Just found yet another forum dealing with justweather stations by the looks of it:- http://www.weatherstationforum.co.uk/index.php #-o
Hmmmm, interesting whois for that domain. Could it be that you are using this forum to promote your own competing forum, without acknowledging ownership?
Samthing i was thinkingā¦ Same server and IP numbers from the 2 sites.
Well, it worked on me. I joined. As a new enthusiast, I read as much as I can find about the hardware, software, and science. Thatās why I hang out here, even though I donāt use Weather Display. Thereās a lot of good hardware and science discussion on this forum that isnāt relevant to a particular software package.
Maybe itās a different Geoff P in Harwick.
Steve
Righttttttttttttttttttttt LOL
until you dig all the way down and the address and name matches 100%ā¦
-Bob
Well, theyāre sharing the same computer.
Maybe thatās how he just found it :lol:
Honesty is the best policy. If the guy had said āhello everyone Iām starting a new forumā perhaps it would have been worth a look. With this devious approach forget it is what I say.
I read all the post on the forum took about 2 minutes!! 8O
Spot on.
We all are getting a bit harsh arenāt we?
At least his post counts are bigger than 1. So give the guy a breakā¦
H.
=D>
Do you check the whois for every domain posted on this forum? #-o
OK, end of discussion.
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I hope you think itās reasonable that the moderators of this forum try to avoid dodgy links in posts? So it would therefore be reasonable to investigate something that looked suspicious so the link could be removed to protect users of this forum?
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A post pointing at a forum which at the time would have been empty apart from two initial messages from the admin would seem suspicious to me. Scammers/spammers want to entice you to visit other web sites to infect you with malware, shower you with spam, etc. Such web sites are often very rudimentary in their design/content. I know this because I see a lot of them whilst clearing scammers/spammers off this forum (as has niko).
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On discovering a mostly empty web site, it would therefore seem reasonable to do a quick investigation to see if it was legitimate by doing a few more checks on it, e.g. who owns it. Thereās nothing on the forum to suggest who the admin is, so a quick domain check might reveal something.
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On checking the domain, it appears to be owned by the person who made the initial āI just found a forumā post. Does it not seem odd that the probable creator of a web site who has probably posted the only two messages on that site reports it in the way they did in this forum? āā¦by the looks of itā is odd, surely the creator of a thing knows what itās for?
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Like anyone else, Geoff is perfectly free to create his own forum and I wish him luck in running it because I know how much work goes into running one. However, forum ettiquette has long been that you donāt use other forums to promote your own if the topics are closely related. If the original post here had been āIāve created a new forumā¦ā then even though thatās a closely related topic I wouldnāt have objected.
As you can see, Iāve left the original link intact for people to discover whatās behind it. However, Iāve also left the discussion intact so that people can see the probable relationship between the person promoting the forum and the forum owner.