How many of you here have fled from DV?

[TehBorken]

chica wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]great to get the f*** out of there!  I am also a refugee.  What do DSers think of this though?  hmmmm[/div]
The DV folks are more than welcome here as far as I'm concerned.


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[tenkani]

[font style="font-weight: bold;" size="5"]Beginner's luck!!!![/font]

[Sportsdude]

any dude that gets a brazilian wax that was NOT requested by his girlfriend, is gay.

[TehBorken]

Good Times wrote:
Down with DV!

I know you're joking, but I always liked DV and thought it was a fun place. I've got nothing against DV and I don't wish 'em any harm. There's probably enough room on teh intarweb for both of us.

Personally I hope like hell that they catch the f*cktard who's been messing with their site. I don't doubt whoever it is will take a stab at this place too. I think this board is considerably more secure from that kind of stuff but you never know. We'll see.

[Sportsdude]

yeah this could become like the lunch thread type crowd and intelligent conversation board while the other would just be for trolling down the internet blvd.

[Future Canadian]

 trolling down the internet blvd.[/DIV]
LOL! That whole virus thing's just another reason for me not to go back there for a while 'till they get their act together and the dust settles.

[someonesmart]

hey...how come i can post without having to register?  

[P.C.]

Lots of neat goodies and perks if you DO register. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a122.gif" border=0]

[Good Times]

TehBorken wrote:

> I know you're joking, but I always liked DV and thought it was a fun place.

I'm glad you can see that it's a joke.

> I've got nothing against DV and I don't wish 'em any harm. There's probably enough room on teh intarweb for both of us.

I believe you. One of the advantages you have on this site is that it's not set up to oppose DV. You're not in competition with DV, and you didn't set this up to harm DV. (Whereas you probably know about the Montreal Guy episode... )

So I agree, there's definitely room for both sites on the Net. However, with the way DV has been going lately, I'm beginning to think that unless there's a major overhaul there, its days are coming to an end.

> Personally I hope like hell that they catch the f*cktard who's been messing with their site.

Let's be honest: We both know that there isn't an easy way of catching the culprit. So in all likelihood it won't happen. And even if they did, without a major investment of time, money, and energy, it'll be extremely difficult to bring any charges against him/her.

So I'm not holding my breath on this. I've seen this happen before: The same trick, multiple windows and porn popping up all over the place until they crash the machine... I think it was even the same site.  In the end they just deleted the thread and moved on.

Thankfully my reflexes were quick enough to hit ALT-F4 as soon as I saw the unwanted pop up and got away without suffering a major trauma. So personally I'm not even annoyed at whomever did this, let alone be mad about it.

> I don't doubt whoever it is will take a stab at this place too. I think this board is considerably more secure from that kind of stuff but you never know. We'll see.

I wouldn't expect these sorts of tricks popping up here yet. For one thing, the user base is still relatively small. And for another, you have not been instigating such behavior.

The fact is with their dictatorial style and inept mods, DV has a major PR problem. They are the cause of 90% of their problems. It's my firm conviction that so long as they don't straighten out their act, they'll continue experiencing such outbursts.

 

[Good Times]

someonesmart wrote:
hey...how come i can post without having to register?  

You don't need to register to post. The board is set up for both registered as well as anonymous posting.

[Lisa Maree]

I came from DV to check things out.  The forum layout looks good.  I'm impressed.

[P.C.]

"The fact is with their dictatorial style and inept mods, DV has a major PR problem. They are the cause of 90% of their problems. It's my firm conviction that so long as they don't straighten out their act, they'll continue experiencing such outbursts."

No matter how many times, and how many ways it's been expressed, that the MODS on DV are extremely limited in what they can do.  They can 'flag' something and submit it, but they're not responsible for the havoc there.

It makes me sad that they have to continue to take so much flack over this.  How different would this be, if in YOUR job, you saw things running amuck, but your boss only gave you a very short rope to correct it.  And yet you were STILL were held responsible for the mess.  Would you feel you were being treated fairly ?

 

[TehBorken]

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[TehBorken]

Good Times wrote::
The fact is with their dictatorial style and inept mods, DV has a major PR problem. They are the cause of 90% of their problems.

I understand what you'rr saying, but I also have to agree with P.C. in that the mods have pretty limited powers to manage abusive posters. There seems to be a fairly short list of things they can do in response to trolls, mostly banning by IP and/or deleting posts. For small numbers of trolls that would be fine, but when there are lots of trolls and/or very "active" trolls, those things just aren't enough.

I've run message boards for quite a while and I'll be the first one to say that trolls can be a real challenge, and even more so if the board doesn't have decent controls to help manage abusive users (like flood control, time delays, limits on the number of posts from an IP, etc).

On DV I think it's also compounded by the way the administrator has (not) handled things, but he or she is also probably limited by a lack of certain features in the software. All in all, there are a number of things that have combined to bring about the current state of affairs on DV.

[Sportsdude]

Not if they put me in Charge! I would make 1984 look tame.