thread deletions ?

[elbo]

I've been seeing more and more threads being deleted by various individuals,
Who are these people and what is the criteria they use ? And by whose authority?
My only real concern is that this forum could turn into a political device where people could just delete whatever they don't agree with.
It would be unfortunate, as this forum is for do-it- yourselfers to give advice for what works for them, and getting several answers to any question is good as it gives the asker several options to try

 

[havasu]

If the thread is on topic, it should not be deleted. Can you be more specific so we could help answer the question?

 

[nealtw]

I've been seeing more and more threads being deleted by various individuals,
Who are these people and what is the criteria they use ? And by whose authority?
My only real concern is that this forum could turn into a political device where people could just delete whatever they don't agree with.
It would be unfortunate, as this forum is for do-it- yourselfers to give advice for what works for them, and getting several answers to any question is good as it gives the asker several options to try

It's all about spammers and in most cases you will find the OP has been banned for cause.

 

[oldognewtrick]

Only people who can delete a thread a reply or ban a member is an administrator. If something is removed its because it violated the terms of usage everyone agreed to when signing up. It is our intention to keep this place a clean and safe site. If you think something that's been removed shouldn't have been, feel free to contact any administrator. We encourage a good discussion as long as it remains friendly. We all have opinions, sometimes we don't agree about issues, but the one thing we do agree upon is helping the diy'er.

 

[havasu]

Shut up, ol' dawg!


Neal is correct. Lately, we have been inundated with foreign spammers, whose only job is to have the membership click on links in order to put money in their own pockets. Some links will pay the poster up to a nickel a "click". When the poster uses our website and another 20-30 sites a day, and these sites have 100 unknowing members who click on the site, and makes $.05 per click, you are really talking big bucks!

 

[user 4883]

Damn those Russians 😄

 

[oldognewtrick]

Shut up, ol' dawg!

Donut lights on at Krispy Kreme 5-0:beer:

 

[KULTULZ]

Damn those Russians 😄

Are you sure it is the Ruskies? It could be that ever annoying VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY,,, :hide:

 

[nealtw]

Are you sure it is the Ruskies? It could be that ever annoying VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY,,, :hide:

It is those 400 lb guys sitting in their beds.

 

[Flyover]

I was looking at those deleted threads and the OP users all had names like "sergei3452" "anatoly9895" "miroslav220836" etc. If I was a Chinese hacker those are the kind of usernames I'd come up with!

 

[bud16415]

I have said it before I used to get up and turn on the computer read the obits have coffee and check in at HRT. Now I get up make coffee read the obits and then kill Russians for 30 minutes. If anyone wants to see some I can resurrect a few. Mostly Viagra links and porn sites.

Nothing remotely related to this site is deleted by me. unless the IP addy says Russia and the profile says NYC.

 

[nealtw]

I have said it before I used to get up and turn on the computer read the obits have coffee and check in at HRT. Now I get up make coffee read the obits and then kill Russians for 30 minutes. If anyone wants to see some I can resurrect a few. Mostly Viagra links and porn sites.

Nothing remotely related to this site is deleted by me. unless the IP addy says Russia and the profile says NYC.

I use AVG on the computer and they just offered me a service the would hide me while on line and it would change what you would see for an IP address so I guess the IP address is no longer a good clue.

 

[elbo]

o.k. , I guess I was being naive. I should have realized what you all said, I used to be on the diynet forum and as a lot of you who was also on it, know what killed it was the spam. But thanks for the insight, guys

 

[nealtw]

o.k. , I guess I was being naive. I should have realized what you all said, I used to be on the diynet forum and as a lot of you who was also on it, know what killed it was the spam. But thanks for the insight, guys

The boys are doing a banner job.

 

[oldognewtrick]

Settings are so a new members first post must be approved by an administrator prior to public viewing. This can sometimes take a while cause we have to sleep and have a real life besides here, except havasu.

 

[havasu]

Yeah, I resemble that remark.

 

[HandyOne]

The guys here are doing a fantastic job of killing spammers. And as to russians, many spammers have .ru on the end of their email accounts.

 

[Chris]

You guys are making it hard for me to feed my kids. You know how many email accounts I have to sign up to just to be able to post one link to make a nickel?

 

[nealtw]

You guys are making it hard for me to feed my kids. You know how many email accounts I have to sign up to just to be able to post one link to make a nickel?

They are getting right to the meat of the problem.

 

[frodo]

my toasted was hacked by Russia, it does not get the toast toasty enough