz.
A few days before the 'purge' I signed up for another year, paid my $39 and had faith that what I signed up for would remain. Yes, the GD threads had the good-bad-ugly and down right mean and nasty bits.
But there were so many more good threads - threads that introduced me to Sher; that helped Kerry when times were tough for her, that supported Steve when his house burned down on Christmas Eve. People have given support and hope for many of us who have gone through sickness and loss. Martha gave us so many kind words and support and laughs. We lost the silly, but fun,trivia threads, the sharing (favorite music,artist,color,food, etc.). The games (like Putt putt), the Africam. Photos of family, pets, holidays are gone.
Many people said "hurray" for Andy for dumping all of it - flushed away in an instant. Many other folks have said, "I never participated" or "Never bothered with it." "Don't need it." - so what? It's no loss to you, so why say you're glad GD is gone? Those who found it upsetting or stupid - there is no rule stating that members have to participate or read the forums, so why do you care that it's gone?
I do agree that the GD board needed to become 'members only' - which it did - so how did it keep people from joining?
I was lied about, hurt, bad-mouthed, made fun of, sworn at, called names, and humiliated - but I learned to IGNORE it. My friends who got to know me decided for themselves who I am and what I stand for - if I could take it - if Leigh and Denny could take it (for a very long time) - if Bianca could take it - and many others - why didn't we at least have a chance to voice our opinion before the plug was pulled?
Some say, "Get a life" and don't spend so much time here - who are you to tell people how to spend their time? Have you ever considered that not all people are young, healthy, mobile. Many ofthers have no friends or family in the real world - not by choice. I personally have had several health issues that require me to stay home and off my feet for days or weeks at a time and so, yes, maybe I did spend too much time on the boards. SO WHAT?
I feel betrayed by you Andy, and I also feel like the paying members have little say-so in anything here.
No, I'm not leaving - yet, but I for one feel like the few stinkers on the boards have 'won' and the rest of us are being treated like children.
And now, at every turn, we are harangued by the very people who brought the board down...not for the first time in some cases.... and who contributed NOTHING except unpleasantness. Losing the board is something we will all get used to. Having our noses rubbed in their hypocrisy is just insulting, AW, and, as Gracie has said, not what we pay our membership fees for.
ALL the boards will, I fear, empty like drains from now on as many more members become acquainted with this clique of fraud and dishonesty.
I repeat - No member was forced to even acknowledge that the GD board was there - it you didn't like it - then leave it, ignore it.
Sadly I fear that you and I are wasting our time here because this thread will undoubtedly be pulled very soon.
There has been an infection of the GD board in the last few months. AW had 2 choices.....they could either treat the cause of the infection or they could treat the symptom. They chose to treat the symptom and now the infection is back with renewed vigour, and will spread to the other boards very soon. This is an unhealthy place to be right now.
I think in fits of pique in the past that I....and many others lol.....have left the boards for a while but always been tempted back by something that was going on......but, no more ! AS Alex would say.....over and OUT !
We do want to say that if the problems were only with a few members, we would not have reached the decision to pull the whole forum. The truth is, there were dozens of people that lead us to this decision, not just a few. And it was not just these people, it was also the topics that showed up in the GD forum that caused so much debate. Because of these and several other reasons, we shut down this section of the site.
We also want to mention that we have not 'deleted' any of the theads in the General Discussion area, we have only hidden them from public view at this time. Time will tell if these threads come back to life at a future date, but they are not lost.
We have also re-posted the theads about the art auction in the Art Discussion forum.
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