creative cow community for video folks -- dang, weird place

On 4/17/10 12:41 PM, Ron Lindeboom wrote: > We get lots of these temporary email account sign-ups, Norbert, and we > turn them off. > > Yes, we are indeed autocratic and we also don't apologize for it. We > spent over 8 million dollars building this and we do it our way. > > Weren't impressed by us? We weren't impressed by you, either. > > This site isn't on auto-pilot. And just as you are offended by > autocratic site admins, we are offended by people who think all our > work and effort is spam. > > Please don't feel the need to contribute if you don't want to, we have > over 2 million people a month that do. We keep the serious ones who > sign up for real and we toss the others. We call it "culling the herd." > > >> >> What? >> What kind of message is this to send to a new user? >> Has an email sent to temp2@***.com bounced yet? >> Is there a reason to give a new user this negative feeling of having >> joined some kind of autocratic organization? >> >> I am a 25-year veteran of photography and filmmaking. I have >> multiple email addresses to avoid spam. I have a lot to contribute to >> a forum, but this message, and the incredible amount of >> administrative governance that I've encountered so far make me far >> less inclined to contribute to this forum or to even visit it. Just >> posting my first thread and getting a warning every time I posted a >> reply that it would be monitored, as well as the arrogance exhibited >> by one of your "experts", has left a very bad taste in my mouth. >> >> Wow. I am not impressed with Creative Cow. >> >> Norb >> > > On 4/17/10 11:16 AM, Ron Lindeboom wrote: Hello Norbert,

I wanted to point out that the account using temp2@***.com will be deactivated the first time that the email bounces.

That is our policy.

Best regards,

The COW Team