Larry saved us from suspension!

[bradblazer]

I just read an email I received from Larry G. through this forum. The forum was suspended due to some content that was not in compliance with Proboard's policies.

I know we were just discussing that we hadn't heard much lately from the Big Guys. I would just like to thank Larry for stepping in on short notice to bring us back into compliance. There is a lot of info on this forum that is important reference material for most of us.

Here is the text of the email. Since it is addressed to all forum members and contains some important guidelines I am taking the liberty of pasting it here.

Dear all valued members,

This message is from Larry G (GuglioLS). Many of you may have noticed our forum was suspended by ProBoards. This took some time to investigate. I have been informed by ProBoards the forum is in violation of ProBoards policy of containing offensive material and personal harassing attacks against individual(s). This should be no surprise to a few of us and I am as guilty as anyone else who may have posted material that could be considered offensive. Under a plea agreement to save the forum I have 48 hours to clean it up or the board will be permeability disabled. I want to do everything I can to correct the situation as there are allot of valuable information here and our international membership is 571 strong. I cannot guarantee I will be able to find and delete all the posts that are in violation of ProBoards policy but will do my best to save the forum.

With that said you may notice some of your posts and perhaps entire sections / threads deleted without notice or warning. For example: the entire "Back Shed" will be deleted. In the future all of us need to keep it clean and focused on helping each other with our tractor needs and general discussion. Please leave out the personal attacks and derogatory remarks or references directed toward anyone or any certain individual. This is a free board subject to their policy so we must follow it or lose the forum. If I could establish a true free speech forum I would do so. This forum is provided to us free as a privilege and not a “right” so we must follow their rules or lose the forum altogether. I appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Larry G (GuglioLS)

Please review and follow ProBoards Community Guidelines quoted below.
"These Community Guidelines ("Guidelines") are intended to help You understand the types of content that ProBoards believes to be inappropriate for use in connection with the Website and Services (all capitalized terms not defined in these Guidelines have the same meanings as in ProBoards' Website Terms of Service). Keep in mind that the Guidelines are intended as guidelines, and not as an exhaustive list of content that ProBoards finds inappropriate. ProBoards reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject any content for any reason.

Prohibited Content

Content that:

* Infringes the rights, including without limitation the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, of any third party, or violates any agreement between you and a current or former employers concerning the intellectual property you create or created during your employment;
* Is libelous or defamatory, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
* Consists of or contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, malicious code or other harmful or destructive content;
* Is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or pornographic, that may constitute child pornography, or that may solicit personal information from or exploit in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18;
* Depicts excessive violence, contains comments or images that are offensive, abusive, threatening, harassing or menacing, or that incites, encourages or threatens physical harm against another;
* Promotes or glorifies racial intolerance, uses hate and/or racist terms, or signifies hate towards any person or group of people;
* Advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States or other conduct that could constitute a fraud or other criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation;
* Glamorizes the use of illegal substances and drugs;
* Promotes gambling or casinos;
* Promotes the buying, selling, or trading of firearms or weapons;
* Violates in any way applicable laws or regulations, including without limitation laws designed to regulate unsolicited email or other electronic advertising, in any jurisdiction where the Website or Services are marketed or provided;
* Violates any provision of this Agreement or any other ProBoards agreement or policy;
* Has a detrimental effect to the goodwill and good standing of ProBoards or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, contractors or representatives; or
* Is generally offensive or in bad taste, as determined by ProBoards."

This is the WARNING I received from ProBoards….
ProBoards does not permit the posting of harassing comments. Your forum appears to be in violation of this policy. We ask that you please remove all offending content from your forum within 48 hours.

Examples of offending content includes but may not be limited to:

chinesetractor.proboards.com/inde....806&page=1#9948

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with our policies so that there are no issues in the future.
Terms of Service: www.proboards.com/tos
Community Guidelines: www.proboards.com/community_guidelines

If you have any questions, please contact our Abuse Department at [e-mail].

ProBoards Abuse Department
[e-mail]

[PJ]

I guess most of us got that message through our email. PJ

[CTW Admin Larry G (GuglioLS)]

Hi Brad, PJ, and other valued CTW forum members.

Yes our forum was suspended... as in turned off and about to be permanently disabled. Many of us may not have even noticed had we not logged in somewhere between 12/25/11 - 12/29/11.

Many thanks to Rich Waugh for sending me a personal e-mail alerting me to the suspension. If not for his e-mail I may not have noticed until it was too late.

Brad, Thanks for posting the ProBoards Community Guidelines that we must follow.

All,
The suspension was a direct result of past and present posts containing personal attacks and derogatory comments directed toward a certain individual running another forum. We must cease and deist that activity from this point forward (Only a few of us are guilty). This forum is free and subject to their rules of conduct so it's not an unlimited free speech forum without consequences. Some of us "old timer" members might also remember some very racial opinions from a certain member shortly after the forum was launched, those threads may have also been discovered and reported. I had 48 hours to clean it all up, the quickest way to do that was delete the entire "back shed" and all posts by a certain trouble maker poster. I took no pleasure being a censor or an editor but the entire forum was at stake so the bigger picture of saving the forum won hands down.

As Brad mentioned this forum is a valuable resource and for tractor owners on a global scale. I often look up old posts as reference to refresh my memory as to what was done and when, I consider this forum a living owners manual and a place to meet, greet and make new friends.

I know as of late I've not been as active as in the past or as active as an administrator should be. Going forward my pledge to everyone is to do my best to frequent the forum more often, keep it clean fun, focused and out of harms way.

Happy New Year everyone!

Larry G
(GuglioLS)

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Jan 2, 2012 0:47:08 GMT -5 CTW Admin Larry G (GuglioLS) said:

Hi Brad, PJ, and other valued CTW forum members.

Yes our forum was suspended... as in turned off and about to be permanently disabled. Many of us may not have even noticed had we not logged in somewhere between 12/25/11 - 12/29/11.

Many thanks to Rich Waugh for sending me a personal e-mail alerting me to the suspension. If not for his e-mail I may not have noticed until it was too late.

Brad, Thanks for posting the ProBoards Community Guidelines that we must follow.

All,
The suspension was a direct result of past and present posts containing personal attacks and derogatory comments directed toward a certain individual running another forum. We must cease and deist that activity from this point forward (Only a few of us are guilty). This forum is free and subject to their rules of conduct so it's not an unlimited free speech forum without consequences. Some of us "old timer" members might also remember some very racial opinions from a certain member shortly after the forum was launched, those threads may have also been discovered and reported. I had 48 hours to clean it all up, the quickest way to do that was delete the entire "back shed" and all posts by a certain trouble maker poster. I took no pleasure being a censor or an editor but the entire forum was at stake so the bigger picture of saving the forum won hands down.

As Brad mentioned this forum is a valuable resource and for tractor owners on a global scale. I often look up old posts as reference to refresh my memory as to what was done and when, I consider this forum a living owners manual and a place to meet, greet and make new friends.

I know as of late I've not been as active as in the past or as active as an administrator should be. Going forward my pledge to everyone is to do my best to frequent the forum more often, keep it clean fun, focused and out of harms way.

Happy New Year everyone!

Larry G
(GuglioLS)

Thanks Larry, we appreciate the effort it took to save the site!
-Ed

[3RRL]

Yes, Larry, thank you for saving the Forum!
I too am guilty for previous offenses as well as not posting on a regular basis.
How's everyone doing these days?
rob-

[linus69]

Hey Rob, good to see you are alive and well, I for one can`t complain doing well thanks.

Paul

[quikduk]

WOW. I was gone for a while and missed all the ruckus. Thanks Larry G. for saving us from ourselves.

I will attempt to update all of you on my/our current status. Lots has happened over the past two years especially recently.

I hope everyone is well and surviving in this current economy.

BFN.

Ken

PS (Hi Rob and Loretta!)

[bracabric]

I missed all the troubles too, So huge thank you to Larry for sealing the breach and saving all our Bacon !!
This board is such an important resorce for me and so many others.
Dick