That is a spam poster that posted a post with a different title in the subject line. Pretty sure you can do the same thing here.
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That is a spam poster that posted a post with a different title in the subject line. Pretty sure you can do the same thing here.
Yes, we are running different board software than AN. They are running UBB and we use vBulletin.
Peterle... Olav Phillips can be reached at olav@anomalies.net
I would advise him about the spam.
I've stopped logging in the site. Darby seems to be there on and off these days, but Olav OWNS the site.
Tell him about the spam and problems you find.
Looks like it's down again.
Went there to search for an old IM.
Ain't been there in weeks. Since the software change (again) I gave up.
Suspect that's why Darby has been here more and more....
Still DRT.
Only a guess here, but perhaps Olav is fixing the formatting.
I cull the spammers. At one time we had the reg set to require my personal verification of every attempt to register a new account. The problem was that 99.999...% were autobot spammers. So I spent an hour a day reviewing and rejecting reg atempts. Then I asked Olav to turn Captcha back on. He did but whe he upgraded UBB Threads from 6.1 to 7.5 he did not activate Captcha, thus the spam registrations that got bye me.
On top of that, on 7.5 the protocol for setting column width in the forum panels is not the same as in 6.1, That's why the forum is all scrunched up into the right column. Olav knows about it but I don't think that he knows how to fix it. I sent him a how-to that I picked off of UBB Threads' forum. So far no joy...and, not surprisingly, no one is using the site.
My feeling is that it is a gonner. I'm still there every day but there's nothing to do with zero posts entered.
My other feeling: it was a mistake to seperate the forum into two seperate websites. It killed AN and this forum is 99% a private forum where the half dozen regular members are AN expatriot Mods who rarely post their own thoughts. It's all reprints of news articles that can be found elsewhere on the Net. It hasn't been a very successful situation for either site.
Absolutely true, Darby. However, understand that we're not expatriots... while all of us were at one time mods or admins over there on Anomalies, I only came here finally after the big tiff with Olav over the five players who wrote him under a couple dozen email address as "other accounts" complaining about Rick.
In fact the proof of that is in the date I signed up for this site, then actually started posting. I signed up many months (as Ryan can attest) before I started posting regularly. The rest of the guys were more interested (and that proof is inthe number of posts made by them in the "politics' and news related forums on Anomalies) than in the Anomalies crap and Conspiracies.
Ask anyone.
I thought it was a HORRIBLE idea to separate the stuff into two sections at first, then after a time relented and did it on Anomalies, and everyone of us knows that the activity was in the news/politics section, a tad in the time travel and very little anywhere else.
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Olav's vision for anomalies was to have folks have an "Open Forum" and to be able to "say what they wanted" (even if it was utter bullshit).. and he got that. Look where it got anomalies.
This site is locked out. Ryan is careful whom he lets on. Everyone is free to register, but they have to follow the rules.
At least ONE of us has LEFT (again because of Rick!) but his reasoning was wrong, ill-informed and completely on his own and truly had nothing to do with me personally though he's blaming me for it. He's blaming for a LOT of things (privately) that aren't true (on his part).
Being reasonable seems to have gone by the wayside and to be honest, *I* don't give a fuck any more about it, or anyone who calls me names.
Truth is, had Olav left things alone and actually listened to me, and looked at my proofs over the "Many-Accounts" people he would still have a very viable site with a lot of activity.
Nothing on the Internet remains "the same" as the original vision.
People go where the truth and information resides. They also chose things that are "in their venue" even if it is wrong.
Thus, you will find the conspiracy bufs MOSTLY off this site and in other places. The few that remain behind get shit from me, Ryan and others. Mostly me.
The column issue on AN is a serious matter, no matter what else can be said from the past or now. Well, that and that awful white glare from the monitor. I use Google (white background) as a start page and go from there. I do not stay on Google for hours.
That said, I do check there every long while and in the last few months a little more. I still care about AN and did reply to a post I was messaged about.
Darby,
That's a big part of why I started the site. I wanted a place to collect open source information, consolidate it, archive it, and present it to help others connect the dots.
The discussion about such topics is an added benefit. And while we may have more news articles posted than pages of discussion, there are a number of low/no post members that do read.
I know I might be biased but, I think it has indeed been beneficial to the serious participants who came here from AN. We have a much improved signal to noise ratio here and don't need to deal with all of the :tinfoil: posts that AN brought.