For those wondering about my post to Gerry, back in late-April and early-May of 2011, a member of this site (Corley) determined it was in his best interests to establish his own T-Bucket discussion forum. Which is nothing unusual, because I had done exactly the same thing, back in October 2006.
But there is a big difference in how we went about establishing our respective forums. I set this one up and started posting to it, relying on search engine results and word of mouth to bring traffic to the site.
Corley, on the other hand, set up a forum and then came here to privately contact members of this site, in an effort to lure them to his new site. And just to show you the kind of guy Corley is, he also was contacting forum sponsors, trying to lure them away, as well. It was funny to read the messages Corley was sending people, because he would first tell people he had his own, new forum. He would then provide them with the URL, or address, for his new forum. But then, he would try to cover his tracks by saying the forum wasn't live, so they would have to keep mum about it. But then, he would tell people to come on over to his site (which he kept claiming wasn't live, mind
). His forum wasn't live, but yet, there was the URL for the forum.
And whilst Corley had no problems inserting a phony URL into his forum's meta description, which includes key elements of this site's meta description, I have never stooped to that gutter level of chicanery. I play fair. I always have and I always will, no matter how nasty people like Corley want to be.
People, when I have made changes to this site's software, members of this site have been invited to visit a test site, where they could preview the changes and make comments and suggestions. But the test site was truly that - a test site, which was running in a password-protected directory that was not open to the public.
I've
NEVER minced words with any of you. This forum grew larger than I ever anticipated. It grew to a point where I could no longer feed it. And I have always been open and honest in saying that if I do not get financial support to keep paying the bills, then this place would go away. Corley, ever the liar, calls that a 'sham', when it is actually just the simple truth. So remember, Corley is the member who was trying to milk away the financial support this site operates on, which shows you how community-minded he is. Instead of trying to help support this site, Corley sought to tear it down. And make no mistake about it, Gerry was right with him.
I've no need to play their childish games. They established their site on deceit and deception and they have continued in the same vein. And can you imagine this, j
ust 3 days ago, Corley was expressing to his membership that since their site is getting so little activity, it might make good sense to close it down. Since I do not believe in coincidence, I was not surprised when Gerry then showed up here, talking about how he is a 'co runner' of another forum. I've no clue what a 'co runner' is, but the truth of the matter is that Gerry is a super moderator of that site, which means he is capable of moderating posts on all of that site's forums. I'll not suggest Corley is 'threatening' the closure of his wannabe site as being a 'sham', because I am better than that. I'll just leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.
But I will gladly show you the level veracity Gerry deals with. In his comments about their wannabe site closing down, he suggests that closure would leave the WEB [sic] without a T-Bucket forum, should another, un-named player decide to call it a day. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Gerry. That porkie makes it sound as if there are only two T-Bucket forums on the Web. There is this forum, there is the Buckethead Bash forum, operated by Spirit Industries, there is the NTBA forum, operated by the NTBA, and the last I knew, dickofficer was still running his flashlight/sailboat/home nursing site. Counting your wannabe site, I get a total of 5 T-Bucket forums, so who were you slighting with your uneducated observation? You were obviously overlooking someone.
Don't worry, Gerry, this site is never going to go away. Not even if I have to move it to a free-hosting solution, like the one your forum runs on. I will make sure this site is always here, if nothing else, just to be a burr under your saddle. Just yesterday, I got an e-mail from the founder of a forum network, who was expressing an interest in purchasing this site. Heck, I would love to exchange problems like the ones you cause for cash, but if I sold out, then I wouldn't be able to provide people like you and Corley any grief.
Gerry, you really need to learn to change things up every now and again. I already know your dog and pony show, inside out. Run along, now, and play your little games with someone you can actually fool.