Riverskier
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No kidding! Rarely am I in favor of moderation, but thank you DHS!
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when will killington be sold?
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No kidding! Rarely am I in favor of moderation, but thank you DHS!
JerseyJoey
New member
Damn, I missed it. What was the pic that got nuked?
Hall of Fame nasty truck stop toilet
I never understood getting p!ssed of at an internet forum; especially a free one. If anything bothered me that much, I'd go to another forum. Or start my own. Life's too short to be digging up pointless crap that happened a year and a half ago.
..or even longer ago.
I don't get it either. I guess some people have nothing else better to do with their lives??
Puck it
Well-known member
That was my artwork. I had to save up to make it look like that. That was from my brown period.
RootDKJ
New member
Gee, thanks guys. Listen, I ski with the guy and would consider Doug a good ski buddy. Do I think he went over the top that day? Hell yea. Even he know he did. People make mistakes in life.
HPD has it right. "Lifetime" ban? C'mon... Even our drug laws aren't that harsh. Maybe we could call it a "Killington Lifetime" ban ya know, like what Powdr did to the "Lifetime" passholders when they changed ownerships.:uzi:
Rambo
Member
I will say that GSS did post really great ski trip reports. Like about, Stow, Jackson Hole... etc. He put a lot of time and effort into his trip reports.
I'm reading the thread now, sorry guys I was out of commission yesterday, work was crazy, 20 people got let go
I'll respond to this in a bit. reading now.
april & may open from 9am-5pm everyday, more chair lifts & trails open weather permitting, parties on bear & kbl decks sat & sundays, reduced day ticket prices as spring season goes from 100 to 20 trails or less, advertise and put spring back into the culture of killington:beer:
9-5 should go into effect as soon as the time changes in my opinion, especially since it happens so early now. All areas should do this. I have no problem with the ticket prices for spring, hell I'd pay full boat to ski superstar right now. The lack of any outdoor vending on closing weekend was a head scratcher to me. Put a few kegs and some grills out and they would've cleaned up.
I dont have enough interest in skiing Killington exclusively during the winter but i dont think people can really complain about much other then the shortened season and the early closing of bear. Didnt asc close bear the same time though near the end of their run? Waaaay back i remember skiing bear in late april but nothing recently, as far as I can recall.
campgottagopee
New member
This...bring him back please
campgottagopee
New member
Not until he was pushed
Alright guys, so basically in reading through literally 130 posts the question I'm getting out of this is, some want GSS back and others do not.
Here's my general view of life. There are certain things that when done, don't deserve second chances, and there are others that are. I wasn't here for the whole GSS thing so I'm working on limited context, but there are a few things I feel fairly confident can be true:
1. Distance makes the heart grow fonder - it seems that GSS is certainly a martyr of sorts here. His banning and the time between that has turned him into a folklore sort of character. Which doesn't seem to mesh well with the negative side. IMO a good trip report, while everyone on the site benefits and appreciates it, isn't offset by (if I read correctly) spamming and flooding facebook pages of other members with out of line comments.
2. GSS had some redeeming qualities - OK, so he wrote great trip reports.... and he really loves skiing. That's awesome. I still don't think that redeems other comments. I heard and flipped through briefly the 9/11 comments. My wife lost one of her best friends on 9/11, and certain things like that just cross the line. Maybe it's personal for me because I knew someone; but I just don't think things like that deserve second chances.
I can think of all my friends, I had one in particular I was friends with in high school and for 2 years into college. It was an extremely stressful relationship for me. He was an awesome guy, but also would piss me off to no end. He would constantly use me and take advantage of me. Just when I would be ready to tell him to piss off, something redeeming would happen - a great conversation, a real momentary heart to heart conversation, or something else. Ultimately we got in a big fight and he kicked through a door in our apartment and we parted ways, and haven't talked since then. It's just not worth the roller coast ride in my opinon.
So here's my .02. I trust the mods here, and Greg as the previous owner, and I back them 100%. I've seen a lot of the moderated posts that show some of the things that GSS actually did and said, and it's ugly. I don't want to run an out of control forum. As others here have said, the banning policy here is pretty friggen lax. 2 members a year is hardly anything, and it requires constantly pushing and toeing the line.
It seems a bit like the Stanford Prison Experiment, there's like this perception somehow from the Pro GSS crowd its somehow Mods vs. Members but that is just competely ridiculous. We are all here because we love skiing and the mods and myself are here to help keep the conversation going about skiing in a reasonable fashion, and 99.99% of the time we act reasonably. Everyone F's up every once in a while, and that's cool, but we all do our best to get together and have great conversation about awesome stuff.
So anyway. Cliff notes for all you TL;DR's: I am not unbanning anyone.
Hope you guys understand. -Nick
Here's my general view of life. There are certain things that when done, don't deserve second chances, and there are others that are. I wasn't here for the whole GSS thing so I'm working on limited context, but there are a few things I feel fairly confident can be true:
1. Distance makes the heart grow fonder - it seems that GSS is certainly a martyr of sorts here. His banning and the time between that has turned him into a folklore sort of character. Which doesn't seem to mesh well with the negative side. IMO a good trip report, while everyone on the site benefits and appreciates it, isn't offset by (if I read correctly) spamming and flooding facebook pages of other members with out of line comments.
2. GSS had some redeeming qualities - OK, so he wrote great trip reports.... and he really loves skiing. That's awesome. I still don't think that redeems other comments. I heard and flipped through briefly the 9/11 comments. My wife lost one of her best friends on 9/11, and certain things like that just cross the line. Maybe it's personal for me because I knew someone; but I just don't think things like that deserve second chances.
I can think of all my friends, I had one in particular I was friends with in high school and for 2 years into college. It was an extremely stressful relationship for me. He was an awesome guy, but also would piss me off to no end. He would constantly use me and take advantage of me. Just when I would be ready to tell him to piss off, something redeeming would happen - a great conversation, a real momentary heart to heart conversation, or something else. Ultimately we got in a big fight and he kicked through a door in our apartment and we parted ways, and haven't talked since then. It's just not worth the roller coast ride in my opinon.
So here's my .02. I trust the mods here, and Greg as the previous owner, and I back them 100%. I've seen a lot of the moderated posts that show some of the things that GSS actually did and said, and it's ugly. I don't want to run an out of control forum. As others here have said, the banning policy here is pretty friggen lax. 2 members a year is hardly anything, and it requires constantly pushing and toeing the line.
It seems a bit like the Stanford Prison Experiment, there's like this perception somehow from the Pro GSS crowd its somehow Mods vs. Members but that is just competely ridiculous. We are all here because we love skiing and the mods and myself are here to help keep the conversation going about skiing in a reasonable fashion, and 99.99% of the time we act reasonably. Everyone F's up every once in a while, and that's cool, but we all do our best to get together and have great conversation about awesome stuff.
So anyway. Cliff notes for all you TL;DR's: I am not unbanning anyone.
Hope you guys understand. -Nick
RootDKJ
New member
I'm reading the thread now, sorry guys I was out of commission yesterday, work was crazy, 20 people got let go
I'll respond to this in a bit. reading now.
GSS sent me a text, and says thanks to everyone who supported him in this thread, and Nick, he will be emailing you soon.
That's fine. I'm reasonable so he can e-mail me. nick <at> alpinezone.com
lol
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