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Joshua Mc Clure of Troopal Strategies :: "STRATAGIES" :: BEAVIS...EH HEH EH UHUHUH :: FART :: HE SAID STRATEGY :: BELCH is being sued by one of the biggest lord of internets on the planet :: our beloved craigslist.org :: but not the craiglist we're all used to; the one in PANNNNAMMMMMMMAHHHH :: FART :: We love you craig. We really do. We love you but we hate you and we love to hate you—which translates to we love you because you don't really do that much but tweet about squirells so
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Let's talk about Joshua of Troopal StrategiesNo, let's save that for another post and another {POST|LINK|TIME}

:: the following post was deleted from troopal.com/forums early this morning. Really early. Probably around 3am, when most decent b|ACK|:hat|terz are sleeping it off. The poster in question apparently had her entire posting history {DELETED|AND ACCOUNT SUMMARILY BANNED}{,|!|:} {WHATEVER|OY|GET A LIFE JOSHUA} by Herr Furor McCluror himself. 'Course that might be a rumor, too, but I hear tell she can't log in anymore :: a mass exodus on the personel front left Herr Furor McCluror Moneybagor lone wolf :: so someone didit :: well only she knows if she's dead and she ain't talkin'. She's probably {FURIOUSLY|BUSILY|HAPPILY} {LINKING|PLOTTING TO RECOVER LOST PROFITS} someplace and someplace else and someplace else and someplace else :: wink ::

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Post Re: Cancel your subs right away!!!
I cancelled; my membership is dead as of Nov 20. I cancelled not because I'm afraid of CL. I did it because I'm fed up with the crap that passes for professional around here.


Let's just look at the facts. Troopal has had more downtime since they launched than Kevin had in a year. Kevin was proactive and vocal and made sure people understood what was going on. He wasn't always cheery but he stood upright and handed the information to us blow by blow; he was involved until he simply could no longer remain involved.


Joshua lies. He lied about the servers, literally weaved an entire scenario around some ridiculous story about the servers being located within some military installation, then went on about how downtime wouldn't be an issue because they had a backup server just in case.


I, personally, lost plenty of time and money on more than one occasion when the (non existent) backup server didn't pick up where the ailing one "broke". Hardware failures aplenty, always seemed to be a hardware failure at the most inopportune times. With the amount of money Joshua was receiving per month I can't see any valid reason why he wouldn't have invested in a decent set of hardware. No, I have no idea what hardware costs run, but I do know enough to know when to keep my mouth shut and when to tell the truth, or at the very least give status updates in a timely manner. Having to wait sometimes more than 48 hours is unacceptable. Yes, we all recieved status updates...sometimes 48 into downtime. That's 48 hours worth lost profits and 48 hours worth of headaches and 48 hours worth of placing trust in a company word.


Let's take a look at how Troopal's customers were treated. After the "hacking" several months ago Troopal reset the system and told us all that we needed to go through a few stages to reset our passwords. Well guess what? Many many many people were unable to access the forum because no one was around to walk them through that confusion.


Where was Joshua? off on vacation. Apparently having a good old time someplace where internet connections are few and far between.


The database. The one supposedly located on a separate server...mmmbeeeeehinddd MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. Well apparently military installation wasn't enough to prevent Troopal's database from leaking all over this planet and then blasting upward toward a few other nearby asteroids. Aliens now have all of our personal information and they're conducting experiments on us as we speak. HE ALLOWED THE DATABASE TO BE RAPED AND PILLAGED when he took our money; money we trusted him with based on his word, his sales pitch, and then put our info right smack in harms way. So much for security. And, as if this wasn't bad enough, his company located in Pppppppanananaama didn't protect his and consequently our customer information. He made spectacle enough of himself so that craigslist was able to practically knock on Joshua's front door. Panama. Right. Let's talk about security and pinging and license server issues related to anti piracy measures. No one want to talk about that? OK, I'll spare you...other than just to mention that while you were sitting in front of your computer wrestling with slow posting time and software related errors, Joshies priority was not your pain. The Priority was his bottom line; making sure his software wasn't being pirated.


Personally, I don't care if he's taken a job with CL. I would feel sorry and contempt for CL were it true. CL, you can learn a lot from (speaking of MILITARY) from the MILITARY by how sift out traitors. You're only as strong as your weakest link.


I don't believe the rumor, and I don't give a shit about it either; I'm going to go watch Peyton Place on DVD and that should meet my need perfectly when I can't live without pointless melodrama. I don't believe Joshua has the integrity to stand up like a real man and be accountable for what he started. Kevin took it like a full grown man, a real man, a man of character. Joshua's character has been evident all along, and most of us just sat by hoping and praying that the poster would simply be up and running soon while you (Joshua) were doing God knows what and where; you had nearly 1000 paying customers here who expected you to deliver on your promises. If you're not laughing, you should start now. Really, would CL actually defer to a man like Joshua to help them "fight spam"...a man who's behaved more like an arrogant brat and a liar? More likely they understand our boy Joshua's psyche and have determined that he's a classic canary who's going sing-a-song he wrote to the tune of his customers information slowly leaking to CL.


Well. Some of us, those not in denial, now understand that our trust in your company was misplaced. I expect to see a decent exodus. For those of you who still need Troopal, my heart goes out to you, really it does.


There have been several times that I've wanted to really say something. The first time I did, instead I simply downgraded to regular membership because pro membership was, and is, a complete mirage. For 39.99 per month access, to tech support is not out of the question, it's actually pretty realistic across the board on other forums; but no, Joshua gave birth to a perk in the form of Pro Membership itself, and then named it worth 80 per month, then promised more perks to come, and then happily collected 80 per month from each and every bamboozled drooling member so riled up with excitement that we fell all over each other to get to pay 80 per month. Yeah, I admit it. I drooled. Tom Sawyer would be proud, Joshua.


What perks? IP Rental? that should have been something everyone could use. A real perk would have been having a poster that actually performed miracles, if you know what I mean, and some of you do wink wink--a poster that outperformed the 39.99 Reg membership by leaps and bounds and circumvents.


I ask you Pro members: where are/were the perks? I spent most of my time a member of this community asking myself "am I just missing the point here; where's the perks? maybe I should just shut up and wait; be patient and wait" I waited and fumed when everytime I lost money because MILITARY INSTALLATIONS had failed us. And I waited more, the epitome of patience. Well, Pro membership and Regular membership offer exactly the same level of features, only Pro has a blue name. A blue name by golly! I could never really figure out just exactly how that blue name benefitted me in any way shape or form.


Perks Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?


And then there's this: the software I paid for, which I agreed per Troopals terms (because I understood that the poster was going to be stable and that my 80 dollars a month was going to provide some delicious perks). I didn't agree to be locked out of the forum after you were hacked, Joshua, and I didn't agree that I wanted to wait 2 weeks to get an email telling me how to get back in, nor did I agree on the additional week of having to perform mental link gymnastics when my password kept reverting back to where it was, thereby making it impossible to log in in under half an hour or remain logged in.


That said, I paid for my software, but you're going to take it away because I agreed to your terms. Your terms. Yeah, baby, I know what your terms are, and so do other people. I hope and pray that those people who just aren't ready to admit that Troopal is a ship sinking will find other ways to get by. Again, my heart goes out for you if you're leery and wondering how you're going to get by. Me? I'm taking a stand and getting the fuck out of here before I have to spank myself for being so naive.

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