meijin
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 11,458 Real Name: Michael
WatchGeeks Owner True WatchGeek
Enough is enough! Every member needs to read this!
First of all, let me tell everyone that I have now put on my "Watchgeeks Owner" hat in making this post instead of my "Invicta employee" hat. I know that this post will be copied and placed onto the hater blogs and hater websites with all sorts of additional blowhard types of commentary. That is fine. I just want to be sure that everyone reading this will fully understand that I am saying this as the guy who had the concept for this site, built it and over the course of the last 2 years and 117 days spent, literally, thousands of hours in front of a computer keeping it running. With that being said, let me begin here with a bit of a history lesson. "Back in the day", I was a member on another site. Over the course of some time, I went from member to moderator and then from moderator to administrator. Many folks here know me from those days. I was a real fan of both Invicta and Renato at that time. The long and short of it is that over time, it became a completely and totally negative place towards those that liked Invicta, Renato and any other brand that was deemed to be a "TV brand". Jim was attacked numerous times on a daily basis as was SNBC. Invicta and Eyal were, of course, attacked. Daniel Mink was attacked. Members were attacked and belittled. And all of this was supported, in large part, by the majority (but not all) of the owners of the site at that time. Members, owners and other members of the staff (many of whom had not purchased the watches or from the brands in question at all or in years) would troll the various parts of the forum just looking for an opportunity to jump into a thread where they could just be negative. It was just a down right negative place to be. It was not fun and was just sucking the joy out of the hobby of watch collecting for alot of folks...myself included. I ended up resigning my position as an admin there and this was the genesis for the creation of WatchGeeks. Now, as I look around and survey the landscape that is WatchGeeks, I see much of the same thing going on here. After coming to this realization, here is what I have to say: Enough is enough! One way or the other, THIS WILL END! I encourage everyone reading this post to, once finished reading it, log out of WatchGeeks and spend the next day or so off of the site. During that time, I would ask that you reflect upon why it is that you are here. I would ask you to reflect upon your own actions here over the last few weeks. And I would, lastly, ask you to reflect upon what it is that you want from this site in the future. If, after this bit of reflection, you decide that you want a positive place to enjoy the hobby of watch collecting and you decide that you want to be a positive contributor to such a place, then log back in and begin enjoying the site. If you decide that you cannot get over your negative actions and words, then just don't come back. You are not wanted here. If, for whatever reason, you don't have the self-control or restraint to stay off of the site, then shoot me a PM and I will arrange it so that you cannot access the site. Beginning today, the over blown negativity on this site will end. I don't care if you are male, female or other. I don't care if you are the biggest customer of any of the individual brands or shopping networks/venues represented here. I don't care if you have been here since day