Reporters Questions to Our Readers

Submitted by Mr. Blue MauMau on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 12:14.

Our reporters ask questions of readers about stories.

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If You Could Ask Any Question to a Wildly Successful Franchisee

Submitted by Mr. Blue MauMau on Mon, 2008/07/28 - 18:41.

. . . what would it be?

If you had the chance to sit for lunch mano y mano with the Warren Buffet of franchise owners and get straight answers to help you along your way to success, what would you ask?

I'm fishing for guidance on a future story I'm doing.

Are you willing to ask these tough questions?

Submitted by Guest on Tue, 2008/07/29 - 19:29.

Question 1: What percentage of their success is due to their systematically cheating the system? Examples: deliberately and regularly under-reporting income (both to taxing agencies and their zor), shorting the customers on product (especially easy to do in the food-related businesses), using illegal immigrant labor whom they underpaid, not carrying proper insurance such as workers comp, using family members who aren't receiving a regular paycheck, etc.

Question 2: How did they grow the number of their locations - by building new stores, or bottom-fishing for existing locations where the original owner burned out?

Questions for a Franchisee Sage

Submitted by Bob Frankman on Tue, 2008/07/29 - 10:14.

What were the benchmarks that they use to decide what to invest in and when to get rid of a store?

In their growth to become a super-franchisee, what were the major hurdles and how did they overcome them?

Issues With Moving Posts

Submitted by Mr. Blue MauMau on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 12:30.

Need Your Suggestions On How to Be Fair to Everyone 

There's a few posters here who are extremely zealous about a single issue. To them, every news article and opinion are seen through the filter of their hobby horse.

Our community is much bigger than their single issue. Having said that we have certainly accomodated them by providing a place for a thorough and continuous discussion of their issue.

I move such messages. I do so because in a citizen journalism site such as ours where everyone has a voice, information needs to be compartmentalized or else we risk chaos.

Comments are meant to ask questions of the author or to write narrow, short-term comments on the main issue of the article. Comments are not the same thing as our long-standing forum discussions and debates with the community on broad topics.

The problem is that when I move their posts, sometimes your responses are stuck in the middle of the thread that I move. I try to be surgical but it is often difficult.

Suggestions?

  • If they've been given a warning and still post throughout the site, block them from Blue MauMau?
  • Remove the Article Comments block from the front page? Sometimes guests like writing comments because it is briefly shown on the front page.
  • Get a moderator to help me move the threads that are out of place. Taking time to moderate and move posts gives me less time to pursue news stories.

Mr. Blue MauMau
Moderator

Different Standards for Different Posters

Submitted by Guest on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 13:11.

It appears, Don, that you have different standards for different posters.

You have chastised me and blocked me many times unfairly when it was not me who changed the thread. Right now you have "The Dwyer Group Named Among Best Companies to Work for" in the Article Comments Area and someone responded to the article yesterday with the comment that it wasn't a great place for franchisees ----and then you removed everything but this comment to Government Regulation, etc...

The attorneys are allowed to change the subject at will whenever they are inclined to do so. We understand that you have a "double standard". When was the last time you blocked Richard Solomon?

I told you many times. If you don't want me to post any more ---just tell me OPENLY on this site and I will honor your decision. I appreciate that you have given me a platform upon which to tell my truth and I thank you for this.

Moving Comments

Submitted by michael webster on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 19:10.

Thank-you Don for raising this issue in a public manner.

My own vote is for posters to take control of their own blog: if they don't like the comment, they should be able to mark it so that community knows that the poster believes the response to be so off topic that nobody should respond to it. 

Michael Webster PhD LLB
Franchise News

Different Standards

Submitted by Paul Steinberg on Tue, 2008/02/19 - 21:46.

Why don't you actually register openly. ... Or, as you would put it "OPENLY"

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