Posts being re-formatted ??

Let's calm down a little bit with the rhetoric. I run the site, not some corporation like the site that you linked to (which I have removed). I have a great group of guys who help me moderate the site, all of which I know personally "in real life", and none of them would take the time out of their day to edit carriage returns in a post. We have much more fun ways to screw with people than that.

And, complaints about ads, then talking about AdBlocker, then complaining about customer service? Really? I'm looking now to see how much in a random donation you've sent the site to keep it running, but I can't seem to find it. Anyone who complains about customer service on a free site probably also complains when Facebook changes something on their site without properly vetting it with you.

I can appreciate people complaining about ads, but I have to test things to see what works and what doesn't. And that means running it for more than just a couple of days. I've now removed the ads within posts for logged-in users for a better user experience. This forum and the PriusChat Shop are my family's livelihood. Without income from ads, I have to either start making this a pay-to-play site (which I would hate) or shut it down and move on to the next phase of my life.

I sincerely appreciate everyone who either doesn't run AdBlocker or has priuschat.com setup as an excluded site. You help me pay for diapers and preschool and everything else that a 3 year old and a 8 month old seem to require to live.

 

OK, here's an explanation.
Ten years ago when I got my Prius and signed up for Priuschat, I worked my 40-hour job and logged into Priuschat in the evenings. Sometimes I logged in from work but that was rare since my Manager wouldn't have appreciated that. My wife understood my newly-found infatuation with the Prius so I spent several hours per week reading Priuschat, posting to Priuschat, and then Moderating Priuschat.
Ten years later, I have been promoted twice. 40 hours per week is now a minimum and I travel. I have additional home responsibilities and can't get on Priuschat as often as I would like. Because I have a Gen2, I even feel a little out-of-place with all the threads about Gen3 Liftback, c, and v.
So where does that leave me now? I get on when I can but it's not as often as I would like. When I do sign in, there's usually a reported thread or post for me to review. Whereas I used to know all the players (many personally), I see all new names. Whereas I used to roll my eyes when a known member would get sarcastic or flippant, now I don't know who's who. So I fall back on my original Priuschat mantra: make this a site I would want my Mom to read. In the last ten years, neighbors, relatives and my mother-in-law have bought Prii and I have steered them all here. When I get to a thread and the posts have been reduced to bickering, splitting hairs for the sake of arguing, or repugnant name-calling, I start pruning. Sure: there's usually some good content mixed in so I prune carefully. Usually, I leave a note and/or warning to let people know I was there, what happened, and why it occurred. But sometimes I'm in a hurry or I get distracted.

In summary:

• This is a volunteer position.
• Doing this takes time.
  
• I do not address insults levied against the PC Staff because if you personally knew any of us, you would realize just how silly insulting us makes you look.
• Danny has a PayPal account and a family to feed. If you've learned anything on this site, feel free to chip in. Unless, of course, you paid for the recent software upgrade and new servers.

 

I will step in and say I merge multiple successive replies by the same person on a regular basis. Several one-line posts make a thread unreadable, as does a submitted quote followed by a single one-line reply in another post. Why? We want the site to be readable by everyone.

We also merge duplicate posts from time to time if members have posted replies in both, and it's a legitimate accidental dupe. We also relocate posts from time to time because they're posted in the wrong forum. When I do so, I leave a temporary redirect that will last 1-2 weeks.

We don't make it a habit to delete content w/o notifying, but like Tony said, we're busy people with real jobs, and sometimes we delete and move on - when we have time to respond at all.

 

There are several things wrong with your post. I'll try to address them:

• I'm not exactly sure what your pruning of my post accomplished or what my lead was. Which offensive material were you removing, per my lead: bickering, splitting hairs for the sake of arguing, or repugnant name-calling? Please elaborate.
  
• You assume I am the one who touched the Tailgate thread. I was out of town on business last week and had no idea what the Tailgate thread was until I looked it up today.
• You assume Danny has somehow tricked me. I am not easily tricked nor am I his puppet. We are friends.
• Not only do we have a staff forum here on Priuschat, we have other online methods of real-time communication and email back and forth all the time. I can assure you Danny holds no vendettas.
  
• As for thinking one person has multiple accounts, we check IP addresses to verify things like that. If any of us were ever concerned about multiple accounts, we would have checked a long time ago.

I actually enjoy this because I have no problem explaining what Priuschat's core principles are and how we try to maintain thread legibility and peaceful interactions. What I can't understand is what you are getting out of this exchange.

 

@KhaPhoRa, your input is noted and appreciated.