The official hotboat.com "We get letters" thread

**HB Vic** · 03-02-2014, 10:24 PM

I've been getting a lot of pm's, emails, and smoke signals recently asking a variety of different questions. Some of them technical, some of them social, some of them rude LOL.

Some of the people seem to want to ask the members technical questions or their feelings about something, but don't necessarily want their identity to be known.

So, this is your opportunity to ask the members a question or share something with the rest of the members via PM to me and keep your identity 100% confidential.

So if you have something you want to share or ask and stay anonymous, simply send a PM to me or you can also email: info@hotboat.com I will share your question, comment, or concern and keep your identity 100% confidential. Please title your PM or email "We get letters". Please let me know what City and/or State you're from.

This should be interesting.

So fire away

**HB Vic** · 03-03-2014, 09:44 AM

And we have our first letter:

From our email: "Why was Grads banned? Be specific please. Eli admitted to being admin2, can we get your thoughts on that?"

Grads was banned by me for posting porn. He was initially given a 7 day vacay for his offense, however, he has since signed up 2 additional fictitious accounts on hotboat.com and has been given a brand new 10- day vacation. As far as my thoughts on Eli admitting to being admin2, I have no thoughts. She is not admin2.

Thank you for the letter. Hopefully I have answered your questions.

HB

**Stainless** · 03-03-2014, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Hotboat

He was initially given a 7 day vacay for his offense, however, he has since signed up 2 additional fictitious accounts on hotboat.com and has been given a brand new 10- day vacation.

HB

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Posting on a suspended license huh?

He's a slippery one! :p

Hope you don't mind the commentary HB, just throwing a little humor at it.

CH3NO2

**HB Vic** · 03-03-2014, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Stainless

Posting on a suspended license huh?

He's a slippery one! :p

Hope you don't mind the commentary HB, just throwing a little humor at it.

CH3NO2

I like humor

**HB Vic** · 03-03-2014, 11:27 AM

We get letters. #2:

"How much are the other moderators paid? What is their compensation package?"

I try to thank the mods at least 1-2X a day. And on occasion, they get free swag

I hope that answers your question.

HB

**She's Mine** · 03-03-2014, 11:35 AM

Oh Boy, this is going to be good. At least this will be an interesting read since there really isn't too much boating content going on right now. LMAO

**Mrs.K034** · 03-03-2014, 11:39 AM

This is going to be a interesting thread, great idea!

**Eli** · 03-03-2014, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Hotboat

And we have our first letter:

From our email: "Why was Grads banned? Be specific please. Eli admitted to being admin2, can we get your thoughts on that?"

Grads was banned by me for posting porn. He was initially given a 7 day vacay for his offense, however, he has since signed up 2 additional fictitious accounts on hotboat.com and has been given a brand new 10- day vacation. As far as my thoughts on Eli admitting to being admin2, I have no thoughts. She is not admin2.

Thank you for the letter. Hopefully I have answered your questions.

HB

I can't tell from his texts if he's furious at me or just fucking with me.

Admittedly, when he first realized there was an admin2. I played a joke on him and did a fantastic job, regrettably, of convincing him that I was in fact admin2. Well now he's convinced and doesn't believe that I'm not admin2. I guess he may have spread the word based on the plethora of texts I received yesterday asking me why I banned Grads. I think it's interesting that he has held on to my initial texts convincing him I'm admin2, yet ignored everything I've said the last 3 weeks about not being admin2.

If he's in fact mad, I think it's odd that the practical joker isn't taking my joke very well.

Sent from my Bat Cave

**HB Vic** · 03-03-2014, 12:53 PM

We get letters #3:

"So HB, How do you pick you admin people are they friends or family or internet gurus that help maintain your site..and NO I’m not being a smartass..Just wondering how you pick your Admins"

Well they're flowing now.

How do I pick admins? Very good question. Gothalos and I are related. Mateo and I are friends. Admin2 is a member here. I asked the member to be a mod when the need for a little additional help arose. I was quite happy they accepted. The selection process isn't like my normal interview process, it's more along the lines of "you seem very level headed and reasonable, would you like to waste a little more time here keeping an eye on the place?"

The OG admin is a long time business acquaintance. Though he doesn't moderate in the typical fashion, he is quite capable. And he does boot a lot of the spammers.

Thank you for the question. I hope I sufficiently answered it for you.

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**Eli** · 03-03-2014, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by She's Mine

Oh Boy, this is going to be good. At least this will be an interesting read since there really isn't too much boating content going on right now. LMAO

There is plenty of boating content on the sight it's just not all in the sandbar. There are a ton of great sections on boating, it's separated by boat type as well as boating region, among other categories. You should venture out of the sandbar and check it out.

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