Scott Olson
EF5
I might not sure the government can do much. Maybe if the NWS was a commercial entity it would be able to. Remember Whitehouse.com & Whitehouse.org I could swear one of those was a porn site.
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After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.
I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.
For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.
From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.
Sincerely, Jeff D.
Alternate NWS website
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Robert Dewey
EF5
Yeah, it was a porn site - I remember kids in school always surfing to it on accident. The government made them put up a front page stating that it was not affiliated with the actual Whitehouse/government...
David Schuttler
EF5
It's down now......
Aaron Kennedy
EF5
LOL. Who's the Accuweather spy? Remember the last incident? Within hours the controversial text was down. What a fiasco. It's almost like they have an employee or two to just raise a rukus.
Aaron
Aaron
Dan Cook
EF5
I wanted to see it. :cry:
rdale
EF5
It was just a link to AW's homepage.
Bill Hamilton
EF5
I just saw this last night. A news channel in Texas (KFDX) is using AccuWeather as one of there main weather forecasting partners. Now that is just plain sad when they don't trust their own forecast enough and have to bring in outside help.
http://www.kfdx.com/weather/
http://www.kfdx.com/weather/
rdale
EF5
Many TV stations just do that for the name recognition provided by AW.
- Rob
- Rob
Bill Hamilton
EF5
This is the first I have seen around here. All the news channels in the OKC metro area do their own. I think they know if they mention AccuWeather they would get laughed out of there.
Robert Dewey
EF5
Quite a few stations around here do it as well. It's not as uncommon as you might think. Heck, our local news radio station outsources the entire met department to Accuweather - in other words, some guy in College Station, PA is doing the weather for us folks over in MI. Either way though, they are all looking at the same data I suppose.
Roger Edwards
EF0
I got alerted to this several days ago, right before the Accuwx page disappeared from that site. [Maybe the person who forwarded this to me got it off ST while my PC was in the hospital. I haven't logged into ST in a long time.]
Curious and with a half hour or so to spare, I did some digging and came up with the following. Take it for how much or little it's worth.
http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/blog/arch...domain_name.php
Curious and with a half hour or so to spare, I did some digging and came up with the following. Take it for how much or little it's worth.
http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/blog/arch...domain_name.php
Robert Dewey
EF5
Hmm, that is strange... I wonder what's in the "men in black" (/mib/area51) folder.
Maybe they are forecasting for the Area 51 military installation, or they are forecasting for future UFO landings? :lol:
Chris Nuttall
EF5
Okay. I give up. Aaron caught me red-handed. j/k
On a semi-serious note...wow. This certainly isn't the first time something like this has happened. It even affects multi-billion dollar coporations. IIRC, a couple of years ago, the World Wrestling Federation was forced to change it's name from WWF to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). Apparently, someone had already trademarked WWF.com and the WWF moniker and sued them. It actually worked in their favor. Their new logo is simply WW. The genius PR folks starting highly successful marketing campaign with T-shirts and other stuff featuring the new WW logo along with the saying "Get the F out!"
