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Good lord. Let it go people. There's still absolutely no reason for people to be freaking out.

Totally, I agree entirely, like I said. Thing is:

1) The owners have never in the past shown any interest in putting up a good public face, why should they start now?

2) What we have here is probably more like a repair guy who wanders onto the shop floor every now and then and makes derogatory remarks about the tech savviness of the customers. It pisses off the customers a bit, but they know this is a good repair shop that they've invested a lot of time in, they know that the actual sales guys are really nice, and they're willing to put up with the annoying repair guy because at the end of the day their items get repaired and they aren't bothered finding another good repair shop.

3) The owner of the shop may know the guy that while the guy is an ******* who doesn't help sales, he is pretty damn good at the repairs, and they don't have the time or don't care enough to find someone else who they trust to do the job the way they want it done. In the lack of another option, the ******* is good enough.

He's under absolutely no obligation to tell you anything about what he's here to do. It'd be nice of him, but yeah. None whatsoever. he's here to do a job that he's apparently paid to do. As previously discussed, whether or not the forum likes him doesn't seem to feature, and he's actually been nice enough in this thread considering the fact that he's received a hell of a lot of rage. Can't help a guy for not having any concept of musical taste, it's not a sin. Well, not a mortal sin. It certainly doesn't stop him from doing his job, whatever that may be and whether or not he tells us what that job is also has no effect on whether or not he does it well.

You do realise that every time you say this, everyone who doesn't like jay thinks you're brown nosing, and everyone who agrees with you, still agrees with you?

There's no need to repeat yourself.

If this is in any way directed at me, I apologise immediately - I agree that the disputing concerning this appointment is astonishing, yet I feel natural given the nature of it's announcement.
However, I respect any decision you have made about this.
The above post is true - I suppose there's no reason at all we have to know what the nature of his job actually is. Yet I can't help thinking that it's a really objectionable way of treating us, the style at which his promotion has been announced, and yet completely unwilling to tell us anything at all about the role he will play.

I suppose it's really for the best that way, if we find out, then the likelihood is that we will come up with all sorts of reasons why he shouldn't be in that role.

I feel the need to say it when the thread continues to generate unnecessary drama.

I just have and its basically what I said before, as a newbie he's come off as a bit arrogant and got a few people's backs up, there's nothing offensive in what he has said and he's basically just posted to banter.

As said, he's been modded on the request of the site owners, people really now need to move on and accept things as they are. The negative remarks that I've read on here concerning the decline of the quality of the forum are nothing to do with Jayshreddz, it was going on long before he was appointed all his appointment has done has brought things to a head. Maybe the management need to be addressing this and revamping the forum. I really don't think taking Jayshreddz to task on here is going to solve anything. Man if we were any real community we would be offering him some kind of support here and not shooting him down before he's even started.

1) A group of interacting people, living in some proximity (i.e., in space, time, or relationship). Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a household that shares common values and has social cohesion.

We have that. Thats exactly why this is the reaction.

But surely then it would be reasonable for him to tell us a little bit more about what his actual role is? If he's going to involve himself in the community here then I think we'd appreciate a little more insight into what he's doing, but he's not replied to any of the posts asking him about that.

Man we could sit and debate this, but to be honest I'm still not unconvinced that this is not some April fools joke and the mods next week will break the news to us.