To give credit where credit is due, I found the original post and link at Uncle Bob's Diner.

does anybody have a stealth screen id they are willign to possibly sacrifice and post this at the treehouse.
i say sarifice because if it really is thee DO board we think it wont last long.and out comes the banhammer
on the other hand ally what Grock says.
I do not have access to any other computer and I guess wtih traceability of IP addresses it would not be something I coudl get away with. .
now somebody that can go sign on a computer somewhere else in your office (??)
justt an idea

SallySue - HideMyAss.com is your proxy IP friend. Change your IP and never leave your chair.

Kat wrote:

http://p101.ezboard.com/fnewsandhumorfrm22

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Wow...

Very cool Mexi.

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Mrs Peavey


Gardener and Reporter
Posts: 1655
(5/30/07 4:10 pm)
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My Letter To Dennis
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Ive waited a long time to address the issues of Dennis Olson and Timebomb. I was a long-time member going back to the Greenspun board (under a different username), and followed all the transitions from Greenspun to Ezboard to Jons MadGenius private server. Ive witnessed all the changes as the forum evolved. Ive watched it go from a cohesive friendly community of people to a dictatorship in a period of seven years. There are so many issues its difficult to know where to begin.

From Greenspun, Timebomb moved to Ezboard. In the spring of 2001 there was discussion of moving Timebomb off Ezboard and onto a private server, In retrospect, that move was the downfall of the forum. It led to a community-owned forum being taken from its members who paid for the cost of the equipment and maintenance, and placed the forum in the hands of Dennis Olson, who, in my opinion, is dishonest and used the forum for his own personal financial gain.

In the spring of 2001 the members of Timebomb trusted Dennis when he said that the forum would be a community-owned forum, with the members owning it. We trusted his word when he said that there would be a full accounting of the donations and the expenses. I well remember the post from Dennis Olson thanking everyone for their show of support in voting to move Timebomb to a private server. I retain a copy of that post.

Dennis gave excuse, after excuse, after excuse as to why he could not provide the members with an accounting for donations received and the monies dispersed. Its my opinion that if the truth be known, Dennis raked in so much money that if he posted the income members wouldnt be as quick to send in future donations. It soon became apparent that there would be no accounting.

I want to address the fundraisers. I think the first was for Jesse, and there was one for Stu, Prairie Lady, Satanta, Hurricane Katrina relief, and flowers for Noatimahs funeral. I may have missed some, as there were special fundraisers in addition to the annual fundraisers for running the forum.

It was a real tragedy in November 2002 when Prairie Ladys sister, Alice, was carjacked in South Carolina and murdered by two thugs who had escaped from a Kentucky prison. Everyone wanted to do something for Prairie Lady, and donations were collected to send her to South Carolina to be with her family. During this time, Alices body hadnt been found (never has been found) and Prairie Lady stayed in South Carolina for several weeks, going out with the search parties looking for her sisters body. Prairie Lady only received a small portion of the donations that members sent to Dennis. Where did the rest of the money go? Its sad to know that a person who really needed financial assistance had that financial assistance hijacked by someone who in my opinion was only posing as a sympathetic friend. After learning about what happened with donations for the fundraiser for Prairie Lady, in my opinion, all the other fundraisers are suspect.

Little by little members relinquished their freedom of speech to a power-hungry board administrator who surrounded himself with misfits to co-administer the forum. Members who questioned the absolute authority of Dennis Olson or his staff were banned; some for no real reason, and most were ridiculed after their departure from the forum. Its become common practice to spend time in TIO attacking a recently banned member.

There is no other forum on the Internet that goes through as many internal meltdowns as Timebomb does on a regular basis. Its becoming difficult to keep track of them, as theres been so many. But, in each Timebomb crisis, Dennis Olson is at the center of the problem. His mismanagement of the forum is always the focus of the crisis. Dennis portrays himself as a victim when he is, in fact, an instigator. He portrays anger directed at him, as anger at the Timebomb forum, in order to keep the membership in an us vs. them state of mind. Dennis manipulates the members into thinking that there are people in cyberspace who hate the Timebomb forum, referring to these people as haters. Nothing could be further from the truth, and he knows it. The anger is directed at Dennis and Dennis only.

There is no other forum on the Internet that has so many spin-off forums. These forums are made up of people who left out of disgust with the behavior of Dennis Olson, and of people who were banned. Dennis fears these other forums, because he knows that they know the truth about him. He fears the truth becoming known. This was made clearly evident in the recent scandal when the Usenet postings made by Dennis soliciting homosexual sex were made public.

Its my opinion that Dennis somehow believes he can control the people who are members of Timebomb and thats why he uses tracking software and illegal keyloggers on their computers to track their every keystroke. In that way members can be spied on. Where does he think he has the right to spy on his members? No other forum feels its necessary to spy on their members. Not only does Dennis employ the use of spyware to track members, but he reads their PMs and emails to other forum members. Nothing is private on Timebomb.

The elephant in the middle of the room is the Timebomb staff. The truth is there for all to see; yet very few members of the staff have resigned or spoken out against the behavior of Dennis Olson. They protect him and the forum as if their life depended on it. Why? Its my opinion that theres more to TimeBomb than meets the eye of the average member, and its this theyre protecting. There are several members of the staff who are, in my opinion, as underhanded as Dennis, and this is why they were chosen to co-administer the forum.

The Timebomb forum is being destroyed, but its not being destroyed from outsiders, its being destroyed from within by its own management. The lack of responsibility, the lack of accounting, the lies, and the outright theft of the forum, is what has created the anger expressed by many people. Mismanagement has led to the loss of many valuable members. Dennis has single-handedly gutted the forum of the best and brightest of members. To date, more than half the forum membership has either left or has been banned.

The membership at Timebomb needs to know whats really going on with the forum leadership. When members are banned from Timebomb, they arent given a chance to tell their side of the story. Thats because Dennis doesnt want their side of the story known, as it would shine the light on his own questionable behavior.

In conclusion, Dennis, its YOU not the forum that people are angry with. Its YOUR own actions that people are angry with, not the forum. This isnt about taking a forum down, its about a thorough house cleaning, starting at the top. You need to step down as owner/administrator of Timebomb, and give it over to its rightful owners.

Lardass is an even bigger scum than I had imagined. I did not know about Prairie lady's sister and the scam Lardass ran. Here in Texas there's a saying..."He needed shooting". Some day, someone is going to decide that that applies to Lardass and he will regret his greed and mistakes.

-- Edited by Libertarian at 23:08, 2007-05-30

In the spring of 2001 there was discussion of moving Timebomb off Ezboard and onto a private server,


The push to move Timebomb to a private server was heavily promoted by Ashton & Leska, the "Cascadians". They were also the ones who were putting completely false information in Lardass' ear by telling him that ezboard was going belly up "any day now". He listened to them exclusively and showed his ass more than a few times to the ezboard people. Ezboard is still going strong.


I may have missed some, as there were special fundraisers in addition to the annual fundraisers for running the forum.


Let's not forget the fundraiser for Dennis himself when he was out of work. A very respected veteran member had compassion for a 'family man' who was in dire financial straits and sold a prized collection and donated the money. Imagine this person's total disgust when he soon learned that Dennis had a motorcycle that he estimated to be worth $30,000, and would not ever even consider selling. That particular member has posted very rarely since then.


Its sad to know that a person who really needed financial assistance had that financial assistance hijacked by someone who in my opinion was only posing as a sympathetic friend.


It is even sadder, and far more telling, that Dennis was in chat when this tragedy happened and gave pretense that he was outraged and sympathetic. He was aware of how strained her financial resources were due to her husband being seriously ill and out of work for quite a while just before her sister was abducted. That he could know all this, and still STEAL money earmarked for her is beyond comprehension.


Little by little members relinquished their freedom of speech to a power-hungry board administrator who surrounded himself with misfits to co-administer the forum.

Agreed. Case in point was his appointing 'stu' to be an administrator to Timebomb when 'stu' had NEVER BEEN A MEMBER of Timebomb prior to his being made admin. 'stu' was seriously disturbed - to the point of real life stalking of two female members of the board, among other things - and Dennis was WELL aware of stu's activities, yet Dennis did not remove stu's administrator status until he was forced to.


Here in Texas there's a saying..."He needed shooting". Some day, someone is going to decide that that applies to Lardass and he will regret his greed and mistakes.


Wouldn't it be the ultimate in irony if said person turned out to be the CEO of Exxon?

Bravo Mrs Peavey.

That's pretty darned accurate.

I don't know about the moving thing. From what I remember, we were all at a site that belonged to Ed Yourdon, andthen Ed didn't want to be involved, and we had to rush to figure out what to do.

I think Dennis started out by offering to set up the web site with the same look and feel as Ed's. I think he didn't start out corrupt, but he quickly became so after the support from a lot of decent people started pouring in.

I also didn't know that when he was having financial trouble and trying to keep out of foreclosure that he had that motorcycle. I guess I just assumed that he had already sold it. Yuck. I admit that I sent him money at that time, and for quite a few of the other fundraisers. Fortunately PL had a PO box and some of us sent $$ to her there.

Dennis, if you are reading this, please read and re-read Mrs.Peavey's letter to you. She hit the nail right on the head. Only one thing. She missed the fund-raising for Chuck the Night Driver so he could fulfill his dream to go to climb K2, and NW Photog so that he could go down to the border and take pictures. I am glad that I didn't contribute to those last two. They just seemed to be real dumb reasons to beg for money.

Diesel wrote:

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I don't know about the moving thing. From what I remember, we were all at a site that belonged to Ed Yourdon, andthen Ed didn't want to be involved, and we had to rush to figure out what to do.

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The Greenspun forum was owned by a guy at MIT, Phil Greenspun, and right around y2k he started getting pushy about the site traffic. That sparked the move to EZBoard. But we were all stampeded into moving from EZBoard to the private servers by D'Ennis's insistence that EZBoard was on the verge of closing down. Turned out to be a pretty flagrant exercise in imagination.

I don't give DO the benefit of a doubt about that move. I think he saw the board's moneymaking potential even then. Probably at first he was thinking of advertising, but when he saw how easy it was to get members to send him money, I'll bet his eyes lit right up.

BTW, are there any good estimates on how much money DO has collected over the years?

I also didn't know that when he was having financial trouble and trying to keep out of foreclosure that he had that motorcycle.
AND the light-up-the-world industrial generator, not to mention years worth of hamburger helper/beans/rice/TP/toothpaste/etc. ;)

And what about the Wise Owl begathons? Always crying poor, but refusing to leave their bug-out location in order to support themselves. It was like they were the epitome of what we all should be, and the world (we) should $upport them to remain so. And then the d-o-g. What contortions and begging WO performed to get a dog from across country, and then begging again to cover medical expenses for it. 

It was a similar scenario with Chuck-a-life-bonker. They both kept insisting that it must be Divine will, and if it really was Divine will, all would come to pass. Both managed to ignore the multitude of obstacles that were repeatedly put in the paths of their desires though. HELLO!





  

What's that term,
charity fatique?

I tuned out chronic beggars/hangdog types early on. I'll skip naming the names, we all know who they are/were, but those guys had it down to an artform.

Yes, Denny learned what worked well, and then put it to use for his own benefit. I just hate it that decent good people got conned at all. Oh well. Live and learn, right?

For me, I think I'll celebrate "It's Thursday night" by having some pizza and beer.

And that is exactly why he wants all the old timers gone.

It's easier to re-write history if there is no one around who remembers what really happened.

       DING! DING! DING! DING!
     
       A kewpie doll for the winner!

        

Uh, yeah.