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Seifer
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posted 07-20-2000 01:50 AM      Profile for Seifer   Author's Homepage   Email Seifer   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
'His way or no way'. Why did you delete my thread? Afraid other will want to have a 'normal' forum and have the ability to use signatures if they want to?


Sigh. Sad days.

You'll probably delete this one, too. Before everyone gets a chance to read what you've selfishly done.

-Seifer


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Vaccaro
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posted 07-20-2000 02:38 AM      Profile for Vaccaro   Author's Homepage   Email Vaccaro   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Seifer,

If you used to read this forum for a long time, you would have noticed it IS a "normal" one!
This is a space of liberty too and Joe deletes thread or post very rarely. He uses to preserve EVERY ONE to share any idea about cruise product.
Your thread, even if it began correctly, degenerated into what I'd name "a wall daubed with graffiti" with no relation at all with cruises. This thread was about 45 posts long with nothing about cruise...excepted a pictured borrowed from Carnival's site.
So, according me and really without wanting to do any morality, because readers like me CAN be offenced TOO when you write this is not a normal forum, you words are not justified at all.
I would like to be fair too with the forum's moderator, Joe and not the Pope, who trys to keep this forum like the MAJORITY of us enjoy it. (remember, he first asked anyone about the signatures...)
...But, if you speake about ships or cruise related things, maybe your posts won't be delete...and readers, including me, will maybe appreciate and enjoy your input...


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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 07-20-2000 06:39 AM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe, has deleted several of my postings when I inadvertently quoted the URL's of a rival Travel Agent web site. I do not have a problem with this!

Joe and the team have a business to run. Without regulation this site would lose its direction and be full of silly or offencive material!

[This message has been edited by Malcolm (edited 07-20-2000).]


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Gerry
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posted 07-20-2000 09:38 AM      Profile for Gerry     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

Seifer,

It is actually part of my job to look through many websites with forums and subsequently I look at around 15 that I consider worthwhile everyday.

By far, the most organized, professional and learned forum is this one on travelpage.com

If you are seriously interested in what cruise afficionados and people involved in the industry are saying then this is the one.

You are completely entitled to your opinion but if you read back through the old threads you will see that they are ALL valuable because Joe does edit out the dross.

Keep up the good work Joe...


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Green
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posted 07-20-2000 10:14 AM      Profile for Green     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well said Gerry and worth repeating -

'By far, the most organized, professional and learned forum is this one on travelpage.com'

Cheers for Joe and his gang!!!!!


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K&K
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posted 07-20-2000 11:08 AM      Profile for K&K   Email K&K   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I have read some of the other forums on travel inspecfic cruising and the moderator on most is nonexistent and the topic is lost quickly. I think Joe uses his veto power sparingly and only when it degrades the topic or is overly abbuseive to someone! I have had a partial of one of my posts edited and I now realize it was for the better. I personally found all the little yellow faces distracting a few is nice but it was not related to these topics. Do not take the edit personal your input is always appreciated just stick to cruising.

This is by far the best and most informative board for travel and cruising.

Kevin


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Winner
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posted 07-20-2000 11:20 AM      Profile for Winner   Email Winner   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Seifer--Just because you didn't get your way re signatures, there is no need to pout. As I recall, Joe asked us to vote and the vote was to not change the board. You also said you didn't like this board and were never coming back. So why are you still complaining? Personally I love this board and the prople who regularly use it. Keep up the good work, Joe!
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gohaze
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posted 07-20-2000 12:19 PM      Profile for gohaze   Email gohaze   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hi...I'm with Joe on this one. Seifer, you've had 12 posts so far and I don't recall that any of them were to do with cruising.
btw. I normally use peter, the gohaze is because peter was not available for a user name....peter

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DianaD
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posted 07-20-2000 12:21 PM      Profile for DianaD   Email DianaD   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When you see what happens on some of the boards when they are not regulated I think it is excellent that this one is regulated. Yes, I have had postings deleted and it was my fault I broke the rules.
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Paddy
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posted 07-20-2000 01:41 PM      Profile for Paddy   Email Paddy   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Seifer, a far as I know Joe is not th head of the Roman Catholic Church, so no. But this site is the best on line and I don't think that anyone apart from the newcomers wants to change it. Long live travelpage.com!!!

Paddy.


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billee
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posted 07-20-2000 03:14 PM      Profile for billee   Author's Homepage   Email billee   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Amen.
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Seifer
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posted 07-20-2000 04:11 PM      Profile for Seifer   Author's Homepage   Email Seifer   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
1.
quote:
As I recall, Joe asked us to vote and the vote was to not change the board.
...well, no he didn't. He said "You don't really want to use signatures, do you?" That's not a fair way to ask.

2.

quote:
You also said you didn't like this board and were never coming back.
I never said that. I have tons of posts at other fourms, and I said I just won't check this one as much.

3.

quote:
Seifer, you've had 12 posts so far and I don't recall that any of them were to do with cruising.
...LOL. My very first post (and first topic) was about my next Carnival Cruise.


I'm a forum moderator here and also here. If I took away signatures, our fourms would be dull and lifeless (kinda like the white/grey here). And all of our posters (is that a word? ) wouldn't have their own way of expressing themselves via their signature.

Its only an option. Some people don't use it! It's kinda like the Lexus dealership offering you heated seats. Some like it, some don't. But they should at least offer.



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sympatico
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posted 07-20-2000 04:17 PM      Profile for sympatico     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Here we go again!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RICHARD CHUDY
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posted 07-20-2000 05:14 PM      Profile for RICHARD CHUDY   Email RICHARD CHUDY   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I come here to talk about ships and cruising!
All of this is...well never mind!
Keep up the good work Joe.

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joe at travelpage
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posted 07-20-2000 05:34 PM      Profile for joe at travelpage   Author's Homepage   Email joe at travelpage   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Look folks, this is a forum to exchange information about cruising.

It is not about free speech or the merits of bulletin board software. If you want to discuss or debate those subjects there are plenty of other web sites where that dialogue is more appropriate. In order to preserve the quality of this board, and this site, I will continue to delete and or edit notes that I feel are inappropriate, offensive or off-topic.

No one is being forced to participate in this forum (...except maybe Malcolm), so if you have a problem with that approach I respectfully encourage you to visit some other site.

Joe at TravelPage.com


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Winner
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posted 07-20-2000 06:33 PM      Profile for Winner   Email Winner   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thank you Your Holiness.
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2kewl4u
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posted 07-20-2000 06:51 PM      Profile for 2kewl4u     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Would love to start talking about cruising, if we could stop this senseless bruhaha!!!
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harborman
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posted 07-20-2000 07:19 PM      Profile for harborman   Email harborman   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe,
I read a few of the cruise web sites and I will say this is my favorite. I'm always amazed at some of the information people who post on this web site have. Whenever I've had a question I get good responses. I've never met Malcom but must say he is enjoyable and has many good and interesting posts.
Keep up the good work. I like the site the way it is.

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joe at travelpage
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posted 07-21-2000 12:45 AM      Profile for joe at travelpage   Author's Homepage   Email joe at travelpage   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Since you brought up the subject of the Pope...

As a young child my family lived in Rome and we were lucky enough to cross the Atlantic a number of times on American Export's Constitution.

While we were there, on a number of occasions I did get to meet the Pope

Click here for a bigger picture:
http://www.cruiseserver.net/images/trivia/joe_pope_big.jpg

So, while I am not exactly "like the Pope", I did meet the Pope and I did like him....

Joe at Travelpage.com


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gizmo
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posted 07-21-2000 07:14 AM      Profile for gizmo   Email gizmo   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe,

You were a cute little kid!


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sympatico
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posted 07-21-2000 07:22 AM      Profile for sympatico     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You certainly were - love the bow tie.
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hooked on cruising
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posted 07-21-2000 11:38 AM      Profile for hooked on cruising   Email hooked on cruising   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hi Seifer, I hate to say this but maybe you should stick to your other, more entertaining boards and leave us with our dull "gray and white" which we all seem to enjoy. I have been reading and chatting at this site for 10 months. When we started to talk about going on a cruise we could not get any information on the Bolero anywhere. I logged on to this site and what do you know I had all the info I needed. Thanks folks, keep on cruising. See ya Seifer.
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Green
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posted 07-21-2000 02:24 PM      Profile for Green     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe, wish my record keeping was half as good as yours. Quite a picture - you were a cute kid.
Thanks for sharing.

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Vaccaro
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posted 07-21-2000 03:42 PM      Profile for Vaccaro   Author's Homepage   Email Vaccaro   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe, you recall me the little Forrest in "Forrest Gump" movie! By the way, very beautiful and emotional movie according me ( my favourite with TITANIC's one - this bracket just to keep my post in relation with ships ;-)
Well, you met the Pope, but as Forrest, did you meet JFK, Johnson or Nixon too? :-)

To be more serious, keep up the good work and the general good quality of this board and I like your "gray and white" too...the most important is to read behind colors...


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Guest
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posted 07-22-2000 06:38 AM      Profile for Guest        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Joe has deleted some of my comments as well, and it was annoying at first, but when I think about it, the only reason the comments are deleted is because they either don't make too much sense or they are not helping to contribute to the current topic. Replies like "Yep" or "Ok" - one word answers that only clutter the board are really better deleted.

This is not a normal board - it is a board with high standards and that's what makes it superior to all other cruise boards on the net.

Joe - you can only accept complaints; but for every complaint there are 30 times as many of us here ready to thank and congratulate You and Travel Page's efforts as apparent in the topic "Well Done Joe and Co."
http://www.travelpage.com/disc/Forum2/HTML/000491.html


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