snowball-effect?

[RayMac]

I'm finding a lot of the comments 'over there' on this topic to be laughable, and at times childish. I guess I didn't realize they had entitlement to a monopoly on Web traffic loosely related to watches and whatnot. Personally, I don't see why we can't all just get along, but I guess I'm naive.

Me too. Must be a Canadian thing.

[Jeannie]

This might be a good opportunity to address a criticism that keeps coming up regarding the way this place was started. It seems that some people feel we should have been more "honest" in our reasons for leaving our old positions. Apparently, we should have said "We've seen the future and we're getting out to start another forum".

But, apart from asking how long such a resignation post would have been allowed to stand by the new management, what would have been the effect? This isn't supposed to be a mutiny. We wanted to keep things amicable between the two sites and not post "follow us" signs all over the place.

I'm going to add something to this since that criticism has several times been leveled at me.

Gary is correct. We couldn't be entirely candid about the new forum. There is something called professionalism. It would have been inappropriate to discuss a start up watch forum on another watch forum. More than that, it would have been rude. That doesn't mean the reasons we gave were not and are not true. At the time I resigned, IWL was only a twinkle in our collective eye and not a sure thing. If it had simply been about jumping ship, I would have waited until I knew for certain there'd be another ship to board.

My "official" reason for leaving was my mother's congestive heart failure and the toll it is taking on my life and my need to place her first. Even without IWL, I would have left. WUS was no longer a port in the storm of my life. It had become another stress. IWL, on the other hand, is a venture with friends. People I like and respect. Familiar, yet different. And it has a feeling of rebirth to it that is healing to me at a time when so little in my day to day is positive or affirming. I also can step away more easily here because of the size of the forum and the caliber of the support team in decision making positions.

None of the mod staff here has harsh feelings toward Watchuseek or the friends that stayed behind. We wish them well. I don't have a particularly negative attitude toward VS either. I'd been holding on to the place for the people and the relationships and once that started to change it simply wasn't worth the struggle any more.

At WUS we worked for someone else--first Ernie and then VS. We supported someone else's dream and we did it for years with great dedication. I do not regret it a bit. But now we work for ourselves. And for our members. Ask me which I prefer.

As for the "they did it for the money" camp? Someone must know something I don't because so far the only cash flow I've seen is going in the wrong direction.

Jeannie

[Chronopolitano]

And for our members. Ask me which I prefer.
Jeannie

Well, OK then.
Which members DO you prefer?

[Jeannie]

Well, OK then.
Which members DO you prefer?

You're going to make me hurt your feelings.

Jeannie

[Chronopolitano]

You're going to make me hurt your feelings.

Jeannie

Aw, hundreds of women have already crushed me to smithereens and I'm still walkin'.

[I-B]

Great to hear "the other side" of the story. The wildest story's and speculations are being spawned in the other place, even in F17(!!!!).

[popoki nui]

Well, OK then.
Which members DO you prefer?

Well, I know where *I* stand on that list.....

[M. Montaigne]

Well, I know where *I* stand on that list.....

Well, I'm not even *on* the list.

[Broker]

I'm not gonna lie. I prefer Der Amf

[I-B]

I'm not gonna lie. I prefer Der Amf

Der Amf is a great addition for IWL