The Wild World of TB!

Just like Penn and Teller and the show, Bullshit!, you have to wonder how much of the tripe coming from the MXS camp is smelling awfully fresh. Diane has decided to take the boards private in a vain attempt to keep me and my 'friends' from reading the board to gain information.

Her comment to the users was thus:

"Sadly, members of this forum are being sent hate emails and are being harassed by the haters. I have made changes for registered member only use site-wide."

Now, I have to say Bullshit here, because as an administrator of a PHPBBS site and done the work on others, you can block the ability for people to send email that are registered users as well as unregistered users to protect from spam and hate mail. It is very easy and something that I know Diane would know how to do. However, they also have access to a web developer/programmer who does their website every year, so for them to lock the board down is BULLSHIT!

Now for the longest time after I was banned, I still read the MXS website. To follow along with my friends, gather news for Scenario News and such as that. However, I was sent nasty emails that I was trying to hack their site (which I was not) and as such they ipbanned my account so that I could not view their forum. Then Diane began a convoluted process to verify who each person who registered was, almost to the point that you had to call or fax and ID to verify who you were to get access. And people wonder why it was starting to smell like death there.

So I took to reading it from work and other places. However, now the boards are completely locked down so you can't get into it unless you are registered user and this is the excuse. Let me put it this way, making threatening emails is punishiable by law in the United States. I dare anyone who has received such emails to send them to the proper authorities and prosecute fully anyone who is sending truly hateful emails via a board. I would also like for those people to post it publicly who the emails that they got were. You can strip headers and track where it came from, and I am sorry but paintball players ain't that smart.

So I make the comment that I can still read the forum on a post and now Diane has taken to removing active users for no reason other then an association with me. She isn't even asking them, she isn't even warning them, just booting them out of the board without even a howdy or thanks for being here. However she is making them inactive vs deletion so she keeps that high user count right?

Newsflash! You have made more enemies then you can delete, the people feeding me information you don't even know that I have talked to, Diane. Regardless of what your chronies tell you, this isn't ok and you aren't going to survive it attacking the hand that feeds you. Keep alienating users, pushing people off the fence because I never made them choose a side to be my friend, remember that.

PS: If you join the World of TB forums, your email is protected as I mentioned above. Only the admin has it and well that is me! And I don't need to have your email to insult you bitches, I got the whole website!