I cant wait to start posting again.
grrr
I havent visited the forums in 5 days becuase between school and hanging out with my cousins, I havent had time to stop by. Apparently, I just missed a BIG bonfire. Glad my ship landed a bit late, so to speak, but sitting here at the pier is really quite boring.
Hope things are better soon!
Trust me, you did. It wasn’t pretty.
Yes, be glad. As I said, it was not pretty at all.
This situation is one of the reasons I quit going there. Seems like something like this is always going on there.
m
mehrlich, I think we all have rumors about other forums. People say over at MR that this forum is a lot more bloody. Matter of perspective. BTW: no offense intended
We did get an explanation …
Basically, it said: “This forum has been badly hosed and we need to clean up the mess. Don’t be surprised if the forum gets locked, etc.”
Shortly after that, the forum was locked.
I think they’re trying to figure out what they are going to do, since the trolls posted garbage all over the place. They don’t want to crawl through every thread looking for troll debris, for obvious reasons. You can just delete all the threads and start over, but then there’s the future of the forum.
At times like this, you get the soul-searching question that since the forum is free anyway and your good graces are being abused, maybe it’s just not worth the hassle?
I don’t envy their position right now, but I hope they decide that with some changes to tighten security, the forum will continue.
As long as you guys keep it clean on here this on won’t get locked.
Allan.
Enough already!!!
I miss the forum already…sigh…[:(]
I go there at least once a day.
None taken!
mike
More than enough already;PATIENCE !!!
Me too!
I’m afraid I can’t add much to any of this discussion, but a little, perhaps. Terry sent an email to several people in the building this morning stating that we were “experiencing a serious problem with persons unknown posting extremely inappropriate topics on our trains.com forums, especially the CTT and MR forums… Please pass along to the customers that we are just as troubled as they are by this content, that we are working to rectify the problem ASAP, and that we apologize for any distress that these have caused.”
I don’t know when the forums will be unlocked again, but I wouldn’t panic. Every now and then someone shows up on a forum to cause trouble. We’ve had it on the TRAINS Mag forum, too.
Whenever I’ve been in meetings where the forums were being discussed, no one has raised the idea of shutting them down because of trolls. Yeah, trolls can be annoying, and sometimes — like last night and today — they can be very bad. But the forums overall are good. They’re good for readers, and they’re good for the magazines. They provide a venue in which we can all learn from each other and have a sense of being more connected to one another. That’s important.
I don’t know when the forums will be back in service — partly because I’ve been out of town this week and it took me until long after most folks left the building to catch up on my emails far enough to learn there was a problem.
The best I can offer is that you hang in there, and check back periodically. If I hear anymore Monday, I’ll drop by and give an update.
In the meantime, I still have about 15 emails to respond to, a few phone calls, and I have to figure out if I can spend most of tomorrow chasing trains.
Take care, and don’t worry!
Kathi
This is a crying shame and I feel sorry for the good folks here and the good people here at trains. I never posted here but do lurk around and do research on this site all the time because there is so much to learn here on this forum. Mike Jarrett
Maybe the people at Trains get a little sick and tired of people always running to them and crying about this and that.
Maybe they have more important work to do.
So many times I’ve read posts where people are emailing, or calling, or whatever this Bergie guy and complaining about BS.
You guys let the “trolls” win. Some people here acted like little girls and went runnning for thier mommy (Bergie), to tell on them. Ignore the idiots …they’ll get bored, and go away. Now they know that they can have fun here …they’ll be back soon in way or another, to have fun.
No matter how old you are…act like men.
Jim
I just went on the M R forum, and couldn’t make a reply, now I get what is going on.
As to the person who has caused this… Some people…[soapbox]
Well for one thing…The grass is still green.
Allan.
Well we can always post MR stuff here, right? [;)]
I dunno, I think that we’d be better off making the “trains.com” forums our home for a while. It sees very little traffic, and probably would not upset anyone to post model railroading topics there. As for me, it’s either that or ModelRailroadForums(Different website).
One thing we need to be careful about is talking up all the other forums. That can become a negative. The Kalmbach folks might see that there are many other forums and this one is not needed.
Okay, it’s a pretty stupid idea, but I just don’t want to see the MR forums go![:(]
[#ditto].
I wasnt happy with what went on last night, as many of you saw. I am glad that Bergie got rid of him. Thanks to all of you that reported flow_train. I hope the MR forum gets restored soon but until then this is our home away from home.
ICMR
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