Where in the World is RonR????
carl:
I noticed immediately that RonR left the forum- the most knowledgeable and helpful person here- the usefulness of the forum dropped by 75% and the attractivity of Obi products took a nose dive. It is a result of a combined witch hunt by one forum member here and the Obi forum moderators who failed to understand that they owed Ron R a lot and , as I wrote before, they should have paid him. Considered the constant hostility he encountered it is rather surprising that he did not give up earlier.
I do not believe that anyone else will be able and especially willing to replace him- I certainly will not buy additional equipment, engage a helper and spend next 3 month 60 hours a week to get where he was and then spend several hours a day doing customer service for the forum members.
We can only pray that Obihai steps up to the plate and provides the service he did- at which moment they would realize how much money he saved them, but I am not optimistic here.
See what happens.
MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: carl on June 05, 2012, 05:11:55 pm
I noticed immediately that RonR left the forum- the most knowledgeable and helpful person here- the usefulness of the forum dropped by 75% and the attractivity of Obi products took a nose dive. It is a result of a combined witch hunt by one forum member here and the Obi forum moderators who failed to understand that they owed Ron R a lot and , as I wrote before, they should have paid him.
Well, Carl, I STILL disagree with you. You can hate me all you want, but my opinion is still that no company in their right mind would ever hire someone who was on another forum airing their gripes and generally backstabbing the company. Furthermore, while I am not saying this is what happened here (since I obviously have no way of knowing what's going on in someone else's head), I do think that when people receive too many complements it tends to go to their head, and they start to think they are more invaluable than they really are, and that can cause them to behave badly. And that, in turn, can actually encourage them to think that if they up and leave, it will show those f***er's just how valuable they really were. So, your posts (and those of others who may have bestowed just a little too much admiration) might actually have been as much behind his decision to leave (if, indeed, that's what he's decided) as anything I wrote. But we have no way of knowing, because he never bothered to tell anyone why he left, if he's left.
Now, if you consider me pointing out that he was dissing Obihai on BroadbandReports.com, or that he was telling new users not to use the OBITALK portal, some sort of a "witch hunt", then what can I say? You hate me, you won't buy any more Obihai products, you refuse to put any time into learning Obihai dial plans, whatever. Guess what, the sun will still rise tomorrow and life will go on, I don't and won't care what you think of me, and if Obihai loses a few sales to you they'll doubtless make many more to people who either want to use the devices in more simple ways (that can be configured from the portal) or who are actually willing to try to learn this stuff for themselves, instead of relying on one person. Maybe in a year or two, there will be several people here who understand this stuff, not just one person with an attitude and maybe an axe or two to grind. Or maybe Obihai will do a bit more work on their portal, so there won't be as much of a need for a "resident guru" to crank out dial plans for users.
Anyway, I still strongly disagree with you and if you want to think I'm the world's biggest ass, you just go right ahead, because I honestly couldn't care less. I've never in my life tried to win any popularity contests, and I'm not about to start now. There's still a part of me that thinks that maybe we'd have all been better off if he'd never even started posting here, because then we might have developed a larger group of "experts", and many more of us would have at least rudimentary knowledge of dial plans and how they work.
dudlee:
RonR was great at trying to help folks. His "immediate" answers were very welcome. Seems that MT decided he should be the go to guy on this forum, even though he came very late, and was pretty much ignored. Attacking RonR was in very poor taste. And no MT, I really don't need a 5 paragraph explanation of why you did this as I really don't care. One of the main reasons I came to this forum was because everyone was so helpful and there was no petty childish computer nerd flaming going on. That all changed with you MT. I am now leaving this forum for good as it has now changed.
MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: dudlee on June 05, 2012, 09:42:42 pm
Seems that MT decided he should be the go to guy on this forum, even though he came very late, and was pretty much ignored.
WTF? Where did you get the idea that I wanted to be the "go to guy?" That is a role I most certainly do not want, never wanted, and am not in any way qualified to hold. Just because I didn't think it was good for someone else to have that role does not for a minute mean I wanted it… in fact, that would be the last thing I would want; it's way too much responsibility for one thing, and for another, due to my age and failing memory I can't even remember half this stuff from one day to the next.
In fact, in case you haven't noticed, when I do try to answer questions I'm probably wrong more often than I'm right. We have several "experts" on this forum (and I wish we had more) but I don't really consider myself one of them!
MichiganTelephone:
After thinking about this a bit, and re-reading the comments above where I am being attacked over RonR's leaving (IF he left, and is not just on vacation or something), despite any evidence whatsoever that anything I said or did actually had anything to do with his absence, I have decided that there's no reason I should stick around either. While I REALLY don't give a sh*t what anyone thinks of me, I have a better use for my time than trying to explain anything to people who are of this mindset. Frankly, I'm getting sick of writing altogether, and put my blog on hiatus yesterday. I'm getting old and tired, and am starting to just not care about anything anymore.
There are much younger and smarter people than I on this forum, and I hope some of them will pick up the mantle and become the future "resident experts", but if I stick around, there will always be people like dudlee who think that I chased RonR off because I wanted to take his place, which was NEVER what I wanted. Some of you won't believe that and I still don't care. Right now my current mood is sort of "f--- everybody" although I realize not everyone deserves it. Goodbye, good luck, and maybe we will meet again in another lifetime.
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