Les Stroud Forum

Will the Les Stroud Forum be coming back?

hey T, i'm not sure, he just took it down without warning or reason. I'm not sure why and for how long. I will post any details if I get any but right now i'm not sure whats going on.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Thanks, I figured it might be content related. Or not setting forth his intended image or purpose.

I thought it was going very well there, nice, clean and polite Confused

eric

	turd wrote:
	I thought it was going very well there, nice, clean and polite eric

As did I, but I guess something wasn't the way he wanted it.

I dont think it was content related. We were havign lots of problems with spammers and people trying to sell stuff.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

OK

How do you stop spammers anyway?

eric

	turd wrote:
	OK How do you stop spammers anyway? eric

Basically more mods, and the fact that activation is required to regester.

Something like that, at the end we put it back to auto and then spammers started to post.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

the way we keep from too many spammers here is exactly what doug said. everyone has to be approved, and even then we keep a close eye on users to see who is posting, what they are posting, what their profile has in it, all that fun stuff, all to keep the site clean.

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

I guess when you are in the public eye, anything negative can be devastating. I know that there was a spam issue... I was banning/deleating quite a few everyday and most were promoting porn sites... not good when you are a family oriented site. Admin was looking into new forums software before Les shut it down. It would be a shame if we lost it for good.
Rick

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hmm i never saw a problem there i thought it was going very well the only thing i ever saw was that britney spears thing or whatever someone kept posting but i hope the site comes back up one of these days

	Askdamice wrote:
	I guess when you are in the public eye, anything negative can be devastating. I know that there was a spam issue... I was banning/deleating quite a few everyday and most were promoting porn sites... not good when you are a family oriented site. Admin was looking into new forums software before Les shut it down. It would be a shame if we lost it for good. Rick

Yes, its really sad people will advertise sex in a family forum. Thankfully we stopped getting spammers here, used to get quite a few a day, one day they just stopped Smile

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Les is getting back around now from filming one of his episodes. He was having a problem with someone in particular I am pretty sure.
none of the posts or anything will be lost. he was just getting frustrated and wanted to shut it down untill he can handle it.
maybe they will set some new guidlines for mods, im not sure.

but it should be up soon.
keep your fingers crossed Smile

	Crazy Stick wrote:
	but it should be up soon. keep your fingers crossed

Will do

The forum is going back up again......

Not sure when but it is in the works. Just a little tidbit of info for those of you who are wondering if it will be back up agian.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Great news......

Hope your not planning on closing this one. I like it here!

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SURVIVAL..........it's all in your head

	tfisher wrote:
	Great news...... Hope your not planning on closing this one. I like it here!

Likewise. This is a great forum. At the risk of repeating myself this is one of the best run forums on the net, it's absolutely chock-full of great survival/outdoors info and instruction, and our membership group is outstanding, the best I think.

It'd be nice if there was someway to convince Les to merge the two... or even better use this as his site's "official" forum. The moderation and administration here are top-notch and I'm sure whatever happened that caused Les to feel the need to take-down his "official" forum wouldn't happen here.

On the other hand, maybe it's nicer, more pleasant for all our members to camp here, somewhat out of the hub-bub and traffic of a commercialized site. Wink

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Thanks for the great comments it means a lot Very Happy

Of course i'm keeping this place open, i'm always going to run this place because the Stroud forum always closes without warning; thus, causing people to get turned away.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

my bet is that it will be up for 2 weeks. Their campfire will have 475 pages, and it will be shut down again.

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.