Member Management

AA nailed it (sadly), this is a problem I've mentioned before; what one person see's as constructive criticism, others see it as bashing. What one staff thinks is okay to be posted, another doesn't. There are many times I've gotten a report and went to the thread to see what the fuss was about and I thought to myself "what's the big deal, nothing wrong was said", and then another staff comes in and just removes the "problem".

 

BZ is on a giant politically correct parade lately where everyone has to love/like what every model does, and if you have a difference of opinion then you're the enemy and are damn near crucified for it. This isn't a fan-site, this is a forum were people are allowed to express their opinions both good and bad, fan or not a fan, and I think we need to address this to BZ members, maybe they'll stop hitting the report button over every little thing lol

 

I didn't like AA's hot-linking and I believe till she learns to not hotlink she she be kept on mod watch, but over all Apple's posts were generally fine and within her right to express her like or dislike of something.

 

As for Elfstone, I pm'd him when he told her to die and told him he can't talk like that to other members like that, and since it was his first big slip up I let him go with a verbal warning and he hasn't done it again.

 

I don't know what to do to fix this   Maybe we need to allow people a little more freedom of speech? Loosen the noose and allow people to speak their mind within reasons (obviously no... She's an ugly fat cunt who looks like a whore..... that's not okay), or I dunno what to tell you.

The way I have generally gone about it is that I am pretty strict within any thread devoted to the model herself (or himself).

So basically I will have very low tolerance for anything that might be interpreted as bashing in the dedicated model threads, but when someone makes a similar statement in a general thread (or in another models thread) I let it slide, unless it is really too offensive or causes too much problems.

New member DramaQueen posted this in Candice's thread. She edited her post but luckily someone quoted it before she edited it. Keep in mind this is her first post:

Her Instagram is full of congratulating comments on her engagement. Which she has not confirmed publicly and also i am sure she has been engaged for around a year now.
 
I must say Candice has lost a fan in me now because it seems she is milking the 10 years sweetheart relationship for publicity while she is off on vacation all the time.
 
She didn't address the Fappening incident as she was off partying at Burning man, Didn't attend the Rome commercial because once again she was of with her boyfriend on vacation and let everyone down. Now all these sites are claiming this engagement as if her PR team set it up and where is she..Oh yeah on vacation once again. It just seems like attention seeking public relations stunt.She doesn't even bother doing fashion week any more.
 
She say's she likes to keep family and relationship's private but i don't believe that she is coming off as the biggest player in the game. She is quoted as saying she doesn't need a piece of paper to show her commitment to her boyfriend. Sure doll changing your tune now.
 
I find it very trashy and deceitful to use someone you supposedly love for publicity and attention.
 
I have been a fan of Candice since 2008 but not now today is the end.
 
The only thing she shows commitment and dedication to is the media and Victorias Secret.
Where is her own swimwear line? Why hasn't she posted anything on actually going to Africa to visit the Mothers that are apart of the mothers2mothers charity that she supports. Wouldn't you like to see who your hard work is supporting? Has she stop supporting Bottletop?Was that all about money and Vogue articles? Osmoze is another some of the most impressive shots of Candice and the fashion film in La Jolla which i supported and now what she is no where to been seen with them.
 
Why is still with Victorias Secret and not strutting it down a high fashion runway?Its all about attention.
 
You never see her with EX VS models whom she said she was very close to Doutzen Kroes, Erin Heatherton, Miranda Kerr, Rosie HW. Why? Because they aren't in the limelight enough as someone like Behati etc.
 
She has a bitchy attitude which is beginning to show in her posts she is no longer the sweet girl who said she cared about privacy. I am disappointed not that you will care. Probably expect some quote on how amazing she is and how everyone is ass holes. Welcome to the business!

I decided to look into her account and found she shares an IP Address with FairyCandice:

89.241.79.215

ISP: TalkTalk ((Aberdeen, UK)

DramaQueen (behati@mail.com); Reg Date: 07/14/15; Last Used IP Address: 07/14/15 @ 7:54PM

FairyCandice (candykayx@hotmail.co.uk); Reg date: 01/17/15: Last Used IP Address: 07/14/15 @ 6:50PM

FairyCandice also shares an IP Address with ChillianVillian who was recently banned for trolling:

2.96.18.168

ISP: TalkTalk (Aberdeen, UK)

ChillianVillian (candykayx@mail.com); Reg Date: 07/17/15; Last Used IP Address: 07/17/15

FairyCandice (candykayx@hotmail.co.uk); Reg date: 01/17/15: Last Used IP Address: 07/24/15

If I recall correctly FC has had issues with other members in Candi's thread.

I am pretty sure they are all the same person based on some of their posts. What do you guys think?

Ban Hammer!

So we know Katy10 was in Boston& Kansas, and now we have this jibber - user062789, who appears to be in Chicago, but his/her IP is resolved to Kansas, both Kansas ip's are through Comcast.  http://en.utrace.de/?query=+ 50.141.76.133
 
Plus the typing is identical, same with sentence structure
 
Such a little try hard but not smart enough to cover their shit from us. Should we ban for multiple accounts and trolling?

 

Going to share some very unpopular opinions here, but I think Izabel is more attractive than 10/15 of the angels. I know she showboats like no other and she'll pimp out any new designer for the right price, but she reminds me of VS back during the brazilian takeover(Gisele, Adriana, Alessandra, Ana B, Iza) and I miss that period. Cockiness and #bodybyiza aside she's not bad at all to me.

I could do without the VS Swim Special, it was one of the corniest hot mess programs I've ever seen. I liked when they talked about the photo shoots, even when they made it seem like it was a rescue mission and not a staged scene, but the rest was too much. When Joann pretended to drive that mini car while Lily or whomever took photos in slow motion *cringe!* or when they bandwagoned for that singer whose name I can't even remember or when they danced for Maroon 5. A simple runway show would have been amazing with some behind the scenes of photoshoots stuff would have been great.

Lastly I'm bitter that ppl got to take selfies with Sara but not Taylor:p

Sounds highly suspicious to me so banishment seems appropriate.

I definitely get a shady sense from Top-modèle196

Ban Hammer!

She has a lot of IP addresses so I will ban them little by little (Y)

On 15/08/2015 at 1:59 AM, PinkCouture said:

New member DramaQueen posted this in Candice's thread. She edited her post but luckily someone quoted it before she edited it. Keep in mind this is her first post:

The username seems to suggest that she's at least vaguely self-aware. That's something.

This 'prettysoul' person seems to be the new 'blessthefall' and keeps registering again with the same name with different numbers at the end ect.

The members here (overall) are probably the most sensitive people I've seen online to be sure . I’ll grat that they’re probably among the most sensible too more often than not. On the other hand, it is good to see a site where phrases like 'go kill yourself' aren't common fare. It’s probably the controlled environment itself that has allowed the sensitive to thrive and subconsciously dictates to us what baiting even is. With more staff control, their defenses against opposition from say constructive criticism and opinions that aren’t complimentary grow progressively weaker.  That’s one side of it. The other side is that I see no conceivable reason to say Candice Swanepoel needs to gain 10 pounds or that Laetitia Casta needs to lose 10 pounds in their threads. If such sparks a two or more page debate, such cases force me to choose the lesser of the two evils (the sensitive) and leave someone else with the task of equipping them to survive in the real world.

 

"Just garden variety bigotry.

The nonsense that pushed Europe into the abyss in the 1930s and 1940s didn't go away, it just lay dormant until such a time that those who held those views felt emboldened enough to voice them in public"

I don't think that any bigotry is problem. IT's the hypocrisy of multicultural policy is a problem. UK, France, Spain, Netherlands or Germany all those country conduct colonial policy, so maybe they have obligation to muslims, or Black People from Africa, but central and eastern countries like Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia should be let free to decide. In Poland live almost 99% of white people. 90% are catholics, and maybe 50/60 % are practicing catholics. There is no place for muslims here. It's not a racist, it's common sense calculate. The racism will start when are societys will be forced to let in arabs ot whoever from middle-east and north Africa.

Sorry for offtopic I didn' want to trash the topic.

And young girl (how old is she? 19?) who expresses anger to incompetent person isn't racist, sorry this guy was from minority so he was a saint.

So I got this PM from our friendly neighborhood Polish fascist (Socio).

I'm all for freedom of expression but as a forum, I think it's best if we do not attract such types.

BZ has always been an inclusive place and I'd hate to see it swarmed by such narrow-minded bigots.

I told him to tone down his nonsense. But what should our policy be in terms of members who flirt with the limits of acceptable rhetoric without necessarily devolving into flaming or trolling?

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I think he should be told to keep his opinions to himself and that many find it offensive. Religion and race is not a topic that is discussed by other members really so there is no need for him to discuss it either. 

Just noticed that our new trouble maker to the forum created to accounts and posted within 2 mins of each other trying to further cause issues in Taylor's thread. I think based on the shit he's pulling trying to get everyone to turn on Taylor and Hair Gel (we don't need him to help us make fun of him, his hair and actions manage just fine).... I think I'm going to ban him, because as long as he's on BZ, the bullshit and smear campaign is never going to end. Taylor will do whatever she likes, and she doesn't need his help to ruin her rep. I'm also going to remove all his posts to end this BS.

ModelFanatic
(IP: 24.212.234.252)
Posted Today, 12:50 AM
YEAH he is. He ignored his best friend of 10 years. Who does that? And he replies to Sara instead. All these cheating rumors I don't know if they're 100 percent true but all I can tell you is that he's not a nice person.And the snapchat video doesn't help either.

PeterBadenhopFan
(IP: 24.212.234.252)
Posted Today, 12:52 AM
His career hasn't even started yet and it's already over lollllll

And then comes back after the ban. Just banned him again. This person is going to be a problem keeping off the forum I think.

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I think he should be told to keep his opinions to himself and that many find it offensive. Religion and race is not a topic that is discussed by other members really so there is no need for him to discuss it either.

We are not a political or social issues forum so this is probably not the best place for him to initiate discussions around such topics. I am sure if he did a google search he would find more fitting forums

And then comes back after the ban. Just banned him again. This person is going to be a problem keeping off the forum I think.

I guess we will keep banning him until he gives up

Suspended new member kendrick. He was spamming the forum with duplicate topics of actresses who already had their own threads.

Sent him a PM to cut it out, but needed to suspend him because he was creating them faster than I could merge them!

FFS, he had created 20 new topics in the two hours he had been a member.

O.o 20? lol persistent isn't he?

We might have a spam bot on our hands.

I just banned new member rimasalma, who was reposting all of the new threads that kendrick had made yesterday.

http://www.bellazon.com/main/user/93655-pinkcouturesucksballs/

I have no clue who this is but one of his IP addresses was already blocked so it is a previously banned member. Also, all his IP addresses are masked.

We might have a spam bot on our hands.

I just banned new member rimasalma, who was reposting all of the new threads that kendrick had made yesterday.

It is starting to look that way. I just had to remove a whole bunch of content from another new member, Cristina Jeny, all of which made use of the same for-profit image host as kendrick's.

http://www.bellazon.com/main/user/93655-pinkcouturesucksballs/

 

I have no clue who this is but one of his IP addresses was already blocked so it is a previously banned member. Also, all his IP addresses are masked.

Well, I dare say he won't be missed. I've never seen a member so forthright in their trolling.