Hello Nina,

Yes, I have heard from Cap'n Kevin, I got a PM from him a day or two ago.

He reports that there is Snow and Ice in Maine. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Hi - I read the Wikepedia entry. It is all very very sad, BUT if "people" do take a high/heavy handed approach enough times the only option open in order to avoid a pointless slanging match may be to walk away. A Private PM might have been more productive and not leave any unpleasant aroma's.

Maybe a private well placed interaction between the various parties in order to heal this rift might help - the parties involved all have an enormous amount to offer - not particularly to CL but to the users of their products.

The hard thing I guess with having a website "paid for" by the manufactureris getting the balance right between being a commercial (non charitable venture!) and meeting high (in this case I think reasonable) customer expectations.

The only real way to avoid this happening in future is to have a completely INDEPENDENT user group which answers to itself or an agreed "committee"

I think I have probably said enough now

Don Gigabyte I7/4940 O/C 4.3, Noctua Cooler 10GB DDR3, 4 x 1TB, 1TB SSD, Geoforce GTX660 TI 8500W PSU, Windows 10 Pro 64bit.

Did someone say independent ? There is one that covers everyone : http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/non-linear-editing-pc/

I just finished the verbal back and forth on this topic and the fact that the thread is locked is not re-assuring. A well balanced forum really should have at least 2-3 moderators to avoid such mis-understandings. Let's hope this can be resolved in a fair manner. Win 10, i7

It seems that those with the most brillant technical minds have a common problem which is "LACK OF PATIENCE OR UNDERSTANDING"

I love traffic, in any business that is the life blood

Any loss of a talented mind is a loss to all who participate

I struggled with whether or not to respond to this thread. I have seen threads locked and also vanish from the record completely in the past week concerning this matter.

All I want to say is that I have been editing as a hobby using PD7 along with other NLE software and am considering editing for hire. I have been serching for any information to help with a decision on which software package to use as my main "goto" program. I take into consideration the quality of user support available with the user forum weighted heavily in the decision. Lets just say that while it appears that PD9 does a great many things better than the competition, I am having a hard time "pulling the trigger" and buying it. The main reason is the way this forum is moderated. I don't want to invest $ (or more importantly time) in a package that I may not have support for if I do not appear to present my question properly as determined by the "power to be".

Has anyone seen the sitcom Seinfeld? Anyone familiar with "The soup 'man'" episodes? Best soup (support) in town as long as you don't anger the man with the ladle. If you do then ..........."NO SOUP FOR YOU!"

It is a sad day when things like this happen. I will just make a couple of comments.

I am an ex-Police Sergeant and I spent most of my 17 years in the job in a small country town that is not too dissimilar to this forum.

The trickiest thing to accomplish is the balance between good cop, bad cop.

If you are too easy on people they walk all over you.....If you are too hard you are the worst person in the world. It is a fine line you have to walk down to achieve balance. It is not easy and a job I would not choose to do on a forum.

Every now and then we have similar problems on one of my Hang gliding forums and I look at it this way, I am not paying for this place to hang out, in effect I am in someone's home and if the owner/moderator says black is white and white is black, then I have a couple of choices agree, move on or start my own forum.

Lastly everyone, this forum is still a great place to hang out and help people, chill out, relax and enjoy life, it is way too short to get so wound up on a forum, go outside smell the flowers, play in the snow or whatever that makes you feel better.

Cheers

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