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fishmich said:
maybe it was deleted because trr is one of the few sites that are worth visiting and it doesnt need this kind of garbage. i dont know al personally, but i know he has a good rep and i dont see how people see him as a bad guy. i dont think any of this in any will affect his good name. justyn on the other hand does have a bad rep and although it doesnt seem like hes done anything wrong this time, i cant figure out why hes got all worked up over this. what al did at the shhs site is what he should have done. his job their is to protect people who visit the classified section from possible problems and thats what he did. to me it just seems this like this is way bigger than it should be and bringing it here will probably prove to be much worse for justyn than it will for al. it seems to me that al is a trustworthy guy and is well respected in the venomous community, i doubt any of this will change that.
~bill
Jeez William did someone on Fauna say something mean to you and you left?
Here you say you don't know Al but go on to defend him up one side and down the other. Might want to do some reading here I suggest the TSE and Matt Graybeals threads as starters(shows how even good guys can go bad) Now I don't think Al's a bad guy but he has stepped in it a bit here and especially if he deleted Wes's thread and blocked him from posting, a major conflict of interest...It's the same as deleting Justyn's adds and banning him, which is likely a good thing but seeing as he had dealings with Justyn he should have referred it to someone else to act on. If he did that to Wes over there then I'll be changing my opinion of him to the negative.

Well fine you think this is way bigger than it should be but last I checked everyone else has the same right to their opinions as you do. As is often said here if you don't like what is said you don't have to read it. As for your last sentence it wasn't all that long ago that Justyn was a well respected member of that community as well and look what happened, again do some reading .. Randy
 
augh.. i didnt even get to finish my post.. geesh stupid post quick reply button..

Al and Joe decided hey, why not try to get some animals from africa...so they place an order... so what do they get? nothing.

Now... The permits that you're asking for really have nothing to do with the airbill that Al obtained. The carrier, told Al that the only shippment that was coming out of the congo was the shippment for Justyn.. therefore al asks justyn hey do you know anything about this? Justyn says no but i'll try to help and see what happened to your money.. etc etc.
 
ok randy, you're post messed me up.. now i look like a random posting loonatic.. thanks lol
 
Sorry about that Nora should have PM'd me and I would have held up!! I do wonder why it took you longer to type than me as I'm S L O W, it's usually me half a page down from the post I'm replying to.
Randy
 
ravensgait said:
Jeez William did someone on Fauna say something mean to you and you left?
-no, i just dont frequent this site too much as it doesnt have quite as much to offer as a few of the others.

ravensgait said:
Here you say you don't know Al but go on to defend him up one side and down the other.
-i dont know him personally, i know he cares about the hobby, cares about the snakes, and people throughout the community seem to respect him.

ravensgait said:
Might want to do some reading here I suggest the TSE and Matt Graybeals threads as starters(shows how even good guys can go bad) Now I don't think Al's a bad guy but he has stepped in it a bit here and especially if he deleted Wes's thread and blocked him from posting, a major conflict of interest...It's the same as deleting Justyn's adds and banning him, which is likely a good thing but seeing as he had dealings with Justyn he should have referred it to someone else to act on.
-maybe he should have referred it to someone else, i think he himself mentioned that in a previous post. but it was his responsibility and if he had gone that route, someone here would surely be calling him out as a "scumbag" for having someone else handle it.

ravensgait said:
If he did that to Wes over there then I'll be changing my opinion of him to the negative.
-why, because the people in charge at that site dont tolerate grown people acting like children, calling names and stirring the bucket?

ravensgait said:
Well fine you think this is way bigger than it should be but last I checked everyone else has the same right to their opinions as you do. As is often said here if you don't like what is said you don't have to read it. As for your last sentence it wasn't all that long ago that Justyn was a well respected member of that community as well and look what happened, again do some reading .. Randy
 
ravensgait said:
Sorry about that Nora should have PM'd me and I would have held up!! I do wonder why it took you longer to type than me as I'm S L O W, it's usually me half a page down from the post I'm replying to.
Randy

My excuse is I'm at work. :D
 
Well William you sure seem to miss the point.

"" -i dont know him personally, i know he cares about the hobby, cares about the snakes, and people throughout the community seem to respect him.""
Well two years ago I bet you would have thought Chris Johnson was a real good guy, many sure did but look how that turned out.

""-maybe he should have referred it to someone else, i think he himself mentioned that in a previous post. but it was his responsibility and if he had gone that route, someone here would surely be calling him out as a "scumbag" for having someone else handle it."'

Sure he'd be a scum bag for handling it the right way! yeah right, you might have thought so, I can't see why any reasonable person would think that. And what about this thing with Wes? it was part of what you Quoted but you failed to respond to it...

""-why, because the people in charge at that site dont tolerate grown people acting like children, calling names and stirring the bucket? ""

By the way-- you kick the bucket,,,,,,you stir the pot,,,,
Not sure what this comment has to do with the part of my post you Quoted but if he was the one who deleted the threads and blocked Wes well then there is that conflict of interest again but I guess that never crossed you mind did it William. Well I bet you figured out by now that it crossed mine and other folks minds.

Gary what's the scoop who deleted the threads and blocked Wes???
Randy
 
Randy... wes getting banned on TRR wouldnt be the first time.. and gary is a somewhat firm believer in not banning people, and every once in a while we'll get that one person who slips up bad and get banned. Gary literally has a high high high tolerance for what goes on in and around his boards... for him to ban wes, well lets just say wes would actually hafta have done something BAD. and since i didnt get to see his post on trr, well then we'll hafta take gary's word for it.

oh fyi. as far as i remember Supermods and forum mods dont have the ability to ban people.. only Admins...
 
Thanks Nora, I think I still have a membership over there but can't remember the last time I looked at the site so really didn't know who other than Gary was a Mod ETC . If Gary blocked Wes or one of the other Mods there did (yeah he gets banned a lot) that's one thing but if it was Al or Al asking another Mod to do it that would be something else.. Thanks again.. Randy
 
I have not read everything yet sense my last post. But I will say this.

The stuff happening on my site has my team moderating it. Not just Al. Al is not the one acting on them.
 
Also lets not make this into a TRR vs Fauna thing. Both sites are great. No need to drag down sites for no reason.
 
Ok here we go.

I am looking at Wes's account and I am not seeing it blocked. I will say I am not that up and up on the super mod blocking. I know it can be done though through warnings. But I believe it is only for 24 hours. I am still looking into it. If he is trully blocked it is not saying it in my admin panel. But he is still under the war room user group. yes I have not changed that lol.

About the posts.

Al did delete one post made by Wes today. I would say it was the way Wes went about it. I have been trying as much as I can to clean up the main forums from BS and name calling the best I can. I do slip up sometimes and let some through. MY FAULT. But over all their is no longer a War Room on TRR and that type of thing died with the war room.

I honestly can not see Wes's account blocked.... I am looking nto it more but when I pull up his name in the admin panel it shows that he has access to anywhere on the board as a VIP(war room) member. That is the highest level on TRR.

The rest of the threads and posts were done via another mod.
 
Gary, if you slow down and read what I posted there was a great big IF in my pm to you that said IF it was you who deleted my post.

I never ASSumed anything as you seem to have ASSumed I did, making something of a fool of yourself for making the ASSumption, if you ask me.

What name calling, exactly are you referring to? al has lied, he's a lair. He's used a double standard to profit for himself and then to hurt the guy he profitted by. Seems like a pretty scummy thing to do to someone to me. He also had NO problem with justyn's ad UNTIL al got ripped off by the guy in Africa. Then, all of a sudden, al remembers what his job is and get's justyn banned and his ads deleted. Interesting timing.

I brought this to light, not calling him names, on your site in the thread that al started. You know the one, where he askes for members there to come here and bail his ass out because he put his big foot in a pile of poo. He deleted my post.

I then started a thread, with the same exact post, which is one of the posts I made in this very thread. You read it, commented on it and did not seem to have a problem with it. In fact, you and I each posted at least twice, perhaps 3 times a peice on that thread before it disappeared.

I thought there was no way Gary O would do this BUT I am a skeptical bastard and al is one of your staff members so I shot you a pm stating that IF you deleted it I was severely disappointed in you.

You shot one back saying you didn't at which time I appologized for even having thought you did.

As far as your brother and I, I sure did think he was wrong, until you proved he was right, at which time I also appologized to you and him and I thought we all chuckled about it. IN fact, if I recall correctly, I even said I'd like to get one or two from you guys next time the guy had any. Of course, if you are harboring deep feelings of ill will over it, there is nothing I can do that I have not done.

nora, as always, you are not as smart as you think you are. In this very thread I have admitted to being wrong at least twice. It is not the first time it has happened. The thing is, and follow along closely because this is where you get lost, just because one of your friends, be he a lying scumbag like al or a stand up guy like Gary, says I am wrong, does not make it so. Read it again. IF someone can prove I am wrong THEN I am wrong but just saying it does not make it so.

Poor nora, never were the sharpest tool in the shed, were ya.

Gary, al has let loose a string of lies. Saying he had the permit to import the snakes is merely another. The airbill number has NOTHING to do with anything I've addressed. I don't know why you think it is, I certainly have had NOTHING to say about the airway bill at all.

So, al, you lie.

You operate under a double standard, using people so long as you profit then putting the screws to them if you feel they are a threat to you.

You also abuse your position to hide the facts that you do this all of which makes you a first class scumbag in my book.

Gary, I do stop by TRR from time to time but since it is mainly a club for guys who keep hots, I don't have a whole lot to say. I think you're a pretty good guy and I also think that when you look at the facts, not the players involved, you'll see exactly why I have persued this as I have.

If you don't then I have simply overestimated yet another person I admired. I suppose this too will happen again, as it has in the past. I hope it is not the case, but given your halfcocked responces to what has happened I will not be surprised if it does.

Who disabled my ability to post on TRR? Did you ok the deletion of a thread that shows one of your staff in a bad light though an accurate one? What is truth worth to you? Can you still call a theif a theif on TRR, a liar a liar?

My how things change.
 
Wilomn said:
nora, as always, you are not as smart as you think you are. In this very thread I have admitted to being wrong at least twice. It is not the first time it has happened. The thing is, and follow along closely because this is where you get lost, just because one of your friends, be he a lying scumbag like al or a stand up guy like Gary, says I am wrong, does not make it so. Read it again. IF someone can prove I am wrong THEN I am wrong but just saying it does not make it so.

Poor nora, never were the sharpest tool in the shed, were ya.


no no.. its more like poor wes, you're the one load that your mom didnt swallow.

Seriously, what does the permits have anything to do with your so called wage against Al? the situation at hand doesnt involve permits.. It merely involves an exporter, a shipment, $500 in cash, a customer who has nothing, and a known scammer.

Why are you sooooo hell bent in proving that Al's a liar? please humour inquiring minds that want to know.
 
It also involves known lair (Al). I have shown every document to show what I am saying is true. Al has not even once said I have told an untruth about this, because I have not. He just tries to squenze around it thinking he can cause even more damage to me because I'm a threat to his business and I'm an easy atrget no one will believe nor care about (he told someone he was importing more snakes from the Congo yesterday, hahahahah, he's just going to get ripped off and blame it on me again). I've made mistakes, I've created problems, but I admit these things. Al just runs and hides. Mroe dangerous in my book.

Also, why has no one even said anything against his youtube postings? Does any relieze that if any new orginazation or person in power sees those things it is the end of private venomous snake keeping in the USA. He has a recent video about how with green mamba escaped!!! Do people really need to hear that he can't even keep his snakes locked up?

nora said:
no no.. its more like poor wes, you're the one load that your mom didnt swallow.

Seriously, what does the permits have anything to do with your so called wage against Al? the situation at hand doesnt involve permits.. It merely involves an exporter, a shipment, $500 in cash, a customer who has nothing, and a known scammer.

Why are you sooooo hell bent in proving that Al's a liar? please humour inquiring minds that want to know.
 
nora said:
no no.. its more like poor wes, you're the one load that your mom didnt swallow.

Seriously, what does the permits have anything to do with your so called wage against Al? the situation at hand doesnt involve permits.. It merely involves an exporter, a shipment, $500 in cash, a customer who has nothing, and a known scammer.

Why are you sooooo hell bent in proving that Al's a liar? please humour inquiring minds that want to know.
nora, I am not modding this thread as of now but mention my mother again and I will be.

Just because you are too stupid to read and comprehend I'll take another stab at it.

Your pal al said HE had the import permit in hand before the snakes were shipped.

I say he is lying and has been lying to make justyn look bad. Therefore, in order to prove that he was lying, or to have plate of crow for lunch dependong on outcome, I asked him to provide the permit he said he had.

Plain and simple enough that even you should be able to comprehend. If you don't it's a shame but I won't try to explain it to you again.
 
QUOTE""Al did delete one post made by Wes today. I would say it was the way Wes went about it. I have been trying as much as I can to clean up the main forums from BS and name calling the best I can.""

Well I sort of figured, too bad he had to again deal with someone he was having problems with. Seems strange to me that your Mod team deleted a thread you were active in and didn't bother mentioning it to you, not taking a shot at your site it just seems strange. Gee I'll have to see if I can get Rich to post in one of my forums and delete the thread with out telling or asking him before hand! Wonder how long I'll be a member here after that lol. Gary your site to run your way but the continuing actions of Al IE deleting stuff that people he has personal problems with have posted, just looks bad..

Al your problem with Justyn as I said here before didn't belong here but it seems we've a whole new kettle of fish now. If you deleted, asked someone else to delete post(s) or blocked Wes's access on TRR ... If you did any of the aforementioned things then buddy you are not the good guy you think you are. No need to run over there you could have just answered his questions the best you could here. Randy
 
I guess I just can't write anything using proper english. Aorry about that, I hope the point gets through.

Intense Herpetoculture said:
It also involves known lair (Al). I have shown every document to show what I am saying is true. Al has not even once said I have told an untruth about this, because I have not. He just tries to squenze around it thinking he can cause even more damage to me because I'm a threat to his business and I'm an easy atrget no one will believe nor care about (he told someone he was importing more snakes from the Congo yesterday, hahahahah, he's just going to get ripped off and blame it on me again). I've made mistakes, I've created problems, but I admit these things. Al just runs and hides. Mroe dangerous in my book.

Also, why has no one even said anything against his youtube postings? Does any relieze that if any new orginazation or person in power sees those things it is the end of private venomous snake keeping in the USA. He has a recent video about how with green mamba escaped!!! Do people really need to hear that he can't even keep his snakes locked up?
 
Really, so your saying that the person who made this video should be in ANY position to moderate a forum on husbandry, sales, and purchases of venomous snakes? You ahve to be out of your mind! The venomous community should do everything to convince Al to take all his venomous videos off of youtube, it does not show the venomous community in a good light. Al is in a position of being a "leader" by moderating those forums. Should he be?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NTGqRYWP1mw

I would upload it here myself, but I don't think Rich has the software.

Really, watch it, comment on it. I'm curious.

ravensgait said:
Justyn do us all a favor Shut Up and go away ! far away!!!
Randy
 
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