Hi Karoola,
I shall be praying for you tonight, i hope one day you will learn it is better to love your fellow man than to hate. It will only eat you up inside. Peace!
Rod
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Hi Karoola,
I shall be praying for you tonight, i hope one day you will learn it is better to love your fellow man than to hate. It will only eat you up inside. Peace!
Rod
I hope you get this all worked out Al & Ryan. Prosecute to the full extent of the law. Great work you guys. I had the day off work yesterday(BRRRR) & had a great chance to catch up on all the posts.... NOT.
This person is just an a**hole!!
Pierre
Modified by RandalB for profanity. While we all agree he's an A**hole, we shouldn't spell it out. Family oriented board..
hey hacker...you're a piece of crap mate!!!
i'm a huge believer in "what goes around, comes around"
for you hacker, that means something bad is coming your way! and i hope it hurts.
for the guys who bring us this amazing forum every day, something great is coming your way!
matt
Hi Al and Ryan. Sorry that this is happening again and thanks for your efforts/energy/time to keep Simply going. I can only speak for myself, but I'd be lost without Simply Discus and all of you. I hope that we never lose this amazing site that you guys have worked so hard for.
To the hacker >:( :-\..... if you're needing attention, there are other ways of getting it. If you're enraged and are out to hurt and "try" to destroy innocent people and relationships, why not honestly ask yourself who, then why....???????
I seriously doubt that the answer will be the members of Simply Discus. ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Often when people do cheap destructive crap like this it's because someone has done something to them in their past, they can't face it or deal with it, so they wrongfully dump it........ :puke: on others. It is no excuse, it's the cowards way out. Stop trying to hurt others and deal with your truth. One day, you'll be a better person for it.
Barb
It's strange.... hackers believe that they are disguised, hidden, no one can find out who they are ----- you have told us more about who you are than you'd probably like to believe.
Many thanks for going the extra mile, and getting the site back up and running!
It has been a source of information and support that I could never have found locally.
Keep up the good work!
It is both needed and greatly appreciated!
Larry
Al and Ryan
Again ...many thanks for the hard work to get thing back to normal. Success and popularity apparently make you at taregt. Wonder if the "Perp" has his own website and if anyone bothers to hack in there? My guess is probably not.
I for one would be interested to know the ID of the "Perp" just in case there were any chance of doing business with this individual, I could factor this 'tidbit' in.
Paul!
"I know good and well it wont do any good its just that there arent many things in life that make me want to grab a ski mask, my louisville, a few friends and go hunting."
LOL...atta boy! Count me in!
Keith
Hackers are nothing new. DAAH had an unfortunate incident a year or so back just as it was growing nicely. People always attack on the upswing to stop momentum. Guess what it didn't work. DAAH is doing well and Simply is still here. As long as these boards are around and helping people at no cost for their services they are targets.
It is a shame that things like this happen.
Miles
Al and Ryan,
Yes, it is really a shame that these things happen. As always, bad people (with nothing better to do) is out there trying to destroy what others have built with hard work. >:(
Anyways, rest assured that everybody here will stand to support Simply in any possible way. Of course, count me in! ;)
Alberto
Well I think the hacker should be stung up in the Center of Times Square for what he/she has done and is doing.
But I guess sometimes it takes a fool like him to bring out the foolishness of others.
.....After many many phone calls and emails between friends I decided I can not agree with the policy here anymore due to all of the back stabbing going on behind closed doors in the mod section, so I wish everyone the best in their discus keeping and look foward to talking to my friends on the other boards but Simply I will not be part of anymore.....
Randy
Nobody was stabbed in the back Randy. There was an expectation of privacy where opinions could be expressed without impacting the people involved.
I had an opinion and made comments. Probably comments in the same vein as in your recent private emails and phone calls back and forth that you alluded to above.
Pay close attention to the source of the information. You've been around awhile and know how alliances change.
I agree with Carol. No one was stabbed in the back. There is a mission statement at this site that we as mods and admins try hard to follow. Sometimes it is touchy and sometimes decisions are hard, but we do our best. Though we're mods and admins, we do have our opinions of things like everyone else. However, we follow the mission statement by not posting those opinions publicly on the board. The mod-only board allowed those things to be discussed privately between the mods without us having to IM everyone on the mod team individually. It was intended to be private, just as emails and IMs between users here are private. We do not read your IMs or emails, why would you need to read our mod-only board?
AquaForums, DAAH, and many other boards out there have a private area, and no one is trying to hack those. Why the one here at Simply was such a big deal is beyond me. Most of the things shared between mods and admins there is common knowledge to those of you "in the know," because you've discussed them with us via phone, email, IM, even in person. You should look up the definition of back-stabbing before you go around accusing someone of it.
Personally, for me, it is difficult to remain neutral on these types of forums. Personality types conflict, people have disagreements, some folks just don't get along. A lot of you reading this have opinions of other members of the discus community, whether good or bad, and I'm sure you've shared them with your friends. Though I'm an administrator at Simply, I am still a hobbyist and a human being, and I like to vent and talk things through with friends. The mod-only board made that possible.
There is a double-standard here, and frankly I'm really sick of it. Some of you like to accuse us of "back-stabbing" and you try to paint a bad picture of us, but all of these e-mails that are circulating regarding Simply and Al and the rest of us have been going on for nearly a year, before any of this ever surfaced. It is okay for all of you to criticize and belittle us, but God forbid I have an opinion of my own. The same goes for Al and the other moderators on this board.
This website remains running because it has been an invaluable resource to many people. I know this because they have emailed and IM'd myself and the mods to tell us so. This site is for them. They appreciate the service this community provides, and I am proud to be part of the team that makes it possible. It is truely a rewarding feeling. As for those of you who have a problem with me or Al, or the policies of this board... why do you bother coming here to let us know? This is not the only discus site on the internet, and you're not being forced to read or participate in this forum. You think what you need to think, but don't drag the rest of us into it.
To everyone on the forum that have expressed your support and gratitude, thank you so much. You are what makes this a wonderful place to be. I am sorry that those who do not appreciate or enjoy our site are trying to ruin a good thing for the rest of you.
Ryan
Well said Carol and Ryan!! It's funny how some of these people are such "saints"!! Give me a freakin break!!
That's it thats all from me cause I'm startin to get a little choked at the crap some of these people are writing.
Darcy
Don't know why all of this is such a big issue to begin with, seems like drama that isn't needed.
As far as I know this board is used for the purpose of advancing the discus hobby and helping people who aren't far along in it. Personally I don't see why people should even give a hoot what somone else thinks of them or says about them, good or bad...it's not a contest, it's a hobby.
Sad to see that some people have nothing better to do with their time then start fights on the internet, even if you do know eachother in real life...let alone making things completely public to try and make folks come off in a bad way...not only is it childish but it's really just not that big of a deal...
Awsome posts Carol and Ryan....I couldnt agree more!!
Tony :thumbsup: