I am Giving up !

[JCWolf]

An announcement on Mi forum board !


Hello mi friends !

You all must be asking what happened to mi forum boards !

In fact is very simple and sad at the same time, I do not
even know how to start this and try to explain what happened and
how you can not find mi forum and our downloads any more !


yesterday after opening mi Hotmail account I saw a message from
a forum member asking me about the forum cause a error message
saying forum not found was popping out, I have decided to check it
myself thinking that it was one of dose days of downtime that
periodically happens on the forum for tech reasons they just make a cleaning
on the power boards engine for optimization and possible bad content check !

Apparently some Porn and pedophile boards have been growing
among the free-power boards forums and to prevent that they just have sent me
this message after I have asked what was going on !


Chris Posted On: 19 Feb 2008 07:50 PMWe had reports of illegal/immoral (relating to young kids) content going through some v2 boards and made a program to clean this content out.

We've had I think 4 people post/email about losing their boards. Out of thousands of boards removed these are the only complaints. Therefore, the program did as it was suppose to and cleaned out the illegal boards. These boards were general abandoned boards that had been run over with spam (this is why the issue has happened on v2 and not v3 because v3 prevents most if not all spam) and these illegal/immoral spam bots posted their content in these boards.

However, it appears there was either spam of this nature on your board that you might not have seen or a confusion with out system (it is only fair to not rule that out) and the board was removed. Due to the nature of the boards we were removing we do not store backups for them.

I'm a huge fan of forums. I love what they stand for and that is why I'm in this business. I spent 9 hours yesterday adding new templates for v3 users alone. What I'm getting at is I care about helping people make forums, not trying to destroy them.

Obviously you aren't the type of person to intentionally harbor this type of material but I hope you understand our urgency in whipping out so many infected forums. Though so many bad boards were removed I'm sad that even "just" 4 legit forums were caught in the wake.

All I can do is assure you this scan/delete has been done once in nearly 3 years due to a build up of these types of boards and since our new system (v3) is more advanced, it will never need to be done again.

I'd like to offer my services in helping you create a new forum (you could try using v3 instead - or stick with v2) and though I'm limited in how I can try to make this up to you I would also like to offer a full year of ad-free credits to your account as well.

Again, I'm sorry that this happened but I hope you understand our rationale in trying to remove the filth of these adults praying on young children.


--
Chris Davis
President & Founder
1 (860) 331-8207
Free Power Boards, Inc.


You can imagine mi indignation and this was mi reply :


João Morgado Posted On: 20 Feb 2008 06:10 AMI do not believe this !

I understand the urgency of your cleaning, but
mi forum had nothing to do with it , I used it for mi
graphic work and only that, we had almost 2500 registered members,
and years of graphic work posted on those forum boards,
everything wasted in a single day....

I was with you guys for almost 1 year and a half and everybody
from your cleaning staff department could get there have a look
and then judge if had bad content, I never had problems like this
with you guys but sure this is a huge step back on your image and
professionalism !

I don't understand why and how you could do a thing like this
at least before it happened you could send a message informing me to back up the forum or something...

How do I explain the forum members and the team working along side with me at work what just happened and you've done ???

I am very disappointed and to be honest I do not think I will make
a new forum with you ever again !

I feel that mi work was treated like garbage just cause it was
a free forum... and cause of that you thing you have the right to judge
mi 20 years of work and our staff hard and honest work !


Thanks for nothing then !



I am thinking in just giving up the forum and site ,
cause this is to much for me, after 3 times that I have rebuilt the forums
from scratch I just have no will of doing so again !


I am very sorry guys and please forgive me!