CPF Sold - Under New Management

apparently a whole lotta belly achin'!

all I know is there's a difference between the community "shutting you down" and the moderators actually shutting you down. You know the worse part is, shamelessly self promoting your own content in a place that you apparently have no respect or regard for.. that's a little.. well, weak. If ya ask me. But no one did! Hah

[quote=ChrisGarrett]

The mods can’t deal with disagreement.

Some of them hated Chinese lights, describing them as crap, so I started a poll of owners which showed that a specific cheap Chinese light was much more reliable than the mods would have us believe. That didn’t go down well. That was many years ago, before Chinese lights became mainstream.

On another occasion I was banned temporarily by DM51 for suggesting that battery technology could change overnight. Having previously worked in academic research for eight years, I know how unpredictable science is. DM51 had a tantrum because I disagreed with one of his posts.

They also have a rather nasty system. They don’t tolerate anyone complaining about moderation. They say you must contact a mod if you disagree with the way they dealt with someone. They then ban you. It avoids having your disagreement publicly visible.

My view is that the moderation of CPF is unpleasant.

The last few times I visited CPF it was full of anodyne posts, people posting an image of a new light, with others posting “congrats” and such like. Fair enough, but it’s not for me.

[quote=Leif]

You can probably count the non Chinese lights on one hand.

Very well said.

sb does a great job, especially considering he's just one person.

Actually, there are more than 70,000 SBs, all clones.

Ours is just #56637.

+1

Where can we find the others, we need them.

This forum is well moderated, it must take a lot of work.

I am really glad I found BLF

it is a safe space for me

CPF had a rule against discussing moderation issues on the main site, but there was a separate site (CPF Underground) where it was ok to discuss such issues. CPFU was not accessible to the public (i.e. you had to enroll an account and log in to read it at all), but it was reasonably well publicized to CPF members.

Luckily a lot of the positive atmosphere is because the community tends to self moderate. I don’t mean by shouting down dissenting voices but rather that most of the posters tend to stay on their best behavior because they want it to stay a positive community.

SB did a fantastic job bringing that attitude with him when he formed the board in the beginning and it’s made things easier for everyone.

Just got an email selling memberships.

Someone is trying to sell their CPF membership? Or do you mean the new admin is trying to get people to join, or to join some free membership tier. I haven’t looked there much in the past 5 years or so, except right after the sale was announced I logged in to wish Greta good luck. But I have a quite old account there with a lot of posts.

How does one sell a membership?

Well, perhaps I give you my account name and password for fee, and that’s it!

I've heard of people selling online memberships to places that are tough to get in to, but anyone can create an account at CPF for free, so why pay for a free membership?

Just got another spam from CPF, wanting me to pay a subscription… ah yeah, ok, sure

This

I get it now, a premium membership

Okay, Supporting Membership looks like a premium subscription.

That makes more sense (though I won't be paying for it.)

EDIT:

Bort beat me to the punch.

now, that makes sense. I always wondered.