I take offense to that!!!!!

We have more mods now then when Steve owned the site, back then it was only 3 of us.... Me and the other mods do one hell of a job - we have a very fast reaction time to report to mod emails!

LOL - thanks Airpacker!!!! I needed that!

Ha Ha Airpacker!

Three minutes???????????????? You're getting slow

I was typing an email to IB....

Geez Air, she does have a job! You know, the kind you get paid to do.

Actually, I think most people tend to forget that being a mod isn't something these folks get paid to do. They volunteer to mind the store for a bunch of us boating nuts because they enjoy boating and the board. They get drawn into things they would probably rather not be and have to play referee when grown-ups forget their manners. And there are times they take a lot of chit without a lot of thanks.

Have you thanked your Mods today?

I missed this thread over there. http://www.seriousoffshore.com/forum...ad.php?t=17708

"Finally made the switch from OSO to SOS, the ugly"

And posts over there keep disappearing? Amazing what some will do to get better Google results.

I think he was joking Speedy.

You were still slow!

That sanctimonious tool has been using the 'poke the bear' theme for a long time- it's a way for him to come across like a tough guy without actually making a threat.

You're very close to the truth about the playground thing- board members have told me that he posted all day, every day in the boardroom on practically every subject that ever came up. Too bad he was/is so self-absorbed that he didn't realize that everyone else was sick of his tiresome drivel.

Add that to the fact that he bought your Apache to impress his multi-Apache-ownin' idol and it's easy to see that his little world has been turned upside down.

Breaks my heart- let's get back to the star of the show.

From my point of view that's fine and well.. There's a bunch of websites out there other than OSO, SOS... A few that come to mind are Boatfreaks.org, Speedwake and ScreamandFly, all of which I'm a member of.

One thing I do remember, before SOS was created, there was a mass exodus of members and they joined Boatfreaks.org.... After they joined (I won't say names), they began making demands to the Boatfreaks moderators that certain functions "must" be added (like chat for instance) in order for them to "hang out there." With that being said, the moderators and folks behind the scenes who own the site, MADE IT HAPPEN... Then SOS came along and they completely abandoned ship, even though their "demands" were met... That's a pretty f'ed up thing to do, no? Sounds like they wanted their "own" playground...

I never felt welcomed at Speedwake, no biggie, I don't add content there. I felt welcomed at SOS, because I was invited by someone I respect, even though I never really cared much for Sunkin but that's just me. But I do admit, there was a certain SOS "clique" I wasn't a part of and I think every forum has it. I later learned a lot of my OSO friends were hanging out there, so I began adding content but then started seeing the writing on the wall a year ago and some of my good friends were being pulled into "deals" that had no legs.. I began to question further and noticed all the pieces didn't add up.

If you research some of my posts here on OSO and there on SOS dating back quite a ways, you'll see I had questions all along the way... They were subtle questions, not drawing any alarm, but it was my own way of doing checks and balances.

Then when things started to surface I began asking direct questions of Chris early this year, of which my posts were deleted and even received a nice nasty gram from Sunkin to cease and desist... Even the moderators, who now left called me and asked me to be quiet because they wanted to salvage the site... Because I was asked to be quiet by Craig, I kept quiet on the forums and let it take its course.

At that point I put SOS out of my mind and moved on, never adding content since around late March early April timeframe? But the issues were in the forefront well before I stopped contributing... Some of those issues with my friends are still not closed but it's not my place, so I remain silent.

Will I go back to SOS? I don't know... Not now, that's for sure... Maybe at a later date when this all blows over...

For now I'm just going boating and spending time with my new family and keeping my internet boating to a minimum.