A:M/C - The Oldie message board has vanished

your the seconde to have this problem

Wait until craig or martyn get online they will be able to answer if its been deleted for a TOS violation. If no response in 24hrs then you may bump.

If they violated the TOS, you won't get a warning. You'll know if it was deleted or not by visiting the forum.

Or, the Administrator deleted the forum. That happens.

In that case, it'll be the classic:

Craig Suffolk, or Martyn Dale are the ONLY people who will tell you if the board was deleted by Proboards staff.

Let this thread drop so they can deal with it, posting in the thread (bumping) will take it further from help.
If the forum has not been deleted by Proboards staff, you will need the ORIGINAL admin password, (the one you used when you first registered DO NOT post passwords here) Craig or Martyn may ask for it.

If no reply in 24 hours, you may bump the thread.

Bookmark this thread so you can find it again.

To other members:- Posting in this thread will not help this member, please allow this to drop.

To give an answer on your question, if the staff does do things against the TOS, the board is deleted without a warning. If a member does something against the TOS I believe they point that out to the main admin. If there hasn't been taken any action, the board will be deleted.

Hi Craig,
Is that all?
The Oldie board had been going entirely trouble-free for two and a half years, and tens of thousands of posts. We're a national UK magazine for the over-50s, so clearly have a vested interest in running a good board, and are not prone to adolescent outbursts, profanity, spamming etc. We had experienced moderation. Yet we got no warning from Proboards that there was a violation and the board was to be pulled.

I'm sure you're not gonna lose sleep over one more deleted board among millions -- but if you have no way of distinguishing your quality users from your quick churn boards set up by idiots, then you're doing yourselves and your good quality users a diservice. Or are you simply not interested in quality users?

I wasn't saying you can determine a quality user by the length of time their board has been going. There will obviously be many factors. However length of time a board has been running would seem to me to be a good indicator of a board that would be worth engaging with/cutting some slack/treating like an adult, rather than deleting without warning.

I understand that technically, they have the right to do so -- it's their product after all. However, if being a good user doesn't count for anything, -- and if Proboards aren't interested in distinguishing these kinds of boards -- then ultimately everyone loses out, don't they? The Oldie board part of a successful and widely viewed website for a quality UK magazine. I was constantly being asked who provided our boards. Obviously, i'll be telling people to steer well clear of proboards from now on.