The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi, Mordeth, and welcome. Your knowledge, experience and questions are welcome, as well. Steve, Thanks for the welcome, although I will probably end up reading more than I reply, unless I feel I have something to contribute (e.g. on topics involving computers or the internet). Definitely, though, i...

Well, I don't know all the details, but Dan, the admin, is claiming that a guy vengefully hacked into the board and deleted 8 years worth of posts. Politics aside, that is just plain uncool. Steve, Just so you’re aware—Dan has been repeatedly lying about this, and cannot be trusted. [much of post r...

should we consider migrating this site to someplace where that can't happen? If you already have web hosting (which certainly appears to be the case from the activation e-mail that I received, and is part of the reason I’m replying), you may want to do a backup of your board (which is very easy wit...

Are the banner ads an ongoing thing? [snip] It's a free site. Perhaps such ads are an inherent risk of its freebie status. Steve, You’re exactly correct here—you should always be afraid of banner adverts run on any free site. For example, Yahoo! was serving malicious ads (2008.04.28), Expedia and R...