Wes Bucey
Prophet of Profit
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to give a little bit back!
This is an open letter to all Cove readers who have received my musings so gracefully.
I've just finished 3 years as a registered member of the Cove and about 5 or six years as an occasional visitor.
I initially came here because I was so frustrated with the crippled system at ASQ's Forums. There were other forums around, of course, but they were rarely active and most posters specialized in saying stuff like "It worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, you are just incompetent!"
Here, there were folks who obviously knew the rules, but they also had a firm grasp on real life situations.
Some of the stalwarts have moved on because of age and job circumstances; some we've just lost touch with and miss their input.
Sadly, we've also experienced the real life issue of folks having a "meltdown" here as a consequence of the pressures they experienced in their real lives.
The Board of Moderators are a widely diverse group of volunteers who often put in hours every week "behind the scenes." Our hope always is the hope we entrust in the "group mind" being greater than the sum of the parts. Because of them, the browsing experience here is relatively free of spam and personal attacks. Sometimes, folks chafe at what they perceive as censorship. To that, let me comment that our right to swing a fist stops just short of someone's nose. There is a little button in the upper right corner of every post which sends a message to EVERY moderator when we "report a post" - I counsel using the button instead of rising to the bait of a provocative post.
As we respond to requests of "how" or "what" or "why"-- it helps to remember that what works for a mega transnational corporation won't always work for a one man machine shop and vice versa. Similarly, what works for one personality may not work for another. Most importantly, we operate on a world stage and we must put aside our petty biases in support of good quality operations EVERYWHERE.
I'm about to pass a milestone of 5,000 posts. I hope the bulk of them have been equally helpful to the original person requesting help and to many folks who have found the posts using a search. Thanks for indulging my need to pass on any knowledge I have BEFORE it is lost.
This is an open letter to all Cove readers who have received my musings so gracefully.
I've just finished 3 years as a registered member of the Cove and about 5 or six years as an occasional visitor.
I initially came here because I was so frustrated with the crippled system at ASQ's Forums. There were other forums around, of course, but they were rarely active and most posters specialized in saying stuff like "It worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, you are just incompetent!"
Here, there were folks who obviously knew the rules, but they also had a firm grasp on real life situations.
Some of the stalwarts have moved on because of age and job circumstances; some we've just lost touch with and miss their input.
Sadly, we've also experienced the real life issue of folks having a "meltdown" here as a consequence of the pressures they experienced in their real lives.
The Board of Moderators are a widely diverse group of volunteers who often put in hours every week "behind the scenes." Our hope always is the hope we entrust in the "group mind" being greater than the sum of the parts. Because of them, the browsing experience here is relatively free of spam and personal attacks. Sometimes, folks chafe at what they perceive as censorship. To that, let me comment that our right to swing a fist stops just short of someone's nose. There is a little button in the upper right corner of every post which sends a message to EVERY moderator when we "report a post" - I counsel using the button instead of rising to the bait of a provocative post.
As we respond to requests of "how" or "what" or "why"-- it helps to remember that what works for a mega transnational corporation won't always work for a one man machine shop and vice versa. Similarly, what works for one personality may not work for another. Most importantly, we operate on a world stage and we must put aside our petty biases in support of good quality operations EVERYWHERE.
I'm about to pass a milestone of 5,000 posts. I hope the bulk of them have been equally helpful to the original person requesting help and to many folks who have found the posts using a search. Thanks for indulging my need to pass on any knowledge I have BEFORE it is lost.