Is Crackberry Forum Becoming

[miktro]

Is it me or is the Crackberry forum becoming a Blackberry bashing site for all the Blackberry Haters out there. It seem like every Forum and every story comments there are some haters trash talking negatively about Blackberrys . It is pretty sad that these people are so caught up or brain washed that this is what they spend there time doing. It's a cell phone company people, like really, come on get a life . I thought Crackberry was a site for people with Blackberrys to come, enjoy, get tips and help with their products . Or is it a site to hate on Blackberrys?

[Fubaz]

It will always be the center stage for lovers and haters.

Thing is people who hate it don't care bash it on their favorite dev platform, they come here to the epicenter to get the biggest bang for their buck.

Best effort is to just ignore them unless you agree.

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[Jake2826]

The management of this website could take care of the colossal negativity on this website if they wanted to, but they don't want to or are too cheap to hire more moderators. The current moderators here are already overworked.

As great of a resource for information as Crackberry is, It's hard to call it "An Enthusiasts Community of Blackberry Lovers" at times because of all the RIM basing that goes on here. But it really is all in the website management's hands. They may be perfectly happy with the status quo.

[elchavodellethbridge]

Most of the haters just want attention. Don't give it to them!

Just ignore the little comments, or responses to your posts.

[howarmat]

Originally Posted by Jake2826

The management of this website could take care of the colossal negativity on this website if they wanted to, but they don't want to or are too cheap to hire more moderators. The current moderators here are already overworked.

As great of a resource for information as Crackberry is, It's hard to call it "An Enthusiasts Community of Blackberry Lovers" at times because of all the RIM basing that goes on here. But it really is all in the website management's hands. They may be perfectly happy with the status quo.

lol cheap? people dont get paid to moderate. Atleast the boards i moderate dont pay.

I do agree they are probably overworked though.

[Bla1ze]

Originally Posted by howarmat

lol cheap? people dont get paid to moderate. Atleast the boards i moderate dont pay.

I do agree they are probably overworked though.

And according to Jake..

Underpaid. lol

Our mods offer their time, they're not paid which alone speaks volumes to their commitment.

[kbz1960]

I think crackberry would like to remain open to everyone's opinion and comment as long as it doesn't become personal. Yes that does leave bashing of and by different platforms.

[Deathcommand]

I'm confused. What forums have paid moderators? Lol.

They choose to leave them. Its not a site praising RIM.

I however, wish there was a specific area for people giving "constructive" criticism.

The PB Help forum is filled with "PB SUCKS" threads.

I liked the Old days where I could click today's posts and see like 5 that I could answer on the same page.

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[Bla1ze]

Originally Posted by kbz1960

I think crackberry would like to remain open to everyone's opinion and comment as long as it doesn't become personal. Yes that does leave bashing of and by different platforms.

If you look back through the history of CrackBerry -- all this hate started from the BlackBerry Storm forums and moved on from there. Now, these days -- some people have issues with acting decent and with civility. Instead, they'd rather argue about who's OS is better and stoop to low level personal acts as if it will accomplish anything and prove something.

It's fine if you want to call out the moderation team for not doing enough.. we have big shoulders. But the reality is, the mods on this site never stop working to make it better -- we're constantly banning useless members, cleaning up spam and those that often cry the loudest about us doing nothing -- are the ones who themselves do nothing to help the situation.

Time and time again. I've read "MODS DO SOMETHING -- THIS IS INSANE" check my email, not a single reported post from that person. Check their history of posts -- ya, the reason why they've not reported any posts is because they themselves have helped create the chaos.

It's pretty simple. Act civil. Treat people with respect. Follow the rules. Ignore the things you don't like or disagree with and move on.

Truth is -- we hate banning people around here. Everyone should be able to speak their minds, and no doubt we give people too much forgiveness on occasion for stuff they've said or done but we've never been hardcore on banning people. We could rule this place with an Iron fist and people would complain about that as well and it really wouldn't solve anything either. Key is to find the balance for all of our users.

Have we found it? No. Will we? I hope so. But until people realize to not feed into other peoples hate on here it's not really going to change much no matter how many people you add to the moderation team. We could 100 mods, still not going to change the flow of people who come through here intentionally to disrupt others. Until then, we'll keep weeding them out, be it behind the scenes or on the front lines.

[industrial revolution]

I am paid $20 a day to moderate www.ballskill.com

btw, that is balls kill NOT ball skill.

[Deathcommand]

Originally Posted by industrial revolution

I am paid $20 a day to moderate www.ballskill.com

btw, that is balls kill NOT ball skill.

Dead link. lol

[chrisy520]

Here's my take:
CrackBerry has changed

[anakin1979]

The irony is that a good portion of the "haters" are actually former Blackberry fanatics. I am not a Blackberry hater, but I recently abandoned Blackberry because of sheer disappointment over their execution (or lack of).

I think this is just showing how much of a bad situation RIM is right now. Most of the "hate" posts, if you read carefully, are actually correct and some are actual facts.

It's sad to see it right on a Blackberry forum, but no one can argue that RIM is quite behind the times. Much of it is because of bad execution and lack of integrity for the CEOs.

I commend the moderators though, for respecting freedom of speech and choice. :-)

[chrisy520]

I don't there there is anyone on CrackBerry who ISN'T a former BlackBerry user, is there?

[Bla1ze]

Originally Posted by Deathcommand

Dead link. lol

Must make a ton of cash. Lol