out of touch

[Kelmen]

I been out-of-touch on reefing forums (this and RC), and seems like lot of negative things happened...

Anyone knew what triggered the major "shuffle" in RC?

I just try my past-regular browsing on RC, and seems like Dr. Ron "vanished" liao...

What happened ah? Terrorists struck forum too!?

[BFG]

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http://drrons.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_drrons_archive.html

[Kelmen]

Oh, wonder who's this hot-head mod....

anyone got the link or specific keyword into the "deep of the war(thread)", I'm interested (keh-boh) to know the full story coverage... hehehe...

[Achilles Tang]

Well, no forum's perfect.

As long as there are people, there will be conflict, jealousies, hatred, spite and all the multitude of negative behaviour that causes people to split apart.

It's sad to see experts like Shimek, Calfo, Bourneman etc leaving RC.

[BFG]

Hey AT, why not invite them here?

[Achilles Tang]

These are Americans.

They won't find themselves at home here... look at the standard of written english there and the singlish here! lol!

[Kelmen]

In past, I thought I will not find any human retarded stuffs (apart from the ######... kekeke) in the digital world. Obviously, human evil can seep into many ways and forms. Not even a hobbyist forum can be spare...

[mUAr_cHEe]

###### is not retarded. It is a form of art. that is why it used to be "(Restricted) Artistic."

Hamster humping. Now that is sick!

[madmac]

Oh, wonder who's this hot-head mod....

anyone got the link or specific keyword into the "deep of the war(thread)", I'm interested (keh-boh) to know the full story coverage... hehehe...

None other than Eric Bourneman. He took part in a thread, "BB crash stories" and when put in a spot, turned around and started deleting the pictures posted by Bomber, accusing him of infringing some law by keeping Caribbean corals. He then asked Bomber to produce prove that he was from NOAA and had the proper papers to keep these corals or he (bourneman) would report him to the authorities. Shortly after that he deleted the entire BB crash stories thread, I think there were about 6 or 7 splits of 40 pages each there, a tremendous resource even by itself.

This led to a high level meeting as he flouted rules, rules that he was suppose to have kept and protected, ironically -- accusing others what he himself had done.

Sides were formed and I think, E. Brouneman roped in R. Shimek and A. Calfo, specialist in their own sub-forums, to lend weight to his actions, GregT defended Bomber, who I still think didn't do any wrong whatsoever. GregT resigned on his own after what he considered as unethically done towards his friend, RC's investigation into personal life of Bomber. The rest had their privileges revoked as their action/s amounted to something, like a threat towards RC, like a black-mail or dock-workers strike protest against the employer.

Read GregT's portion here : http://www.saltyzoo.com/blog/

[Kelmen]

None other than Eric Bourneman...

...GregT defended Bomber..

...RC's investigation into personal life of Bomber...

Mmm.... Eric "the coral guru"...

Not familiar with GregT... he's active in the specialists subforum?...

Wow! CSI type of FBI type investigation? Bomber "bomb" the site? hehehe...

Well, to me, Bomber is kind of "hard" and "aggresive" guy, but he's real resourceful. He's kind of good in Chemistry, known him at Anthony and the Chemist subforums.

He's feedback sometime (or most time) are kind of harsh, but there are always good info\details trailed with the treatment.... hehehe....

Too bad, RC is kind of virtual community "achievement" to me...