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Post by cptusa on Aug 25, 2020 7:18:01 GMT -6
Here is my hate mail. I was finally able to access things today.
... Sorry for the delays in responding, but we are not the only ones here. The community moderators have full authority to manage the site, remove spam and trolls and edit/remove posts. This is not limited to only the System Administration.
I understand the frustration that the lack of action from our moderation team has caused and we are looking into this, however, your behavior is also out of line and taking an aggressive stance is not helpful to the forum. A temporary ban has been placed on the account as a warning while the site is being cleaned and attempts are being made to recruit new moderators to care for the site.
Our intention has always been to have the community moderators manage the sites as they are the heart of the community. It has however become obvious that this has been lost in this community and we will be making a serious effort to turn this around over the coming weeks.
I would ask that you refrain from bringing up any more unrest as we continue to help bring the community back. Any further attempts to harass, insult or attack moderators or administrators will not be tolerated and the account will be permanently banned from the site and any offending posts removed.
Daniel
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Post by Lucas @ Wilger on Aug 25, 2020 9:03:43 GMT -6
Good stuff. Nice to see more guys moving over. If y'all want, I've been tinkering with the 'Dark Mode' theme to change up the look a fair bit. You can change the theme you see under PROFILE-> Edit Profile (In top right) -> Settings tab.
To be honest, from when Wilger was sponsoring the forum, once they rolled everything over into the current version, they left me with some weird Moderation status for a few of the sub-forums, so I'd nuke most of the solicitor types or the less than legitimate posters on the forums that I could do something about. Didn't wanna say anything as figured they'd take it away if they knew. Haha. Didn't do any harm with the power though, but I was restricted to more of the Sprayer sub-forum only, so couldn't do anything with illegitimate posters in the other forums or off-topic forum/etc.
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Post by Albertabuck on Aug 25, 2020 10:11:16 GMT -6
Lucas, awesome improvement over the old fart scene...thanks!!!
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Post by Albertabuck on Aug 25, 2020 12:45:41 GMT -6
Been thinking about the context of the messages that some of us got from the administration on the old site, and what's interesting is, how particularly in the Captain's message, they acknowledge they f*cked up, it was their own fault things detonated...but we became the bad guys simply because we called them out over it...so in other words, we were right all along...but now instead of taking responsibility for those f*ckups, they criticize us for having balls enough to speak the truth, well what can I say, typical Torstar lefty ideology, when you can't win the argument on merit or facts, deflect, distract, discredit and deny...
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Post by cptusa on Aug 25, 2020 13:28:51 GMT -6
I wonder who exactly the moderators were. I know Don was but lost his powers in the password debacle.
Is what it is now, when you piss the bed you usually wake up wet.
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Post by Lucas @ Wilger on Aug 25, 2020 13:45:48 GMT -6
I was curious myself, and saw there are 4 'super moderators' on the whole forums ( www.thecombineforum.com/members/?key=staff_members) Administrator (apart from yesterday, I think it was like a 6 weeks or something like that) Don Boles Gibbons025 (last seen 9 months ago) GV (last seen 1 month ago) Apart from that, I don't think I've seen any other mods since the password debackle/etc. I kinda had some mod in a few forums that carried over, but I'm guessing is because Wilger had sponsored the forum through that password debackle. (Funny as I didn't have any mod status or anything before when we were more actively sponsoring stuff, it came after)
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warreng
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Post by warreng on Aug 25, 2020 15:22:41 GMT -6
there actually isn't much for moderators at the 'old site' , just maybe some on the admin side, but they are chasing their tails, lol
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absk
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Post by absk on Aug 25, 2020 20:43:49 GMT -6
I don’t post a whole lot but I do enjoy reading what you guys have to say.. the other site went for complete shit so I just wanted to say thank you for putting up this new one
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Post by jcalder on Aug 26, 2020 5:53:17 GMT -6
I went on there tonight for the first time in a long while, no rude message for me...ha ha All that weird stuff and locking threads is just affirmation of my decision to leave. I was a paid member and had a lot invested in that site too, shame to walk away but it's for the best. Glad to see the good members here now one by one. None for me either, that seems unusual...
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Post by Albertabuck on Aug 28, 2020 23:01:48 GMT -6
Well how about them apples...I mentioned on here two or three days ago how "chagit" had been reborn back in the old neighborhood...was just taking a look around over there and guess what...been another miracle on the Combine Forum...once more a "profile" wiped entirely clean off the forum including his wacky thread...interesting how that happened right after I mentioned on here about the same games were still afoot? Told you VerticleScope was watching us here....
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Post by kevlar on Aug 30, 2020 9:19:55 GMT -6
I still check out the old site from time to time. Still some weird stuff going on there. A huge increase in first time posters, some of the threads they start are kind of out there, and the grammar of some of them sound very familiar with the sales pitch or instructions from something made in China. Some of the threads started are farming questions, but vague and generic in nature, then the first people to respond give similar style answers, then compliments about how helpful the members are on the forum. I don't miss that site much, do miss some of the members though.
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Post by cptusa on Aug 30, 2020 12:47:56 GMT -6
I float in there too but never reply anymore. I noticed the same stuff kevlar pointed out. Way too transparent there I'd say.
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tsipp
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Spring valley, Saskatchewan
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Post by tsipp on Aug 30, 2020 16:57:07 GMT -6
I thought I’d have a hard time giving up on the old form but it’s just kinda weird over there, a lot of games getting played and it kinda pisses me off.
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Post by snapper22 on Aug 30, 2020 18:30:56 GMT -6
I still check out the old site from time to time. Still some weird stuff going on there. A huge increase in first time posters, some of the threads they start are kind of out there, and the grammar of some of them sound very familiar with the sales pitch or instructions from something made in China. Some of the threads started are farming questions, but vague and generic in nature, then the first people to respond give similar style answers, then compliments about how helpful the members are on the forum. I don't miss that site much, do miss some of the members though. I noticed that too. Bloody weird. I don’t know what they’re trying to prove. I pop in occasionally but find nothing of interest there. Always was something before but now it’s just boring.
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Post by Bigtalk on Aug 31, 2020 1:58:40 GMT -6
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