Does the Forum Still have Moderators?

daveR

I know there is very little activity on the forum now, hasn't been for a while, but does anybody moderate it? The amount of spam posts is ridiculous. You do still get the occasional question from a TB user but more junk than anything else now a days.
What happened to the idea of resurrecting to old forum data which was mentioned a while back. So much lost information. Very little new information.

mcc

Hi DaveH

I'm not sure if it gets "moderated" in the same sense as other forums do. And yes, there has been a rash of garbage spam posts as of the last few months. The only way I have found to get it cleaned out is to email via the Contact Us page on the main TB website. "Anne" is the person apparently in charge of the whole thing, and she cleared it out right away once I contacted them.

It is a crying shame that all the many years worth of "old Posts" have vanished, evidently forever. I think that when the shift was made from the old forum provider to this current setup, the posts were not retained or transferred. Once in a while, I used to copy some of the posts which were of interest to me, so I at least have those few. Also some of the "old posters" seem to have disappeared as well, possibly due to old age. So most of the "technical expertise" which they provided is now gone. I'm not a technical expert by any means but have a lot of experience programming with TB, so whenever a question pops up I always try to help if I can. Newcomers are probably discouraged by the low forum traffic and so the traffic spirals down even lower.
It is very sad that this is what TB has dwindled down to since it is a good and useful language.

Regards,
Mike C.