Hi all,
It's been a busy week for me juggling fulltime work and getting the forums back up and running. However you will be glad to know that no data has been corrupted to date. Just email addresses stolen.
Before we get to the reason the site was down have a look at this thread for information regarding problems with the site and what has/hasn't changed.
The reason I closed down the site was so that we could adress the 'hacking' and also upgrade the forums.
In regards to the comments made on that other site I would like to clearup some things.
1. The moderators corner is there to discuss things out of the view of the public. Comments made there that the mods are bitching about users is absolutely false. That forum is there for moderators to talk about how they do there work and what wasn't mentioned were all the guidelines they have to follow. Most forums have a hidden forum for moderators and we are no exception. Things said there were meant to be in private (just like your PMs) and we will NOT be discussing any of the threads posted on that other site which were taken out of the mods corner.
2. Accusations were made that in regards to traders/advertisers that I do not charge them GST. This is true and it would be illegal to charge them GST as I am not registered for it. I don't have to be. Go look at the ato website and do a bit of research and you'll know that this is true.
3. Racist/slandorous/abusive comments were made about all the moderators and they were also abused via SMS. The person responsible obviously has no consideration for others to tolerate and encourage such behaviour. All he/she has ended up doing is publicising private user details and we have already lodged complaints with the relevant authorities.
4. If you receive SPAM from that site I suggest you first try and block that email address. Or else contact your ISP and report it to them.
EDIT:
I think the mods on here should also be given some credit due to the hard work they have done and moreso due to the stick they have had to put up with over the last few weeks. I realise the community is created thanks to all you users (never doubted that) but the mods do a LOT of work behind the scenes and deserve a "thank you" as opposed to abuse.
That's it for now but i'll update this thread as we go along
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