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Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

recantha

I can't quite believe this. The Foundation has banned me from the Forum. No warning, no notification, just the ban.

 

I _think_ it's because I warned them about an article I'd read where the problems with delivery from RS weren't being addressed by either the Foundation or by RS themselves... And then daring to explain why I'd posted it on the Forum instead of PMing someone (Liz and Eben are in the States...).

 

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19273&p=188490

 

I wouldn't mind if I'd been slating the Foundation or RS directly!

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Mike

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  • I'm part of the group of people being banned there. Even if I admit I may have crossed the line with the people in the Foundation it always was as a defense against a treatment I didn't deserve at all.

     

    I stated a problem I had with element14 in my country in a complete absence of information from them. I still had problems to understand what happened and why where some element14 customers asked to pay 3 months before real delivery. I spoke with lots of people in the company and nobody knew/care. So I address it in the RaspberryPi forums (where else should I have asked for help) to realize that the people behind the Foundation where more concerned about bussinnes partners than users (not customers as they treat people when they want to "take control".

     

    The lack of maners of Liz Upton, Eben Upton, Abishur and JamesH lead me to think they may have a strange conception on how to help people. The only good thing they have made banning me it's making me interested enough to learn and make a better device / more open to learn.

  • in reply to jdavidgea

    And I'm part of the group of people not banned from there, but I remember reading some article and comments about someone who was trying to get a free R-Pi, and it really did was a tasteless post so I'm happier not to contribute to such a forum.

  • in reply to shabaz

    shabaz wrote:

     

    And I'm part of the group of people not banned from there, but I remember reading some article and comments about someone who was trying to get a free R-Pi, and it really did was a tasteless post so I'm happier not to contribute to such a forum.

    Personally, I distinguish between RasPi's front-page 'blog posts and the RasPi forum.  A lot of front-page stuff is marketing and self-promotion that irritates me at times, but there's also useful information about new revs so it's worth a skim.  OTOH, the RasPi forum is a wealth of technical information because of the large number of people who contribute, and people often post interesting technical problems for the community to solve.  This provides opportunities for both learning and teaching.

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  • in reply to shabaz

    shabaz wrote:

     

    And I'm part of the group of people not banned from there, but I remember reading some article and comments about someone who was trying to get a free R-Pi, and it really did was a tasteless post so I'm happier not to contribute to such a forum.

    Personally, I distinguish between RasPi's front-page 'blog posts and the RasPi forum.  A lot of front-page stuff is marketing and self-promotion that irritates me at times, but there's also useful information about new revs so it's worth a skim.  OTOH, the RasPi forum is a wealth of technical information because of the large number of people who contribute, and people often post interesting technical problems for the community to solve.  This provides opportunities for both learning and teaching.

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