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| When Homesteading Today Blew Up | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 24 2015, 05:42 PM (508 Views) | |
| Jolly | Mar 24 2015, 05:42 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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As far as the board goes, I think only lb and I have been members on that site. But there is something interesting going on there: http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/general-homesteading-forums/countryside-families/535855-site-controversy.html For those who don't wish to wade through all that, it amounts to the board owner - Carbon Media Group - lifting posts from the forum and placing them on some of their other boards under fictitious poster's names, to try to drive post count up and subsequently, revenue. Legal, but extremely sleazy, IMO. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 24 2015, 05:43 PM Post #2 |
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Cheers
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Can you fix that link? |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Jolly | Mar 24 2015, 05:44 PM Post #3 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Try it now. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 24 2015, 05:52 PM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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Yep it works now. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Copper | Mar 24 2015, 06:17 PM Post #5 |
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Shortstop
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This topic seems familiar. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 24 2015, 11:51 PM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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Is everyone going to jump ship to a new board? |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Jolly | Mar 25 2015, 02:42 AM Post #7 |
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Dunno. One of the sub-forums has already set up a new board. I'd say about 50 members are participating. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Jolly | Mar 25 2015, 02:49 AM Post #8 |
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Since posted, this communication from the board's Admin has received almost 1500 views: In an effort to be up be totally transparent over what has transpired here on HST for the last couple of days I have decided to make an announcement and have it placed on all of the forums here. Starting late last year with my direction alone without CMG executive involvement, I pulled RSS feeds from the Cattle and Pig forums here and syndicated that content as a way to increase activity on those fledgling forums. These feeds have a constant stream of posts from the forums here and those posts were being re-posted on two other sites under user names which we had used for testing in the past. Canned responses were also made to the posts by the same test users. No single user or thread was manually copied, but rather they were all in the RSS mix from the two forums here on HST. No such posts were ever copied here to HST from any other site. Moderators on the forums from which we pulled content nor anyone else from HST including Angie were behind this and no anger should not be directed at them. It was solely my idea. Angie attempted to explain to me the dynamics of HST and how unique it is and I did not listen. Please don’t hold any of this against the community, the moderators, or Angie. Replicating these on other sites as posts by users was wrong and should not have been done. Even though we own all the sites involved it was unethical. I am very sorry about the misuse of the posts from HST and hope the users here on HST will accept my most sincere apology. As a result of my actions, I am resigning here on HST and no longer will be involved in day to day operations on the site. Angie will be continuing to do the day-to-day community moderation. CMGSteve |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Jolly | Mar 26 2015, 07:48 AM Post #9 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Something that applies to all on-line communities (worth the read): http://www.managingcommunities.com/2015/03/26/homesteading-today-and-how-to-quickly-turn-your-community-against-you/#more-6189 |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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