smokey, this is not nam. this is bowling. there are rules.
smokey, this is not nam. this is bowling. there are rules.
I consider every raffle "rigged" one way or another. If I ever (and it is rare) give any money toward a raffle, I consider it a donation to the cause. I hope that these tickets did not cost anyone any money.
I just tried to go to the FPN and got this message....
The Fountain Pen Network is currently unavailable
Ladies and gentlemen of the board,
We are off-line currently due to soem in-depth checking and reconfiguring by the hosting team. This activity will likely take about an hour, maybe less. See you later!
Warmest regards,
The FPN Admin Team
December 23, 01:33 UTC / December 22, 20:33 EST
I guess wimg is doing something about the fraudster/ moderator.
Let's hope they can sort it all out with the minimum of fuss.
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Its still down at 06.38 GMT
Must be taking longer than they thought.
Paul
According to the Admin the FPN is automatically shut down if it gets too much traffic. Not because they are "sorting things out" as you pointed. And I doubt they ever will. Their forum has become so big it is very difficult to keep an overwiev of all things happening, good and bad.
I see this a lot in other forums that I visit for my other hobbies, there is always one big forum with huge membership that are run without concern to the membership, (like it or go away) attitude and then a few smaller more well behaved forums that spring up afterwards and normally started by ex members of the big forum.
Some are just too big for their own good, although that can apply to most successful things these days.
Paul
Thread locked and Wimg is going to resolve it the "FPN way".
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Sad but not surprising, this is why I don't participate in raffles and why I use multiple forums for my hobbies. I hope everything gets resolved quickly (and that FPN stops going down, because it's down again).
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Still up..just checked..Is It Down Now....
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It's toast at the moment. Claims 'maintenance' mode.
I thought I heard screaming earlier, I wonder.....
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I have been too busy recently to participate, but now that I am not, I can't.
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