Board change blues

[primsong]

I'm sorry, but as I'm not allowed to badmouth Decipher on the boards (I 'represent' them - pbbbbt!) - I'm going to mutter just a little bit here to get it over with.

There are times I really wonder if they have two working neurons that communicate with one another anywhere in that company - how divisive, to slap a big, grey, ugly "MEMBER" under people's names, and then to have the audacity to charge ten bucks for an avatar! Are they insane? Pretty steep for a little picture that most places let you have free. They never even mentioned any of this to the mods, then drop us one message letting us know we'll have to be policing avatars now also, except there's no way for us to kill a bad avatar - we have to holler and hope someone at Decipher will take care of it... if it's not a weekend. Sheesh!

I'm not renewing my magazine... kind of sad that they'll have mods who aren't even 'members' pretty soon.

If I can get techie-hubby Treblemaker to carve out the time to help set it up, I've given up on Decipher ever looking at the threaded option and am pursuing it myself. We may have to pass the hat for a server upgrade, but I think we could really, really use a "non-Decipherized" Pony right now... Here's hoping...

If anyone has any good ideas, besides dumping the entire community, let me know.

Comments

[irascian.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to the boards in ages, but Lith was saying the other evening that since the change in format things were quieter and it was more difficult to moderate.

As for Decipher - well the signs have been there for years. I think it was after ComicCon 2002 I realised there was little point in expecting any common sense from anyone there other than Dan, who's effectively been disenfranchised for the last couple of years anyhow.

What strikes me most is their incompetence. Memberships expire and they make it incredibly difficult to renew, as if they really don't want to make any money. For international members they can't even be bothered to help out with reducing costs substantially by offering anything other than DHL prices for shipping, can't have simple wording on lithographs that explains they're just photo's or pictures (describing them as 'fine art' which attracts a heavy customs import cost) etc etc etc.

Then there's all the broken promises - the names on the DVDs (the ones that most people buy - NOT the extended ones), the mail forwarding service, the missing issues that take forever to get replaced, the Orlando Bloom interview...

Enough said! You're not the only one who won't be renewing. It's just not worth the hoops they make you jump through, and I'm not convinced that when their renewal rate is so much lower than they were expecting the magazine won't become just a 30-page pamphlet advertising their store goods.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the truth! I bought two things from them early on (my ME watch and the hobbit cap) but their shipping and prices were so high I soon found I could do better elsewhere. *Somebody* must be buying their stuff, as they just keep going more and more to being an online store, so it must be profitable for them. The amount of advertising in the mags is getting ridiculous. Count me out....

It's a shame, as they had the potential to have something of very high quality and they've muffed it.