What you guys don't know and thus continue to assume is that things aren't as flexible as your mind. There aren't options we can just choose to individually manipulate settings for people. It's sort of an all or nothing deal. So, if I take away the editing ability for you, it'll have to be everybody in your user group.

Do you guys honestly think that the staff here are that stupid that we choose to punish everybody when we have an option to punish just one person? Again, we don't have that, but you're assuming we do and that we aren't thinking enough to be "reasonable."

My tone and response came from your assumption that we aren't doing our job properly. And don't give me this "you're admin" blah blah. Maybe if you hadn't "threatened" us with "i'm not coming back," but rather tried to reason with us and tried to improve on how things could be dealt with, I would've responded in a more professional way. Don't expect to say whatever you want without expecting to here whatever I want to say. I say what needs to be said in a suitable and fitting manner.

Threatening won't get you anywhere and I don't want you to expect anything from it. Many are quick to say what they think will get them what they want. It doesn't work that way.

Again, it's an all or nothing deal. So, we can't say "let's disable the editing options for every first post of each thread" or "let me disable z1 performance's editing abilities while keeping everybody else's in tact."

And yet again, softwares (like vBulletin) are just that. They can only do what they're designed to do. That means, just because we (admins and members) can think up something, it will most likely not exist within our control panel to implement it.

Evidently, some of you guys are confused as to what happened. I'll try to explain.

I found some people (so called "long standing members") deleting valuable information from our forum which they had posted. After this whole IB incident, people didn't fully realize every aspect, thus creating biases and unjust assumptions toward 1 side. That's when people started jumping on the mygtr.com bandwagon, IB hating, etc. Because information and the members are what make up an online forum, losing either would be detrimental. I, personally, can't prevent members from leaving. However, I can stop them from deleting content. Thus, time limit of a week for editing was set and the ability to delete were taken away.

Not too long after, that's when we started getting a lot more scammers on our forum. So, to prevent that or at least slow it down further, the editing ability was taken away completely.

I promised that I would bring back both abilities when things settled down (approximating that it would be at the end of August or early September). I kept my promise and brought both abilities back, with the editing ability having the preset time limit of 1 week, which nobody even noticed anyway when it was first initiated.

Hope that helps.



Anyway, we are definitely looking for suggestions that we may not have thought of already. So, continue to post up your opinions, comments, and suggestions. However, please keep in mind that there are certain and very real limitations on what can be done. Hopefully, with the upcoming update (whenever that is..), things are more adjustable and flexible enough so that we won't have to go through the process of punishing everybody for a few people's mistakes.