@elretardo87 327880 wrote:

I offered if it was free but if its a pay even then I won’t.

I think your attitude stinks Col. If you wanted a favor you went about it the worst way; insulting people and generally behaving like a child. Why didn’t you give us a bit more info on the night to see if we would be willing to support it rather than jumping on people about ethics.

muwhhahahahahaha – you should know my M.O by now.

get a grip of yourself eh !

Read the thread from the beginning.

I did nothing more than request some info be put in the announcements section.

Others responded with some fairly patronising remarks so I responded in kind.

Quite frankly, the whole ethos being projected here at pv is leaving me with a slightly bitter taste in my mouth.

If I was going to support it financially again, I’m certainly more reserved about doing it now.

Nice to know where we all stand with each other.

The info has been posted here in a thread today by Billy the fish

@p0lygon-Window 327932 wrote:

wtf josh u didnt do anything wrong, col is a bit of a twat to be perfectly honest

Hey, what happened to fluffy and right on ?

Why am I a bit of a twat – in your opinion ?

I don’t suppose you care to go into specifics – or at least provide some documented evidence – of my general twattery ? I mean, I could call you a complete prick, couldn’t I ?

It doesn’t mean it has an element of truth in it.

Clearly though – you are a bit of a prick, for making general assumptions about others, others that – you don’t even know.

From now on, expect me to treat you, like the prick you would like to appear to be – in any future interactions (limited though they may be) we may or may not have.

Scratch a hippy etc

/sniggers

@noname 327939 wrote:

Well…. That got all rather heated for no really very good reason :argue_mad :lol_crash.

Is it mebbe time to point you’s all in the direction of RFC 1855 again? (Not singling anyone out for this – most of the people who’ve had a say here could use reading it. 😉 )

The question asked at the beginning was perfectly valid, and expressing surprise at the subscription rules for advertising here is a fairly usual reaction if the reasons behind the subscription rules haven’t been explained (and no, saying the server costs money to run isn’t an explanation – it’s stating the blindingly obvious.)

As I remember from the discussions leading up to the change in rules, the main reason for asking for a donation to advertise pay events (or other money making ventures) was that having it free for all resulted in people quite frankly taking the piss – the sheer weight of advertising crap not only made the forum challenging to moderate effectively, but also caused the bandwidth/server costs to spiral. It was felt that people wanting to use PV for advertising – and there were lots of users that only came here to promote their businesses and contributed nothing else should be made to foot some of those spiralling server costs.

I would have thought a user who’s been registered a long time, and has made donations in the past as well as taken part in the discussions on the forum would have a pretty good case for getting something listed – did you PM Dr B Col? He’s usually pretty reasonable… The whole pay event/free party argument has to be at least slightly flexible – after all, if you put on free parties regularly the money to do so has to come from somewhere… Doing the odd commercial event is as valid a way as any of getting the cash needed together – in much the same way that asking people who advertise them here should subscribe (relying on donations exclusively regularly leaves you penniless after putting on a party, and the same is true of running high volume forums.) Nothing to do with the site becoming more corporate or whatever, just another way of keeping the free party spirit alive and kicking…

Hmmm – that turned into a rather longer waffle than intended… Hope it makes some sort of sense (been awake and partying for 3 days, so it could be just random dribbling, for which I apologise if that is the case :laugh_at:).

Remember :sign0015:… And that includes :sign0083:

Finally, the voice of reason.

It’s not like I take the piss is it ?

Only asked for one event listing – in god knows how many years.

Just about everyone who uses the various freeparty forums, knows my general internet persona. If people talk to me nicely, they will find a receptive, warm, caring and loving human being. If they talk to me like I’m an idiot, then they can’t be surprised – when I start playing the idiot.

Those who thought it pertinent to judge me, for whatever reason – can jog the f**k on too.

Everyone else, apologies for the hulabaloo – it’s entirely typical of my general internet shenanigans though.

Though it may look like I’m being vindictive – I’m just being mischievous.

Peace

Col

@p0lygon-Window 328175 wrote:

and u have such a nice attitude, i bet everyone here is dying to talk to you

Shut up eh !

I’ve been here for years and never had a cross word with anyone.

I can sense that changing shortly though – at least where you’re concerned.

Clown