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Post by Alan Hayes on May 23, 2019 21:57:34 GMT
Alan please don't remove this post, after careful consideration I no longer feel I can voice my opinion or have the right to say what I think on this forum. I have been a active member of this club for many years and have kept in regular contact via the phone with many members some of which have expressed their dislike of the forum, many have been unable to access it, the forum should be transparent and any member should feel they can submit a post without it being deleted, which is what has happened to some of mine in the past, so without going into other reasons I would ask you to deactivate my account as I no longer wish to be a part of this forum. I will however keep my word and place the card on Geoffreys resting place and all the kind messages many thanks Graham.
Hi Graham,
I am very sorry that you are unhappy with the forum and with my advice - which I made with your privacy and security in mind - and I only edited your post after you agreed that that information should be deleted.
If I had removed your number without asking you then I would agree that you had a point. I have simply given advice, based on my knowledge of what can happen with bots and webcrawlers, with your best interests at heart, and then acted only once you had agreed.
I can also confirm that NONE of your posts have been deleted. The only posts I delete are duplicate posts - where one post appears a second time and is identical - and spam messages which occasionally appear in the help section which is open to guest posting.
I DO move some posts and combine them into existing threads as that's how forums should work - with one thread for each topic rather than multiple threads for the same topic.
I say again that NO posts of yours or anyone else's (unless there were duplicates) have been deleted.
I hope you realise that you are jumping to conclusions which are not accurate and will reconsider your position.
We moderate this forum exceptionally carefully and all we do is in the interests of keeping things tidy and easy to find and at all times we act in the best interests of the membership.
I am actually quite hurt that you should think otherwise. I designed and created this forum with Carol's full agreement and support, entirely in my spare time and at no cost whatever to the fan club or Carol herself. Chas and I run it voluntarily for anyone who wishes to post here, members of the fan club or not. You seem to be suggesting that we are running it in some sort of dictatorial, judgemental manner, and nothing could be further from the truth.
Best wishes,
Alan
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 23, 2019 21:59:25 GMT
On the subject of members not liking or being able to access the forum, I invite anyone with such concerns to post in the guest area and I will do my best to help them out.
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 24, 2019 9:30:40 GMT
A message for Graham - please respond in this thread as requested. Frankly, I find your approach unnecessarily confrontational and unfair. I have recently and suddenly lost my closest friend and am under treatment for stress and anxiety - not that you are to know that - but I really do not need this at the moment. I reiterate - I have not removed any of your posts unless they were duplicates. I do not keep a record of the moderation here - as it is a spare time activity and entirely voluntary - so I cannot discuss events of more than three months ago (in reply to your comment on the other thread).
If you were unhappy with something that you say happened in February, I would have appreciated it if you had broached the subject then and not now.
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 24, 2019 9:47:11 GMT
OK - further to the above, can I ask you Graham, which post it is that I allegedly removed? What was it about?
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Post by greyweazle1066 on May 24, 2019 10:38:34 GMT
Hi Alan, I'm sorry about losing your best friend it is not my intention to add to your grief, however you annoyed me my trying to talk to me as if I was a naughty schoolboy by putting my mobile number on the forum, yes I would agree that perhaps it could get into the wrong hands, but I did explain that not everyone is comfortable with posting on a forum, so moving onto the post you deleted it was when Chas went to Brickendon and posted some pictures, I commented that it was private property and permission was needed not only from Brickendon but also the club ie Carol, I remember at the time speaking to her and she was not aware, I appreciate you did receive permission from Brickendon and no damage was done, however that to me sent out a clear message to other members that they could do the same, Carol chose not to do anything as you were doing the forum for her. Now you have removed the posts from that thread that I posted and you need to be honest and own up!! So it's in your court as to whether I remain active on this forum or I quit.
Regards Graham.
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 24, 2019 11:12:06 GMT
Hi Graham, First off, I can confirm that the post in question was not deleted. It is dated 1st February 2019 and is still visible on the thread, which you can find here: catweazle.boards.net/thread/224/photos-filming-locations-episode-duckSo, I can absolutely 100% confirm that your post was not deleted and no others were either. I do not delete posts without a very good reason and am always happy to discuss moderation concerns. (Though it is helpful if they are raised at the point of incident, please.) Regarding the telephone number, it was not my intention to in any way admonish you - I was advising you, thinking you may not be aware of the risk of sharing personal details online. If you chose to take that the wrong way, then I'm sorry but please be assured that it was not my intention, which you have wholly misjudged. I have read back through my comments and I am very surprised that you took my advice - which was posted as a friendly aside at the foot of a post in which I was trying to help you out with navigating to the Messages section - the wrong way. I very much hope that you will remain an active member of the forum.
Best wishes,
Alan
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 24, 2019 12:48:37 GMT
...Chas went to Brickendon and posted some pictures, I commented that it was private property and permission was needed not only from Brickendon but also the club ie Carol, I remember at the time speaking to her and she was not aware, I appreciate you did receive permission from Brickendon and no damage was done, however that to me sent out a clear message to other members that they could do the same, Carol chose not to do anything as you were doing the forum for her. On this subject, I at no point sought permission from Brickendon - Chas did that as it was he that visited; I did not. Neither of us were aware that permission had to be sought also from the club / Carol. This seems to me to be a situation where you and Carol are aware of the situation with people wishing to visit Brickendon but members (at least some members) are not, and Chas acted properly - as far as he or I knew how he should proceed - and it has to be said that the Brickendon staff did not ask him if he had permission from the fan club, so maybe they don't know either?
It was certainly not anyone's intention to send out a "clear message to other members that they could do the same". Chas sought permission from Brickendon, received it and thought that was all he had to do - quite understandably. And besides, if Brickendon were unhappy about the idea of Chas visiting and photographing the location for the forum (which he expressly sought), they could easily have refused him access.
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Post by greyweazle1066 on May 25, 2019 9:56:55 GMT
Hi Alan,
After looking through all the various posts I have managed to find the ones I was referring to, so on that note I stand corrected and apologise, I was looking on the original post from Chas on November 4th,I assumed all posts to a thread all stayed together, however I've been honest to admit my mistake, I hope we can continue for the best interest of the club.
Best wishes Graham.
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Post by Alan Hayes on May 25, 2019 20:54:47 GMT
That's fine, Graham. The two threads were always separate, so nothing has changed with them. No problem, and I hope that I have put your mind at rest concerning the moderation at the forum. We are very careful in how we administrate the forum and will always strive to be approachable and honest on such matters. As you have said, footfall at the forum is currently less than we'd like and consequently we only remove posts if we have absolutely no alternative (i.e. if they break the forum rules or are spam messages). We want more posts at the forum and more members contributing their opinions on the series - if people have concerns, we would rather they make them known to us as otherwise we cannot address them or solve people's access problems. I am delighted that you plan to continue at the forum - I am happy to put this behind us and hope that you will be happy to do likewise.  Best wishes, Alan |
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