Forum owner deletes 12.9 Million Posts

Have you read the story why he did it, over that person and the threats she got for posting an article thread. Ridiculous that, they even tried to hack her bank account and sent her death threats and threats of being raped. Crazy!

Sounds as though reading, they've been allowing a lot of stuff on the forums they shouldn't have been doing, over time it's turned the forum into a poison place with what's listed and the owner has had enough, doesn't want his name or site domain linked with anymore, hence starting fresh.

Guess there was too much of it listed to start thinking about sieving through all the threads removing it all, so took the more drastic measure of doing this instead.

 

Don't blame him at all. I'm sick of the "mob rule" mentality on the internet. People think they can shout the loudest and get their own way, you even see it on admin forums to a much lesser degree.

Had this just been a matter of a few abusive posts I'd think he was overreacting, but given the seriousness of what's gone on, he's doing the right thing.

 

I don't disagree and he has admitted that in the link you posted, but I can see why he feels it's better to start again.

 

Have they restarted again as such? I mean, they have left the forum online (but locked the forums), they said staff are making a list. So that sounds to me as though they've locked that forum while mods clean it up and may then import topics from it to the new forum. It looks that way to me, like they've locked the forum down from further replies while the mods do their work.

 

I certainly do blame the owner, it's entirely his fault and it appears he's compounding his failure by deleting everything which is worse than burning books. He's not just destroying 12.9 million posts, he's destroying the community which made those posts and it's entire history, something which can never be recovered. In short, he's not fit to be a forum owner.

 

By who's standard is he not fit to be a forum owner, by our own made up standard or something else. Different websites require different solutions you can say i do not agree but in the end his website his rules.

 

Yes, by my standards I don't think he should be running a forum. I'll admit that as a forum owner I'm a little unusual, I consider the content posted on my forums to be a shared resource. However, as you say his site, his rules but it's not something I'd be a part of.

 

fresh starts means he can do it a better way this time and restart from scratch.

 

AGENDA IN UNRELATED THREAD ALERT!

 

You mean like you used to do a lot, Mark?

 

Well at least a system in place that is better then what standard software has to offer.

 

This was actually an interesting thread, and to be honest I hadn't even noticed what software they were running, it wasn't relevant.

Now of course we see that BamaStangGuy had a specific agenda all along - it was all vBulletin's fault.

What a waste of a decent topic, descending into yet another vBulletin "hate" thread where the usual characters with the usual agendas (most of whom don't use vBulletin) will no doubt turn up in droves.

 

Please don't class me in that category, I never even mentioned vBulletin.

 

Whoa, if I did that.... Be assured my members wouldn't be happy campers....