I have a suggestion for the admin and the others members.
As the “problem” which happened yerstaday and today..I’am wondering if it is better for some of the topics like "Anything Amy " and maybe the support topic..be close for visitors
Maybe like that..we can skip what happened with the fake Blake..
I say may be a solution..After is just a suggestion from me.
It’s true I’am a little embarrassed that everyone can see what I’am writhing on .
Cheers
AJH
Post added at 07:43 PM · previous post was at 07:38 PM
PS: it’s for “protect us” and some people here are writting personal stories and things like that
I’m all for a discussion on it - thanks for raising it
What does everyone else think? Would greater privacy in terms of closing the forum to ‘browsers’ and ‘lurkers’ be something you’d prefer?
For what it’s worth, trolls and suchlike are very rare here; I ban far more spammers than anything else, and even they have a hard time getting in to begin with. Anyone making claims to be someone close to Amy is vetted thoroughly, to weed out fake accounts as quickly as possible, and minimise forum disruption. I’ve owned and run many web forums over the past decade and this is by far the nicest on the whole
But yeah… if anyone else has any thoughts on forum visibility to non-members, please post here so we can make any appropriate changes.
In the meantime, as always, be mindful of what you post online in terms of your own personal privacy x
I am for. I have read many Spanish or French forums or even sites and Facebooks that come to steal our photos. -.- I think it’s a good idea and the forum is so well known anyway, I don’t think we will lose members because of it.
Sounds good to me. I do wonder if it would affect how many join. I guess if they’re really Amy fans they would take a few seconds to register. No problem here.
They’re not OUR photos. I vote no, there are other people who are not members and probably take their news from here. They would have to register each time they visit, most of them will forget the name and password since they don’t want to post here.
I agree with you. People may want to view the forum every once and a while, but not become members. If you are blocking public access, how will potential members decide if this is the forum that they would like to join?
I understand that there are spammers and trolls, but that is just a small percentage.
I have to say absolutely not, I joined in December 2011, but I regularly visited and read through threads for almost a year beforehand.. being able to see all the pictures, stories and discussions of Amy which you all shared together is what made me want to join this little community and come under Mama’s wing(-:
Yes that’s not fair for us to be set in this little trap with fake profiles.
I think visitors should just see the register here account because they can see everything pictures posts etc if
they are not members.
i think it’s better if we get more privacy we don’t want this to happen again.
sick how people are that go out of their way. Wow:nonchalance:
It will not stop anyone from registering if they really want to read, but I agree with this. It’s quite a common thing.
Just curious, was this the case with the forum before? Because I remember registering in 2007 for some reason but never posting, I don’t even remember my old username. Not that it matters, just wondering.
My brother moderates 2 security forums related to Microsoft. He said there’s no way he would sign up for a forum that he couldn’t see. So, I go with my bro. Keep it open.
This person who posted today was obviously clued up about Amy he/she may have already been a member under a different name, just a thought? I just don’t think this was a simple case of a troll.
Can I just reiterate - this is a fairly isolated incident and is NOT a cause for panic. All forums have these problems from time to time, and this forum gets far less of it than every other site I have owned. We’re not about to descend into troll Hell here. One of the tricky parts about forum management is making calls about these people - you cannot accuse people of things without proof, but likewise you have to put your members first. It’s a balancing act, but not one we have to contend with regularly at all. Some surprisingly popular forums on the web are overrun with trolls. We’ve had a handful in five years - trust me, we’re doing very well
I’ll make a decision for the long term good of the forum, and I am giving it due consideration. Obviously, as Phil said, it would cause a downturn in traffic. It will also impact on admin time and bandwidth/storage in terms of the probable upsurge in ‘registered lurkers’ or ‘one-visit’ users - every account created takes up space on the server, and a swathe of users registering then not using accounts is a waste of bandwidth.
As I also said, however, you should always be mindful of what you post online - if you’re not comfortable with people seeing what you write and you know the site isn’t private, use PM functions etc. Safety is obviously one of our key priorities here, but everyone has to take responsibility for themselves also x
As @Mama_Haze said, things like this happen on almost every forum - unless you have a forum with like 10 members. I’ve been on many forums before and I’ve seen the weirdest things. People pretend to be others all the time. As far as I know there’s not much we as members can do about trolls, spammers or anything else, but to report them to moderators. Always be very careful of what you post or even say to others online. You don’t want your personal information to be spread around to ultimately getting in the hands of evil people. They surely can do damage once they get their hands on sensitive/private information. There could be someone lurking now- anywhere on the internet - waiting and following your tracks to gain information on you which he collects to use against you in 3 years. Believe me - some people do go far.
In the past I have seen administrators and admins do certain things, which caused forums to die off completely. I think that I might of said yes on this topic too early yesterday, as I was still upset over the fact that the person yesterday was hurting some of my friends. Locking out non-members like this will reduce the site’s traffic which would be a shame, since it would be a waste of time and bandwith - they’d just be numbers, as said before. As for the pictures on this forum - most of them aren’t even ours, so why protect them as if they were?
It is quite a responsible task being a administrator on a forum like this, and I respect @Mama_Haze for always listening to all of the members - it’s one of the reasons why this forum is such a great place. By the way, I am sure that if I was in he shoes I’d not be so patient lol xx
trolls are no reason to increase security imo
forum should remain public, lets not get all paranoid and/or let fear get in here
take responsibility for your online activity!
i feel like :disgust: as much as you do believe me …
the positive thing we can take from yesterday’s experience is that we are now ‘smarter’
soooo, thank you to whoever was pretending to be blake
cuz this wont happen to any of us ever again!! :inlove:
I’d like to think that this does not matter anymore - as the person is gone.
Plus, I think they learned their lesson, as they’re banned and ‘taken care of’. x
