General Discussion

Thanks Michael, I'm doing well. Hurricane hit NYC pretty hard, luckily I'm uptown. Downtown is just a mess.

PC!!!!!! Nice to see you too. I'll certainly check it out. Any new rules/guidelines I might have missed? I see its a new host type. Very sexy. I'll try to familiarize myself with it

I don't think there has been many updates in rules, except the advertising rule. It is pretty much the same as before except members can no longer promote external websites in their signatures. Some members have try to go around it by linking their signatures to a website. You can usually check by hovering over the signature and it should tell you if it is linked. And of course members may not blatantly ask people to visit their websites & etc. I have noticed most of these infractions are in Adriana's subforum Members however may post a link to their website under their profile in the Website URL field

Also, images hosted on Facebook, Twitter, tumblrs, etc are not meant to be hotlinked outside their sites and they don't provide embedding codes. So members need to upload stuff from those sites onto a host. Not so much a bandwidth issue but that after awhile the hotlinked images would be broken and we end up w/ empty posts (as it has happened on tFS )

Purged the Bar Refaeli thread of all mentions of Di Caprio's break-up with Erin.

I don't want that topic to get out of hand again, as it has a few times in the past.

Good call Sympathy, that thread catches fire so fast. Esp when it comes to that area -_-

Also, PC. how can i see reported posts. i get them emailed to me, but nothing here. Is that normal with the new format?

I got a PM from ModelK:

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So, I got this message and thought I am not going to touch this. Here is a copy of the message I received and didn't respond to:

I am requesting that you remove ALL information regarding Amber Elkins fashion model.

You do not have the rights to any of these pictures therefore Immediate action would be appreciated.

Kind regards

Brad

Please note that Brad isn't the photographer of any of these photo and therefore has no legal claim to said photos. I know its not any of her bookers because she has the same bookers as a lot of models in this forum. Its not her either. My guess is someone who is jealous of her because there is no reason why someone who likes her to want this thread down. These threads have made a lot fo models popular. No one knew Lauren Mellor and Gia Johnson before I started their threads on here. I know Tess Montgomery (also with MOT as a mother agency) thinks its weird but appreciates the publicity. It seems a little bit odd especially since I been getting a lot of weirdos messaging me as of late but the way its written I don't want this forum to be shut down over some commercial print model who no one knows about and does mostly catalog work. LOL

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What do you want to do?

^ The way I see it is if the images are easily accessible on the net, meaning they are not private and could be found via web search, then there's no reason to delete anything. Or if a model or his/her representation (with valid proof of their identities) contacted us with a request then we might consider deleting as well. Other than that, I don't see a reason why we should or need to do anything.

The only requests more annoying than those are the constant 'please delete my account' requests . Of course, I just copy and paste the same answer now, but still ...

Also, unless its either too difficult a task or anyone else prefers the current version , is there a way that we could go back to opening a new window for Site and Forum links? For example, when I click on a link to a post and try to go back to the original thread, it freezes me and takes me forever to get back whereas with a new window, I can just delete it when I'm done and be instantly back to the original thread.

Also, PC. how can i see reported posts. i get them emailed to me, but nothing here. Is that normal with the new format?

If there is an active report, your notification icon (the quote bubble w/ a person inside---upper right, next to envelope icon) would be red. Also you would see on the upper left next to "Moderator CP" a notification. If you don't see anything chances are they have been taken care of

Ok, cool. I've only seen them with notifications about you guys giving a warning. but I guess it's timing lol

Welcome back JK

On a side note, sorry I have been MIA as well, been busy buying/moving into a new place and its been crazy but I should have some more time in the near future.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

Haha thanks maddog. And Happy Thanksgiving to you all as well

PS: Got a report from chocolate about josephchen posting a completely unrelated pic in general swimwear. I deleted it and msg'd the poster about how only general swimwear of AnaBB can be posted there. I didn't warn him since he seemed super new and it was prob an honest mistake.

^ Thanks JK

So i just got a pm by someone claiming to be joseph davidson saying he wanted his thread taken down. I did the usual stuff of having him prove that he was the real person, but since the thread had only 1 post, which was already edited removing any content. and no other people posted anything, i just deleted the thread, since nothing was being loss/ nor anyone seemed to care - since it wasn't posted in since its conception in sept 09. Though i did say any further removal requests would need a proof of person.

^ Sounds good

Damn...can't believe we started this place more than 8 years ago. I was like 14 back then!!

Maddog- I locked out my thread and moved it out to thread tomb...don't need all that history floating around. Hope all is well dude.

Hey Ronin, yea we are old

Nice to see you around and OK its your thread. Hope all is well.

Google banned us because of the Ultrafoxes 70-80s thread. I think its because it had pornstars even though they were dressed was considered "sexually provocative". We may need to adjust our rules, do you guys know of any other threads may be in violation of googles rules?

I sent this to 'tlp2001'

tlp,

Hey just wanted to let you know I had to delete the Ultrafoxes 70-80s topic because google banned BZ because it had "sexually provocative" content. I know you started the thread and were quite active on it. Sorry but we must do what google says.

I think they didnt like the pornstars even though they were dressed. I would appreciate it if you refrain from posting them in the future. Thanks for your help (we dont want to be banned permanently from Google as they provide the income to run BZ).

Sorry!

~maddog107

^ And I just took him off of Mod Watch for posting nudity and stuff from Playboy. He must have been "what did I do wrong now!?"

^ if hes is a recurring problem for posting provocative content bannage is merited

But we can wait to see what he posts in the near future. Hopefully not provocative things.

^ I agree. I guess he already has 3 warnings : 2 unofficial ones and 1 official one. If he violates the rules again then we would need to ban him