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Originally Posted by JohnR
I'm firing Milo 
Cap Dom -
Item 1: Your affiliation with Black Salties should have been mentioned at the outset. These have potential and the discussion would have been well supported had you mentioned that you have a financial interest in this product. The way you did handle this was spam, borderline, informative, and reasonable discussion, but still mild spam. You could have asked and added to the conversation properly by disclosing that you are involved with the B.S.
Item 2:
Remember that little blurb when you registered to the site that states: Commercial Advertising without written permission from Striped-Bass.com is Strictly Prohibited, this includes self promotion and promotion of external entities. This is locally considered "SPAM" and is prohibited at Striped-Bass.com. FURTHER, the registering of accounts, mannualy and automated, to solicit services on this forum is expressly forbidden and will be reported - You clicked on the part where it asked you to read the rules and agree.
Item 3: You joined on S-B Feb 21, 2006 at 10:45 pm. I will cleary state that you did NOT send me a PM on the "very first day". You sent one at 6:30 last night in reply to my request, if you were affiliated with B.S.
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We DO allow and encourage this discourse by "knowlegeable" people regarding a product but they should introduce themselves AND their affiliation should be clearly stated from the beginning. Your posts were spamish of the B.S. but they were also somewhat informative.
Item 5: As being the "wholesale guy", you have much to profit from through advancing the PR of the B.S.
Item 6: Yet, you were happy enough to degenerate into railing against DEM when they were squashing YOUR agenda
Item 7:
The open and free and lights kept on by sponsors where the registration agreement states no commercial advertising of any kind without permission first public fishing chat-site
Oakie knows you and if he vouches for you that is a pretty stinkin' good reference in my opinion. HOWEVER, you did not disclose your affiliation, and your agenda, plus you have made a few inaccurate statements here. Please be more honest and open in the future (and read the rules).
Thanks,
John |
Item 1:
Reread my orginal post on 5-01-2006 in regards to this, I think you will see I did mention this fact from the outset.
Item 2:No, I don't remember it, which is why I tried asking you in an email(not the afore mentioned PM as I had originally thought) that was never replied to. If you inadvertently didn't do this or it never reached you, that I can understand, and I didn't resend it in your defense.
Item 3:Last nights PM was in reference to my now clear understanding after searching the site thouroughly for rules and regs on posting and getting an email explaining this to me. I also asked you for rates on advertising in that same PM, still waiting for a response.
Item 4:By your quotations on "knowledgeable" it seems to me you are questioning my "knowledge", and if that is the case you are clearly not aware of my education on this and many other topics nor did you pay much attention to my fact based, reference quoted posts on this matter in question. I never once stated an opinion based on fallicies or conjecture. I did not start either of these threads, I may have overstepped my bounds, and am willing to admit that and apologized openly, and to you in my PM of last night.
Item 5:Guilty as charged.
Item 6:I did not attack a person individually, I stated my very real issues with a body of government acting with no legal precedence or regulations backing them by denying a permit given in 2005, again in 2006, then rescinding it for 3 weeks with no explanantion, and finally passing an emergency rule which goes uncontested by the public for 120 days until it can be publicly reviewed and commented on. I will continue to "rail" against a government which operates in many facets aginst my political and common sense values. Period.
Item 7:Again, guilty as charged, but still waiting to hear the rates for sponsorship of this fine site.
again will state that the rules and regs on this site are very difficult to find. I was hinting that maybe you should put a sticky on a general rule review or put a link to it somewhere easier to find.....
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I did make, in my opinion, very borderline but very few if any innaccurate statements here. I would also again counter that I did make my affiliation known from the start, but if it wasn't clear in my post by stating I at the very beginning didn't feel it appropriate considering my profession, than I apologize again. I certainly will assert that my posts were open, and honest, always, so no need to address that in the future, thanks.
Furthermore:
I did apologize the first time(and in above mentioned PM of last night), a fact which you conveniently failed to recognize or mention in your well thought out and highlighted response to mine. I also know personally other members here, and think that they could vouch for my character and good intentions. I never once was disrepectful of others, did not resort to name calling, and still feel I was open and straightforward. That however, is just my opinion, and again, if misinterpreted or misunderstood through my fault or not, I AGAIN apologize. I still hope that if my opinions are not respected and agreed with, that at least they are tolerated.
Thanks,
Dom