Dear God...
 

Then let us use PMs, for fuck's sake. How the fuck are we supposed to keep in touch if we can't talk privately to other people?

Hi Admin... Nice place you got here



Where's the bathroom?

They exist??? Oh my God.

Having the PMs sounds nice.

I'm not really up on how harvesting email addresses goes... What's the difference between putting my email address in a thread and putting it in my profile? Is putting it in my profile safer, for some reason?

(This is an honest question, not a dig at anyone anywhere)

Actually there is a difference which can go from slightly better to much better, depending on how desperate are the spams. Many of them rarely look into profiles for emails.

Silly, this is why I keep several email and messenger accounts. The ones I post in public for ordinary use are spam fronts... I have others that only close friends know of. I don't really care how much spam an address I post here gets, unless it's spam to test my adherence to that statement.

But honestly, private messages should be allowed. It was frustrating, being unable to send PMs when I could not register my account, nor tell anyone about it -_- They're good to have for these things.

The admins cut off our means of private communication in order to make it more difficult to organize against them.

There's a good chance that isn't true, of course, but I'll stick to it until I have sufficient reason to believe otherwise.

I think you are correct. They would probably say that it is to protect us; but it is really a conspiracy.

I adblock them. Thank God for Firefox.

Last time I posted something like this it was deleted. Wait for it...

I don't ever press the ads anyway.

Generally speaking, the admins don't ban people who are trying to get banned. They also don't ban people other people are trying to get banned.

That just made me think of the Matrix. The Architect.

Anyway... yeah, the e-mail I posted on here is a decoy. My real e-mail is....
Just kidding. :P

Actually I get quite a bit of spam as it is, but my spam filters seem to be pretty good. I rarely get any spam in my actual inbox.

*sings* Spam, spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spametty-spam!!! Spametty-Spam!!!!
Come on, all ye Monty Python fans!

So you are just trying to be a problem? That's kinda not cool. Abusive people who are here for the sole purpose of causing problems and disruption and drama are the principal reason the PM's are turned off. At least now your selfish antagonistic martyr games are out in the open. The community here has been being moderated fairly effectively lately. Problematic and/or spammy posts are removed before most people notice, most of the time. But you persist in trying to paint a worse picture and that's really not fair to all the people here that actually do use this site for pleasant interactions and exchange of ideas.

We don't think it's a good idea to post your email addresses in threads. This is not an unreasonable view. You will find that this feeling is reflected on a great deal of community boards and sites. You know it's a problem and that's why you encouraged it. That just seems kind of out of line.

So long as you're not talking to them on this board?


There is a big difference between accepting responsiblility for people posting personal information, since obviously it's not wholly in our control, and making an effort to protect them from potential abuse of their personal information, which they have been encouraged to post by people like yourself. The fact simply is that (at) is filtered to read as @ by the email harvesting bots. Has been for a long time. Some people don't know better. Having you here from your other boards or whatever, encouraging people here to post their personal contact info, when it's clearly made not available by the administration of this site on their individual profiles, sounds kind of questionable at the very least. Any reasonable person would see it that way too.

So that is the real issue. We are allowed to speak as long as we speak on this board.

Ever heard of a private conversation? If you gave back the Private Message system people would be able to speak 'on this board'.

You state in the rules that people are free to post their home addresses on your boards, and yet you feel the need to protect your poor innocent users from the nasty nasty Spam Bots. Aww. Isn't that sweet.

If you read my post correctly you would see that I didn't encourage people to post their information with (at) instead of @ to stop email harvesting. I told them that typing out at and dot out would cut down on the chance of having their addresses harvested.

And I resent your implication that I am here from other sites to scalp users of this board. I defy you to show me a single post that I've made that has suggested someone leave this board to join another.

I think you are way too aggro about not getting to collect people's emails and AIM accounts, seriously. You are also calling on people to 'show their distain' for you not being allowed to compromise their information, you are even telling them not to support any of the ads running on this site. That's clearly destructive to this community. We don't charge anyone and we hope to potentially cover costs with some fairly unobtrusive banners.

No dig taken. It's not actually available on your profile either.

I suggest that you start reading what I actually post instead of referring to what you think I said. When I said to show your 'distain' [sic] I was talking about peoples dissatisfaction at the Private Messaging on this site being taken away as expressed in CircleV, Catch and Clockwork's posts.

Let me know when you want to actually talk about something I said instead of just twisting my posts in a poor attempt to make me look like a trouble maker.

Ok, I'll let you know.

You know it's ironic that this thread popped up after my dad (being the good father he is) asked me if this site had moderators. I laughed and actually said yes, because apparently THEY DO EXIST!!! Of course you know, they only seem to pop up when things like this happen, when they supposedly want to protect us from the nasty spammers.

I personally think they don't really care. But whatever.