This Forum.......

This forum has become so much about drama that it has become now a negative environment.

I'd really like to see some posts and threads about good things going on in the internet.

Share a few good things you have done recently.

Share a new product.

Just share something (positive)!

Okay, not to be a dick, but if you see there is a need of new content why are you not helping with that issue instead of complaining about it?  This is about as useless as all the drama threads as it just someone complaining about something instead of someone taking action to fix the problem they see.

If you think we need better content here then try to start some discussions your self on what interests you instead of just complaining about the lack of original content in a thread.

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” 
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.” 

― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.” 

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

my 2 cents.

Cheers!

TheLinuxBug said:

This is about as useless as all the drama threads as it just someone complaining about something

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Sounds to me like you're complaining

Are you complaining about his complaint?

Ahhh!  You weren't supposed to catch on

LOL!

(that was indeed my whole point... shhhh  )

Cheers!

I don't see that much drama in all honesty, most of it is self contained. I do what I tell others to do, scroll past it. There are threads that I don't enter because I have no interest in the content. I'll enter if there is a report submitted by a member that states something needs reviewed, but otherwise not seeing content you don't want to see is quite easy.

But yes, more technical related stuff is always good! Please, more of that.

MannDude said:

I don't see that much drama in all honesty, most of it is self contained. I do what I tell others to do, scroll past it. There are threads that I don't enter because I have no interest in the content. I'll enter if there is a report submitted by a member that states something needs reviewed, but otherwise not seeing content you don't want to see is quite easy.

But yes, more technical related stuff is always good! Please, more of that.

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Yeah, well i do that too. The problem is when you go to the recent section and everything is about drama. And then you see drmike in all of them throwing gas so that the fire keep on.

While it's true that you can ignore or just evade the forum, the concern is more about what is becoming the purpose of this forum:

1- Talk about anything related to the other bigger communities. With a touch of rage.

2- Talk about failing companies or wannabe companies.

3- Talk about anything excluding hosting and servers

Does it generate money? sure, the traffic keep coming.

How about the culture and values? <-- we have serious problems here.

This forum has become so much about drama that it has become now a negative environment.

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Agreed, and as recent news events have taught us, the best way to bring about meaningful change is to ban a symbol, so I'm starting a petition which I hope will make this forum a nicer place for everyone so we can all enjoy a life of sunshine and rainbows of happiness shooting out of our asses!

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PETITION TO BAN THE vpsBOARD LOGO



It's time for a change! It's time to ban a racist  DRAMA symbol from all government-issued license plates web browsers. Tell the North Carolina Legislature moderators: Ban Confederate flag license plates the vpsBoard logo NOW!

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DomainBop said:

Agreed, and as recent news events have taught us, the best way to bring about meaningful change is to ban a symbol, so I'm starting a petition which I hope will make this forum a nicer place for everyone so we can all enjoy a life of sunshine and rainbows of happiness shooting out of our asses!

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PETITION TO BAN THE vpsBOARD LOGO



It's time for a change! It's time to ban a racist  DRAMA symbol from all government-issued license plates web browsers. Tell the North Carolina Legislature moderators: Ban Confederate flag license plates the vpsBoard logo NOW!

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I can fix that.

Hxxx said:

Yeah, well i do that too. The problem is when you go to the recent section and everything is about drama. And then you see drmike in all of them throwing gas so that the fire keep on.

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I don't toss on every thread or drama....  Feel free to post your own dramas I have no interest in and I won't comment

Hxxx said:

How about the culture and values? <-- we have serious problems here.

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I vote @Hxxx to chair the culture committee.

MannDude said:

I can fix that.

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I like that, but it needs bullet holes.... Can you have a 1969 theme just for me?

Drama sells. It gets viewers and gets new people on the forum. There just comes a time when the drama threads need to end and need to be locked, until they're continued on the next episode

I feel that we have some, lets say, needless instigators (creating drama with no fact behind it--just for the sake of stirring the communal pot) on the forum who create silly and unnecessary threads (not naming names--you can figure them out). Instead of criticizing them in their threads, why not use that energy to open up your own threads worth reading? 

Problem isn't drama caused last few days things have been quiet and I mostly haven't been around and had but a few comments (which I hope continues).

Problem is perception of busy and lens view of the forums.  For some reason these sites are like a rolling edge of the toilet roll.   Intentionally folks are not looking to see a whole roll back there, or in this instance seeing the very end of the roll.  This other nonsense about necro'ing threads and people getting brow beat for posting something that likely already has been but they failed in search (no harm I do this all the time).

Other problem is we have a forum full of providers.  If providers want to talk shop they have private out of site place to do that.  So that does nothing for the general audience and busy perception.

What is going on is like so many sites.  Communities require lots of management, regular small dramas to annoy chat out of people just enough and a bunch of other seeders planting topics.  

Folks maybe fear posting, others are busy running their businesses / working.  

Nothing odd going on.  Take the time and share something (relative), post about whatever (relative), preferably not politics (unless hosting related).

Munzy said:

Share a new product.

Just share something (positive)!

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http://www.chevrolet.com/2016-cruze/

Not internet related, but there you go!

MannDude said:

I can fix that.

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Please, don't!

I am here for the drama but I am not always online. Will need to catch up

MannDude said:

But yes, more technical related stuff is always good! Please, more of that.

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I like the technical stuff too (helps me learn!).

What kind of technical stuff would the community like to see? 

Also can cPanel tutorials be posted in the Library? I don't know that much about VPS and nothing that you guys don't already know, but I have quite a few tricks for cPanel that I would be happy to share.

The new logo is glorious! It just lacks the nyan cat at the end.

Tyler said:

I like the technical stuff too (helps me learn!).

What kind of technical stuff would the community like to see? 

Also can cPanel tutorials be posted in the Library? I don't know that much about VPS and nothing that you guys don't already know, but I have quite a few tricks for cPanel that I would be happy to share.

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Just fire them up anywhere and if you think it needs checked/moved, report it and we'll get it sorted

Honest truth here gents.

If I wanted to watch and read the "Days of our VPSes" my account on LET would still be active.

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Maybe it is time to move on from this forum as well, there isn't anything I want here anymore,  and it seems from the general sense of the community that this wont change. Even @MannDude doesn't seem to care about this problem.

@Munzy Again, what the hell are you doing to fix this problem?  Your just coming here and whining like a little girl about it.  You haven't made any threads or started any conversations to help move things forward?  Instead you come here and just go "Ohh woes me, I am not happy, I don't like this... ".  If you want change, make change happen, don't just come and complain about things.

This seems to be an issue that the younger crowd has, instead of actually doing something about an issue they just complain about it and hope someone else does something.  This is not how it works my friend, you need to step up and do something your self to help create the change.

The people here posting the content they do is because that is what they are interested in and want to talk about.  If you want different topics, open them your self and start the conversation.  The people who dont mind the things the way they are surely are not going to do this for you.

my 2 cents.

Cheers!