Stuart Bertram
12-05-09, 20:31
Some people may have noticed a new name on our forum - Tony@D-D who is assisting us greatly by answering some questions and making us aware of requests for help and information.
What some will not know is that Tony also signs on to the forum as the well respected moderator ReefBloke.
There have been a couple of sponsors who feel that this may be a conflict of interests and Tony was concerned by this and so I decided to write this thread.
The relationship all started about a month ago, during a visit to see David Saxby’s aquarium, David pointed out the difficulties for companies to spend all day in business and then to find time to assist people on the forums and emails which D-D see as being very important.
Tony kindly offered to help us out in this respect as he spends hours online anyway and enjoys and understands the interaction that occurs on the forums, however before coming onboard to help us it was important for Tony to discuss the potential issue of conflict of interests with the administrators of Ultimate reef and even offered to resign as a moderator.
It was decided by the other moderators that this would be a loss to the forum and that Tony was professional enough to separate his moderation duties from the time assisting D-D. By having two different sign on names it makes it easier for him to respond to posts and PM’s in either role without creating confusion. D-D also prefers to sign on with real names rather than pseudonyms so that people know who they are talking to.
We have already been made aware of more postings and helped more people with answers than we could hope to have been able to do in the past which is the reason for having a reefkeeping forum in the first place.
Keep up the good work Tony!!!
Stuart :thumbsup:
What some will not know is that Tony also signs on to the forum as the well respected moderator ReefBloke.
There have been a couple of sponsors who feel that this may be a conflict of interests and Tony was concerned by this and so I decided to write this thread.
The relationship all started about a month ago, during a visit to see David Saxby’s aquarium, David pointed out the difficulties for companies to spend all day in business and then to find time to assist people on the forums and emails which D-D see as being very important.
Tony kindly offered to help us out in this respect as he spends hours online anyway and enjoys and understands the interaction that occurs on the forums, however before coming onboard to help us it was important for Tony to discuss the potential issue of conflict of interests with the administrators of Ultimate reef and even offered to resign as a moderator.
It was decided by the other moderators that this would be a loss to the forum and that Tony was professional enough to separate his moderation duties from the time assisting D-D. By having two different sign on names it makes it easier for him to respond to posts and PM’s in either role without creating confusion. D-D also prefers to sign on with real names rather than pseudonyms so that people know who they are talking to.
We have already been made aware of more postings and helped more people with answers than we could hope to have been able to do in the past which is the reason for having a reefkeeping forum in the first place.
Keep up the good work Tony!!!
Stuart :thumbsup: