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What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:44 am
by abeatle
How long has this new alternative forum been up and running. Just stumbled upon it. Looks good! What happened to the Mackie forum?!?!?!?!?!? Thanks-Ron :)

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:12 am
by anyhorizon
We had a bit of a chat about it here.

Basically, the old one is kaput for the time being.

Peter

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:39 am
by FrankH
What happened to the Mackie forum?!?!?!?!?!?

Like so many other thnigs over there...it wasn't broken and it didn't need fixing.

But they did anyway...

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:30 am
by SteveT
FrankH wrote:
What happened to the Mackie forum?!?!?!?!?!?

Like so many other thnigs over there...it wasn't broken and it didn't need fixing.

But they did anyway...


The reason they did what they did was to avoid all the porn, and viagra posts that they were having to delete daily (and from what I was told it was literally in the 100's of posts.

SteveT

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:12 am
by Petersueco
When I started this forum I had a lot of Viagra posts too. The solution I found was the textual verification system. It's something that gets rid of the porn posts and takes 10 minutes to implement. A small price to pay to avoid the spam posts.

You really don't need to re build the whole thing to avoid spam. Just saying.

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:49 am
by BJG
...gah, it's a mess. Can't be bothered with it anymore...

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:47 pm
by JamesH
Thet should have at least let us know what their plans were.

James

Re: What happened to Mackie forum?????

PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:27 pm
by anyhorizon
I was just trying to navigate the other forum and it is so screwed, it's impossible to articulate what is wrong without writing a post akin to the length of War And Peace. You gotta worry about Mackie when it comes to this. Hit a link set up prior to the change and it just goes back to the front page which is about the last thing I wanna see. I hope all the personnel find their way over here. Why can't amateurs leave well enough alone? :evil:

Peter