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Crutch

2006-05-17, 1:46 pm

I have been a member for quite awhile and the last two times I have connected to Examnotes, there is almost no value in any of the posts in the forums. At one time, examnotes was a great community to exchange ideas, problems, and such. It does not appear that way anymore.

Does anyone have any insight into this?
darthfeces

2006-05-17, 6:47 pm

joke's on me ... i just wasted 5 minutes of my life looking at this .... crap.

head on over to

http://www.techexams.net
Imran4sin

2006-06-24, 11:32 pm

i know what you mean... its all fcked up now.... I've been here since old skool.. 2000 or wasit 01 ..who cares.

MODS need to fckin wake up and do their moderation. Idiots.


and what the fck is with 180second wait after any post. Redardednesss.
enforcer

2006-08-08, 4:47 pm

It all went downhill after we had some idiot spamming the board with loads of usernames, Dimitri then installed a proxy blocker which prevented too many genuine people connecting.

Plus us MODS haven't really go enough of the powers we need to ban persistent spammers.
dmitro1

2006-08-08, 5:05 pm

Yes, right now there is a certain type of blocker, but not exactly a proxy blocker.

It blocks based on ip blocks that are known to spam plus there is a forum spam filter.
enforcer

2006-08-08, 5:22 pm

yeah it was something like that.

mine got blocked and I had to request it be unblocked, but I bet there were a load of users who couldn't be bothered to find another internet connection that wasn't blocked to request their's get unblocked.


But the other main problem we had was us Moderators couldn't react to the spammers that did get through. All we could do was edit posts (although I did eventually find I could make threads disappear ), but we really needed to be able to delete individual posts and or threads, and also block user acoounts and or IP's because the admin (I presume you) was never around to do it.
Imran4sin

2006-08-09, 3:50 am

well, so you are saying that you guys were mods withOUT the proper rights? that is NOT good, it IS the downfall of this once awesome forum
enforcer

2006-08-09, 6:48 am

we were/are mods with limited powers.

mainly edit, move, stick and close threads.


Those powers might be enough if there had been some super mods or admins active enough to clear up the mess we couldn't.
cryptoboats

2006-08-10, 11:12 am

Yeah, I was on here about a year ago. Then one day a guy (who would later become a good friend) posted about needing some moderators on his forum and asked if anyone was interested.

Well long story short, he got ridiculed and told to go somewhere else to find his sucker because nobody wanted to work for him for free while his site made money for him.

Here it is a year later. I'm happy to still be a moderator for this guy. In the last year I haven't even logged back on to here, until I got the email wishing me a happy birthday 2 months ago.

I'm glad to see that I made the right choice. When I was here before, any time someone had a question somone else had to tell them how stupid they were for having the question before answering it. That don't happen where I'm at now (infact it is cause for an instant ban if I see it).

And the owner of the site, he wouldn't come back here and laugh at this site for being a failure like I am doing right now, even after the way he was treated, because he's a better person than that (I think he should but then again I enjoy being a prick).

Maybe enforcer is right, if the mods had more power, they could get rid of the spammers, shut up the ridiculers, and turn this site around.
WaldoIsHere

2006-08-16, 1:49 pm

quote:
Originally posted by dmitro1
Yes, right now there is a certain type of blocker, but not exactly a proxy blocker.

It blocks based on ip blocks that are known to spam plus there is a forum spam filter.


Although you're still allowing crap like this -

http://www.examnotes.net/article1051906.html
and this
http://www.examnotes.net/article1051907.html
and this
http://www.examnotes.net/article1051904.html
and this
http://www.examnotes.net/article1051905.html

Get the picture? Start from scratch, man and use some reputable advertisement.
Redstar

2006-08-16, 11:24 pm

Yes, I know people are working to get the site going again. If you look at top 20 posters, you'll notice three's been some bad things happening! Hopefully the mods have the power to stop them...
enforcer

2006-08-17, 6:01 am

I think you'll find they are on negative posts


Oh and the MODS can do nothing about users only posts and threads.

Dimitri is the only admin I think
ChrisDfer

2006-08-19, 3:25 pm

quote:
Originally posted by enforcer
I think you'll find they are on negative posts


Oh and the MODS can do nothing about users only posts and threads.

Dimitri is the only admin I think



He still doesn't trust you thugs?
enforcer

2006-08-19, 6:12 pm

quote:
Originally posted by ChrisDfer
He still doesn't trust you thugs?



Geez, I wonder why?
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