I've given
@Jason @mixedmartialarts.com a heads up about this topic and a chance to weigh in. He just logged in a minute ago, read my conversation, and then has gone away. Perhaps he will still respond but I find the entire situation incredibly unprofessional and immature. I was not going to say anything, but he's chosen this behavior.
It didn't make a lot of sense yesterday...
Jason, whom I have never spoken to before, joined the
The MMA Community Forum accusing me of launching a plan to spam the UG. I let him know that I had no idea what he was talking about and he implied how of course I know because I could read it in our direct message system. I let him know that reading such information would be unethical and that I don't do it (itd be pretty tough roaming around the database finding USER ID 232948320 sent XXXXXXXX to USER ID 3892408320942. ) and that no other staff has the ability to read such information. That would have been the end of it and I would have just kept this private, but I'm pretty unhappy with this situation now.
He then posted once and disappeared. Today I see members with shared accounts getting banned over PMs and I can only lean towards one conclusion.
Maybe Jason will come in here and link us to the offending Gilbosh thread or the TOS on his site that stops Gilbosh from discussing any other site on the internet. But that's the only way in which I can see an alternative that
the UG aka mixedmartialsarts.com staff and owners are reading your private information and so petty as to search for small sites on the internet to ban members who enjoy discussing MMA on more than one website at a time.
Either way, I am less than impressed with the demeanor and professionalism that Jason represents. I hope the rest of the staff over there are more adult.
EDIT - @Jason has reached out to me to say that he is not reading PMs. He seems convinced that there is no plan from us to subvert his site. So that's good.
I'll let you guys decide what to make of this and Jason is still able to choose what he wants to share or not share about Gilbosh being banned. I am also moving this to the off-topic forum.