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  1. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    Hey guys!

    So its been a while, work and all that jazz taking priority followed by some injury when the tyre blew out on one of my cars doing a runway event at 180+ mph. (290kph for you 'mericans!).

    Anyway, as you've noticed, we didn't close down, though we are running a tighter ship now days, I have trimmed off nearly 1TB in uploaded pictures/videos etc, and this has brought the hosting down to sensible levels of cost.

    So moving forward, first up could use some mods to deal with the day to day running. As before, I will do it on a suggestion system, if people would like to nominate some members of staff, I'll check their history on here and if its good, and they want to help out, will make them mods.

    Secondly, we will be rolling out some site upgrades shortly, if anyone has any suggestions while we are at it, am all ears!

    Thanks guys!
     
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  2. Rottsloan

    Rottsloan Monster Men Repository

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    Amazing.
     
  3. Blytiel

    Blytiel Active Member

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    So....you guys ignore this site for ages, let people on your own site get scammed, let this place shut down/crash a lot, amongst other issues....
    Only to suddenly come out with plans for updates and looking for mods finally after being begged for it.

    All of this happening now that ********** is active is kinda suspicious especially silencing the admin over here.
     
  4. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    Until 'recently' the site was self sustaining and I was paying hundreds of dollars a month just keeping the hosting going due to how much content people were uploading. Yes I could of been more proactive but priorities in life meant this site couldn't be at the top of the list all the time.

    You will likewise note I never closed any discussions about scammers or users being called out, because to do so would not be helpful, I let them ride, where other sites would have deleted them in a heartbeat.

    I would have had no issue with Bun promoting their site, as I have allowed other users to do in the past, but when the 15 most recent posts were all messages, and likewise with profile posts just spamming their link, all without a simple message to ask if its ok, it was frankly discourteous on an admin to admin level. I'm sure if I came onto her site and started spamming links for here without asking, she wouldn't put up with it either so its pretty hypocritical to suggest otherwise.

    We still have a very active member base here, with hundreds of users logging in every month and many many trades going down, I will likewise start to implement some of the suggestions and send an email blast out to our 3500 users once we have made some changes to be more trade-centric.
     
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  5. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    It's only active because this was all we had, despite it crashing almost consistently. On top of that, maintaining an active website is going to need more responsibility and preparation for "life-things", including establishing some active mods for while you're away.

    Furthermore, now that Bun's made a new site, you've made a comeback? As if you've always been lurking and active, just not been taking care of this place. Why can't you let someone more dedicated take over?
     
  6. Blytiel

    Blytiel Active Member

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    I noticed when you posted a minute or so ago about finding DM on the Reddit that whole thread got deleted.
     
  7. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    Yo I saw that too, shady as fuck man. Own up to it
     
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  8. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    Last night was the first time someone messaged me to tell me the site had been off for a few days.

    It was posted in the "closing down" thread of last year, we obviously haven't closed down so bumping that thread up was pointless.
     
  9. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    Firstly, you should notice when your own website is down as you should ideally be at least keeping an eye on it from time to time. Besides, theres been plenty of posts on the BD subreddit that DH is down.

    Secondly, if that is the case, why not go ahead and delete all of the recently bumped threads that are no longer relevant. Like the downsizing one. Or the thousands upon thousands of sold threads in the sales forum.
     
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  10. Blytiel

    Blytiel Active Member

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    Not to rip on you but if that thread was posted last year shouldn't it have been deleted way before today, then? Was any admin or mod not on here for a year? And now that DM is a thing this forum has an active admin again? Instead that thread was deleted coincidentally after someone posted DM in the thread.
     
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  11. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    As you are new to the forum I will request you go look over some of my historic posts, I made it clear I run multiple businesses and at times I may not be available, or even in the country due to it. A forum I keep running for the benefit of you guys (because it certainly isnt for me?) isn't usually high on my thoughts day to day. People have ways to contact me and as soon as I was made aware I have always sorted it ASAP.

    Yea I get it, you guys are pissed because the site hasn't been run flawlessly, but if you didnt care at least one little bit you would be going to the other site and slagging me off there, not posting here.
     
  12. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    Alright, that's fine. But you also have a lack of mods to keep things at least running to an acceptable level.
    I get it, you're pissed because there's someone else who is actively putting effort into another website and is markedly better at doing so.

    Besides, I'm posting here to simply raise other members' attention. I don't like to slag people off but I'll happily point out how daft you're being about the entire situation.
     
  13. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    I'm not pissed theres another forum at all, trust me on that. I am pissed because people were taking the piss by blatantly spamming links to it without so much as a conversation asking if it would be ok.

    In fact, it would simply of been easier for me to 301 the entire site to the new site, had someone sent even something basic like "hey dude, look you know the site isn't getting the love it needs, we're gonna go it alone, do you mind letting people know".

    Honestly, if I had received that message id of bent over backwards to help, transferred the XenForo license, and sent over clean data so the old posts were not lost.

    However the spamming followed by the hostility of a minority of members just further shows me that, actually I need to keep this place running so those who don't want to be associated with others who act in such a way have somewhere to trade.
     
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  14. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    May I ask to see some evidence of the spamming? I'm only really getting one side here.
     
  15. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    Unfortunately the XenForo search system doesn't have a neat way if displaying deleted posts across multuiple threads/posts/profile posts.

    This link however is a SQL query result for the other sites name within content.

    https://dragon-hoard.com/threads/scammer-alert-2-for-one-special.3833/page-8#post-98201

    A total of 44 results, given the site has been offline for a few days, and when they launched, gives you an idea of how spammy it was.
     
  16. unholydragon

    unholydragon Teenie Trader

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    And was this all from Bun?
     
  17. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    No, bun made around 6-7 posts/profile posts/posts on other users profiles, the rest came from other members such as rottsloan who did stuff like this on profiles and in posts:
     

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  18. DaedraQueen

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    But you are restricting them.
     
  19. BDCA

    BDCA The Tallest Staff Member

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    They were all removed/unrestricted once I cleaned up the spam and censored the word.
     
  20. lizardbreath

    lizardbreath Well-Known Member

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    Best of luck
    And thanks for all the fish
     

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