Replies to post #2233 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Straggler]

I have read SI for some time and a few months ago began to take a look at IHub. Since IHub is free I decided to register today and make at least this one post.

Since Bob's arrival IHub has gone from a quiet little Bulletin Board to a BB Board (Bickering Bob's Board). I guess what we are seeing publicly on IHub is just a taste of what went on behind the scenes at SI. It is no wonder SI degraded so badly over time and why so many left SI.

It is apparent to me that Bob enjoys this bickering. Maybe the name for IHub should be changed to BickeringHub.

[Was (Bob)]

Also the news and articles say you were fired. Plain and Simple and by your own admission you raised cane about the
moderated threads and the ban feature. Now I am curious why you do not have a lawsuit on why these articles came out saying you were fired when you state you were laid off. Now I have been in business most of my life and I know this is a serious contradiction. I lay off when I have no work or something outside the person's fault is the cause of their termination.

I'm sure another point of disagreement here is that my own brand of Due Diligence involves actually reading something before telling everyone what it said.

The 3 articles since my layoff, and the relevant excerpts:

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15355023
Bob Zumbrunnen, well known in cyber circles for shepherding the often-fractious stock-discussion boards on Silicon Investor, was fired Tuesday amid across-the-board layoffs at the Web site's parent company, InfoSpace Inc.

Note "fired... amid across-the-board layoffs". While I don't agree with the way the definitions have become blurred, the fact is that they have. It's clear that "fired" here doesn't mean "terminated for dereliction of duty", etc. The message here is that I was among many who were laid off. I'm not megalomaniacal or paranoid enough to think 250 people lost their jobs as a way to get rid of me.

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15617847
Bob Zumbrunnen, who worked until recently as a message-board monitor for Silicon Investor until Infospace fired him amid companywide cuts, agrees.

"fired him amid companywide cuts"

You're removing one word from its context and using it as your "proof".

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15671418
Mr. Zumbrunnen, known in online-trading circles as SI Bob or SI Admin (Bob), was police chief at stock-discussion site Silicon Investor until he was laid off in February by the Web site's parent company, InfoSpace Inc.

IHUB in the last month is in CHAOS were it was peaceful

Ummmm... I don't see the site being in chaos. Only this thread. And only because a few people choose to do war in here to try to discredit me.

But I don't know why I bother pointing that out. You didn't address a single thing in the post to which you're replying, so you're not trying to refute. Just using a post of mine as a launch pad for one of your own diatribes.

An administrator that is rule obsessed is a human-God like being seeking a realm to reign supreme and control.

and

fighting the "I'll say what I want" and "I'll bad mouth all I want" for no pay

Two direct questions:

1. Just what do you think a site administrator does if it doesn't have anything to do with enforcing the site's rules?

2. Do you really see nothing wrong with deleting a post just because you don't agree with it (it expresses an opinion or reveals information that goes against your financial interest in and therefore bias toward a company) or deleting posts of your own so that they can't be used as evidence?

Bob

PS. You assert that you're not here to just discredit me any way you can, but that's all I see you doing. Actions vs Words.