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Actually, I liked diving with the OW class. I never mentioned anything negative about it. Again, you are (accidentally) projecting your own thoughts as my opinion. I was clear on the issues which I did not like, the main one being the instructor misrepresenting PADI standards to student due...

Hi RussBKK, The students *did* notice. (I mentioned this many times in this thread). The students discussed it among themselves. They mentioned it to me after the class was over. I know it is hard to read all the details in the thread (and who would want to); but I am now responding...

IMHO, I did not "moan" about anything. I wrote a factual trip report. I could care less if this particular dive factory improves or not. It is not my problem. I am the customer, not a PADI QOS consultant. You can Google Koh Tao and "dive factory" and you will see many reports and comments...

Nevermind... I will just block all PMs except admins and moderators since we cannot individual abusers like Thai_Diver, who seems to be threatening me via PM now, LOL.

No, there nothing I have posted on ScubaBoard that would have caused me to be banned on our board. However, you permit posts here on SB that are clearly TOS violations. For example, even in this Support thread the Thai_Diver sock puppet (or id created to attack earlier) called me "arrogant and...

Hi Cave Diver, Please, allow me to understand your thinking. You are now threatening to ban me from the Support forum and this board for discussing the SB TOS and moderation model in the Support Forum? Is that right? Because if you are threatening to ban me from the Support forum and SB for...

Hi Dale, Yes, your view is certainly one view, and perhaps a more accurate one that my view. However, because a forum is "user generated content" an argument can be made there there are many "customers"... including those who generate content (since their labor is not paid). I do see your...

I do not agree that pointing out the TOS is "inflammatory" (especially when the mods do not moderate)..... Also, I always follow the TOS on forums. It is debatable that your moderation "standards" work quite well. If they did, you would not have so many cyberbullies, stalkers and sock...

... and yes, since SB obviously cannot manage Cyberstalkers and other TOS violations, I certainly don't plan on contributing content here much in the future. I like participating in well managed forums where the TOS in enforced and the user-customers are not forced to be the forum police and do...

No, that is not factual. If you want to ban me for not agreeing with moderation, then do it. However, as I read the TOS, I have done nothing wrong, period.

Yes, that happens quite often. More troubling is the fact that when we, the customers of SB, the people generating content, point out the TOS violations, either privately or in the forums when the mods do not moderate, when we get "the hammer" and threats from moderators. I was just...

My recent experience has been that if you follow the TOS and report something, then some moderators will threaten to remove you from the forums for reporting! Or, if there is a stalker on the board who does not contribute, goes on the attack when they don't like someone, and registers multiple...

You are certainly entitled to your opinion and you can post as you feel appropriate. I will post as I feel appropriate. I don't "name names" in public when writing a negative trip report and I will not go the other extreme and not post a trip report at all because I do not "name names". Yes...

That is not what happened. I stated clearly what happened. The instructor repeatedly and clearly told his OW students that when they are OW certified can only dive with a DM or Instructor (he did not say "only in our resort"); and they must get their AOW certification to dive without a DM or...

Hi LK, Also, what is also funny is when someone posts and questions the motives of paying customers who have no financial interest in any dive shop expect spending money. As we all learn who have been in Thailand for a long time, many foreigners want to live in Thailand and they come here...

Hi Thai_Diver, Hi have no financial interest in any business in Thailand. I am retired and have plenty of money to dive when and where and as I please and I dive with only the best shops. That is also the reason I can post objectively, honestly and truthfully. Of course I am comfortable with...

I forgot to mention two other things about AD: - Robert, the owner, will always take your phone call. If he is busy and says he will call you back, he always does so. He treats everyone nicely and he is a man of honor. - Robert will always try to schedule your favorite dive. If you...

Like many people, diving is a recreational sport for me, and I spend a lot of money on diving, so I have high expectations. Robert of Adventure will easily schedule 3 dives a day to insure his customers get the dives they want, include wreck and coral dives. He blends EANx and fills air on...

No... action is taken "occasionally", when we are lucky. User reporting does not work here because of the TZ difference and the fact that the moderators are not active in Thailand. This forum needs to be actively moderated in the same timezone so people can post a trip report without being...