duh ! :arrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
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duh ! :arrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
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Same here. ****s!Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
As was mine. And I though about doing what Nitro suggested.....but I got myself off'd before I could get around to it :hmh:Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
Of you change your email address you'll end up getting locked out until you verify it. Which if it's invalid you won't be able to do.
It still seems to let me log in fine even though I've yet to confirm the e-mail address change there.. I have not tried posting anything mind you.
See the latest post on there from NancyS regarding spammers. They can only spot spammers as easily as they do because of modifications to the code I made!
What a load of made up nonsense!Quote:
True on the spammers but the bot catcher is used by all "licensed vBulletin" forum boards to notify the SPAM catcher websites. Those website will confirm if a spammer as they that lists them by all the many fake names they use. Plus it really is not that hard to spot them as they register. They all use the same word in the profile information. We try to do the best job we can to get rid of them even those who add "interests" and "birthday" information. Takes just seconds to verify if real or not!
I find it hilarious. Is anyone even posting?
I posted something with an old username (i didn't realise it still existed until Mark sent me the "we've moved" e-mail). Nothing more than asking how to contact them as I wasn't sure if the contact thingy was just dropping into deadspace.
I got ban as well :hot:
Reason is a bit strange but maybe they found my post five years ago where I said Pino's pizza is no good :pQuote:
You have been banned for the following reason:
Insulting members without correct facts
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I agree is a strange reason because you know nothing about good food :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Not correct facts eh. Is that the one where they reckon the forums belong to them because they hosted them?!
Wow...just checked, you're alter ego hasn't been banned yet....and you said almost exactly the same thing I did almost word for word-and I did it in the survey comment box and not the open forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
I also sent a follow up message via the contact us link at the bottom after being banned....
My profile info is still there.
Mark seems to be the only one who has been completely obliterated.
Makes me wanna call up some of my computer geek friends and have a little virtual package delivered straight to their server-but that would be so unethical :p :
They've now deleted every recent post from the Feedback forum including the ones from their own mods. Very strange.
donkey duh :wave:
damn it was cold out there :laugh:
Is that handy mouse-over feature to view the first post in a thread still available in this version?
Saves people wasting clicks on donkey threads :)
It does, sometimes.
:rotflmao: EPIC FAIL! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
It's been banned now, but only until 18:00 this evening. The words "earhole from arsehole" spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by slorydn1
My alter ego has been deleted! Not just banned completely deleted!
How dare they :p
They REALLY dont like you :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
What ticks me off is that I keep asking them to do that to me and they WONT :hmph:
It would be interesting to see what happened if someone filed a court case against them in the USA......Quote:
Originally Posted by slorydn1
You're a moderator, why don't you do it yourself? :rolleyes: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I think that was their assumption, yes! In fact I think they assumed quite a few things, like that most users accessed through motorsport.com itself, wrong. That I wouldn't be taking any backups of the forums and therefore just deleting me would be sufficient and that because I didn't have any backups I would have to start from scratch on a site that nobody would visit. All wrong of course. Then they assume that because they restore the forums from backups that everyone will start posting there, wrong again.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
If they are reading this then I would like to say to them again, It's not working! Nobody wants to post on your forums! Just start again with a fresh forum install and a new membership and salvage the small shreds of dignity you have left.
It would be interesting to know what sites people mainly access the forum through. I've always gone direct to rallyforum.com and then resorted to going throuh motorsport.com or btccpages if the link wasn't working, that's the only way that I found out the forums had moved (in the first instance, before I got an e-mail about it).
I'm sure that it seemed like a good idea at the time, wonder if there had been much planning or whether they sort of stumbled across a way to do it. Either way it went off half-cocked and as a number of people are on each others Facebook then it'd have soon got around that they'd stolen the forum.
I'm pretty sure they'd assumed I wouldn't have a backup.. I wouldn't like to think what would have happened if I didn't however, I somehow doubt they would have let me take a copy. Kind of like squatters changing the locks to your house and claiming you don't own it any more...Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
They've deleted all accounts with email addresses connected with me now, even my test accounts!
I keep popping back to make a nusiance of myself and PM people that are still posting :D
I think you'll be banned pretty soon!
Just looking at my emails and this is one of the original ones from Eric Gilbert, before he decided to take the forums
Things to note here. They didn't take over the forums or the posts but was "the hosting site" and he himself states here that the agreement was "only an exchange of advertising".Quote:
Mark, you were between a rock and a hard place when Motorsport.com
came to the rescue as the hosting site with only an exchange of advertising
which was very little income to us.
and here where they offered to buy the forums from me, fairly clear
I don't like putting private emails in public, but after all we are dealing with what I regard as theft here, and that needs to be put right.Quote:
Would you be open to sell the Motorsport Forums to us?
I think it would make it a bit easier for us to monetize it, since we would
have a better control over the advertising space.
I've never really wanted to be involved with the forums, and I think you're
doing a super job with them, but the fact is that at the moment, they're
costing us more money to host (we're paying hosting fees per MB) than
making. We don't mind so much, but being able to at least to break even would be nice.
would be nice.
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Oh dear. I may have one or two back doors ;)
Oh dear.. You've been binned!
I thought banning was bad enough but Binning.... that's just cruel :bigcry:
Apparently, I have earned a lifetime ban and no reason was given. The forum rules must have changed recently ;)
And I thought Pino was a bit of a ball breaker during the wrong time of the month :laugh:
Honestly - how long until motorsport.com realise that their website isn't really that good? It has a moderately useful archive section but that's just because it's been around so long. The same goes for it's domain - just because you have one of the TLD's for motorsport doesn't necessarily mean your site is any good.
Combine Autosport and Crash and you have something ten times better than motorsport.com. The move on the forum is a ridiculous step as it could only highlight further the lack of popularity. This forum, ten tenths and Autosport-Atlas are all superior and will remain so simply due to having a larger user base.
I honestly hope this is the beginning of the end for them now.
I originally came to the forums back in 2001 via AR-1, almost by accident. I had been surfing AR-1 on and off for articles,, but didn't notice the forum link. My brother stumbled across it one day and liked what he saw and emailed me if I knew about the site and it's forums. I didn't even notice the link as I wasn't looking, and as the old timers can tell you it was pretty well hidden on the front page back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
I basicly stopped coming via AR-1 when I stopped going to their site when they started charging for articles and I discovered I could come in directly via www.motorsportforums.com bypassing all of the "web magazine" portals. In a way it was actually faster, one less screen to click through to get to forums. Man, we somtimes complain about the load times now, but back then the server was always crashing, and when it did work it was slower than HRT at Spa....
I have been accessing via motorsportforums.com ever since about mid to late 2002. I didn't even know about what happened here recently until I stumbled into this thread, as i was laying low for a few weeks getting my new 'puter fully up and running. In fact when I logged in and did my mischeif to get banned was the first time I can ever remember accessing the forum via motorsport.com, other than maybe that one time last year when we had a bad day with the server and that was just about the only way in.
I fail to see how anyone with a sane mind could have possibly thought it would have been a good idea. I mean, look at forums in general. You have a few hardcore users who post alot, then do something stupid and get banned, or just get mad and leave. Then you look here. I've been here for over 9 YEARS and I'm not considered an "old timer", I'm not one of the orginals. Just glancing at the usernames in this thread alone i have seen several who have been here longer than me, and a couple who have been here since the beginning! That shows me some loyalty exists between the users and Mark. Sure, there are flashier forums out there that have more hardcore users. But here everyone pretty much knows everyone in some small way or another. Take me for example-y'all know what your getting from me ("Oh great, there's Slo, he's getting ready to bore me with some more stats, time to log off-quick, LOL :p :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
Did they not think that EVEN IF Mark hadn't had a chance to back up everything that there aren't a good number of us out here that wouldn't have been googling anything we could use to find a way to hook back up with him? Do they think we are all that stupid? Pretty lame on their part if ya ask me, heck, even if ya didn't ask (LOL).. ;)
Just popped my head in over there and it's like a grave yard.
How are they licencing it Mark because I'm going to do everything I can to ensure they lose money and a couple of calls to my old colleagues at F.A.S.T. should f*ck them up nicely :D
Well he posted a strange reply in Donkey Jote's thread which made me think he might be a rebel or something that prefers the moronsport.com forums.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
They claim they do have a licence which I don't doubt as they are easy enough to buy. However the PHP code they are using will have my licence number on it and contains all the modifications I made to improve the forums, which is my personal copyright.
Bunch of donkeys ;) :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I sent him one also earlier this week from my wife's log in....something tells me he's a plant. Don't mess with him anymore....Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I've still not been banned from there and I went on and called them all a bunch a c**ts :s (Yeah that's right i'm a keyboard warrior :p : )
This was a PM I had from one of the mods
That mod also only had 6 posts to his name :sQuote:
Dear 306 Cosworth,
You have received an infraction at Motorsport.com Forums.
http://forums.motorsport.com/showthread.php?p=876080
Reason: Could not find phrase 'infractionlevel5_title' [1/0].
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This infraction is worth 100 point(s) and may result in restricted access until it expires. Serious infractions will never expire.
All the best,
Motorsport.com Forums