Hi,
I am writing this post because I am so moved by the hard work these guys do at 5 star forum. I would like to specially mention about Larry or Larwee as most of us know him by.
Recently, I got into a bit of argument with Larry over website review. Basically, it started with me posting my website for review in the site review section, where I encouraged the visitors to take a poll on my website to review the design.
Larry messaged me saying that everything is ok, except that I can't ask people to poll and explained although my intentions were completely honest, but they can't allow that to happen because if they allow people to do it, then it opens the door to potential spammers who would pretend people to review the website, but actually want people to visit their website and do something.
Point very well taken, but I messaged Larry back to take off my website from the review section, as I thought that a little poll cannot do any harm and I was genuinely upset by this.
Few hours later, I receive another e-mail from Larry explaining in detail why 5 star cannot allow to do that. The reason is basically the same as mentioned before, but this time Larry made me aware that there is a lot of spam that these guys have to deal with. There are people out there who want to trick innocent forum members to visit their blog/site and get something out of them. Larry stays up almost all night monitoring this forum so that when someone visits this forum in the morning, they read genuine stuff, not someone's spam messages.
As, far as I am concerned I cannot agree with Larry more and would like to apologize publicly for getting upset over something that I really shouldn't have. I completely agree with Larry that rules are same for all the members, and my little poll could have probably opened the door for potential spammers who in protest could have said that if one guy can do it, then they also have the right to do it and then asking other 5 star members to visit their website and take some action (participate in a survey, subscribe to newsletter, etc etc).
My salute to Larry for doing a marvelous job for keeping this forum spam free, and making sure that every forum member gets the best out of their 5 star experience.
I did not officially participate in the I Heart 5 star forum contest, but I feel that there is no need to as in my heart I know that over this short period of time how much respect I have developed for 5 star and its administrators Larry & Linda.
Larry, once again sorry for causing you trouble last night, and congratulations on doing a splendid job in this forum.
I am writing this post because I am so moved by the hard work these guys do at 5 star forum. I would like to specially mention about Larry or Larwee as most of us know him by.
Recently, I got into a bit of argument with Larry over website review. Basically, it started with me posting my website for review in the site review section, where I encouraged the visitors to take a poll on my website to review the design.
Larry messaged me saying that everything is ok, except that I can't ask people to poll and explained although my intentions were completely honest, but they can't allow that to happen because if they allow people to do it, then it opens the door to potential spammers who would pretend people to review the website, but actually want people to visit their website and do something.
Point very well taken, but I messaged Larry back to take off my website from the review section, as I thought that a little poll cannot do any harm and I was genuinely upset by this.
Few hours later, I receive another e-mail from Larry explaining in detail why 5 star cannot allow to do that. The reason is basically the same as mentioned before, but this time Larry made me aware that there is a lot of spam that these guys have to deal with. There are people out there who want to trick innocent forum members to visit their blog/site and get something out of them. Larry stays up almost all night monitoring this forum so that when someone visits this forum in the morning, they read genuine stuff, not someone's spam messages.
As, far as I am concerned I cannot agree with Larry more and would like to apologize publicly for getting upset over something that I really shouldn't have. I completely agree with Larry that rules are same for all the members, and my little poll could have probably opened the door for potential spammers who in protest could have said that if one guy can do it, then they also have the right to do it and then asking other 5 star members to visit their website and take some action (participate in a survey, subscribe to newsletter, etc etc).
My salute to Larry for doing a marvelous job for keeping this forum spam free, and making sure that every forum member gets the best out of their 5 star experience.
I did not officially participate in the I Heart 5 star forum contest, but I feel that there is no need to as in my heart I know that over this short period of time how much respect I have developed for 5 star and its administrators Larry & Linda.
Larry, once again sorry for causing you trouble last night, and congratulations on doing a splendid job in this forum.