Last one to leave needs to turn out the lights. Welcome to the LIGHT side.

The exodus may accelerate.

The Spammers latest tactic is to post inside threads that are newish with high view count so as my witnessed example you scroll down hit a post from a newbie and there are 100 links in the post to porn.

I wonder if vertical experiences this on all the sites they own?

If so it must be a real annoyance to administer/moderate.

Or a bizarre business model I am not familiar with. I admit I do not fit the demographic they advertise they target for. (18-34 yo)

But I guess that's what it takes to make the big bucks in the virtual world.

Yes, Derek sold the site. With the new owner(s) came a flood of spammers and tons of ads. Many of us found that we were logged off frequently, which by some "strange" coincidence meant that we would see ads that were not normally visible to logged in members.

Some of us grew tired of seeing the same questions every couple of days in the technical forums, too. Members in the S30/S130 section made a valiant effort to assemble FAQs, but the newbies just ignored them.

Add into that the floods of newbies that, as Tony D pointed out, seemed to coincide with school break, and the character of the site has changed for the worse.

Agree on all points,with the exception of the "logging off/spam/ads" thing-i never saw that(maybe it is my security software),but oh-well.......

Edited March 1, 201114 yr by Z train

Actually they finally fixed the frequent logging off problem that many of us were experiencing. However, I think the damage has been done.

I did notice the problem was solved, but I have only checked-in a few times in the past week. Now that all the cool kids are here, I'm done there.

I did notice the problem was solved, but I have only checked-in a few times in the past week. Now that all the cool kids are here, I'm done there.

There is one VERY good reason to keep looking over there. Tony D is still posting and still trying to correct the errors in people's posts.