Flagged for abuse?

The SAC discussion forums have been down for more than a week now (somebody working on it?). My guess is that since they are down, someone wanted to let the SAC members know about the condo sale. Abuse? Gliders pilots? Nah.

mas

At 12:26 01 February 2013, wrote:
The SAC discussion forums have been down for more than a week now
(somebody
working on it?). My guess is that since they are down, someone wanted to
let the SAC members know about the condo sale. Abuse? Gliders pilots?
Nah.

mas



H'mm there was one very vocal poster on the SAC (Soaring Association of
Canada - for our isolationist American friends that know nothing about
anything that doesn't happen in their own backyard) Roundtable disscusion
forum - there has been concern I believe in how SAC is run/spends its
funds/suports soaring by some members for a number of years- coincidence
that thier forums are down?

On Friday, February 1, 2013 8:04:12 AM UTC-5, Nick Olson wrote:
At 12:26 01 February 2013, wrote:

The SAC discussion forums have been down for more than a week now

(somebody

working on it?). My guess is that since they are down, someone wanted to

let the SAC members know about the condo sale. Abuse? Gliders pilots?

Nah.





mas







H'mm there was one very vocal poster on the SAC (Soaring Association of

Canada - for our isolationist American friends that know nothing about

anything that doesn't happen in their own backyard) Roundtable disscusion

forum - there has been concern I believe in how SAC is run/spends its

funds/suports soaring by some members for a number of years- coincidence

that thier forums are down?


The technical failure was coincidental. I am a moderator of it, it just died on a server we no longer have control of.

I created a new forum for Canadians and others: http://boblepp.com/smf

I hope it gets a bit of traction. I know of no other alternative up and running.

I just found out how the original SAC Condo sale post had its demise..... A Canadian pilot used the abuse flag, he pressed the button but at least emailed the original poster suggesting that airing Canadian laundry in public was inappropriate. What that person failed to note was that the Canadian laundry has been dirty for years and no manner of quiet discussion has succeeded in removing layers of secrecy. The web is stale since not even the Association uses it to communicate to members. They do not spend one penny (a penny now dropped by the Canadian Mint BTW)... they do not spend one nickel on either www.sac.ca nor any forum anywhere. They set out to keep the membership in the dark, excepting only a 4 times per year mailed hard copy journal. An SSA member can imagine how he/she would feel if the SSA web site was never updated to show current news and current issues.

I find this Google Groups abuse process to be a little too easy to invoke. Does this mean I can 'hide' as many posts as I want with one click? If so, I have lost some respect for Google. I hope they at least have a real person checking for abuse of the abuse process. I stopped using a news reader years ago. Maybe I need to go back to one, what a shame.

At 12:26 01 February 2013, wrote:

The SAC discussion forums have been down for more than a week now
(somebody working on it?). My guess is that since they are down,
someone wanted to let the SAC members know about the condo sale. Abuse?
Gliders pilots? Nah.
mas

The roundtable is down once again. A new roundtable has been built and
is undergoing testing. More information will be sent out soon concerning
the details of the new roundtable.
Sorry for the confusion, it was thought the current roundtable would remain
stable until the transition.
If there is a status change I will update this notice as soon as able.
Thanks, John Mulder