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[Angeldove97]

I am beyond offended by your attitude. I gave my hard earned money to CF and was promised by CF certain features in return - no delay between posts and pms for one. I bought something, I didn't make a donation. I bought a service.

Now would you be okay if you paid for a year of cable and it hadn't been working for a month? How would you feel about a rep from that company dismissing your complaints by saying we told you no refunds go complain somewhere else.

This is probably the first time I've felt like chucking it all and leaving this site. You owe me and all site supporters an apology angeldove.

Edit: Seriously, you have me fuming. I can't believe you speak on behalf of CF.

That's your point of view--- I've supported this ministry not just with $$$ but with dedicating a good amount of my personal time to it too. I'm a SS too--- not because I was promised features like faster posting abilities or extra smilies, but because I enjoy this ministry--- I enjoy the people, I enjoy having a place that is actively moderated, I enjoy what I learn from here. That's why I supported the area, so maybe that's also why I'm not all peeved about not having the features back just yet.

So your example of paying for cable goes out the window here--- you're helping to support a ministry, we said you'd get some features too but sadly at this time those features haven't been worked out yet or the SS program is having an issue (I believe mnphysicst addressed this already). Your money went to keeping this site up and allowed for the upgrades to take place--- so that this site could stay up. But regardless of features, you are mainly supporting a ministry. If you don't like the ministry any longer, than you have to decide whether or not you want to continue supporting it financially or not. But that's your choice: give money to get features or give money to support the ministry here. I think depending on your view, it will effect your outcome. But that's your choice totally.

Secondly, I don't think its at all fair that you all are ganging up on Redstiletto as she writes in this thread. If you have questions or comments concerning this thread for her, instead of swamping the thread, send her a pm. This is not a thread to put in complaints about what is going on--- I'm sure Nic will update this thread when she gets the info... as soon as the tech have the info as well. I'm good friends with her and I've known her to always answer a person who contacts her.

I know the whole patience thing is wearing everybody thin. But I'm a member too--- I'm not just saying this stuff as a Staff member, but because I am a member and I'm allowed my point of view on things too. I'm not here to fight, I'm not here to bicker or go back and forth with you. And I'm sure if you talked to somebody who actually knew me, you'd find out I'm a pretty nice person online and in real life. My goal is to help out the ministry and that's the bottom line. The features will come when they can.

Btw, if any of you wish to respond to this, please don't do so in another post--- that defeats the purpose of what I've been saying, please feel free to send me a pm with your thoughts. Thanks!

 

[drstevej]

Read the threads I bumped on site supporter suggestion. Compare Erwin's attitude with the present.

 

[RedTulipMom]

angeldove
one correction...this is NOT a ministry. How could you call it a ministry when there are non-christian moderators on the board. This is a message board. It's a business that makes money. I didn't donate to a ministry. i donated to get the perks as many of us did. i donate to ministries in real life.
karen

 

[RedTulipMom]

This site USED to be one of the biggest on the internet - 2.5 years ago when the "rules" of the board and the way staff was handled was changed (due to pushes from members complaining from atheist board for more liberal freedoms and for freedoms and equality here for non believers/other religions/atheists) more and more the ideal became self esteem and worldly issues and "my rights" instead of Godly ones and many senior staff left as did many members - then the push from the disgrutled members (many of whom had been banned for being unable to follow the guidelines here) became harder because they saw that the constant push had worked for them and watering down changes were made again and then more and more members left CF till it spiraled down to the 777 changes (which most know ruined it here) which resulted in half the membership at the time leaving and then Erwin ending up selling the board. (btw ive been here now almost 5 years)

People are still leaving because of the mess thats happened since then.

So no this site is no longer one of the largest (by far)- and membership is a little under a third of what it once was and drops weekly.

I hope that one day the site is taken back to where it used to be - honoring God first before anything else. I'd love to see it like it was - filled with members - so may forums here anymore dont even get a hit hardly ever anymore.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you."

QFT

 

[RedTulipMom]

I am beyond offended by your attitude. I gave my hard earned money to CF and was promised by CF certain features in return - no delay between posts and pms for one. I bought something, I didn't make a donation. I bought a service.

Now would you be okay if you paid for a year of cable and it hadn't been working for a month? How would you feel about a rep from that company dismissing your complaints by saying we told you no refunds go complain somewhere else.

This is probably the first time I've felt like chucking it all and leaving this site. You owe me and all site supporters an apology angeldove.

Edit: Seriously, you have me fuming. I can't believe you speak on behalf of CF.

i totally agree Bro! We've all been sitting around keeping our mouths shut, trying to be patient, polite and all that and we aren't getting answers, no communication, a month since the upgrade and we are SOOOOOO far from having anything back we had. It would be nice if LeeD the SITE OWNER would speak up and tell us SOMETHING himself. And it would be nice if there was more than ONE TECH working on all this...at this rate the features wont all be back for over a year and there'll be 3 members left on the site. Alot of the forums have become GHOSTTOWNS. sigh...

 

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angeldove
one correction...this is NOT a ministry. How could you call it a ministry when there are non-christian moderators on the board. This is a message board. It's a business that makes money. I didn't donate to a ministry. i donated to get the perks as many of us did. i donate to ministries in real life.
karen

Same here, Karen.

 

[Tychicus2]

It is both a Ministry and a Message board... I contributed for various reasons to support this site. For the last year almost I have flipped back and forth sometimes in utter frustration... the only reason I am still here is because of the people I have met here. I am convinced that the forum itself is not Christian and am concerned that much that happens in leadership here is much less than Christlike.

I don't expect any kind of refund, I would like to hear directly from Lee that an extension of benefits will be added to all SS for the length of time that the perks promised have been ineffective/non functional. That seems basic to me? Lee's lack of participation here speaks volumes to me ???

I am done supporting this site until these matters are resolved !

Ty

 

[Angeldove97]

angeldove
one correction...this is NOT a ministry. How could you call it a ministry when there are non-christian moderators on the board. This is a message board. It's a business that makes money. I didn't donate to a ministry. i donated to get the perks as many of us did. i donate to ministries in real life.
karen

God can use every single person that is alive to help someone. It's a ministry to me--- a ministry to many. And that's fine if you donate to the site to get features. Like I said, I donate to keep this site up and running for the sake of others learning about Christ (aka a ministry).

 

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God can use every single person that is alive to help someone. It's a ministry to me--- a ministry to many. And that's fine if you donate to the site to get features. Like I said, I donate to keep this site up and running for the sake of others learning about Christ (aka a ministry).

Good for you. You are so much better than me and I am humbled to be in your presence. The bottom line is I was promised features/benefits in exchange for my money. Excuse me for not being particularly pleased that they've been gone for over a month with no end in sight. I guess I'm just a terrible person.

 

[RedTulipMom]

God can use every single person that is alive to help someone. It's a ministry to me--- a ministry to many. And that's fine if you donate to the site to get features. Like I said, I donate to keep this site up and running for the sake of others learning about Christ (aka a ministry).

well based on what your saying everywhere is a ministry. Sure individuals here can minister to others and do, but CF, the forum, isn't a ministry in my eyes. CF is not where i would send someone looking to find CHrist. some places here, like GT actually turn people FROM the faith. i will agree there are some great christians here, ministewring to others.

 

[RedTulipMom]

Good for you. You are so much better than me and I am humbled to be in your presence. The bottom line is I was promised features/benefits in exchange for my money. Excuse me for not being particularly pleased that they've been gone for over a month with no end in sight. I guess I'm just a terrible person.

 

[Redstiletto]

Ok, enough is enough.

This thread was to praise and encourage the tech team and coder, but since you have proven that is to hard for you to do, this thread is now closed.

Thank you for proving that you can not be civil enough to be patient to wait for your feature of choice to be up and running.

The tech team and coder are working hard to get everything up and running as fast as they can, but the site needs to be stable before we can start adding the features to it. We have stated this several times but it does not seem to be sinking in.

So as staff, the advisors, the tech team, coder and myself have tried hard to meet your needs in providing updated lists on what is being worked on, it once again does not seem like it is good enough, so from now on you can check the upgrade list that is stickied and closed in the announcement area, but you will no longer be able to comment on it, located HERE. That is where you will be able to see what is going on and you can look to see if your feature of choice is up to be worked on.

Thank you for your time. This thread is now closed.
~Redstiletto