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In the past I've been quite impressed with the DRI members forum. I was surprised at the willingness of the moderators to allow posts to be made that were pretty critical of DRI. I made some posts that were far from complimentary, and they were allowed to post and were replied to respectfully and generally appropriately.
Also submitted posts were processed quite quickly. Most of my posts were approved within one day or two; the sole exception was a post critical of the website that sat in the queue for about two weeks; obviously DRI was preparing a response because a reply from a corporate VP was posted immediately after my post was approved.
I considered the DRI Forum that DRI actually might be a different breed of timeshare operation. The other boards with which I had some familiarity pretty much worked in lockstep with whatever crap was being spewed as official company policy; with anything that might be uncomfortable or unflattering never seeing the light of day.
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Over the last year, though, there has been a noticeable change in moderation standards, which has made turned the forum into the usual sort. The first thing I noticed was that posts similar in content to items I had posted previously were now queuing for a month of longer before being acted on. Some of my posts simply disappeared, without even being acknowledged.
Then, yesterday I received an e-mail message saying that one of my posts had been disapproved as being contrary to board guidelines. The situation involved someone who had an ownership they wanted to sell. DRI had responded that they don't buyback, and, in essence, he was on his own to find someone to take it.
So he was looking for some information on how to even go about setting a value.
I submitted a reply saying that valuation was hard, and suggesting that he visit here or TUG to get some input from people here about what it was worth. I was very careful to only mention the sites, without providing clickable links, as I know that is a no-no.
Now this is all information that I have posted previously and that was approved by the mods in one or two days. This time it sets for almost three weeks, then I get the notice that the post violates guidelines.
It certainly appears that the moderators were told to do more filtering and to get direction from corporate before allowing many submittals to post. And management is making many decisions to kill content that previously was allowed.
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So it seems clear that DRI has changed it's moderation approach. Now the site really isn't much more than a DRI mouthpiece; the only value is that if you have a technical issue with the site or about the DRI system, you can post a question and you might have a 25% chance of getting a useful answer. And based on what I've seen lately, that probability estimate is being generous to DRI; most of their replies have simply descended to cut-and-paste of boilerplate statements.
Too bad. It had actually been a useful site to get some straight information. Now it's pretty useless.
I'm sure that makes it simplified. For DRI management, that is.
Also submitted posts were processed quite quickly. Most of my posts were approved within one day or two; the sole exception was a post critical of the website that sat in the queue for about two weeks; obviously DRI was preparing a response because a reply from a corporate VP was posted immediately after my post was approved.
I considered the DRI Forum that DRI actually might be a different breed of timeshare operation. The other boards with which I had some familiarity pretty much worked in lockstep with whatever crap was being spewed as official company policy; with anything that might be uncomfortable or unflattering never seeing the light of day.
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Over the last year, though, there has been a noticeable change in moderation standards, which has made turned the forum into the usual sort. The first thing I noticed was that posts similar in content to items I had posted previously were now queuing for a month of longer before being acted on. Some of my posts simply disappeared, without even being acknowledged.
Then, yesterday I received an e-mail message saying that one of my posts had been disapproved as being contrary to board guidelines. The situation involved someone who had an ownership they wanted to sell. DRI had responded that they don't buyback, and, in essence, he was on his own to find someone to take it.
So he was looking for some information on how to even go about setting a value.
I submitted a reply saying that valuation was hard, and suggesting that he visit here or TUG to get some input from people here about what it was worth. I was very careful to only mention the sites, without providing clickable links, as I know that is a no-no.
Now this is all information that I have posted previously and that was approved by the mods in one or two days. This time it sets for almost three weeks, then I get the notice that the post violates guidelines.
It certainly appears that the moderators were told to do more filtering and to get direction from corporate before allowing many submittals to post. And management is making many decisions to kill content that previously was allowed.
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So it seems clear that DRI has changed it's moderation approach. Now the site really isn't much more than a DRI mouthpiece; the only value is that if you have a technical issue with the site or about the DRI system, you can post a question and you might have a 25% chance of getting a useful answer. And based on what I've seen lately, that probability estimate is being generous to DRI; most of their replies have simply descended to cut-and-paste of boilerplate statements.
Too bad. It had actually been a useful site to get some straight information. Now it's pretty useless.
I'm sure that makes it simplified. For DRI management, that is.
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