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Post by sleepytigercub on Apr 26, 2011 11:11:37 GMT
The more observant will have noticed that I've had to remove the X room. I was contacted by ProBoards to say it breaches their terms and conditions. No adult material is allowed on ProBoards. I wouldn't have thought that anyone actually looked at it and thought that any of the content was adult in nature as it's mostly been a piss-take, so I'm assuming they have some sort of word-matching software that highlights these things. It was a case of lose that section or lose the whole BR so I deleted it. Unfortunately, this sort of issue goes with using the free platforms, as they have to be more cautious than if the forum was self-hosted, so I'm sad to say that moving to one of the other free platforms wouldn't resolve the issue. They'll be keeping an eye on us for a bit, so can I ask people to be a little careful what they post in all threads till we fall out of their spotlight. www.proboards.com/community_guidelines(so, no plotting to overthrow any governments either, please  ) |
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Post by merc on Apr 26, 2011 11:40:26 GMT
oh noes. now where can we make faintly veiled allusions to quality romping?
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Post by tofu on Apr 26, 2011 14:23:27 GMT
^^^GB  you can have a right dirty perv time in there  |
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Post by leibniz on Apr 26, 2011 15:41:08 GMT
I won't miss the That Letter-rated thread much.
I wonder if we could also do away with the H&A section and replace it with a PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER banner.
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Post by s.a.m on Apr 26, 2011 15:46:46 GMT
*Like* ^
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Post by sleepytigercub on Apr 26, 2011 15:55:57 GMT
Haha... my pm box is saying that many of you are actually glad to see it go. I always thought it was naff myself. I'm assuming it was the title that drew attention to it rather than the content, but only time will tell if this is going to be an issue. Another pro-board I was on for a while had a banned word list with automatic replacements, and while that is technically possible here, I really don't want to go down that route unless it's the only way to save the board.
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Post by leibniz on Apr 26, 2011 15:58:41 GMT
What sort of words, swear words like the f-word etc?
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Post by DJ on Apr 26, 2011 15:58:46 GMT
As far as I remember the room that comes between W and Y was only created in the first place in an attempt to stop Nat trashing the whole room. Before the days when people could get banned presumably Edited just in case! |
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Post by sleepytigercub on Apr 26, 2011 16:10:07 GMT
Yep, sweary-words, starting at the level of bitch (but that was their choice not imposed by pro-boards as far as I know).
I think it has been the title of the section that's flagged us up, to be honest, but if I have any more warnings from them I'll ask for some guidance. Might be an idea to treat the whole board as if you were trying to get past worksafe filters though, at least till we have a better idea of what's acceptable to pro-boards.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 16:53:09 GMT
i've read in the support forum that Hidden Boards can be accomplished. Meaning only those who are logged on and registered can read them. I don't know if you could get around it that way but i also won't miss the you know what room either.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 16:54:36 GMT
will the forum be culled like the last one?
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Post by sleepytigercub on Apr 26, 2011 17:03:56 GMT
i've read in the support forum that Hidden Boards can be accomplished. Meaning only those who are logged on and registered can read them. I don't know if you could get around it that way but i also won't miss the you know what room either. Nope. I like your thinking there, but it's not about whether it's publicly viewable or not. It's their terms of service for all hosted content. |
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Post by sleepytigercub on Apr 26, 2011 17:31:57 GMT
will the forum be culled like the last one? My thinking at the moment is that there won't be a need. The advantage of using a specialist platform like pro-boards should be that it's scalable. If, however, we get down the line and discover the board slows down beyond a certain level of content, then I'll reassess. |
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dottydolly
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Post by dottydolly on Apr 26, 2011 19:00:08 GMT
Interesting.
I will contain myself and regulate my use of the English vocabulary.
It will be hard.
Very hard.
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Post by amos on Apr 26, 2011 22:08:31 GMT
i've read in the support forum that Hidden Boards can be accomplished. Meaning only those who are logged on and registered can read them. I don't know if you could get around it that way but i also won't miss the you know what room either. Nope. I like your thinking there, but it's not about whether it's publicly viewable or not. It's their terms of service for all hosted content. I was on an invisionfree board and there was a hidden board that you could only see when you had achieved so many posts. This was a dirty *ahem* thread. Sounds like it won't work here. . . . Damn! |
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