No more Schott forum

[Monte.C]

For a couple days I've been trying to find a bit of info on a couple Schott models. Links to their forum were dead - I imagined they were doing a website revamp or something, and it would come back up soon. Today I used their chat feature on their website. They told me they removed the forum due to uncontrollable spam. Crushing news.
On that forum I found detailed discussions on models, history, sizing, everything I wanted. Gail was all over the thing. We know she's gone now but she had quite a legacy there.
I find this to be a crippling state of events. I'm gonna go cry now.

 

[Monte.C]

(I hope I'm not the last to know. I'd be kind-of embarrassed, sharing this as news.)

 

[Canuck Panda]

Gail was the forum. It would be nice if the older threads are still accessible, lots of great info in there.

 

[Aloysius]

(I hope I'm not the last to know. I'd be kind-of embarrassed, sharing this as news.)

I had no idea. Can you let the person know it would be great if they even locked it to new posts but left the archive up?

I'll voice the same when I visit Schott later this month.

 

[Monte.C]

I had no idea. Can you let the person know it would be great if they even locked it to new posts but left the archive up?

I'll voice the same when I visit Schott later this month.

Genius. Every one of us should suggest the same.

 

[Peacoat]

Thanks for the update, even though it was bad news.

And yes, it should be no problem to lock the forum but leave the posts accessible.

 

[Guppy]

For a couple days I've been trying to find a bit of info on a couple Schott models. Links to their forum were dead - I imagined they were doing a website revamp or something, and it would come back up soon. Today I used their chat feature on their website. They told me they removed the forum due to uncontrollable spam. Crushing news.
On that forum I found detailed discussions on models, history, sizing, everything I wanted. Gail was all over the thing. We know she's gone now but she had quite a legacy there.
I find this to be a crippling state of events. I'm gonna go cry now.

That's BS.

They could have locked the forum and left it readonly. They could have a competent admin implement anti spam measures.

They just didn't want to.

 

[Aloysius]

They could have a competent admin implement anti spam measures.

Not necessarily. The Schott forum was a holdover from when companies often made their own in-house forum software. I expect whoever coded it is long gone.

 

[Monte.C]

I like Aloysius' suggestion earlier. Everyone who cares about what's right could suggest this to them. Allow us access to forum archives. It's a nearly endless treasure of Schott information.

I did this earlier today. Visited their site, used their chat feature and made the suggestion.
I search "Schott 115 125" and the only good links go to the Schott forum, and all those links from Google are dead.

 

[Yango]

It had indeed turned into a nightmare cesspool of spam.

Once Gail passed no one at Schott wanted to deal with it.

Too bad.

 

[Monitor]

The forum contained incredible wealth of information. Just the other day, I needed info on yet another Perfecto I never saw before and Gail once again came to the rescue.

 

[Monte.C]

"Good morning Denise. I'm still running Google searches for bits of Schott info that I know used to be here on the forum. Google links to here - the links are dead because we still don't have access to forum archives. You guys have no idea how valuable those archives were to us, you have no idea the disservice you're doing to your brand by disallowing access to forum archives. Just letting you know.


Denise C 11:36 AM
I understand but we were getting too much spam and we could not control it. Are you trying to find out about something imparticular?


CGZ 11:38 AM
You said that the first time we talked about this. What you should be doing is still allow full access to forum ARCHIVES. Allow no new postings - say "sorry, forum is locked from new postings".


because all the answers are there.

 

[doobs]

Not necessarily. The Schott forum was a holdover from when companies often made their own in-house forum software. I expect whoever coded it is long gone.

I've experienced this with at least one other forum. Long term presence, got overrun with junk, and the one person running it just decided enough.

It was a custom app he had written before prepacked forum software was a thing and the data was just not able to be exported.

Unfortunate as it was, like Schott, a wealth of information.