chris_grant1

How about some actual figures on the number of "current" paying members? Not the 2003 stats. It seems from your implication Bob, that without every ad penny then pn would cease. Gives the impression that membership dues are unimportant.

Perhaps Dr. Price can enlighten us...

Seems no problem is ever photonets.

Oh yes you can too Currents. I was and have no images receiving return praise, yet was slapped around somehwat rudely. Might wanna think twice.

The Revived Roman Empire...sounds sinister in nature to me

I know my words don't carry much weight here, but after reading the constant posts about ratings problems, maybe it's time for a different approach here.

 

I for one would like to see a guy with Vincents attitude take over. The current methods seem to draw fire no matter the solution offered from management. He puts forth resonable thoughts and ideas. Brian's comment to Walter about taking over seems to imply that maybe the load is becoming to much now.

It seems the new format is a step backwards in my view. The trp

doesn't look anywhere near as good as it did before and the only

other change I see is a title bar, which does look better. For all

the things that have gone wrong with this simple change I really

question where the priorities rank here. So many other changes need

to take place with much higher priority than a simple switching of

labels.

 

Perhaps a trip to Microsoft tech help is needed.

I hope to go to Heaven

So what happened on March, 19th 2005 from that ip? Perhaps that was when I logged in to purchase more webstorage for his photos that was never creditied to his account but I was charged by PayPal for it. If you will look further you will see that I also logged in and paid for someone elses membership too. Does that mean that they are now lumped in as me?

 

As Jeremy was told in letter from Paul,I have an account as Chris Grant and my kids share an account here. Both are paying members mind you. Until this week my account was on seperate pc from the kids, but mine finally shorted out from all the 7's I was dishing out.

 

I brought up Paul's temporary banning one time, yet it seems to continue thruout this conversation. I am sorry to see him in ShawShank, but that is between you and him to resolve.

Yes by all means lets concern the same computer use. You are still implying that we use the same pc when this is not the case. Am I not to expect public clarification on this from pnet? All I want are the ip facts...

 

I'm tired of being accused of this. Your abuse department let these accusations go on here giving rise to alot of the grief being dealt with now. I don't understand when Rash and the boys cried this all the time, and I asked for you guys to set the record straight, I was ignored. Yet now I sit here still feeling I have to defend myself.

 

After you guys removed all my ratings, I virtually quit rating pics, yet my rates were still being brought up in the same old noise. It seems whichever turn I take it's incorrect here.

Brian as pc skilled as the pnet group is. I can assure you that Paul and I do not share anything other than friendship. He lives in Vancouver and I in the state of Virgina. I am sure that this is easily checked if you would care to check further. That is a very slanderous comment to make without bothering to show any proof.

 

Is this the reason you banned Paul? You thought we were the same? I used his pw to give him a membership as a gift. Thats the ONLY time I have ever accessed it. I sent several emails to you concerning this fact when I was trying to find a way to do it without him knowing..hence the gift...I was directed in forum post to contact pnet thru mail or eventually get Pauls pw and go that route. Without any reply from pnet, I finally had to ask Paul for the needed info.

 

Search for my requests..easily done. You give me some long speil on etiquette and how the system works, then throw out sock puppet, roomate, mater, telling me my rates are insignificant. Nice way to treat the customers. I only rated quality pics..from lots of artisits, Paul was the recipient of alot, but I rated all highly. I have no pics so to speak of and never once received any mate rates. So please explain to me why my rates didn't matter.

 

I'm not here to fight, so don't take it that way. I just feel you have unfairly made statements that you need to retract.

 

Chris

Brain if I may..."Social rating is a problem on this site and all other photo rating sites that I am familiar with. The more the site attempts to foster "community", the more of a problem it is. It is sometimes dishonest, but more often, it is not. One person's "mate-rating" is another person's "mutual respect for high-quality work". If the admins are going to try to distinguish the two by making their own judgements about quality, we might as well just eliminate the rating system and have the admins decide directly which photos go into the TRP." In my email to you and Jeremy when you removed all of my ratings due to the whining groups that had nothing to do but daily complain of my ratings to Paul, I posed that same thought to you.

 

That being if one stayed on pnet for any length of time, and formed a core of artists they liked, then rated those, would this not produce the same issues as you speak of now? Yet here you seem to accept that fate while taking actions against me for doing just that.

 

I am curious as to why ratings are even allowed when they seem to create such a "headache" for all here. What is really won or accomplished by rates anyway? Seems to me the system causes friction and does nothing but create venues for certain groups to howl about. This in turn results in waves of abuse emails, almost forcing retalitory actions warranted or not, by mods.

 

It makes one wonder who runs the site, fair set of rules for all to go by, or certain groups that cry foul, loud and long enough until they achieve the results they were after.

Saw in your post that you were in a Nascar forum...would that by chance have been the Payprus Racing by Sierra?

I've noticed that you have mentioned me three times in this post and I have no dog in this fight. I'm curious as to why you are so interested in who and how I rate. Who are you to question what I do? I'm a Paying member enjoying the fine works of many here.

 

Am I not allowed to rate and comment without having to have my actions tracked by you? Politely asking that from this point forth, you leave me out of the issues you seem to have here.

 

Jayme, sorry to interupt the party, just felt obliged to clear that up. Also, nice to read such well articulated and written thoughts.

 

now we return you to your previously scheduled program...

Happened to be thumbing around and came upon this discussion.Low and behold there's a link to a photo I posted. Not here to defend the shot, or the right to post it, that's entirely different discussion. The shot is not artistic in the sense that so many here truly are, but none the less its there. Enjoy it or disapprove of it the choice is just a click away...

 

New to the game here, but would be nice to have you leave me message either in photo critique or thru photonet email..that you are using me as example in your post.