you guys have 5 main questions:
1- why did spatts leave.
2- why was slobbknocker banned.
3- where are all the stickys...
4- who will moderate this forum
5- Is this place going to shit?
I’ll take them on by one:
1- Why did spatts leave...
I will post what she posted in her goodbye thread and then I will make my comments:
posted by spatts:
“ I have seen and heard enough.
I won't miss ya, 'cause I know where to find ya.
“
I think for you guys to get the real story you should contact her and ask her yourself.
I can only post here MY OPINION. What I think might have contributed to her leaving.
My opinion: spatts seemed to be very unhappy with George and myself. She raised some very valid questions about the termination of our ex-employee (and her friend)EF Sam. She felt that our termination of this person’s employment was unfair and maybe even unlawful. The answers that George and I provided regarding this matter were not satisfactory to her. She felt that we were lying to her.She also had a heated exchange of words with another Mod over this issue and others, the day before her departure.
^ ^^This is all just my opinion about why I think she left... Before anybody calls me a liar please understand, she never gave me an explanation about why she left, so I’m just posting my opinion ^
C o r r e c t i o n ! : she did give us a reason on the Mod forum... to sum it all up, she feels that the Administrators at Elite are full of shit, and she does not want to be associated with us....
2- why was slobbknocker banned?
I will start off by saying that I liked slobbernocker very much and he was a great contributor to the site. He has been very helpful with everybody and he will be missed....
However, in the last few days he seemed to be very unhappy with Elite Fitness, and he expressed this strongly in his post. He was always there to add his 2 cents in post that bashed Elite Fitness.
The last post he made that prompted for his account to be deactivated was “I will be leaving as soon as spatts leaves”.... Well... Spatts was gone, and rather than have another “I’m leaving post” we went ahead and deactivated him.
The bottom line is this. We will no longer tolerate people using this website and shitting on it at the same time... if you don’t like a restaurant DON’T GO THERE. spend you money somewhere else. There are plenty of other places starving for customers. But instead, some people want to come into the restaurant, eat all the can at the buffet and badmouth the place to the other customers at the same time. I'm sorry but this will no longer be tolerated. We will not allow people to use this board( most for free) and sit here while bad mouthing Elite.
This is not a public board, this is a privately own business. And if you come into our place of business and take actions that will hurt our business, we are going to help you leave. If you hate Elite Fitness &/or its administration, and you no longer wish to use our board then you can leave... we will miss you and we hope one day you will come back. But we can not let you sit here and bash us. This is a business, how would you like it if I came into your place of business and started talking shit to your customers?
3- where are all the stickys...
The stickys were targeted the last time some Mods stepped down. We put in place a system where Mods/Admins could not delete post but only move them to the recycle bin. This is a real stunner... at this point I have no idea, they should be in the recycle bin if any of the Mods/Admins tried to delete it. But they are not. We sent an e-mail to our programer and asked him to look into it. I will keep you all posted.
4- who will moderate this forum
That is all up to you guys....
the day before she left, spatts gave us her choice for moderators for this forum... We asked her to pick 2 people from this board to help her moderate, she gave us some great candidates. I will let you guys know who in another post.
5- Is this place going to shit?
I doubt it. We go thru something like this every couple of years. When E2 decided to
move on, people thought elite would end(E2 was one of our first Moderators) yet it did not.
This is just another one of those phases that this site goes thru. 4 months from now there will be new established names here and some of the people that left will be just a memory or... Still posting here with a different handle.
This place will be what you make of it.
Is this place going to shit?? I think what you should be asking is... who will step up help rebuild this place after the storm??
I will be gone for a few... Later.
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