I Agree With The Op!!!!
What are you talking about? Post the exact message.
HERE AND
HERE
And we don't close / delete threads as a general principle. You are at SatelliteGuys, not the other sites...
Look pretty closed to me....I'm no Einstein but I'm pretty sure it says closed at the bottom
Plenty fair!!!
As Scott has said many times, staff members are not paid here. I have no problem with this whatsoever!!
Staff are'nt paid anywhere unless you are working for a company. Just because you dont have any issues with it dosent mean others dont.
I think they earned it running a great site. I don't think they will be retiring off these referrals.
We all run the site, each of us answers others ?'s. No one said they would retire, but hey couldnt you use $50 off your bill or more???
Both of you are right on! And both of those posts Speak Volumes about how satelliteguys is.
Of course you agree, you're a staff member that closed one of the threads that the OP was referring to. Just leaving it visible is beside the point.
hmmm....thread would be related to site operations, we should move and hide it.
oh wait, we don't do that sh*t here
its ok to discuss anything at satelliteguys, we're open to it.
in all seriousness, it will take a hell of a lot of referrals to pay for the CES trip.
The referrals are best from family and friends, we wanted a way for people looking for a referral to have easy access to it, when the don't have a family or friend with Directv service. I think we were genuinely open and honest about it too. We're not trying to pull woll over anyone's eyes, not hiding anything.
Thanks for being a satelliteguy and for your feedback.
No, you may not move them but they get closed, and then the thread dies because no new post can be made and it gets pushed to the back pages...
I have to agree for the most part...
If your trip had been paid for by the members, would you have brought back enough information and shared it with the community to have justified the expense? Otherwise your going to CES is a personal decision, and at your cost not at the expense of the community. A person working for a corp, has to gain enough benefit from a conference they are sent to and bring it back to the corp before it is worthwhile for the corp to pay for it, a lot of corps make the individual pay if they just slack off while there or will get reprimanded upon returning for failure to represent the corp properly...I went to CES too and if I had enough referrals and didn't have to pay my DirecTV bill then hey that money that I spent of CES would be easier to swallow...
Not everyone has family and friends that want satellite tv or that dont already have it, if you want people to have easy access then let people ask for a referral. Nobody said it was dishonest, or that it was hiding...just not fair.....
moot point....no comment required
...Anyways, staff members deserve the 50$ referral credit because they are here everyday and helping people out for free.
I'm here everyday too and help people for free so are a lot of others...do I deserve then to be a staff member and get referral credits???
I sent the following straight to Scott, never received a reply, so I'm glad to see I'm not the only one on here that feels the way that I do!!!!!:
Private Message: Just my opinion...
Recipients: Scott Greczkowski
01-29-2008, 08:50 PM
lxngtnguy
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 3rd, 2007
Location: Lexington, KY
Posts: 6
Just my opinion...
Hey Scott,
Love the forum, I'm here and over at AVS all the time. Although I have neither made a lot of posts nor have I actually been a member for a long time, I read almost every night about topics that I am interested in, and have only recently became a member so that I could reply to messages, I have been a reader for a long long time, but I do occasionally like to through my thoughts out there for someone.
Anyway I am sending this to you because I came across a post in the DirecTV forum
CLICK HERE when I got to the bottom both you and goaliebob99 directed people not to post asking for a referral and to contact a staff member, that you would supply the requester with one. I have to say I don't think that it's fair for people to be required to ask staff members only. Everyone on here should have the same opportunity to give out a referral if someone is asking. How is it fair that only the staff should receive the benefits of a referral discount on their account with DirecTV. You made this forum for the free exchange of information, assistance, knowledge, and comment or rumor. Requiring people to only ask staff is out of context with this premise. Each of us in our own way make our contributions to the community here, and should be allowed to enjoy the benefit. Keeping some of the topics closed for anyone except for those subscribers who pay is ok, and understandable. "Premium" content is generally expected to have an additional requirement to acquire. I enjoy the forum and like being a part of the SG.us community. I would assist the forum in any way I can, whether that be through continued posting, becoming a "correspondent"(staff member), anonymously donating(which I have done), or through other means, and will continue to do so for as long as I am able.
I just wanted to say thankyou for the forum, the info, and the work; but I felt like I should share my thoughts with you.
Thanks for listening
Matt
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This is all just my opinion but, I agree with the OP, it's not fair, what's good for the goose (Staff Member), is good for the gander (Member) 