All,
This may piss some people off, but it's late at night here, I'm tired as hell, and frankly if some people take offense ... so be it.
Since when have Vicky, I or any of the other frequent posters on this site EVER been cheap and stingy with information we post up? This is one of the most verbose and freely sharing sites on the internet and a FAQ will not change or diminish that simple fact about this site.
Honestly, it's like there is some friggin accusation hanging out there that because we've changed the forum software (out of our own pockets, time and humongous phone bills in order to get technical support and a f#ckload of enhanced features in order to make this a more personally customizable environment for you all) that all of a sudden Got Mead? is going to cheap out on you and start deliberately diluting meadmaking information.
WTF? I mean honestly?
Bottom line is that these forums are changing, and our focus is to ensure that they change for the better. It's enormously disheartening to see posts where people are second guessing in advance of what and why we are doing what we are doing. It's equally disheartening to see these things posted up by folks who are part of Got Mead? before they've bothered to
voice their concerns directly to Vicky or I.
So, you ask why didn't we have a marketing campaign, or lay out a detailed plan of what is going to happen, when and why? Well, in case you haven't noticed we're not in the best of times. All of us (that means everyone on this site) are working our asses off to keep our heads above water, a roof over our heads and food on the table (and in my case dog food for pFredd). Vicky and I derive no income from this site, we both have day jobs and we live on opposite coasts. We communicate daily by phone on what to do, when we have to do it and how we should proceed. I think by this point we should have earned at least a bit of trust from you all that we know what the hell we're doing. We don't have a PR machine, and frankly we can't afford one so we do the best we can. That's going to have to do for now.
Pete "Oskaar" Bakulic
This may piss some people off, but it's late at night here, I'm tired as hell, and frankly if some people take offense ... so be it.
Since when have Vicky, I or any of the other frequent posters on this site EVER been cheap and stingy with information we post up? This is one of the most verbose and freely sharing sites on the internet and a FAQ will not change or diminish that simple fact about this site.
Honestly, it's like there is some friggin accusation hanging out there that because we've changed the forum software (out of our own pockets, time and humongous phone bills in order to get technical support and a f#ckload of enhanced features in order to make this a more personally customizable environment for you all) that all of a sudden Got Mead? is going to cheap out on you and start deliberately diluting meadmaking information.
WTF? I mean honestly?
Bottom line is that these forums are changing, and our focus is to ensure that they change for the better. It's enormously disheartening to see posts where people are second guessing in advance of what and why we are doing what we are doing. It's equally disheartening to see these things posted up by folks who are part of Got Mead? before they've bothered to
voice their concerns directly to Vicky or I.
So, you ask why didn't we have a marketing campaign, or lay out a detailed plan of what is going to happen, when and why? Well, in case you haven't noticed we're not in the best of times. All of us (that means everyone on this site) are working our asses off to keep our heads above water, a roof over our heads and food on the table (and in my case dog food for pFredd). Vicky and I derive no income from this site, we both have day jobs and we live on opposite coasts. We communicate daily by phone on what to do, when we have to do it and how we should proceed. I think by this point we should have earned at least a bit of trust from you all that we know what the hell we're doing. We don't have a PR machine, and frankly we can't afford one so we do the best we can. That's going to have to do for now.
Pete "Oskaar" Bakulic
