OT: Anybody else getting this message across the hall?

[Louis]

Has Josh changed the rules over there?

I get this if I'm logged in and I click on a thread.

However, when I look at the names of folks online there doesn't seem to have been a wholesale change over to "real" names, nor a bunch of new "John Doe" guys.

[gone]

Yep, I'm getting it too. I believe there was a ····storm in the framebuilder forum about real names.

[CNY rider]

I got the same thing but then was able to go to the threads.
I keep checking back there to see if the last remaining non-mod poster will voluntarily shut the lights or get banned too?
What has always been a circle jerk has a smaller and smaller circle by the day.

[Louis]

Originally Posted by gone

Yep, I'm getting it too. I believe there was a ····storm in the framebuilder forum about real names.

Ah - that explains it. I bet it was builders complaining about anonymous folks complaining about builders. (I haven't been to that sub-forum in ages.)

So now everyone's going to know that I'm a dog?

[thegunner]

yep locked out in entirety now, what is this...

[jr59]

I guess I'm done over there!

[PJN]

I added my real name and then posted to see if it displayed - it didn't - it displayed my user name. I'm guessing it will switch to real names soon enough.

I like it over ther but things have been getting stranger and stranger as of late.

The Internet is ····ing weird.

[nighthawk]

A few months ago (possibly longer? I can't remember) there was a push to either have your real name as your forum handle or atleast in your signature block if you wanted to be able to post in the frame builders subforum. From the looks of it they want real names for the whole forum.

[Cat3roadracer]

Who needs anything across any hall when we have what we have here?

[Louis]

I think there's plenty of good stuff there too.

Each forum has it's own flavor and I'm willing to appreciate both.

[Uncle Jam's Army]

I don't give a rat's ass about those clowns over there. I was banned about three years ago because of a private dispute I had with a builder who failed to live up to multiple delivery deadlines with me, having nothing to do with anything I ever posted. But because the builder was one of the cool kids, I was summarily banned, without notice.

You simply cannot run a forum that way.

[Jeff Borisch]

What's next? Passport photo avatars?

I've used my real name there since day one. However I disagree with the policy I will not comply.

[Louis]

UJA, I had the opposite experience:

I had a minor run-in with an outspoken mod who started to fool with the settings on my profile. I sent Josh an e-mail ('cause I could no longer log in) and he fixed things. Then a few months later that mod himself was banned. (I assume not because of what he did to me, unless there was unbeknownst to me a pattern of him harassing others too.)

[gone]

I just logged out, never to log in again. I'll read it anonymously, if at all.

All they've done is reduce the number of participants, perhaps that's the goal: pare things down until only the "cool kids" remain.

Never was one of those.

As was said previously, what was always a circle jerk just became a smaller circle.

[Uncle Jam's Army]

Originally Posted by Louis

UJA, I had the opposite experience:

I had a minor run-in with an outspoken mod who started to fool with the settings on my profile. I sent Josh an e-mail ('cause I could no longer log in) and he fixed things. Then a few months later that mod himself was banned. (I assume not because of what he did to me, unless there was unbeknownst to me a pattern of him harassing others too.)

Louis,

You told me about your experience at about the time of my banning. My banning, however, was never undone. Josh told me that it wasn't worth fighting over and to just let it go. All I could imagine is that he was overruled by others, incredibly.

I've actually survived quite well not being able to participate on that forum.

--Robert