lowviz;7503355What? Please re-read that.
It either is or isn't. "Whine and Cheeze" was indexable until complaints against a certain *seemingly* disreputable dive op got squelched by their *allegedly* threatened lawsuit and the forum was renamed as "Thumbs Down".
I'm sorry but I'm clearly not following what alleged thread/threateneed lawsuit you're referring to. I've been around for over a decade and the only time I can remember a lawsuit had any impact on SB was the Maldives LOB suit that we "Defended" against successfully in court a few years ago. One of the terms of that is that future references to it here be censored - see - here's the plaintiff's name: *****
Honestly if you understood how simply we act/moderate to the ToS you would know that such conspiracy theories are nothing but a source of comic relief among the staff...
- we sometimes wish we were that cunning...
Solo took the opposite approach, it was hidden to all but subscribers. Now it is public.
When it was hidden to all but subscribers you are probably correct. So I retract the
always. Now that it is not a subscription forum it is fully indexable. Even to non-members - As you can see I was logged out when I viewed this forum just now. Anyone can read the threads
now, only members can respond.
Actually besides is/isn't there's a third option. we have forums that are viewable by every member yet only posted by those who are approved for the sub-forum. An example of that would be any of the club forums like DiveNY. You can view it but not post there unless approved for membership by their selected forum moderators. Who can also drop you, delete posts within their forum etc. So can all the mfr's reps in their forums as desired.
Guess what? "Thumbs Down" can't be seen outside of SB. Try it for yourself.
Guess what? - there's about 20 others also. Point of clarity - when I posted "forum" I meant
this one - Solo Divers within the Technical Diving sub-forum. I was not referring to Scubaboard collectively as "forum".
Neither is the Pub or any of the board support forums visible - there's even a whole "Mod Squad forum section where we conduct our business. And several dozen? private forums - some of our mfr's have one just for their dealers, some clubs one just for private club business. I used to manage one myself in the SW region - before I was a mod. A lot of them have forum moderators - not to be confused with SB moderators - they only have control over their specific forum. Our software calls both groups moderators when they're listed in who's who so it's confusing. Some don't even show up on the list - everything is configurable based on their requirements.