It's interesting to watch MacAllister Stone take such offense to banned books considering her arbitrary and capricious "standards" for banning people. She STILL has provided absolutely no explanations for her actions. One would think that someone claiming to have professional standards would act professionally. Challenge her at all, and get banned, without explanation or any standard at all from her.
She's been provided source after source that explains to her why standards of customer service can and should apply to how her forums are run. She doesn't acknowledge that, even though in the Newbie Guide she wrote she states that she is willing to discuss what people believe worthy of discussion.
She contradicts herself. She violates her own posted standards. And, most of all, she ignores well-documented professional ethics for people who engage in this kind of activity.
This *will* result in loss of her standing one day. And it should. And she will have no one to blame but herself.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Value of Openness, and Paranoia of Not
You know, I'm a paranoid old cuss. I know that. I'll divert from my intended path if a car stays behind me for more than two turns. And I notice cars that stay behind me. Sometimes, though, my "spidey-sense" gets going. And I just have to dig to find out if it's working right.
I recently got an email sent to me offering a webinar on "The Value of Flexible Dedupe." Presented by a site saying that their mission is "getting IT professionals unbiased, truthful information about their environments and the products that they might use in them."
Oh, really? Well I'm going to change names but something tickled my brain about that claim. Their presenter is listed as, "[J William Smith] is an expert in backup & archive systems; a space he has been working in since 1993. He has written three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery. Mr. [Smith] is also an independent consultant and writer and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world."
So imagine my surprise, or not, that a WHOIS lookup for these people wanting to provide "unbiased, truthful information" from an "independent consultant" named J William Smith, shows that the domain's name is registered by one "John W Smith."
Uh huh.
Mr Smith may, in fact, be a perfectly legitimate expert in Backup technology. Maybe he's worked at it since 1993. But, Mr Smith, I will not be attending your webinar. To me, that hardly qualifies as independent *or* unbiased. Consider yourself and your domain a permanent occupant of my spam filter.
I recently got an email sent to me offering a webinar on "The Value of Flexible Dedupe." Presented by a site saying that their mission is "getting IT professionals unbiased, truthful information about their environments and the products that they might use in them."
Oh, really? Well I'm going to change names but something tickled my brain about that claim. Their presenter is listed as, "[J William Smith] is an expert in backup & archive systems; a space he has been working in since 1993. He has written three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery. Mr. [Smith] is also an independent consultant and writer and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world."
So imagine my surprise, or not, that a WHOIS lookup for these people wanting to provide "unbiased, truthful information" from an "independent consultant" named J William Smith, shows that the domain's name is registered by one "John W Smith."
Uh huh.
Mr Smith may, in fact, be a perfectly legitimate expert in Backup technology. Maybe he's worked at it since 1993. But, Mr Smith, I will not be attending your webinar. To me, that hardly qualifies as independent *or* unbiased. Consider yourself and your domain a permanent occupant of my spam filter.
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