(11-06-2019, 08:27 AM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: There is no need to make this an Us vs. Them thing. Mike made a business decision. It may work for him it may not. That is the nature of business decisions. His board brought us all together and Magic's original purpose in putting this board together was to help Mike not to "hack" on him (sorry to pick on you, as this is really aimed at all of the hacking that has gone on here).
One of my biggest hesitations in posting here is it feels disloyal to Mike, who was always very kind to me. DL's relationship with Mike is much closer than mine. People seem to wish DL would start to post on this board. I can't speak for him, but I suspect the surefire way to keep that from ever happening is to continue to snipe at Mike and his site. Live and Let Live.
BTW, thanks for putting this in the Troll Cave
I completely relate to this. I have never tried to make this an Us vs Them, and I have never insulted nor attacked Fish. I built this FOR him and was on the phone with him a few times as the initial plan was to relinquish this and/or just move it to his servers and boom no problem... but they chose not to have this type of forum... not one that I built nor one that they would build themselves (that I offered to help with) so yeah... it is what it is. No hard feelings whatsoever and I hope he feels the same way too about me, as my intentions were never to create something separate... it just turned out that way.
I pivoted to go into the MavsForum idea when I realized we are completely separate and no one was posting his articles here(which I genuinely tried to have happen to help Fish)
I will say I kind of hate this is in the Troll Cave now as my intentions of this post were to pay my respects to Fish and to announce how we are not meant to be disparaging him nor slinging mud nor anything else but paying our respects.
I get it though... the mood of this board and many of the responses have been less than stellar... and I empathize with the community's frustrations, as I made this board specifically to meet those needs and complaints we all had... I just didn't do it turn on Fish nor to encourage others to.
It is what it is, but Fish if you or DL are lurking, please know you are both welcome to post here and we would love to have you on board. There will always be people who you can't please and those who are upset, but people get over things quickly too... so we would love your contributions and posts here... I still read your articles, and we ALL miss the Cap expertise of DL...