months ago, which was not GeoPlaneta Forum-rights manager for Lonely Planet, in English and ignored the news, which has informed me this afternoon, a good friend and travel, by email : The Travel Forum, which had opened the group, has closed. Has happened, "according to my friend," apparently after a conflict, which is bundled by the presence of trolls and after widespread complaints, to the mismanagement that led the administration.
When today is access to the web, get the following message: "For technical reasons, Lonelyplanet.es Forum will be out service temporarily. Sorry for the inconvenience "(commas in the sentence, I have given them, because they, or score, you know). The same excuse claimed, when a stroke, were loaded orange forum for serious conflict, which bordered the crime, if they were not, as there was, to issues of pedophilia, in between, "when passed 2,004 and not reopened until two years later. So, I fear, this closure is for long, then for the final.
It seems outrageous, GeoPlaneta attitude and very little respect, to the travelers, who are those who sustain them economically, with the purchase of their guides. Well. Although I long ago, que decidí hacerles boicot y, o las saco de la biblioteca o las compro en el extranjero, para que a ellos, no les llegue ni un solo céntimo.
Los dos motivos principales, en que fundamento, mi razonamiento, son los que siguen
1º.- Es una falta total y absoluta de respeto, hacia los usuarios, habérselo cargado de un plumazo, cepillándose miles y miles de mensajes y el trabajo de horas –incluso de días-, de muchos participantes. Porque, entre tantos insultos, publicidad y descalificaciones –las últimas veces, que yo entraba, como lectora, era ya casi imposible, encontrarse un hilo, donde no las hubiera-, también había, mucha información útil y valiosa.
I do not say, do not close the forum that are right. But at least, to keep it published, but is even elsewhere on the Internet. Not be treated well, thousands of users, more or less frequently, participated in the various debates on the forum. 2 .-
show cowardice insulting to blame the closure, to technical reasons. At least they could tell the truth, explaining it in detail, in a note, they could hang on the network. And if the closing, in fact, is temporary, indicate an approximate date for the reopening. You owe it to those thousands of users Some of them, organizers were or events, they have been doing a lot of publicity out there (I guess, unfortunately for them, free). However
. That said, I think the news has now been produced, it is the most logical thing that could happen. Indeed. I think that is most appropriate, for a few reasons that come to mind without much effort.
"You can keep an open forum, thousands and thousands of registered users, if you are not willing to moderate it. They had learned from the first experience and so have fared well in the second. It is silly to think that in a place without supervision, they will not get advertising, trolls, bad feelings, envy ...
-Own self-defense, GeoPlaneta. In this environment, it is very possible that someone would decide to go to court, if not already done so, and give them a displeasure. Going further. Perhaps the forum has already closed and line judge this decision, technical reasons. It would not be surprising.
"In that forum, it has hurt many people and not only, by the trolls, but high-profile users, who became moderators, no title, but with powers, shown as pressure lobby - style-to-understand me, nightly neighborhood patrols. If public safety, you have to instruct the police, the moderation of the forums be done by the administrator and in whom he appoints.
"does not deserve that users continue to lose precious time there, when they have so little respect.
He makes the Heck, all the people, who out of boredom, was dedicated to destroying the forum or who would simply to advertise. Both sides must now be recycled and divide their time on other things (I guess, just as evil).
"He does not do harm to many people, which, for various reasons," has been made in this website.
tell me that some users GeoPlaneta, are landing in the Viajerosolidario. So did many others, when they closed Lonely for the first time. And unless the moderators, most of them long ago, that did not stop there. Viajerosolidario, has had the honor, for a few years, hold a world record: Be a forum with more moderators that active users.
Are Lonely, was the lack of moderation, Viajeroslidario, was, and I guess will remain, the excess. Not to mention the superego, three of its moderators, coincidentally, the three begin with K. Bearing in mind that this forum is a user of the pump-the "warm" welcome, Florencio, and those who are registering, not shut, it is possible that in the coming months, we can have fun. Well
. Rather, they say, they can. Because I'm not going back to the forums, or even, as a reader, "not drunk. I live very happily and without headaches, since I Lonely, in September 2006. I, together with quit-in 2005-and long journeys, of 2,008, have been the three best decisions of the decade.
I also indicate, if not rancorous. Hopefully, in Viajerosolidario, a forum, half dead, but dead-whole, have learned and the new additions-type Paco González y Pepe Domingo, COPE, "is a successful and useful site, which is the important thing, for which have the disease, not to think about almost nothing else, that trip.
Two things to finish:
First, a warning to mariners. In viajerosolidario, appropriated illegally inserted messages. If the user requests low and attends the deletion, there is nothing to do except go to court. To me, cost me a lot, even picking up my stories on their site. Finally, they did
I hope that all those @ s, who in his day, set up in anger, for the legitimate deleting my messages, Lonely and collaterally, some others react proportionally to the disappearance of all your messages, these days. What I you play, what not?. Those were or were not, "simple attacks, spurious and unscrupulous, personal motivations?. Time goes by removing and giving reasons, if not useless.
