our forum linked elsewhere

[Pottel]

anyone know if we are being "linked" already elsewhere?
would love to see a link to this site from guy and richard's site.....suggestions??

[ingridswing]

We can simply ask 

[superval99]

It certainly won't be linked on MKNews Forum!  Every time I even mention AMIT, just in passing, my post is deleted.  Still no freedom of speech on that site I'm afraid.   

[ingridswing]

I simply never visit it anymore 
To be a little political: MKNews is not the only one preventing people from freedom of speech. Geert Wilders from the Netherlands (politician, really harsh, not smart all the times) was not allowed to enter the UK to show his movie Fitna. I don't agree with him, sometimes what he says makes sense but the way he does is stupid and he is overreacting all the time, but we have to keep freedom of speech, even when people say nonsense.

No blame to you at all Val, just joking a little. But I am serious when I say we have freedom of speech. That's one of the reasons this forum started. And opposite to Geert Wilders we will be polite and having discussions, not trying to hurt feelings of others.

[Ian Lewis]

It is linked at my web-site   www.cornwall-pictures.com/links/  Probably not going to help that much though!

[dustyvalentino]

The fact that Terry wishes to censor the fact that AMIT exists just proves how important it was to start our own site where free speech is tolerated.

Things were so bad there I wasn't even allowed to call Michael Jackson a cob-knobbler.

BTW Ingrid, I think most British people (as opposed to the Government) would agree that Dutch MP guy should have been allowed in. We already allow loads of foreign extremists to actually live in the country for God's sake. 

[Pottel]

anyone asked? richard, or guy?? or the mk official com site guy??

[ingridswing]

I will send both of them a private mail (not on Guy's forum I think). Hopefully they will respond positive!

Just changed my mind: is it possible to first activate the "links" in our site and add Guy's site, Richard's , John McCusker's, official MK-site etc.!

Way better when they have a look first before they add our link 

When it helps, here are the links I mean:
http://www.markknopfler.com/
http://www.guyfletcher.co.uk/
http://www.richard-bennett.com/
http://www.johnmccusker.demon.co.uk/

Feel free to give more suggestions!

[superval99]

TK is also an administrator on Markknopfler.com and has recently been deleting/editing on that forum too, so I doubt very much that he would link AMIT there, the same as he wouldn't on MKNews forum.  AMIT doesn't exist as far as he is concerned.   

[ingridswing]

I agree with you Val, but we have to link to Markknopfler.com. It's the only official one. Idiot that he is deleting there as well. And that they still allow him to be a moderator there. Management knows enough about him!
And I added a post in the markkknopfler.com-forum in which is the link to our website here. Very polite, saying that we are not official but a group of friends. We will see if the post will be there for a long time 

[dustyvalentino]

Surprised to learn that he is part of the set up on mk.com, I thought that part of the reason for that site beibg set up was down to some of the "problems" on the mk news forum. 

[ingridswing]

I already knew he was working on that site in the news-section. I saw his posts there. But I thought they had other admins/mods!

[superval99]

 As far as I know, Markknopfler.com is administrated on the European side by TK. and Princess Buttercup is on the US/Canadian side.  At least that is what we were told at the beginning when Markknopfler.com was set up (TK told us himself).  At the moment though, Buttercup is keeping a VERY low profile and TK seems to be doing the editing at the moment.  He is not so much in evidence as on MKNews Forum, though! 

Sometimes, of course, it is necessary to edit, etc  because there have been some very strange posts on that site, which needed dealing with and Buttercup could not be found!  (In fact I am beginning to wonder if she exists at all!)     In this case TK did some deleting/editing!

BTW Ingrid, I saw your post and it is very polite and I hope it works for us!   

[ingridswing]

I just gave it a try. In 15 minutes I had over 10 views so it works anyway. People read there as well. When you look at TK's profile he is just a member, not a moderator or admin. Buttercup's profile says admin or something. When you look at TK's posts you see only things in the news-section. But if my post will be deleted I will write to the management  After all the things we told them it would be completely idiot that TK still is a mod there.

This is the post I put there for the ones who didn't read it there (and to save it here in case it will be deleted):

Hi all,

As all of you know this is the only official website of Mark Knopfler. But because the world is much bigger I am involved in a project that is going to build a enormous database of all gigs MK has ever played. The site is partly under construction, we are already working on it for over a year, but some parts are running already. Some galleries, another forum etc.

I really hope to see some of you there as well. There are a lot of interestingMK-related sites on the internet, and we think we added one. Feel free to join us there as well. We are not official! But just a group of friends who had an addional idea. The site is http://www.amarkintime.org/

You can see what it is going to be in the menu and you can click on parts of it, one of them is the forum which is running from last august. Hope to see you all here and there.

Best regards, Ingrid  

[shangri la 1]

  Great work Ingrid. 
We can only hope that sanity prevails and who-ever the Admin/Mods are, over there, that they leave your post as it is. From what you have written the only reason it could be removed is that they see us a major threat to their own existence, whereas they should see us as allies.  We will no doubt have a link to their location when we are fully functional.  All of us spreading the gospel of MK.