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I never went to that particular forum and from what I'm seeing I'm glad I didn't.

Quote from: Bounty Hunter on February 11, 2019, 11:28:24 AM
To my eye, this place seems to be the safest and most comprehensive national forum for those who are smart enough to avoid the trap of those unsafe little offshoot forums run by individuals with agendas who fill them with socks and collect your data for nefarious ends.

National forums run by business are far safer than those personal forums.

Doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on at the moment but I do keep checking back from time to time hoping it gets some action and I won't feel so lonely.  :smile:

Quote from: Ra on February 05, 2019, 07:27:22 AM
Not sure what you're talking about here, but that sounds like a nasty bunch of trolls.   :yes: :yes:

They are, and their repetitive defamatory content leading to continuing lawsuits was the straw that finally broke the camel's back leading to Topix killing their national forums - just like what happened to CNHI's national forums.  They both operated under a flawed business model where thy thought they could exploit defamation for profit and not have to pay the piper for doing so.

Those trolls are still around doing exactly the same thing, only this time on someone's personal offshoot forum, and he's allowing the same crap, including multiple sock use, and he's just stupid enough to not realize he's legally responsible for what he allows and abets on his forum.  He'll get an education too.

To my eye, this place seems to be the safest and most comprehensive national forum for those who are smart enough to avoid the trap of those unsafe little offshoot forums run by individuals with agendas who fill them with socks and collect your data for nefarious ends.

National forums run by business are far safer than those personal forums.

Quote from: Ra on February 09, 2019, 01:12:49 PM
Apparently some national forum shut down and this is a place where some can go to keep posting on national and local issues it seems.

Topix finally shut down its forums due to the continuing actions of certain groups of trolls that were resulting in repeated lawsuits.  Topix's business model didn't allow for any sane moderation against registered members so Topix had members posting defamatory content willy-nilly and hence the lawsuits.  Topix had already been admonished by numerous state's Attorney Generals and had been a party to innumerable lawsuits.  So, they were losing money primarily due to their flawed business model and would rather shut down the forums than moderate the worthless troll members they had left after those trolls had run off all the decent clientele.

Quote from: Lurksalot on February 07, 2019, 10:16:47 PM
Dang, there is life out there after all....Hi......

Hello!  What's going on in your neck of the woods?

Quote from: Omegatron on February 05, 2019, 07:49:12 PM
what's this all about?

Apparently some national forum shut down and this is a place where some can go to keep posting on national and local issues it seems. 

Dang, there is life out there after all....Hi......

what's this all about?