I agree with Ken and Matthew.
Yes, we can scroll down and eventually find posts but that does not mean it ought or has to stay that way.
It is really ridiculous that in this day and age of cyber technology headquarted in as sophisticated and advanced a world class city as Dallas that a Message Board cannot be better managed.
There are varied spam filters, spam protections and processes and techiques readily available.
Some ideas that might be presented to DHS:
As one example: At the DHS Free Forum and another large forum I am on as well as a 100+ genealogy Message Boards spam is not a problem. At DHS Forum a few of us voluntarily began paying a little occassionally to keep advertising off, a registration process was implemented that weeds out spammers and in some cases one of the members is given authority to delete the spam. At DHS and other boards/forums some of us members are appointed as "Board members" or administrators.(Here power should be limited to spam, ads and offensive, vulgar posts)
Something can be and should be done - unless DHS does want this board to eventually go away.
Has anyone here called DHS and talked to the powers that may be?
If they want to enter the 21st Century this can be done. Databases today are not one whit like they were when I started here back in 2004.
(I have not gone there in a couple years, but did not the Ft Worth M.B. get totally overwhelmed?)
Yes, we can scroll down and eventually find posts but that does not mean it ought or has to stay that way.
It is really ridiculous that in this day and age of cyber technology headquarted in as sophisticated and advanced a world class city as Dallas that a Message Board cannot be better managed.
There are varied spam filters, spam protections and processes and techiques readily available.
Some ideas that might be presented to DHS:
As one example: At the DHS Free Forum and another large forum I am on as well as a 100+ genealogy Message Boards spam is not a problem. At DHS Forum a few of us voluntarily began paying a little occassionally to keep advertising off, a registration process was implemented that weeds out spammers and in some cases one of the members is given authority to delete the spam. At DHS and other boards/forums some of us members are appointed as "Board members" or administrators.(Here power should be limited to spam, ads and offensive, vulgar posts)
Something can be and should be done - unless DHS does want this board to eventually go away.
Has anyone here called DHS and talked to the powers that may be?
If they want to enter the 21st Century this can be done. Databases today are not one whit like they were when I started here back in 2004.
(I have not gone there in a couple years, but did not the Ft Worth M.B. get totally overwhelmed?)