Post by Hawkeye on Jul 10, 2017 8:04:10 GMT -5
After much thought and consultation, effective July 17, I will be closing down the forum. This is not an easy decision, but I'll try to explain why.
A couple of weeks ago, a member, who hadn't logged in for about a year, was getting a message that his account was banned. Instead of contacting me, he shared the UW Gear Facebook page, as well as a link to my personal page, on his page, and then proceeded to excoriate both the business and me, even to the point of making up lies and falsehoods about me. Now, this person was on my personal "friends" list on facebook. However, someone got my password about a year ago and after that, I went through and deleted a lot of people off my friends list. It wasn't anything personal towards anyone, I just started narrowing that list down. His post and sharing of the UW Gear page and his less than friendly words, of course got his friends all fired up on his bandwagon. I went and checked, and he is not banned from the forum. I put it in maint. mode for a few days to double check things. After thinking about it and consulting with some folks, I think the best thing to do is to close it. This forum has my business name on it, and thus anything that happens here can/will be directly tied back to the business and me. As a small 1 man operation, I don't have the clout of a larger well known company. Sadly, people are often far less than honorable these days, despite many professing, pontificating, and boisterously pounding their chest to the contrary. It's quite sad, especially considering the background which they claim to have. I'm not worried about people slandering and denigrating me. However, I can't afford a glitch in the matrix causing someone to publicly trash the company, especially when it's nothing that the business did wrong. It's disappointing, but it is what it is.
I want to thank you all for being here the past 6 years. I have enjoyed the conversations and comradery. I will still be active on the UW Gear and Alpha Charlie Face-book pages, Instagram pages, and You-tube channels, and the Alpha Charlie blog page. I hope that you will be able to continue following things and stay in touch on one of those platforms. I'll put links to all of them below.
www.youtube.com/user/UWGear
www.youtube.com/user/AlphaCharlieConcepts
www.instagram.com/alpha_charlie_concepts/
www.instagram.com/uw_gear/
www.facebook.com/UWGearInc
www.facebook.com/AlphaCharlieConcepts/
alphacharlieconcepts.wordpress.com/
A couple of weeks ago, a member, who hadn't logged in for about a year, was getting a message that his account was banned. Instead of contacting me, he shared the UW Gear Facebook page, as well as a link to my personal page, on his page, and then proceeded to excoriate both the business and me, even to the point of making up lies and falsehoods about me. Now, this person was on my personal "friends" list on facebook. However, someone got my password about a year ago and after that, I went through and deleted a lot of people off my friends list. It wasn't anything personal towards anyone, I just started narrowing that list down. His post and sharing of the UW Gear page and his less than friendly words, of course got his friends all fired up on his bandwagon. I went and checked, and he is not banned from the forum. I put it in maint. mode for a few days to double check things. After thinking about it and consulting with some folks, I think the best thing to do is to close it. This forum has my business name on it, and thus anything that happens here can/will be directly tied back to the business and me. As a small 1 man operation, I don't have the clout of a larger well known company. Sadly, people are often far less than honorable these days, despite many professing, pontificating, and boisterously pounding their chest to the contrary. It's quite sad, especially considering the background which they claim to have. I'm not worried about people slandering and denigrating me. However, I can't afford a glitch in the matrix causing someone to publicly trash the company, especially when it's nothing that the business did wrong. It's disappointing, but it is what it is.
I want to thank you all for being here the past 6 years. I have enjoyed the conversations and comradery. I will still be active on the UW Gear and Alpha Charlie Face-book pages, Instagram pages, and You-tube channels, and the Alpha Charlie blog page. I hope that you will be able to continue following things and stay in touch on one of those platforms. I'll put links to all of them below.
www.youtube.com/user/UWGear
www.youtube.com/user/AlphaCharlieConcepts
www.instagram.com/alpha_charlie_concepts/
www.instagram.com/uw_gear/
www.facebook.com/UWGearInc
www.facebook.com/AlphaCharlieConcepts/
alphacharlieconcepts.wordpress.com/