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List of what is currently wrong with the forum

Deleted User

I was wondering if most people who contribute here are fine with no current problems, so I thought a list might be useful.

I'm rather despairing at the moment of its brokenness and absence of communication from NAS about a timescale (or anything) for sorting these.

It's making me wonder whether to bother any longer.

1. I know that   has a message coming up in orange at the top saying his account may/will be deleted.

2. I keep being logged out (orange banner at the top with a seconds countdown).

Is anyone else getting anything still (or even unable to use their original account?).

Has anything been sorted?

Thanks.

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  • I've seen that ISperg is saying in his bio that he has 'left' and that the/a reason is being accused of 'abuse'.

    This is where the abuse accusations by the overactive spam filter are very harmful.

    For reference he is now called 'Melting due to global warning'.

    With the (human) moderation now seeming to be very 'active' and very few people wanting to take a chance here because of the forum/spam filter faults and lack of feedback from the Community Manager on any progress with solving the problem, the forum may become even more deserted.

    It's a major reason why I'm in hibernation although I do pop out occasionally to eat + post here, as do hedgehogs (although they don't post on the forum).

    Confused

  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    the forum may become even more deserted.

    It is a bit of a tightrope walk these days with posting, especially with the highly sensitive spam filter and the odd poster who will flag posts as abusive for personal reasons. This however is the new normal whether we like it or not.

    All that said, I have seen lots of new people appearing here and no shortage of fresh blood to the forum.

    I suspect this point in the lifecycle of the forum is a bit of a forest fire where some of the old wood is burned away to make space for new growth.

    To paraphrase the great Mark Twain, "reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated"

  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:
    All that said, I have seen lots of new people appearing here and no shortage of fresh blood to the forum.

    Have you noticed though that most of them go, much more quickly than once was the case.

    There were new members here only a couple of months ago who were active and saying how much they loved the forum, they posted about the spam filter, and left.

    It's definitely driving people away.

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  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:
    All that said, I have seen lots of new people appearing here and no shortage of fresh blood to the forum.

    Have you noticed though that most of them go, much more quickly than once was the case.

    There were new members here only a couple of months ago who were active and saying how much they loved the forum, they posted about the spam filter, and left.

    It's definitely driving people away.

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  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:
    we are at risk of creating a storm in a teacup over it.

    we aren't actually ... and thee and me are not a we.

  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    You are talking about forums without this specific problem, which is another subject

    They all have different issues - this forum is not commercial so lacks investment which is its unique issue leading to the technical problems we see.

    Other sites have different issues that lead to different technical issues.

    The spam issues here will either eventually be resolved of people will learn to live with them. Those that leave, leave. There will always be more to replace them.

    I don't think this is an important issue for NAS at all so I doubt they will spend much time or effort into resolving it quickly.

    I'm not saying any of this is right or wrong but I think we are at risk of creating a storm in a teacup over it.

  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:

    My point is that this is a normal part of the lifecycle of a forum - I've seen it time and again over the last 3 decades and in the lack of a better alternative then the forum just keeps on going.

    The new blood will grow in confidence, share more and in a few months there will be new prolific posters to replace the old ones.

    People leaving because of an overactive spam filter which accuses them of abuse and tells them that their account will be closed down because of this, and stops them from posting, amongst other forum faults, isn't 'normal'.

    You are talking about forums without this specific problem, which is another subject.

  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    It's definitely driving people away.

    I agree, but this will be a temporary blip on the membership of the forum and they will probably come back once the lack of alternatives becomes apparrent.

    My point is that this is a normal part of the lifecycle of a forum - I've seen it time and again over the last 3 decades and in the lack of a better alternative then the forum just keeps on going.

    The new blood will grow in confidence, share more and in a few months there will be new prolific posters to replace the old ones.

    I'll no double leave at some point too (to some sighs of relief I'm sure) but there will be no real impact of the site as there are plenty with the willingness to contribute what I have been doing.