I am Giving up !

JCWolf · 02-20-08, 06:22 AM

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!

Sailor Steve · 02-20-08, 06:25 AM

That's really bad. You have to really hate porn-spammers.

I'm sorry this is leading you to drop the site, but I can understand and sympathize with your decision.

TarJak · 02-20-08, 06:37 AM

This is sad.

Graf Paper · 02-20-08, 06:46 AM

The magnitude of their idiocy leaves me at a total loss for any words that could describe it.

That was just sloppy work brought about by sheer laziness on their part and only a moron would trust a bot to do a proper job parsing the posts. They should have made backups regardless because they had to know there would be some false positives.

Then they add insult to injury by saying, "We're really sorry we trashed your board, but you obviously had kiddie porn posted there or else our bot would not have deleted it. Here's a worthless freebie to make you feel better."

I would e-mail the admins, but my letter got returned saying "Address not found, retard@chromosomedamage.duh".

My deepest condolences to you, JCWolf. I really liked your forums and considered them a second home or a friendly port of call whenever I was out to sea from my home port here at Subsim.

Maybe one of the admins here at Subsim (SubSim?) or BTS can recommend a new host for you, JC, if you feel up to resurrecting the site once more.

CapZap1970 · 02-20-08, 07:31 AM

Sorry to hear that, JC.

Not fair what they did to you...
If there's anything I could help you with, let me know.
CapZap

Reece · 02-20-08, 08:59 AM

That's just a total bummer!!

I'm very sorry, all that time and work, like you say, gone in seconds, they should have warned all legit operators to backup first!

Your site was great, many thanks for the help in setting up the link for Tarjak & I to work on the emblems, guess that's a little mess to clean up now too!

Try not to get too worked up over it, maybe after a short time you will try again with v3, the only good thought is knowing all the immoral filth has been wiped out!

Once again sorry mate!

Reece.

Myxale · 02-20-08, 09:07 AM

Aww, Crap man!

That's bollocks; I can't believe they wiped all of your stuff, just because some fools run porn on their boards!

I agree with you, they could've checked your board before letting a software wipe it! Blasted ****!

Dammit!

I'm so sorry JC, I loved prowling your board!

The worst thing is, -and thats with a cherry on-top - that those porn-maniacs will simply find another board and move on with their disgusting life!

rod_oil · 02-20-08, 09:18 AM

My condolences JC

Ur forum was great addition to the world of living submarine historic reconstructions.

GOZO · 02-20-08, 10:04 AM

Muppets!!!!!

That was nothing but pure IT-Muppet-laziness..........................

I am so sorry to hear that and fully understand your current way of thinking.

yea sure they can help you rebuid the thing....what a Britney Spears forum or what!!!

Sorry no further comments or I´ll get keel hauled or something.

/Per

Kilhmar · 02-20-08, 10:15 AM

That really sucks! My condolences ... but didn't you keep a backup?

Wolfehunter · 02-20-08, 11:45 AM

JCwolf I think they're just screwing you. They're making changes and you don't fit there new profile. Its about money. You provided a free reliable site and now they claim childporn? I believe this is there excuse to remove whoever they want when they want.

How are you going to proof it?

Anyhow this is my opinion and not facts. I can't proof it.

Sorry for your loss JCwolf

Fubar2Niner · 02-20-08, 11:55 AM

Geezus this blows

Did those B*$%£~#€ never hear of ' INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY ' What a way to run a business. My heartfelt condolences JC. As one of your board members I will miss it dearly. If there is any way I can help please ask.

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Kpt. Lehmann · 02-20-08, 01:43 PM

That is absolutely TERRIBLE JCWolf! I am very sorry to hear that.

Some days it seems there is only mountains and more mountains to climb.

Hang in there mate.

java`s revenge · 02-20-08, 01:46 PM

What a peanuts, this isn`t true....

I have no words for this action.

danlisa · 02-20-08, 01:56 PM

JC mate, I wouldn't have wished this on my worst enemy.

Some people are too ignorant or callous to even consider other peoples efforts & feelings. Unfortunately, when the site owners put the task in the hands of a keyword bot, they signed the fate of many boards.

This is a great loss to you and the community.

02-20-08, 06:22 AM	#1
JCWolf Admiral Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Spain , Crossing Gibraltar! Posts: 2,292 Downloads: 202 Uploads: 1	I am Giving up ! 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! __________________ JCWolf Mediafire SHIII Page User name : JCWolf Password : stefre@jcm

02-20-08, 06:25 AM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	That's really bad. You have to really hate porn-spammers. I'm sorry this is leading you to drop the site, but I can understand and sympathize with your decision. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-20-08, 06:46 AM	#4
Graf Paper Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest United States Posts: 1,146 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	The magnitude of their idiocy leaves me at a total loss for any words that could describe it. That was just sloppy work brought about by sheer laziness on their part and only a moron would trust a bot to do a proper job parsing the posts. They should have made backups regardless because they had to know there would be some false positives. Then they add insult to injury by saying, "We're really sorry we trashed your board, but you obviously had kiddie porn posted there or else our bot would not have deleted it. Here's a worthless freebie to make you feel better." I would e-mail the admins, but my letter got returned saying "Address not found, retard@chromosomedamage.duh". My deepest condolences to you, JCWolf. I really liked your forums and considered them a second home or a friendly port of call whenever I was out to sea from my home port here at Subsim. Maybe one of the admins here at Subsim (SubSim?) or BTS can recommend a new host for you, JC, if you feel up to resurrecting the site once more. __________________ Still sailing the high seas, hunting convoys with those who join me.

02-20-08, 07:31 AM	#5
CapZap1970 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: La Paz, Bolivia Posts: 1,965 Downloads: 276 Uploads: 51	Sorry to hear that, JC. Not fair what they did to you... If there's anything I could help you with, let me know. CapZap __________________

02-20-08, 08:59 AM	#6
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,718 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	That's just a total bummer!! I'm very sorry, all that time and work, like you say, gone in seconds, they should have warned all legit operators to backup first! Your site was great, many thanks for the help in setting up the link for Tarjak & I to work on the emblems, guess that's a little mess to clean up now too! Try not to get too worked up over it, maybe after a short time you will try again with v3, the only good thought is knowing all the immoral filth has been wiped out! Once again sorry mate! Reece. __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

02-20-08, 06:37 AM	#3
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	This is sad.

02-20-08, 09:07 AM	#7
Myxale Admiral Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: PQ AN 25 Posts: 2,178 Downloads: 70 Uploads: 0	Aww, Crap man! That's bollocks; I can't believe they wiped all of your stuff, just because some fools run porn on their boards! I agree with you, they could've checked your board before letting a software wipe it! Blasted ****! Dammit! I'm so sorry JC, I loved prowling your board! The worst thing is, -and thats with a cherry on-top - that those porn-maniacs will simply find another board and move on with their disgusting life! __________________ SH3+GWX SH5+WoS Still Sailing....still Deep

02-20-08, 09:18 AM	#8
rod_oil A-ganger Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Russia Posts: 73 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	My condolences JC Ur forum was great addition to the world of living submarine historic reconstructions.

02-20-08, 10:04 AM	#9
GOZO Commander Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Linkoping, Sweden Posts: 479 Downloads: 176 Uploads: 0	Muppets!!!!! That was nothing but pure IT-Muppet-laziness.......................... I am so sorry to hear that and fully understand your current way of thinking. yea sure they can help you rebuid the thing....what a Britney Spears forum or what!!! Sorry no further comments or I´ll get keel hauled or something. /Per __________________ SHIV:TMo 2.5, RSRD, SCAF OLC, Ralle's modpack SHIV: WDAD, Med Campaign SHIII: GWX3 GOLD, OLCII Gold, ACM-reloaded interface mod, SHIIIcmndr 3.2, Full Realism/DiD SHIII: LSH3 2015 Cold Waters with all bells and whistles Finally SHV but still unmodded and still a noob....

02-20-08, 10:15 AM	#10
Kilhmar Watch Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Festung Norwegen Posts: 26 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	That really sucks! My condolences ... but didn't you keep a backup? __________________ Und Gott sprach als erster zu den Steinen:"Wollt ihr U-Boot Fahrer werden?" Und die Steine antworteten darauf:"Nein Herr, wir sind nicht hart genug!!"

02-20-08, 11:45 AM	#11
Wolfehunter Crusty Capt. Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,752 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 25	JCwolf I think they're just screwing you. They're making changes and you don't fit there new profile. Its about money. You provided a free reliable site and now they claim childporn? I believe this is there excuse to remove whoever they want when they want. How are you going to proof it? Anyhow this is my opinion and not facts. I can't proof it. Sorry for your loss JCwolf __________________

02-20-08, 11:55 AM	#12
Fubar2Niner Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London. UK Posts: 4,175 Downloads: 279 Uploads: 0	Geezus this blows Did those B$%£~#€ never hear of ' INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY* ' What a way to run a business. My heartfelt condolences JC. As one of your board members I will miss it dearly. If there is any way I can help please ask. Best regards. Fubar2Niner

02-20-08, 01:43 PM	#13
Kpt. Lehmann GWX Project Director Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The Republic of Texas Posts: 6,994 Downloads: 124 Uploads: 0	That is absolutely TERRIBLE JCWolf! I am very sorry to hear that. Some days it seems there is only mountains and more mountains to climb. Hang in there mate. __________________ www.thegreywolves.com All you need is good men. - Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock

02-20-08, 01:46 PM	#14
java`s revenge Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: at periscope depth Posts: 1,204 Downloads: 97 Uploads: 0	What a peanuts, this isn`t true.... I have no words for this action. __________________

02-20-08, 01:56 PM	#15
danlisa Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Cornwall, UK Posts: 5,499 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 1	JC mate, I wouldn't have wished this on my worst enemy. Some people are too ignorant or callous to even consider other peoples efforts & feelings. Unfortunately, when the site owners put the task in the hands of a keyword bot, they signed the fate of many boards. This is a great loss to you and the community. __________________