(Engineer) A fine line between spamming & supporting?

There is an area of the site for commercial interests, which seems appropriate. Spamming your mailbox does not.

 

You know I did not want to say anything but there are an awful lot of new or first time posters getting this new battery pack. I just thought that was kind of suspicious but I could be wrong and some new people just might be really interested in it.

 

Stupid totalitarian regimes... Just because i filled Tony's inbox with nonsense for three straight days, did he really have to attach his warning to a Molotov cocktail and send it to me thought my front window?

All kidding aside, the Mods have really done a great job here in responding to and taking care of inappropriate posts. Their job is also made much easier when we help them through reporting inappropriate material.

 

On a side note, i checked out there website out of curiosity, and found this interesting under their specs:
Charge Time: 3 hours from any 11-VAC outlet

What if you don't have an 11-VAC outlet? In fact, i've never heard of any widespread use of 11 V for anything...

 

Granted that the PM you received was probably not appropriate and against site rules, you taking it up as your personal crusade and then spamming two Enginer threads with your tirade about it only cluttered up what were informative threads.

You should have left the moderation to the moderators and left the threads on topic.

 

But that is 95% of my posts Tony?












Like this one for example.

 

Only 95%? I must have missed the other 5%.

Tom

 

Maybe in FHOP it is...

I disagree. The #1 reason why people read threads is to learn. Polluting threads and going off-topic dilutes the informative content.

I guarantee that if PC started throwing in extra, off topic comments into each thread, readership would quickly decline. I know I would certainly stop visiting so frequently. I don't have time to wade through non-sense. And putting the onus on moderators to "clean up" is just being selfish. Ideally, there would be no need for moderators as the forums would be self-policing. If everyone polluted threads every time they posted, there would be no way for the moderators to keep up.

Drama has it's place, and it's FHOP. Keep it out of the other forums, please.

 

Thank you drees,

Acording to the Enginer Rep., Markderail had inquired about the PHEV system. He had PM'd Markderail only. After that, Markderail spammed two other Enginer threads without letting the moderators handle it. Then he complained to the Moderators about Enginer's PM when he was the only one who had recieved it. Prius Chat banned the Enginer rep before he could even defend himself.

Blindsided, now the Enginer Rep has been banned by a controlling, oversealous poster on prius chat who has nothing better to do than put out "the most boring thread" on prius chat when there are more informative discussions going on than putting up book shelves and taking threads off topic. (over 1400 posts on PC...get a life!!)

Some of us are thinking about putting together a petition to lift the ban and, once again, let the Enginer rep answer questions concerning his product.


JOANNA

 

If the user was banned for just one PM to one person then yes lift the ban but with a warning. If the user spammed multiple people then the ban should stay or at least stay for a while. Everyone deserves a second chance.

I'm just sitting back and watching the progress of this new battery. I'm still on the fence on weather this is all just a marketing hype. I say that because.....

1. New PHEV kit on the market with no real world data
2. To good to be true price.
3. There are a lot of new posters getting in on this battery. Which brings up a red flag for me.

I really hope this new battery is successful and works well but for now the only battery I can recommend is the Hymotion. And that's only because it is a proven technology, great track record, crash tested, has built in safety disconnects, 3 year warranty, and for the price cant be beat.