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    It prevents spam posts from bots advertising miracle tablets that claim to help you lose <banned word> .. and we value the blocking (and resulting admin time saving) over the ocasional user inconvenience.

    Quote from chewitt

    It prevents spam posts

    Aren't spam posts prevented that they are disabled by default anyway? They will not pass through the censor so they will never be public?

    Or why not just activate a automated anti-spam solution like akismet and send the mods home (or have them only work 10% of the time for the same result?). It looks like the people in charge aren't really capable (or willing) running a community. Very sad for the project!

    Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

    Quote from therealwolve

    Aren't spam posts prevented that they are disabled by default anyway? They will not pass through the censor so they will never be public?

    Or why not just activate a automated anti-spam solution like akismet and send the mods home (or have them only work 10% of the time for the same result?). It looks like the people in charge aren't really capable (or willing) running a community. Very sad for the project!

    Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

    You’re straying into the world of narcissism. Your comments have absolutely nothing to do with LE and I imagine you are approaching the three strike rule. Did you just sign up here to criticise.

    therealwolve Your continued posts nit-picking how we adminster the forum are tiresome and taking more time/effort to respond to than dealing with actual spam (which is rare, as we have effective measures in place to prevent it). If you continue to grind the axe on this topic your forum account will be suspended so everyone can focus on helping users with actual problems.

    Well gentlemen it just looks like to me that everything which is posted in the forum feedback category just get's closed/deleted/banned when it's not inline what the crew thinks/wants.

    Obviously no rules where violated still post stay disabled or threads get closed - something that can't be and isn't right.

    For example this two topics are marked as resolved while they aren't:

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    Not feeling welcome as new community member

    Not sure what the reasons are but I feel quite uncomfortable as a new user in this community.

    It's literally not possible to just post anything but instead a "grace" period of 40 minutes between every(!) post is configured in this forum. There is also no way to edit a previous post to add more text afterwards to (at least) overcome this awkward limit.

    But by the looks of it even then no post/topic is published and a manual(!) mod/censor needs to allow every written word.

    I personally never came…
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    July 10, 2023 at 5:08 PM

    Next step obviously would to delete all this threads and post and file some take down notices to the internet archive to also get the cache purged.