Im leaving

[CoolDrMoney]

Well, the time has come for me to leave TBA unfortunately. I have spent the last couple of years here helping many get through the maze of Video converting, I hope some have learnt from it and others (me included) still learning.

This is one of the great forum on the net and its been fun being a part of its team and watching it grow. Unfortunately with my change in real time job and wanting to spend more time with my family, I will not have the free time to continue here (or the other forums I am at). I will pop in from time to time but not on a regular basis.

I\\\'m not sure what the Admin here will do with my Tutorials, but I will not be able to support them anymore unfortunately. But I\\\'m sure there are many members that now know them in-side-out so maybe they can help out. Hint: they will be looking for someone to replace me

I\\\'ll be around for the next couple of weeks but will slowly dissapear around Christmas time.

Cheers,
CDM

Here\\\'s another reason I\\\'m dumping TBA when I called about 8 months ago TBA told me to get satellite Internet! Tomorrow I\\\'ll have Time Warner Cable I won\\\'t need TBA! The count down started last night T-30 hours I\\\'ll have Time Warner Cable!

[TimmyTurnersDad]

i didnt even get a chance to say goodbye or hello for that matter we never talk and you are a cool guy why in the world

[CoolDrMoney]

I havent been on this site as much as I use to be. I really like to help out people, but these forums are under moderated and the flame, attacks and trolls rule here. Instead of showing people compassion and solutions for their mistakes and problems, people here ridicule and put you down.

People here rip apart individuals without concern of the topic or the person who is offering/asking for help. There are dozens of examples of this.

Its really to bad that people have lost so much compassion for people who struggle through a build or a computer problem.

As for a more friendlier environment, I would recommend you going to http://www.ocforums.com if you want to help out. I will be there allot, continuing to do my best to help people .

For moderators who might read this, please fix these issuesame. I will be welcome to come back and help out even more if the forum moderators stopped people from engaging in such angry and malicous responses. This place has the opportunity to be a friendly place that could help allot of people, and could be fun for us.

Instead we have been loosing some of the best people available (such as Wusy) and as more of the people who care leave. Thoose left will be the mean and insulting people.

Eventually people will stop referencing these forums as a place to get help from, and the TBA website and forums will fall in Google Rank.

Just my opinion, and concern. I will pray for the angry individuals that are quickly filling these forums. I hope you all work to grow, and become individuals with strong moral and ethical behavior.

God Bless You Guys, and I am sorry it has come to this.
CoolDrMoney

[rtil]

this is a pretty neato copypaste

[Crabarms]

[CoolDrMoney]

this is a pretty neato copypaste

Until last week I was a loyal poker player at TBA.

After a friend ask me why I didn't get any rakeback from FTP, I decided to sign-up with rakebackpros to get rakeback from TBA.

However my application was denied because TBA rejected to give me rakeback. Reason: I was "supposedly" signed up to TBA from an affiliate -which does not give rakeback and also which TBA could not disclose its name!

Apparently closing this account and re-opening another is not allowed.
And apparently I'm not getting any RB nor does TBA offer an equivalent bonus for rakeback.

So today I signed up with another poker site (I won't mention its name here but if I say the BEST and most crowded poker site, everyone will now) and will be playing my games there.

I know I'm not the first player to quit playing at TBA for this reason and I believe I will not be the last.

This is a lose-lose situation because I was generating rake for TBA now I won't, and I enjoyed playing here now I won't.

Wish you had sensible managers and people who knew who the real customer is (NOT the affiliates, US the poker players!)

[BluPhoenix]

wait what what

[CoolDrMoney]

I used to be a regular on these forums. But I purposefully changed my account credentials to the point I can't recover my account. This is because I don't think posting on these forums are productive.

I feel that, at best, all I can accomplish on any of the controversial forums where I generally post, such as climate science and politics, is to get people to agree on single points while they continue to disagree with me as a whole. Other than that, I generally feel that the climate science forums are dominated by climate denialists, and that the politics forums are dominated (and administered) by Fox-style spinmeisters.

For example, I strongly feel that Rtil is an extremely bad moderator of TBA. He may as well be Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly calls his program a "no ideology zone" and Rtil calls himself a moderate. Both Bill O'Reilly and Rtil are conservatives who purposefully deceive everyone to believe they don't have a particular ideology. It's not that having an ideology is a problem. I freely admit I'm a liberal, and arguably an "extreme" liberal. But I freely admit it. Rtil purports otherwise. He self identifies as a "moderate", and when I try to call him out on it and point out he is a conservative (especially from an ecumenical point of view) he chastises me. Rather than responding to controversial threads I post, he has deleted them outright without first attempting to have a dialogue. These are the very same tactics of censorship, spinning, and purposefully deceiving others which are utilized by Fox, which purports itself to be "fair and balanced", and very similar tactics are utilized by climate denialists to undermine what is actually sound science.

I don't feel that continuing to argue here is purposeful. So I am leaving. Rtil may call this "emo" (yeah hurling baseless insults at me, that's mature). I would suggest that Rtil and many of the other conservatives who post on the forums are incapable of rational discourse and prefer to spin and distort both reality and their own viewpoints and purposefully deceive others as to what their viewpoints are. Personally I find these type of actions deplorable, and those who purposefully distort their own viewpoints as "assholes". Yes, Rtil, you are an asshole, and you have both dumped gasoline on the fire and let other conservatives be loose cannons without moderating them. I'm not saying I could do a better job as a moderator as you, but without a good moderator, TBA is nothing but a purposeless bitchfest that only serves to make everyone more frustrated.

I would suggest the best step forward towards making these forums more science-oriented would be to delete the Politics forums altogether. Politics are not science, and the frustration I've experienced attempting to post on the Politics forums and dealing with a very much impartial moderator have been enough to drive me from these boards and convince me I'm wasting my time and should never post again.

All that said, it's been a fun and interesting ride. Goodbye

[GhostingFish]

Tomorrow I'll have Time Warner Cable I won't need TBA!

WTF!!!! Time Warner SUCKS!!!!! (my openion)


I say post at least once a week. I dont think thats hard.





smell ya' later

[CoolDrMoney]

I know I haven't been trying for long, but me and BillyMonks are going through some difficulties at the moment and once those are sorted, we're just going to ntnp. Im getting impatient and so confused with my cycle and the opks and whatever else, so im just going to let nature take its course and see how we get on. We'll still prob use preseed, but otherwise the tests are being put away till another time. Ive met some lovely girls on here and would.like to wish you all the best in the future and send you lots and lots and babydust.
Good luck ladies.
Lots of hug, love, and best wishes

[GhostingFish]

Hes off to the real world now. Dont forget to sed a christmas card.

[retrosmash]

I Will Miss U!!.................

[slack]

how many people said they would leave tba: a fuckton
how many actually did it: probably less than 5

[emanhattan]

nooo dnt leave me sonic

[aether]

what is this




i dont even

[BluPhoenix]

[CoolDrMoney]

oh hey whats goin on in this thred?

[salutations]

i lov u cooldr$$$

[Mew_User]

CDM are you trying to upset me?

[BloodyCheery]

Does this mean Mad Meat can come back?