No. You are not allowed to discuss any other site at RS other than RS, in any way, shape, or form.
Not true. You can discuss Phillip's other Star Wars site there all you want - TheForce.Net.
As for Phillip's mind boggling hypocrisy, most of you aren't even aware of the best one ever: Remember the whole spam issue over at RS last April? (which in part led to my banning there, along with some **** I said about Phillip and Dustin over here) Well, there was an e-mail message that got sent out by someone to all of the admins/webmasters/site owner's of the various Star Wars collecting websites several months ago, about some Master Replicas news information (Chris Berry got it here), and Phillip shockingly threw a hissy fit about receiving this message he considered to be "spam" (it wasn't from MR). I don't specifically recall all the details at this point, but considering Phillip's "spam" rant over this issue wasn't too long after the infamous "
You don't like our spam? Get a life and move along" comment from Phillip to many of his RS members in their own feedback forum after he sent out his RS (Toys'R'Us) spam to his whole forum, his hypocrisy knows no bounds.
As for VVD's banning over the PM invites, I'm not at all surprised. Cordial and polite, or not, that's not the point. Phillip refuses to let anyone promote any competing site on his site, unless they're a staff member. I'd be surprised if there's actually a written rule over there about it though, at least about using the PMs that way. I know they throw a hysterical shitfit now over the links, but monitoring PMs is asinine. Hell, that's how Scott (OCB) and I pretty much got JD's forums really off and running here several years ago, and I know lots of folks that still do it to this day. Like Fatty said, for the gorilla of collecting sites to sweat any of the others is just pathetic. It's like a millionaire getting pissed that he didn't get his quarter returned from the pay phone. It shows how truly petty, insecure, and money hungry Phillip is.
I also found it downright laughable recently when someone asked in RS's feedback forum about all the new double-underlined sponsor links EVERYWHERE there now, and Dustin or Myatt (I don't recall) spewed some bull**** nonsense about needing to cover the costs of running RS. Good Lord, that's some funny **** there. Do they really think their members are that stupid? Well, I guess many of them are. But still...
And Alex, if I were you, I'd flip back 10 or so pages in this thread and find Cable's post. You might find it enlightening...
Lastly, Birchall's right again on that September, 2002 estimation, as most of us here would contend. Long before September, 2005 - no doubt. But if folks weren't around way back then, they wouldn't have the privelege of knowing that. In fact, the RS forums were really only decent for about 6 - 9 months, and that's it. Prior to that, they weren't the RS forums, they were the CSW boards, which were definitely a great place. Very depressing how it all turned out, especially seeing a dickhead like Phillip somehow swindling his way into controlling the vast majority of the online collecting discussion, when it was never even his to begin with. He definitely doesn't deserve it. Reminds me a lot of how the evil Galactic Empire was eventually formed in ROTS...
