...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....
Quote from: dks on September 07, 2015, 06:49:45 PM...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned..... By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned......
Quote from: jerseydevil on September 07, 2015, 06:54:06 PMQuote from: dks on September 07, 2015, 06:49:45 PM...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned..... By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned...... I don't get it but maybe that's a good thing
Quote from: Demel on September 07, 2015, 07:13:11 PMQuote from: jerseydevil on September 07, 2015, 06:54:06 PMQuote from: dks on September 07, 2015, 06:49:45 PM...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned..... By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned...... I don't get it but maybe that's a good thing At the early days of MTO, a member decided to copy the site, took the information from all over MTO and made a website with a very similar name, our name, with just a - added. Def affectionately calls him the Hyphenator. It's pretty much dead now, no updates for years, but still exists and sometimes causes confusion to people who don't know the story behind it.
...As we started to get popular and word started to get around, other sites started to pop up trying to do what we did. Most didn’t last, but one prominent member in the early days who had equal sized ego and shoulder chip contacted me once to tell me he had registered the domain multi-tool.org and that he was starting his own multitool website and insisting that he wasn’t trying to copy us. I’m not sure how registering a derivative of our name and doing what we were doing largely with information taken from our site and members was not copying us was supposed to be a legitimate endeavour but I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and play nicely- I even offered to buy him out and make him a moderator here, but he was insistent on doing his own thing. Unfortunately things went south and he eventually had to be banned after deciding I was the Anti Christ and abusing Bob and I in a series of private messages that I wasn’t included in. I'd even allowed him to promote his “not a copycat” site here even though he’d never linked back to us on his site, which in my mind would have only been polite. To this day it still irks me whenever I see folks posting links to multi-tool.org, especially when they are referring to us and just misspelled it. I’m sure that had nothing to do with his decision to register the domain that he did. I believe he’s still occasionally active on BF, and he still updates his site from time to time. I do wish him the best, even though I know he’ll never really go anywhere with it- Multitool.org’s biggest strength has always been the community, and as Dave Bowen found out earlier, a one man multitool site just doesn’t can’t compete....
a link to the site would help...
She knows too much
size isn't everything...
(Image removed from quote.)A person with lots of experience/research ....
I bet the people who're reading the topic right now will regret having started by the time they reach the end..