this site is so important to me I’d be willing to pay a subscription to make it work
This is what I'm getting. I've been using 'duck duck go' from my phone for my searches and I haven't been able to access the site for most of the weekend. I switched over to Google this morning and was finally able to get on.
Have you tried DMing the management team directly?well @deadlyhandsome , though not in particular, but you reminded me that comments, such as mine, may be seen as " complaints". I am happy that you don't see it this way.
I just wanted to make it clear.
I don't look at informing (albeit a volunteer corp) the management of the forum's problems as whining though.
I don't expect the people with the keys to the engine room to be there at all times (here or anywhere else). I am a long standing member of another forum ( with a more "intensive" number of participants) and there are only 4 or 5 actually active moderators. They also have paid ones (that forum is owned by a Canadian corporation which owns thousands of fora) but they are monitoring the forum even LESS than the volunteers!
All of them are in the American time zones, so, anything happens while they are asleep, the forum relies on the membership reporting abuse and anomalies.
If the forum had (which may be the case here) very high protections against spam bots and such things (in order not to have someone getting through the protections at least at times ,especially while the watchers are asleep), then. there would certainly be moments in which the forum would collapse under the weight of bots.
Bots activity is a forum problem everywhere.
After all, trackers and bots must be attracted by people writing here. Although most of the posts are about vintage items, all the participants here can be seen as potentially interesting targets because we are searching brad names and have threads on Stetson, Resistol, Clarks, Barbour, you name it....
Anyway, thanks to all of whom work behind the scenes. I hope they appreciate the fact that even though no complainer is an officer here, we are volunteering surveillance too
You kindly credit me for more actual experience than I really have, although I understand how It may look like I know a lot more than I do
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