Please familiarize yourself with the rules for the forum, you might be amazed at what you read there.

Maybe it time for you to leave the forum.

No one is forced to read any of these threads,

He's made it longer under this handle than he did the last!

I see some informational posts in this thread and then I see some arseh01e attitude from some towards him.

Seems to me this Willie Ketchum guy has been a member of this fine forum for about 6 months. I am sure he is still feeling his way around here. He has been a pretty decent contributor to most threads.

As he has been singled out maybe this could have been handled with a PM.

To Willie ... you bring something to a public post questioning the mods methods/SOP you might expect to be called out publicly. Don't want to see you leave here especially since I am a Rayburn regular as you are and I appreciate your info. Subdued manners is a good policy but whatever you do don't publicly question how the forum is run. It belongs to JP and you are a guest ... act like one!

This is a big forum that is dominated by the Dallas / Ft Worth folks.

Can we move this thread to plugs and announcements?

Lol

We can definitely move you somewhere.

I'll never understand why people hide behind fake names? If you've got something to say, just own it. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion or even a debate about something, it's what leaders, innovators and successful people do in the adult world. It's usually the envious wannabes and keyboard warriors that offer gripes and complaints from anonymity. Maybe not Willie and Snickers and maybe they have reasons to have aliases, but if anyone wants to validate your complaints and opinions, put your name on it. No need to hide, we are all adults trying to make the fishing community better. I'm anxious to hear your ideas, as is JP I would think.

I do not believe their is such a thing as a perfect company. I do believe the TFF does a good job on keeping this site civil most of the time. LOL We are all very passionate about our opinions which is why we need referees/ moderators. I do not agree with them all the time, because I believe different people get treated differently on here, but has the old saying goes. When you take your bat and bat to someone else's ballpark you will play by their rules. Folks if you do not like the job JP or the MOD's are doing feel free to start your own fishing forum, if you want to play here play by THEIR rules.

Funny thing about owning a company you get to run it the way you want to. LOL

Meh...I move around a lot, I'm used to it.

I really enjoy this forum and I enjoy helping folks. I've given my opinion to JP a couple of times.

How about this idea: You can use whatever screen name you choose but your real name must be on your profile and it must be publicly visible or you are limited to Read Only. Posting privileges are not granted until you fill out the profile completely.

For some it is because of their employment & position in which participating in any social media environment is strongly discouraged. There are also legitimate touring professionals on here that will not participate using their real names. There are also some equipment/bait manufacturers and other industry insiders that do not want to disclose their identity for obvious reasons. There are also regional tournament anglers that do not want to pis off the tournament organizations with their legitimate comments due to possible rule violations in making negative public comments. Some of the above choose to use surrogates (other people with real name or an alias) to do the communicating inside the forums.

More?

I do not know what percent of the members have good reasons versus jerks behind aliases.