No1-Where Did All The Old Timers Go Who Helped Out Here At Afterdawn,Who's Still Here? All Please Check In! CLOSED!

Thanks Ireland! I feel better already!

O.K. Now everybody, lets take our medication like good boys and girls!

@Cyprusrom....Ain't that the truth!!!

 

Safety Valve is great - I've no problem with Safety Valve ;^)
And Titles are meaningless... well at least they are now (they used to have value).
But you guys can see how it's upsetting can't you - how someone can work away for years helping people as a Senior Member, and then some new rookie guy makes Addict within 6 months through Safety Valve...?
That's crazy and disrespectful to the Seniors that help.
There should not be 1000's and 1000's of Addicts (by definition).
It would therefore be easy to, once the person hits the Addict threshold, subtract the SV posts from their total.
Addicts themselves should be leading the charge for this requirement (to protect and defend the integrity of their title).

 

there is a way to do that with out upsetting the apple cart is add another step,like (super AfterDawn Addict}

and to reach that step the mods and admin should pick those that deserve the upgrage..
and then the Safety valve then can live on for ever.

my one cent

 

@LOCOENG
Who complained about "the scantilly clad women in the videos on MTV" ?!


Everyone that need the green pill, think again about that root canal that ireland talks about...

 

So keep the "safety valve" BUT don't count the posts.

 

The safety valve i think is a fun place to meet the memebers......And get away for awhile and take a break from helping other members....I don't think it should get shut down.........Think how it would be without the safety valve

 

Dont ye all think drD, KNOWS ABOUT ALL THE BITCHING thats going on and is sick to his stomache about it.I know i am.............

It was the admins decision to change the ways the ranks were done to stop the whiners from whingeing but that was a farce as now it seems that from newbie to addict we are all doing it.You'd think it was our goal on this site to see who can out do each other to be the biggest whiner which would mean some ones going to get the title as the biggest loser at this rate.

Threads like this need to closed as you can all see it has an impact and just adds to the problems.Its fine you brought it to every ones attention but continually bringing it up is detrimental to this community and lets the malcontent make things worst.


If we want a solution then work with the admin, through suggestions, help the mods out more but dont play the role of wannabee mods and hopefully we can get the oldies back and this site will be as rockin' as it was when i joined in 2002.But we cant move on with threads like this popping up every day its just been to negative.

The title thingy is always going to be a sore point, but let admin sort it but considering this problem has been on the table for a while now maybe its more of a problem for the admin.You cant keep every one happy all of the time and you all bitching about it is just making it worst.

Ireland my friend you posted a serious topic in the safety valve you should know better than anyone that by posting here it will go off topic







Come on guys we are all better than that
As always ladies and gentleman its your choice!!!!!!!

 

@LOCOENG...I guess my point was simply that it wasn't always like this; safety valve use to be a place where one could have a lot of fun and the complaining was scarce. I'm sure its just a coincidence but it seems like right around the time a certain addict left for personal reasons (not the complaining)everything seemed to go haywire; its like everything changed overnight; I don't claim to know why save to say that it wasn't always like this.

@The_Ogs...I fully agree with garmoon that we should just simply stop counting posts to the safety valve. I can't say that I understand this preoccupation folks have with the number of posts and the member...senior member...and addicts status but its certainly prevalent enough that it shouldn't be ignored. If, as garmoon suggested, we stop counting posts to the safety valve then perhaps all the complaining about "padding post numbers" would stop. I help out in the areas in which I have some knowledge and I enjoy doing so but I also enjoy just coming to the safety valve to play when I've finished helping in those areas. I have a good time and a lot of laughs with quite a few of our members...and if it's possible to have friends with mere words on a screen, I do consider them as such, I look forward to talking and joking with them and that would never have come to pass without the safety valve. This complaining really only started a couple of months ago and it's unfortunate because, while its certainly important to be helping folks in the forums, there is certainly nothing wrong with a socializing element where one gets to know people and have a good time with them. Perhaps if, as garmoon suggested, we stop adding the safety valve to the post count, we will have removed the very source of the complaining.

 

@ gerry1

Actually the complaining started way before they changed the levels from being handpicked to what it is now, its now just worst and more noticeable

 

hi all

less of the oldies, i am one - (regular users sounds better) hehehe

ok simply put...

help where help is needed no more and no less

elvis leaves the building..................................

 

i do not give a dam what your rank,it does not mean beans..
its the persons personally i care about and there are a bunch of great intelligent people posting on this site...

 

Nice sentiments but you cant change the people who do give a damn about what there title is and there the ones who make addict in 12 months through chatting rather than helping.I'm not naming names but maybe you could start a thread with

[bold]How long did it take you to get where you are today[/bold]

i'll start it for it as well

3 years to addict

 

I joined August 1st of 2003 and have 720 posts. Got off to a really slow start! I've a long way to go before I'm an addict with or without the safety valve LOL!

 

I don't think anybody should care if some1 makes addict in 12 months............YOu say that ranks don't matter.........As long as people help people than i don't see why people should complain about other people.........I mean sure it shows respect that you are an addict.............But who cares NO one yet has got to addict really fast and i don't think anybody will .......People should just worry about there own buisness

And also these threads shouldn't be closed because people don't like it...These threads are normal threads that arn't pointless