Hello,
I used to be a member of a website that is called DSLR or DSLReports (BroadbandReports), which is well known to the online community. My user name was hockeyfun1 (now it is hockeyfun1$) at that site and I had around 14,000 posts. I was once the number one ranked member there before this controversy struck that I am about to tell the public about. DSLR has tried many of things to keep myself and others quiet. I have seen and heard of bad things that go on behind the scenes at the site and think it should be known on why the site, BBR, or DSLR, as its alias is, should be rejected by the online community.
Problems started back in August of 2002. DSLR has their "DC Clubs" (Distributed Computing clubs) and I was a proud member of one of them. Due to a vacancy in their captain's position for the team, and as a dedicated, well-respected member of the site; I decided to run. Little did I know of the actions going on behind the scenes. I was most likely going to win the election and would be Captain today, I am sure. Instead, the election was rigged by the managers of DSLR's Distributed Computing teams (they get a secret, insider forum for all of the politics going on behind the teams and such). From members who quit the 'secret behind the scenes' management of the DC teams at DSLR, they have showed proof to myself it was rigged. First off, the management of the DC teams did not want a new member part of their secret forum. If a Captain would be elected by the public, it would be a good chance that someone who isn't a member of their management team to be elected. The management did not want that. What they did was indeed corrupt. A person of their management who I never even heard of (and many other people too) ended up winning the election in a landslide victory. I came in second with many votes still. To vote, one must Instant Message the management of the DC teams and cast their vote. There was no public polls or anything to confirm the results are not rigged. The now "Captain" of their team was already a member of the management of all the DC teams at DSLR. It was expressed publicly by the former members, who formed their own team now, said it was rigged and they didn't want new people in.
I stayed a member of the team for about the next month. Still a fully dedicated member of the team and site I shall add. It was this, the "straw the broke the camel's back" which made myself quit: The "Captain" of their team publicly criticized myself for my opinions on how the team was going. He only said that since he thought I had moved to the team in which the former members of the management of all DC teams at DSLR and some regular members had started. I indeed was not a member of their team yet. He thought I was, indeed when it was very much the contrary. I was still a fully dedicated member of DSLR's team. I quit and joined the other team, leaving behind my years of results for their team.
I reported the incidents to the site owner, and he didn't even know the DC teams had their "secret" forum going any more. He said he would look in to it and did nothing. He did not care. It was all either covered up or lied about by the members of DSLR's DC management. Lies still spread around the site about myself for no reason at all resulted.
November had some new problems aside from their corruption at DSLR's DC teams. As an active member in other forums at DSLR, I developed some of my own views on Internet Service Providers' Terms of Service. Many Moderators of the site also had the same, non-trolling ways of viewing many providers' Terms of Service. It is that "if an ISP states that servers are not allowed to be run on their network, then servers should not be run!" I adopt to that way fully. The majority of the population, the consumers, have to pay extra costs in the end, suffer from slower speeds and pings or lower-capped speeds. All of this because people using whatever ISP decided not to follow the rules. Because of that, we all pay. A Moderator criticized myself for those views and ignored the fact many of his co-workers also express those views. He stated that as the reason I am not a Moderator of the site. I reported that incident to the owner of DSLR, who in our first meeting back a few months ago, did nothing. I was hoping he would actually do something this time. Again, history repeats and he did nothing.
All of these reasons here are why DSLR should be rejected by the Online Community. A plethora of other sites offer the same content and won't criticize one for their views. As a dedicated member of the site, I deserved more than that was dealt to myself. There was no reason at all for it to happen. I have been a dedicated member of their site for over two years with some extensive computer knowledge and helpful ideas. I will now be looking for a new online community to discuss computer related ideas and technologies. I would hope all of us, as a united Online Community, can reject DSLR, because as a site that offers nothing more than for trolls to run free, corruption and for management who doesn't care what goes on, it is simply not needed in our Online Community. DSLR should be rejected by all. DSLR is ever so quick to delete posts that go against their site, yet they leave troll and flame posts when it is about another site. Babacher is not the REAL captain of Team Discovery. Kinguni is nothing but kingphoni, one gets the Stars Watercooler at DSLR when they hit one star (oh and the stars are to keep people addicted to the site), the Stars Pub is for the more "mature" members of DSLR, not that there are any, the Executive Lounge, one gets when three stars or one gold star is acheived, and after 18 months of membership, one is a member of the forum that changes its name everyonce in awhile. The title of it when I left was "Lee Ho Fook's". The Advanced Tweaks forum is for the tweakers who get membership of it if they are frequent forum users of the Tweaks forum at DSLR. Not sure what the Meat Lockerroom is. How can I forget the link to the Dc Execs?? Oh, and Slashditz14 will never be a Moderator at the site of DSLR either. Please, take our fight and join us in the boycott against DSLR. Thank You.
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Adam
hockeyfun1@aol.com
ComputersOC.com - http://www.computersOC.com
Information on the project I am currently working on now is at that site and we're currently looking for some talent to help run the site.