TTA sorry for the no link to that cam. (thanks for adding it) However I did post earlier in the thread the link to their main page.
No need to apologize!
[I used your earlier LINK to FIND this LINK!
]
The "
overzealous"
Community Organizer from a few weeks back would have just edited your original post and added the LINK because (from his point of view):
- It would be useful to the content of the thread.
- Other members would appreciate the "shortcut".
- You were probably too busy at the time and *WOULD* have added it yourself.
- My status allows me to.
but the current, confused, gun-shy
Community Organizer, after being warned by
Sysadmin x10javier that he's the subject of more complaint PMs than anyone and if the current situation continues, will be banned from the forums, no longer knows which direction is right.
Yeah, I know that I could PM everyone first and ask permission. But then I'd have to wait possibly hours / days for a reply and then re-find the post and re-do my previous efforts. There are a handful of folks here, though, that told me, paraphrasing, "Go ahead! Whatever you think will make it better is fine with me. Thanks in advance." and I sometimes edit theirs or teach them formatting commands.
Most, if not all, of the new ideas I've implemented here have "withered on the vine" without my constant attention / nudging the past few weeks. What does that say about them? Were they good ideas, or just me FORCING other folks to do something that they really didn't want to do?
Not one of my 50 "
Unhelpfuls" was ever preceeded by a courtesy PM explaining to me WHAT I did wrong and giving me the opportunity to correct it. Nor have I received a follow-up PM from the public request I made for them ~2 weeks ago
here - at the bottom. IMO, I've been pretty "Low-Key" the past 2 weeks (from my previous "self") and I *STILL* got a new DING a few days ago. How does the same person that received 73 "
Helpfuls" since 2006-06-23 also manage to earn the distinction of having the
2nd highest "Unhelpful" count? [I haven't had my count reset TWICE.
] Are my actions here THAT ANNOYING to SO MANY people? Or it is just a spiteful few that won't let go...
All of my constant RAH-RAH-RAH, SIS-BOOM-BAH attempts to generate what I like to call "
Community Spirit",
How It Should Be..., has only 'infected' a handful of the 6000+ Members here. And while I do enjoy the 'give-and-take' kidding around, huge, bold colors, and the resulting, in me at least, laughter with these guys, there's still the overwhelming majority of '
Sterile' Members, who only login to either ask a question (many, IMO, as a shortcut to actually looking it up themselves
) or reply to a question (sometimes with only a 'quick-n-dirty' reply that only leads to more questions and more 'quick-n-dirty' replies
).
Is an
impersonal / unemotional ALL-VOLUNTEER 'Customer Help Desk' truely all that the majority of the members want this forum to be?
I didn't want to make this "Soapbox Spiel" of mine a new, separate thread. Yet, I did want to "say it", with the knowledge that my target audience (the "
Cheers Gang ") would see it and possibly comment with their suggestions (maybe in another existing thread, or in a new one?).
So,
KDR, you can edit your post, add the LINK and I can delete my post. Or, I can do it for you. Or, we can leave everything as-is...
P.S. to
KDR *AND* the rest of the camera users:
I tried a wireless X10 Color Camera "years ago", and was very disappointed by the narrow field of view, inability to see ANYTHING at night (with 3 150 watt floodlights), and the CRITICAL alignment needs of the Transmitter/Receiver pair. But, darn it, youse guys are getting me interested again!
A WIRED camera (with 100' of cable so that I can put it under the eave over the garage door at one end of the front of the house and see the front porch, some of the driveway, some of the yard *FROM* the basement when the doorbell rings), with AHP/iWitness (is that the right module?) is tempting me.
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