I know a lot of members here egg on me about being sensitive or a drama queen, but it is my baby and seeing it get wounded does hurt me, online and offline. I'm trying my best to seperate myself from WickedFire by treating it more like a business and not something close to me. Its been a tough road, but I'm getting better, I promise.
I also want to say sorry for deleting Nicky's threads/posts when he claimed I was censoring him. I was. Again, I brought my personal feelings of it into something that should have been purely business. It was uncalled for and I shouldn't have acted the way I did. That doesn't go to say that he was totally right either, but if he comes to terms with it and wants to say something about it, by all means, its up to him, not me. Without warning today I decided I was fed up with the drama, so I re-instated Nicky back to being a moderator. I know he likes WickedFire a lot, and I know WF likes him. He's a great moderator as well, and I'd much rather bite the bullet, swallow my pride for a change, and apologize because its the right thing to do and the mature thing to do.
We recently settled with ClickBooth in our lawsuit (see this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/40514-cb-wf-settlement.html ).
Some of the major issues that we settled on were to remove some pretty famous threads here where I was definitely leading the lynch mob in trying to settle the score with ClickBooth. All of those threads have been deleted as per our settlement agreement.
What pains me most is not to see those particular threads die, but any threads that have the core values and opinions of a community, so I want YOU guys and girls, the members and contributors here to try your hardest and use WickedFire as a last resort if you feel it necessary to post about an injustice in the affiliate marketing industry. If you truly cannot settle the score by any other means, then fine, that's what we're here for. But please make an effort to try first.
People have been pretty reluctant to post on WickedFire as new members, and they bitch about it a lot at conferences because they want to contribute but are afraid of being reamed out for it. Well, to help you guys understand why the members do this is because we are all frustrated. Frustrated with people coming around asking for advice without ever having tried it or learned from their mistakes. If you have actually tried something yourself, failed time and time again and need help, chances are people here will warm up to you a lot quicker. Because we are a core brotherhood if you will of people who hate whiners and guys coming here with their hand out looking for free hand me outs. Maybe if you took the initiative and tried first, failed and then asked we wouldn't treat you like shit? Hmm.. what a concept!
Another reason we are so harsh with new members can be best compared to a fraternity hazing new pledges. As a new member here, you are bound to be poked and prodded, but thats our way of testing you to see if you really do have the caliber membership to stick around here and become one of us. If you go home and cry to mommy, we know right away you're not worthy. Plus a little hazing every now and then is just good fun. Its part of our more twisted sense of humor I suppose. That's just how we roll guys, so either take it or leave it and go elsewhere.
I love this forum. I love the cliques its created at conferences. I love the huge number of different personalities its brought out. I love hearing how much WickedFire has helped someone learn when other forums taught them nothing but failure. I love the funny shit you guys post or the photoshopped threads that grows into epic threads. I love the private jokes that we know of that no one else in the industry does. I love being the guy at the helm through good times and bad no matter how much I hate it sometimes, deep down, I truly love it. I love WickedFire. There, I said it finally. Sue me. (no, please don't for a while at least).
- Jon
I also want to say sorry for deleting Nicky's threads/posts when he claimed I was censoring him. I was. Again, I brought my personal feelings of it into something that should have been purely business. It was uncalled for and I shouldn't have acted the way I did. That doesn't go to say that he was totally right either, but if he comes to terms with it and wants to say something about it, by all means, its up to him, not me. Without warning today I decided I was fed up with the drama, so I re-instated Nicky back to being a moderator. I know he likes WickedFire a lot, and I know WF likes him. He's a great moderator as well, and I'd much rather bite the bullet, swallow my pride for a change, and apologize because its the right thing to do and the mature thing to do.
We recently settled with ClickBooth in our lawsuit (see this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/40514-cb-wf-settlement.html ).
Some of the major issues that we settled on were to remove some pretty famous threads here where I was definitely leading the lynch mob in trying to settle the score with ClickBooth. All of those threads have been deleted as per our settlement agreement.
What pains me most is not to see those particular threads die, but any threads that have the core values and opinions of a community, so I want YOU guys and girls, the members and contributors here to try your hardest and use WickedFire as a last resort if you feel it necessary to post about an injustice in the affiliate marketing industry. If you truly cannot settle the score by any other means, then fine, that's what we're here for. But please make an effort to try first.
People have been pretty reluctant to post on WickedFire as new members, and they bitch about it a lot at conferences because they want to contribute but are afraid of being reamed out for it. Well, to help you guys understand why the members do this is because we are all frustrated. Frustrated with people coming around asking for advice without ever having tried it or learned from their mistakes. If you have actually tried something yourself, failed time and time again and need help, chances are people here will warm up to you a lot quicker. Because we are a core brotherhood if you will of people who hate whiners and guys coming here with their hand out looking for free hand me outs. Maybe if you took the initiative and tried first, failed and then asked we wouldn't treat you like shit? Hmm.. what a concept!
Another reason we are so harsh with new members can be best compared to a fraternity hazing new pledges. As a new member here, you are bound to be poked and prodded, but thats our way of testing you to see if you really do have the caliber membership to stick around here and become one of us. If you go home and cry to mommy, we know right away you're not worthy. Plus a little hazing every now and then is just good fun. Its part of our more twisted sense of humor I suppose. That's just how we roll guys, so either take it or leave it and go elsewhere.
I love this forum. I love the cliques its created at conferences. I love the huge number of different personalities its brought out. I love hearing how much WickedFire has helped someone learn when other forums taught them nothing but failure. I love the funny shit you guys post or the photoshopped threads that grows into epic threads. I love the private jokes that we know of that no one else in the industry does. I love being the guy at the helm through good times and bad no matter how much I hate it sometimes, deep down, I truly love it. I love WickedFire. There, I said it finally. Sue me. (no, please don't for a while at least).
- Jon
