I suggest that if you listen to this guys podcast that you do not ever for any reason financially support him as doing so would be encouraging this type of behavior and treatment of customers and people in general.
I have rarely run into such a tinpot dictator that gets off a power trip micromanaging those that use his forum as Jack Spirko. On top of the abuse he wants you to financially support his venture.
He will also claim as many business's do that he has no control over his forum because he has a staff of moderators. (Who do exactly as they are told it seems.)
Here are some of the reasons that the dictator banned me from his forum:
3/28/11: Reported post: Episode-633- Survival Podcast Listener Questions for 3-28-11
(Brand-new newbie got into a fight with Jack in the show comments, moved to the Forum to criticise Jack's libertarian purity, and immediately got into a fight with the mods.)
Free speech and disagreeing with the tin pot dictator. They use the word fight. Which is impossible to do in email people. (Jack did use profanity in a PM to me but he is the dictator and does not have to use the same etiquette that he demands of the mundanes on his forum.)
3/31/11: Reported post: Contacting members that post in show notes...
(Griping that he couldn't e-mail commenters in the show comments.)
Again disagreeing or suggesting that his Excellency could do things differently is cause to be banned from the tin-pot dictators forum.
4/6/11: Reported post: Re: Alternative dental advise wanted.
(Assumed the mods were reposting stuff from his PMs instead of asking questions.)
Who knows what this means. But is sounds really really bad doesn't it?
I assumed something... Bad, bad, bad. Really bad in the tin-pot dictator Jack Spirko's world.
4/12/11: On FCC thread
(We're all anti-freedom for tolerating FCC licensing.)
I guess you can not disagree with anyone on the dictators forum. Again very bad inappropriate behavior — arguing that people that want government intervention in our lives are not freedom loving. And forums are not for intellectual disagreement Jack and Mao both know that.
7/27/11: Moderation Report for Re: "Rifleman Opportunity Card" Appleseed is keeping this on a need to know basis...
(First post in months, just said "RTFM" instead of being helpful.)
OMG they perceived a well used an accepted acronym response as impolite. Again I think they should have had me shot rather than banned for such an egregious behavior.
7/27/11: Attacked members for using the get-together boards that we set up for the purpose of planning get togethers and tried to convince members to give him their names and phone numbers.
Again I "attacked" in email whatever the hell that was supposed to mean. And I committed the egregious crime of wanting to contact some people.
I suggest that if you listen to this guys podcast that you do not ever for any reason financially support him as doing so would be encouraging this type of behavior and treatment of customers and people in general.
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