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Site Help and Rules / Deleted or missing threads.

« on: March 04, 2008, 02:08:19 PM »

You also have to understand that when I did PM the first 10-15 people, I had to explain things to them through 4 or 5 subsequent PM's and Im not doing that all day.  It will all even out.

Exactly.
They want to discuss it, debate, bribe, bitch and moan.
It can take 10 seconds to delete a thread, but you could spend hours with the cleanup. Not worth it.

If you read the rules and have a little common sense before hitting send on the first thought that enters your mind, we would not even need to delete it in the first place.

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Site Help and Rules / Deleted or missing threads.

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:03:05 PM »

It has come to my attention that some of you are annoyed with recent thread deletes so I figured it would be a good time to let people know a bit more about how we operate.


We do over 1800 edits per month just on threads and posts, this does not take into problems with your accounts, Pm's, bans, or anything else we deal with on a daily basis, that is JUST editing and deleting. Typically the better we do, the less you notice.

We have some new people, they may be a little trigger happy. Personally, I am glad they are, it helps make up for any slacking the older ones may have been doing, including myself. We needed fresh people to push things back to how they need to be.

If a thread disappears there was a good reason for it. It may not have fit with Bg, may have been a bit graphic, or it may have just been lame.
We do what we do to make this place more enjoyable for everyone, including ourselves. Being a staff member is work, it may be a labor of love, it may even be fun, but it is still work.


Bg is run similar to King Arthurs Court. When a major decision needs to be made, they are involved as I can allow them to be.  I give the staff the ability to have free reign in terms of how Bg should be ran and they in turn give the site direction. I stand behind whatever they decide, and it is pretty rare when a decision is overturned, when they do, there is usually extenuating circumstances. Don't come crying to me expecting me to change things.



Point is, we spend a lot of time cleaning this place up, we do not need to spend more time constantly explaining WHY we did what we did.

We would rather spend our time enjoying the site just like you do.

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Site Help and Rules / Current Bg staff (updated)

« on: March 02, 2008, 05:19:22 PM »

Current Admins:
bluebmx
Mike
paulie
sheepdog


Current Mods:
big_papa_nuts
kirby
Sal Paradise
Erik
Merry
Hank Chinaski
Mack Bolan

Forum specific Mods:
trenchbmx, Phillip Frentsworth, Jame$ - Hate Forum
trailstar, Bink, Not Danny Tanner - Other Forums category
freebirdrider27 - Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum
rideabike - Riding Videos

154

Site Help and Rules / signature.

« on: February 01, 2008, 01:05:41 PM »

Should work now.

155

Site Help and Rules / Posting Warnings

« on: January 26, 2008, 12:43:35 PM »

Not worth what it involves or causes.

156

Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 25, 2008, 04:20:23 PM »

However, I can see why you don't want L/W shit on your site, but anywho.. are you aware of what charges this BG member has against them?

Yes.

It has nothing to do with what was said on BG, and nothing to do with this thread except that what you say online can be used against you.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 20, 2008, 02:18:38 PM »

Do not paint me as the model citizen sticking up for IP rights.

Honestly, I really do not care if you do this stuff as long as it is not on BG. I am not an advocate for the industry. Far from it, greedy pricks if you ask me (fuck em'). The recording and movie industries need a massive change anyhow. If it means the death of them, so be it. They deserve it for what they are doing. They are like a deer in the headlights, they see the car coming, and know they will die, but they just stand there instead of doing something constructive, like moving. In any industry suing your customers is a desperate last act.

The problem is that discussing this stuff violates the terms of service for BG's host, same most most others, some sites are just more lax. Not to mention it could be used to nail your ass to the wall.


For the record, I think I have bought one new RIAA endorsed cd since the Metallica/Napster lawsuit (which by the way, Metallica got where they are by people trading and loaning their tapes, hypocritical assholes).
Not saying I have not bought any (a few), just none from groups or labels who are a part of that racketeering organization.

158

Site Help and Rules / suggestion:Why not get rid of some of the members on the members list

« on: January 18, 2008, 08:21:07 PM »

Doing so will also wipe out banned accounts.
Also less people makes it look like we are much smaller than we are.

It has been wiped out and cleaned out a few times over the years and each time it has brought nothing but hassle.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 14, 2008, 09:01:01 PM »

if you didnt know by now, sheep knows everything. he claims he follows it on the news, but hes just some god like figure and knows everything about anything.
sheepdog is my hero

Not true.  I can't knit.












:thup:

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 14, 2008, 12:10:24 PM »

how do you know so much, sheepdog?

I follow this stuff in the news.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 13, 2008, 07:49:11 PM »

That is actually considered fair use if it is personal.
Selling, yeah you are illegal. However it is not me you need to worry about on any of this.

I have been asked by companies to remove things now and again.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 13, 2008, 07:43:41 PM »

I'm pretty sure it was some kid who was trying to phish people, thread was in the hate section.

No, there were at least 2 threads, I deleted 2 in the last 24 hours.

163

Site Help and Rules / suggestion: seperate riding photos / riding videos - forums?

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:17:13 PM »

Anyone wanna sort some out, have fun.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 13, 2008, 02:21:25 AM »

Laugh all you want Canada, a copy protection DMCA style law is going through your government that is MORE restrictive than the U.S. version. Even if it fails, the companies will not stop until they pass one about the same or worse.

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Site Help and Rules / Posting about P2p, limewire, warez etc...

« on: January 12, 2008, 01:21:54 PM »

Some of you dumbasses fail to read the rules, so here you go.
DON'T DO IT!

How stupid are you?
This board is indexed by search engines.
It can and does get monitored by music, movie and of course bike companies. I am sure Odyssey just loves you guys asking right in front of them how to get their videos for free.

Besides that, IT CAN BE USED IN COURT AGAINST YOU IN COURT!
You may as well sign a piece of paper stating you are breaking the law since that is what it equates to. One Bg member is already in court for things he said on another forum and look at all the people fired over things posted on Myspace, the music and movie lawsuits...

Don't be such a bunch of morons.
Anyone can monitor this place.
In fact:
Links to BG from Yahoo: 364,556
Links to Bg from Google: 92,700
Links to BG from Altavista: 366,000
Links to Bg from Alltheweb: 360,000

I really would prefer not to be asked to testify against you in court.