Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Marty on January 16, 2012, 07:08:34 PM
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Or is it bad manners to join a site just so you can send pm's to the members inviting them to join your site?
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Nope, not just you!
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I'm curious to know who has received a pm, please let me know by replying to this thread or by pm. Thanks.
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I'm curious to know who has received a pm, please let me know by replying to this thread or by pm. Thanks.
I have received a pm, but not from the person you are referring too. Haha, some more information on the offender would allow for better feed back Marty.
Cadman2000
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Oh, I'm curious to know if anyone is using the pm system to refer members to other boards
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I get unsolicited PM's all time. They rarely make any since. They come from user:Marty. :P
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I get unsolicited PM's all time. They rarely make any since. They come from user:Marty. :P
Roflmao! The funny part is I don't really know him, but from all the comments from you all this Marty guy must be a hoot!
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I get unsolicited PM's all time. They rarely make any since. They come from user:Marty. :P
Roflmao! The funny part is I don't really know him, but from all the comments from you all this Marty guy must be a hoot!
You met Marty at the last MCA meeting. He was the guy introducing Mike Z.
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I get unsolicited PM's all time. They rarely make any since. They come from user:Marty. :P
Roflmao! The funny part is I don't really know him, but from all the comments from you all this Marty guy must be a hoot!
You met Marty at the last MCA meeting. He was the guy introducing Mike Z.
Yeah I know I met him. I bought a power filter from him. I'm just piling on.
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Dear Marty,
Let me introduce myself I'm Charley from Hobby-Profession, we have an opening for a fish adviser on our forums and would love you to try out for it. We can be found at Hobby-Profession.org.. Hope you will consider joining and participating
Charley the forum pilcher..
Is the PM something like this? Just curious.
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It simply kills me when people do this - I can't follow the logic.
I do however feel left out that I haven't gotten any. :-\
To answer the original question, it's not just you.
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(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/RonARCF/banHammer.jpg)
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Nope ur not alone with those thoughts... Thats a bunch of fu%$ing Bull Sh#@... Find out who it is and smack em in the head.... ;D ;D
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I'm with Ron. Nobody sends me pms for stupid forums. This is wrong and the user should be banned.
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I'm with Ron. Nobody sends me pms for stupid forums. This is wrong and the user should be banned.
Sorry guys next time I'll PM you two, instead of texting
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Sorry guys next time I'll PM you two, instead of texting
Maybe we need some clarification here, as I did appreciate the original heads-up as I've said prior. Contacting someone who was an active member of a forum that's crashed so they know it's back is acceptable in my book. My impression from the first post here is that this wasn't the case.
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Yeah, I don't think he's talking about me. When I told you( Ron) about GLA , it was before this site was up.
I'll admit that I have told members of each forum about the other forum. But, I am NOT just coming here only to promote another site.
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I'm still investigating the matter, which is why I'm looking for corroboration before anyone gets banned. At this point, one of two people is lying to me. The liar will be voted off the island.
I'm not referring to you at all Blair.
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I'm still investigating the matter, which is why I'm looking for corroboration before anyone gets banned. At this point, one of two people is lying to me. The liar will be voted off the island.
I'm not referring to you at all Blair.
The butler did it ;D
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I think it was the Maid with the candlestick in parlor.
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I think it was the Maid with the candlestick in parlor.
Go fish...... 8)
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I havent received any pm's reference such. Just a thought though. I belong to several forums (this is my fav because its local) and welcome tips on other forums by members here. That being said, just joining a forum with the sole purpose being to recruit for other forums is indeed distasteful.
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Go fish...... 8)
Are you referring to cichlids, catfish or others?
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Go fish...... 8)
Are you referring to cichlids, catfish or others?
You sunk my Battleship!!!! ???
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Don't worry about GrizzlysDad not making since... I think he's on a 'Bacon' high. :D
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Did someone say "bacon"????
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Don't worry about GrizzlysDad not making since... I think he's on a 'Bacon' high. :D
Since what? :P
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I havent received any pm's reference such. Just a thought though. I belong to several forums (this is my fav because its local) and welcome tips on other forums by members here. That being said, just joining a forum with the sole purpose being to recruit for other forums is indeed distasteful.
I agree. I belong to numerous forums as well, and in fact have referred people to other forums when they were looking for something they likely wouldn't find on this site or mittenstate. A perfect example of this was people searching for larger aquariums. I recommended checking michiganreefers.com, because I've seen large systems for sale on that forum on a regular basis.
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John 8:32
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
:)
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Okay, here's the truth as I know it at this point. I received a pm from a member here the other day indicating that you spammed them by soliciting your forum (greatlakesaquaria.com for those of you not familiar). Here is what I was forwarded via a copy and paste. The user's name has been redacted by me to protect their privacy:
GLAJoe
Probationary
Newbie
Posts: 2
49037
Fish forum
« Sent to: ******** on: October 30, 2011, 10:15:29 AM »
« You have forwarded or responded to this message. » ReplyQuoteDelete
Hello, I own and admin GreatLakesaquaria.com. We just started up in July. You should stop by and check us out.
Joe
http://www.joefish.me/
After I received this pm, I started this thread to try to determine if you had solicited other members and if that was your only purpose in joining this site, because quite frankly, you haven't contributed much of anything since the 29th of October when you joined.
As a precautionary measure, I created a new membergroup to shut off your ability to pm while I investigated the matter.
I then received the following message via Regalblue, who is an active member of both sites:
Regalblue,
JoeFish has sent you a new personal conversation entitled "MCA".
JoeFish said:
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Well my pm privileges have been removed on MCA and it now says I am a probationary member. If you don't mind could you let Marty know i have not used his PM system to recruit members and never will. I will even change my screen name if need be. My guess is the guy he is having problems with is username: ******** I had problems with him on here also, mainly with dogging the staff and begging to be a mod in exchange for shutting down his forum.
Joe
At this point, I felt I had no other choice but to access the most recent backup copy of the database. Frankly, the fact that I had to to do this makes me angry, and I'll explain why. I'm a big believer in privacy, and I have enough to do without having to have to sort through God knows how much data to figure out who was not telling the truth. In the database, here is what I found:
'GLAJoe', 1319984129, 'Fish forum', 'Hello, I own and admin GreatLakesaquaria.com. We just started up in July. You should stop by and check us out.
Joe'),
This is an exact copy and paste from the database. So, while a copy and paste of a private message can be faked, the database cannot. Unless of course your account was hacked the day after you joined...........
So at this point, I know for a fact you solicited at least one member. If I would've saved the previous backup copies of the database, maybe I would have found more? I don't know, and I won't know unless I'm contacted by other members.
For anyone that is confused after reading this, pm's are saved by the database when a back up copy is made if the sender and recipient have not deleted them. So it is possible that other pm's were sent, but have been subsequently deleted by both parties. Since I only keep one backup copy of the database, I only know for sure that one pm was sent.
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My investigation regarding this matter has been concluded. I am only aware of one instance where Joe has used the pm system to solicit someone to his forum, therefore I am treating this as an isolated incident and reinstating his pm privileges.