GateKeeper plaza and new main entrance

Thanks man, I can always count on you to call me out on my BS !! And just to show that I'm a team player, I will now retract that part of my reply.

Besides, the ironclad guarantee I was talking about referred to CP not missing a beat or having their bottom line affected despite the apparent leak of vital information.

So knowing that, I guess I'm not really feeling too "busted" after all.

Beautfiul day at the park today. Temp is sitting at 37 right now. Looks like track will be complete on Wednesday. Or is that too much information being released?

*Laughing*

WHOA NOW easy there, big fella ... Any more of that and you may find yourself not only banned from CP, but Sandusky's entire city limits.

Super Stew said:
little knit picky and aren't focusing their attention where they need to.

They need to be proactive. Even in cases where the release of information doesn't seem to have consequences for the company, there's no guarantee that future information won't. Why wouldn't they try to stop that before it's potentially a problem? Besides, it's not up to an employee or contractor to decide what is and is not OK to share.

There was nothing exciting or dramatic about the email. Only a short comment, from which I could simply determine that they must be aware. I only mention it because there seemed to be some doubt that anyone outside of our little circle would ever care.

Rippin said:
Beautfiul day at the park today. Temp is sitting at 37 right now. Looks like track will be complete on Wednesday. Or is that too much information being released?

You seen the weather for Wednesday? ;) I'd expect today to be the last day they work until Thursday.

Well I can certainly understand that part of it, Walt. My initial thoughts when reading through this was that it was much to do about nothing, but if CP has a policy in place and it was violated, I guess they should and will deal with it accordingly. Does the email you got from them apply to this dude or what he was saying and will there be consequences .. who knows.

The park isn't being picky, it's there project! Paying 30 million dollars for the ride should give them the right to be the only ones to share any details about the ride. We are very fortunate the park provides us with all the photo updates and 3 webcams, not to mention how generous they are to host an off season tour of the park.

I see what the weather is supposed to be this week but with what they have left it won't take long. The big crane is no longer needed and will be dismantled.

Super Stew said:
Does the email you got from them apply to this dude or what he was saying and will there be consequences .. who knows.

I have no idea. My involvement in the matter remains at zero.

I can see both sides of this argument. As being a past employee, I knew a lot of things about the park that I would never post on the internet (granted, some of them ended up being false rumors of course). However, I've been in the situation Super Stew is in before where you speak your mind and nobody agrees with you. Yet, I'm still a little confused here and I'm not sure whose side this favors more (By the way, I'm not trying to take any certain side). Some are claiming that this person was posting information that we already knew and wasn't much "news" to anybody. If that were the case, how did we jump to the conclusion that the info being shared is job threatening all of a sudden? It's been announced by the park that track work is going to be completed this week. If I currently worked for the park and posted a comment or tweet about the completion of track work for my friends to see, will that get me in trouble? Is there a difference between sharing or retweeting a post or tweet of what the park said, opposed to putting it in my own words? Will that get me in more trouble even though it's information that's been released to the public?

On a different note, it looks like winds will be higher on Tuesday than on Wednesday. With that said, since the rest of the track completion is a lot closer to the ground and doesn't require anymore use of the large red crane, I'm starting to think that the wind or snow isn't going to play a huge factor in completion at all this week. I could be very wrong though.

Again, that's not what the message was. It was a friendly warning about what he might post in the future. There was no real accusations that what he was posting was hush hush (except that it MIGHT have been hush hush). He said he had some kind of permission to post that info......which is his word against ours.

CPChris88 said:
The park isn't being picky, it's there project!

Oh yes they most certainly are being picky ! And from the looks of things in this particular case, they're being outrageously ridiculous as well. Protecting their interest or not, a billion dollar industry should have way better things to do with their time than worrying about what some ham and egger is saying on a coaster geek site about whether the new crapper will be better than the old one. There's a big difference between being proactive and just over the top absurd.

Paying 30 million dollars for the ride should give them the right to be the only ones to share any details about the ride.

Sure they have the right. But that's not we're talking about here. They had already released the information to the world. Do they honestly expect people not to talk about it ?? Once they go public, all bets about said info are off. Now if someone is blabbing details that haven't been or weren't suppose to be made available, then that's a totally different story.

So what would your opinion on the matter be if someone posted actual blueprints of the ride?

Just think... all of this could have been avoided had whatever-his-screen-name-is simply used something resembling subtlety in divulging information.

Super Stew said:There's a big difference between being proactive and just over the top ridiculous.

And what qualifies you to make the distinction between the two?

Once they go public, all bets about said info are off. Now if someone is blabbing details that haven't been or weren't suppose to be made available, then that's a totally different story.

The detailed schedule was never made public. So I guess it's a totally different story. :)

The park gets to choose what they do and do not want made public. They seemingly would prefer information not be made public through this particular channel. Why need it be more complicated than that?

What makes me qualified ?? How about, because I say so !! ;)

I believe the detailed schedule that whatever-his-screen-name is was referencing, HAD been made public. Pretty sure I read that somewhere. Maybe not the total investment of 35 mil though.

And you're right, this shouldn't be complicated ... but for an ice cold beer when I see you at the point. ...Who said, "I don't make things complicated, that's the way things get all by themselves" ?

The details in the schedule he posted were never made public........except by him. :P

Mel Crazy-as-hell Gibson. I'll take a Blue Moon, please. :)

And I agree with TTD - I don't believe any specific timeline (beyond vague stuff like "trains will be here in late February", etc.) was ever made public.

Sweet, dude, a blue moon it is ! Can you wait til May ??

Super Stew said:
And from the looks of things in this particular case, they're being outrageously ridiculous as well.

You're making assumptions into how much thought they've put into this. All I said was the answer wasn't "no thought at all" and, in general, there are reasons (that aren't always apparent) as to why they might care.

Plus, you're acting as if the CEO himself is actively participating in a "all hands on deck" investigation. The park employs hundreds of people in the off-season. I'm sure these kinds of issues don't even appear on the radar for a lot of them. On the other hand, it's certainly not hard to imagine that there are some whose job functions might necessitate keeping watch. But that's hardly the same as an entire billion dollar company being collectively obsessed with what's on the Interwebs.

I think they should cut off his head and place it on a spike in front of the entrance to Gatekeeper. To be used as a warning to all others who might dare reveal her secrets!

Or not.