torsdag den 29. december 2011

The real antsmarching.org ?

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A couple of month ago, I got banned from antsmarching.org - my favourite place on anything DMB-related, just following the boards, read my Tour Central, or simply get some news.
I also noted the fact, that another website had made it's appearance on the World Wide Web, a website called DMBconnect.com. Looking at DMBconnect, and comparing it to antmarching.org made me think of the possibilities of the web today. DMBconnect is more like Facebook which we all know, and what we can relate to, what possibilities there are, and what relations we can build of it. Now, antsmarching.org is still made of the solid-old board/forum way-of-thinking which works, but may be a little outdated and not social at all. There have been, for many years, a moral of zero, cut down each other on antsmarching.org boards - but that do not differ from any other board on the internet. What seems illogical to me is how the boardadministrators, whom we all know, are working, how they rule the website, and what premises they are working under.
But, just to get back on track, I got banned from antsmarching.org a couple of months ago. First I laughed a bit, and said to myself "You gotta be kiddin' me", given I had opened a forum regarding antsmarching.org's lack of attention to the webite, updating the website as I pointed out that many new websites came along, and they had to update it in keeping track of new possibilites, or people would wander.
I can only guess, if the reason for me to get banned was because of that post.


As you can see on the picture, I have two problems. First, there is no reason for my banning, and second, there is no timelimit on the banning.

You can imagine I get a little surprised. I had no intentions with the post on antsmarching.org's boards, other than expressing my feelings on the website, and telling them that I felt they needed to update the website soon.
Well, IF that post was the reason for my banning, I guess someone at antsmarching.org must have thought I crossed a line. Two things could have been done. First of all, they could have written me a PM (personal message) explaining the matter to me, and then delete the post, or second of all, they could have given me somekind of reason and a timelimit; just as the picture above.

Since I couldn't do anything apparently, I decided to tweet them.


The correspondence between me and someone at antsmarching.org. The picture is edited so they could be lined up. This is the actual conversation.

By tweeting them, I tried to reach them directly as I thought not many would go that way. And I did get back an answer. I just didn't expect that kind of answer. I am a user on their website. I contribute to their traffic, and I am the reason why antsmarching.org is getting paid by Google or whoever gives money for the ads they have on the website.
I expected a little more gratitude from whoever answered me back. But apparently, I did something terrible: I gave the critique.

I have now lost my account on antsmarching.org, and no one will do anything about it. I actually liked the Tour Central, but I guess I have to do it all over again with a new account. No wonder this is the website with the most users for a band; it's because half of them are dead accounts, as people have created new accounts.

This may sound like the end of the world for me, but it's really not. It may be the end of the world for antsmarching.org one day.



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