Magical Blog

Just Posted this on the Cafe :– Lets see how long it lasts

I’ve been visiting the Café for a number of years and found that as a resource for discussing magic its been a great place to come.

The “You Ought to Be In Pictures” and “Not Very Magical” sections have some great contributors and there are some very sane and sound people to talk to on here.

The upshot of it was that this year, in some small recognition of the value I get out of the Café, I was making small regular donations…that was the mood I was in in terms of the Café.

Lately however I have come to reconsider this position and there are a couple of major things for me that have coloured things:

1) Deletions that occur with no explanation but seem to favour certain folks.

2) Admin staff with agendas:- I was having a contretemps with another Café Member and found one of my posts altered. I got a PM from a staff member to say that he had really sharpened up my post for me as the other party needed taking down a peg. I put the idiot straight in no uncertain terms—luckily for him somebody deleted that whole topic anyway —see point 1.

3) There’s a superior take it or leave it attitude from the management here. A very good example being the responses to people querying search times which is dismissed every time its raised but seems to exist only for the Café and and not for any other forums out there. Maybe its being a bit cheap on the server front ?

So I am unfortunately out of here.

I can guarantee one of three things:

1) This post will be gone very very quickly.

2) Vehement defenders will be allowed to come on and mock me and then the topic will be locked.

3) Steve will come on with a patronising or smug response and belittle me and then the topic will be locked.

I’m going for option 1 myself.