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Jeff wrote:
That's because the 'Time Zone' set in your user profile is wrong. There was no 'Edited by' text that showed up in your post until 2 hours later. Your errant setting noted above would not have affected the forum's timestamps, except for appearing wrong on your computer.
Had you not publicly posted your inflammatory comment about my being 'over-zealous' and hopped up on caffeine (which I readily admit  ), I never would have been compelled to even respond. Since, after I got your PM, I checked the thread and you had not edited it (and my 'Edited by' remained), there is only one logical answer. Sorry to be so presumptuous.
I'm also sorry if you took offense to my editing your post, and making a public comment. Comments like that are as much a reminder for everyone as they are a reminder to you.
Jeff
FM.com Moderator
PS: I believe that [ img ] tags are usually used for embedded images, not externally linked ones.
Edited by Jeff on Sep 19, 2006 at 10:13 AM GMT...Show more →
Since you are bound and determined to not admit your fault in over reacting or overmoderating, I will part company with this forum after these observations:
1. I posted the raw URL to the relevant pictures WITHOUT [ img ] tags assuming they would be saved as a simple hotlink in the post, apparently the forum software automatically adds those tags if it sees (I'm assuming) a .jpg extension.
2. If you had edited my post I did not see the edit as I think we were editing the post at the same time. Believe what you want but I do not lie and I am greatly offended by the accusation.
3. I PM'd you immediately after I edited my post. The time stamp of my original post (NOT THE EDIT) is Sep 16, 2006 at 02:33 PM the timestamp of my PM message is Sep 16, 2006 at 02:51 PM. Tell me, where is this mythical 2 hours you are referring to?
4. If I had PM'd you why didn't you PM in return? Why act like as though you are completely undeserving of your position as moderator in front of the entire forum by unloading on me in some flame fest? If my "inflammatory comment" had so incensed you then you perhaps should have taken a moment to fully investigate the situation (check your PM, check some timestamps, have some more coffee and take a breather...whatever) and then take the high road and PM me to clear it up. Instead you chose to act like a complete fool.
Ban me, delete me, delete all my posts if you'd like. That would be fitting irony to your accusation of revisionist history. I'll be contacting Fred Miranda to express my sincerest disappointment over this situation and that I am truely offended by your accusation "jeff". I will not be returning to these forums for any reason, nor will I purchase any software from Fred Miranda again.
I can only hope that in the future the rest of the moderating staff here excercises a bit more restraint and maturity.
To everyone else in this thread I would like to extend my sincerest apologies for this off topic diversion. I have had a great deal of pleasure discussing the business aspects of Canon and their product strategies with you all. I have learned a great deal and I hope I have been able to share a couple things with you all.
However, I have enough self respect to not tolerate being accused of lying, an act which I find deeply offensive, and I feel there is no reason to continue utilizing this site. There are many others on the web, where the staff doesn't have such a poor reputation.
Kindest regards to all,
Jeff Wilson
[Moderator EDIT:]
PM sent.
"'jwil':
Sorry you feel compelled to leave the forums because of this, it's unfortunate, and I do take a certain amount of responsibility for it, but it is by no means entirely my 'fault'. It's your choice.
I acknowledge that there is one single way that this could have happened, forum quirk-wise (it is if you had edited the post in the literally two seconds it took me to edit it). But, it doesn't explain why you later chose to consciously erase my 'Edited by' timestamp. Based upon finding your inflammatory post shot my way (after I'd chosen to ignore your intentional edit and erasure), I could only presume one thing. Lacking any explanation as to the intent of your erasing the timestamp, one could only presume it was done to make me look 'bad', or you look 'good'. Why else would you have intentionally erased it? You must admit, after all, that (via PM) you admitted to me 'beating you to it'. If you knew I'd beaten you to it, there's only one way you could have known it, and that is to have seen my edit, at which point it is irrelevant for you to have made an 'edit' of your own.
There's a disconnect in here somewhere, but I really am not interested in further discourse, if you want to move on. Let's suffice it to say that I understand where you are coming from, if you'll acknowledge my position, given what's occurred.
If you wish to put this all behind and start over, I'll erase all relevant posts at your direction. Please let me know.
Regards,
Jeff
FM.com Moderator"...Show more →
Edited by Jeff on Sep 19, 2006 at 12:57 PM GMT (Reason: Added EDIT)
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My reason for doing so is that certain forum quirks like auto-embedding, no edit-locks and removable time-stamps result, eventually, in someone leaving this forum. A source of great marchitectural insight exits stage left. I think that's a bad thing.