Why does ECF edit private messages??????????????

[lorikay13]

What possible justification can there be to edit out the name of a vendor when someone sends me a PM telling me about a juice they like that I might like to try? It pretty bad when we can't even talk privately about ECIGS. I thought that was what this forum was for?

 

[retired1]

The built in word filters do not discriminate between posts and PMs. It's the nature of the beast.

 

[patkin]

Its for your creative growth.

 

[sonicdsl]

What possible justification can there be to edit out the name of a vendor when someone sends me a PM telling me about a juice they like that I might like to try? It pretty bad when we can't even talk privately about ECIGS. I thought that was what this forum was for?

Retired1 is correct. The forum filters work the same on private messages as it does in the open forum, it's automatic. If the supplier is censored, that's because it's banned from the forum.

Sent from my Galaxy S3...

 

[UntamedRose]

likely a very good safety reason a supplier is censored too......just sayin.....

 

[SASmith]

I learn something new everyday!

 

[lorikay13]

ok I did the research and I'll buy that answer...............

oops! the url I copied gave no indication it would appear like that.....so I deleted it.

but then what is the reasoning behind editing out the names of other forums?

 

[Shadav]

ok I did the research and I'll buy that answer...............

oops! the url I copied gave no indication it would appear like that.....so I deleted it.

but then what is the reasoning behind editing out the names of other forums?

probably too many spammers came here from those forums and spammed links to themselves to try and gain SERPs by using a busy forum like this one...

 

[retired1]

If people have come in and spammed ECF with the name of another forum, chances are it's going to end up on the list. This also prevents trouble makers from spamming via PMs.

 

[spaky]

ok I did the research and I'll buy that answer...............

oops! the url I copied gave no indication it would appear like that.....so I deleted it.

but then what is the reasoning behind editing out the names of other forums?

Other forums may have been edited at one time, but, as far as I know, there are no forums that are edited any more.

 

[sonicdsl]

Yeah, in general, we have no problem with people mentioning other forums. But just like any other website, if there's spam-ish or other negative activity going on here related to the site, it's probably going to get blocked.

 

[Caridwen]

And for the record we don't/can't/read PM's.

 

[spaky]

And for the record we don't/can't/read PM's.

Actually anything on the internet can be read, but you couldn't pay me enough to read the PMs on here. Shoot I don't even read a fraction of the threads on here.

 

[tiburonfirst]

now who's stirring the pot?

 

[spaky]

now who's stirring the pot?

What does that mean?

 

[_more_]

Actually anything on the internet can be read, but you couldn't pay me enough to read the PMs on here. Shoot I don't even read a fraction of the threads on here.

How rude

its a joke

 

[patkin]

ok I did the research and I'll buy that answer...............

oops! the url I copied gave no indication it would appear like that.....so I deleted it.

but then what is the reasoning behind editing out the names of other forums?

Because, in the USA at least, anything you link to is the same as having what's at the linked-to site on your site. And, especially on a forum, what's the point of having rules (especially as regards zero tolerance for certain substance conversations) if you're going to allow links to forums that may not have the same ones? What mod has the time to travel to all the possible posted sites checking out all the content there?