Update on CTA wireless alerts
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of great information shared by riders and the CTA on CTA Alerts, the SMS alerts group my brother Dan created.
There's also been some discussion and anger that not all the alerts were necessary. Read this comments thread starting here.
Finally Dan reached out to ChicagoAnchorman and lazynbcfivejunkie to ask them to chill out a bit. Here's his comment:
To Bob S, UPOC Subscriber, et. al: both of the ChicagoAnchorman and lazynbcfivejunkie users are now listed as Inactive on UPOC. I corresponded with these users and each interaction led to the user bailing from UPOC voluntarily (whilst tossing a final epithet my way).
My basic message was that the user(s) obviously had quality information, and I wanted them to stay, but that I would boot them if they continued to argue with others and post too much information.
Apparently neither user was down with those ideas. I am going to forgo new users for a while and see if things cool out.
Sorry to have put you and your brother through that, Kevin (not that I'm taking *full* credit for it!); as you said, and as we in that earlier thread noted, he had good info, but was just coming across kind of strong, and while I think I was one of if not the first to vent about him here, there was already some frustration coming through over UPOC. I guess the ray of sunshine is that if a little pain now prevents even more later, it's for the better. Thanks again to both of you.
Posted by: Bob S. | April 28, 2008 at 11:13 PM
You weren't the only one. I felt that some of the information wasn't particularly alert material since it was info posted in the media outlets. When junkie was posting about the train station being open, I had read it several hours before on the Tribune website. I sent a direct message to junkie and got blown a bit of guff. So I decided to go up the ladder.
Posted by: TËKKŸ | April 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM