Just a shout out of THANKS to
Member - Sir Kev, who has been a Member since 2006 and to this day remains the ONLY site user in our entire community of 130,000 registered users who regularly alerts us directly if there are spammers abusing the "Free Text Ad" facility in the
Classifieds. Today he alerted me to 3 of these and some were a few weeks old.
I feel Kev deserves public recognition for not only has he done this of his own accord, but many of you may not know who he is and why this is significant at this time.
In the past, Kev was quite an active Member in the
Forum, and became friends with many people in real life via the connections made via ExplorOz due to his fun-loving, cheeky, but compassionate nature. He is the sort of bloke who would always have your back and always knows how to make things happen. Instead of being a complainer - expecting others to make changes so that his needs are met, he gets involved and becomes part of the solution for change.
He is noted for organising at least 3 National ExplorOz Member Gatherings; and making many requests for Member-specific activities/extras but also following through on his suggestions to do the coordination work to make them a reality such as doing the leg work, the calls, the emails, getting quotes, building relationships and etc that resulted in Members Photo Comps, Charitable Donation drives, coordination of artwork production for Raffle Prizes, online auctions and online raffle ticket sales to ensure those that couldn't attend a gathering in person could still participate. He has also supported ExplorOz admin by taking on lots of volunteer roles over the years which have included and are not limited to
Forum Moderation and Road Conditions Administration. Kev was recognised for his contributions with being awarded a Lifetime
Membership upgrade many many years ago. So whilst he leads a less prominent online life these days, you can be sure that Kev is still active behind the scenes contributing quietly. Being a family man with his own busy work and lifestyle we greatly appreciate that fact he is still the same Kev and will always be looking out for everyone's best interests.
Sometimes, its just the little things that people do that can mean a lot. The contributions that Kev has made in the past, and continues to make all these years on build up to be very significant and for that we are very grateful. Thanks Kev.