Where in the World is RonR????
Ostracus:
And on a more positive note, starting with the Obihai documentation. It seems some culling through old posts, and pooling of knowledge and expertise, especially were the documentation is either incomplete, or just plain wrong would be a good step forward.
nexus14:
I seriously thought RonR was a paidmember of Obitalk providing actual support. His posts were extremely detailed and very technical. Most importantly, whatever he provided actually worked!
I knew he was gone the day I posted in a thread regarding 1-800 numbers and ideaSIP. He will surely be missed.
Thankfully Obitalk was easy to set up, but I feel sorry for people that will run into problems and have more technical questions to ask. Before, I would see threads with a question, a single reply by RonR, and another reply with "Thanks!". Gone are those days...
carl:
Quote from: MichiganTelephone on June 05, 2012, 08:49:28 pm
Quote from: carl on June 05, 2012, 05:11:55 pm
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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.
MT: Until now, I have tried to avoid anything what might have been interpreted as a personal attack on you but this time I am making an exception. BTW for the last time as well, because I am not in business fixing pathological personalities.
Where, for heaven's sake, did I ever said that I hate Obi ?? Just the opposite, on this and all other forums/rating sites I was always very positive about the device and company. Where did I say that I would not buy any more products from them??
Where did I ever " compliment RonR too much "?? I always simply thanked him whenever he gave me valuable advice( basic manners some people miss) but that's all, I only came to his defense late in the witch hunt.
And all this twisting, insinuations, lies and propaganda.
I do not hate you, MT. You should read all your posts and hate yourself. If RonR got hit by a truck, we would be in the same place now regardless what you( or Obi chat mods) did.
No, we would not have any expert team here if he never was on the forum. Because even the few people who might be willing and able to get his level of knowledge will not provide a near real time customer service round the clock.
But what MAY have happened and what MAY happen in the future that Obihai starts seriously reconsidering their approach to customer support and cooperation with SIP providers if and when they realize that this is hurting their sales , an issue especially critical should Google choose to discontinue or charge for GV. Because it hurts already now, not with me but with other people who do not have time for hassle. But those are issues for a different thread. ::)
Billt928:
I'm new here and was reading this forum before my purchase of a OBi100, OBi110 & two OBi202's plus a WiFi adapter over the last 3 to 4 weeks. I found the advice of both RonR and MichiganTelephone to be usefull and they also always seemed to be the members that always had a quick answer.
Now that the two of them seem to have run each other off from this forum.
I can only hope that OBi themselves start providing support on this forum. after all this is not a third party forum. it is owned and run by OBI. When I first started looking at OBi products and reading this forum I though it was a 3rd party site due to the lack of OBi employees answering these post.
I know company run forums are the first place I look for quick support. I know I have posted a few questions here and OBi employees have never responded, much less to most of the post I've read here.
They are really lax on release notes on firmware if they provide any at all, I've seen two for the OBi202 over the last two weeks and can only guess what they are suppose to address, I know I prefer not to do firmware updates unless I'm having a know issue that is addressed by the firmware or the firmware has some new features that I just can not do without. but without release notes. who knows what they are for and if my device bricks over some firmware update that I may have not needed. how will OBi address that issue?
lhm.:
Good bye MT. Better late than never.
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