In reply to On Strike!!!
meinecommunity
Not knowing what the underlying issues are, I can only respond with assumptions (ugh) that it has to do with something that IS NOT RELATED to the fact that volunteers provide assistance freely and without expectations ... that is after all the meaning of the word ... VOLUNTEER. So unless some volunteers have been done gravely wrong, intentionally, I can only shake my head sadly and remind you that the people who are actually "hurt" by such strikes are the ones who need the help the most.

I see more do understand how frustrating things can get at times. I've heavily supported an international Ubuntu site ... until it got increasingly frustrating to butt heads with people who've been on that site forever, thinking they knew everything while never updating their own knowledge in accordance to version changes - while I was at the same time providing faster, at times far more accurate results and basically getting "slapped around" for daring to know something better without the accepted ??? history of post amounts or years of membership. A severe lack of respect and very clanish behavior by the top dogs in that forum.

Well, I didn't exactly go on strike, but now my help is far more restricted in a way that when I make a helpful comment it's done in a way where those particular "forum gods" have no choice but to shut up since my answer is an absolute to which nothing more can be said. That provided me with a lot more peace of mind while I'm partialy busy at the same time creating my own Ubuntu Q&A site with hundreds of explanetory graphics. Free of course! Perhaps you too could find an alternative, other than to strike ... ???
mydatery
As I said in my OP Meinecommunity I'll not go into the reasons for the strike, outside of it has nothing to do with how people behave in the forums/blogs. And yes, I do see how that can be very frustrating. I had to bully my way in when I began to understand/comprehend dolphin before people would finally accept that I knew what I was doing. I'm not as patient as you to take your route.

With that said, yes the customers/newbies/site owners are hurt in the instance of a strike as they do suffer see more from lack of support/customer service/receiving the product. However, it is also the management that is forced to take on extra responsibility in the event of a strike to attempt to maintain whatever standard they can that is as close as possible to the non-striking version. In this instance with a strike in place it forces management to spend more time dealing with small support issues than to be developing/managing the company itself as myself and it appears some others have temporarily quit providing that support. So you see, this is a double edged sword. Please know, this is not a temper tantrum and some with the inside knowledge know other more peacful routes were attempted to deal with this before it became a strike.
 
 
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