How to report a forum

Started by Tanush, March 15, 2012, 08:50:32 AM

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Tanush

Well i use .x10 and this other forum uses .smfnew.com, we own a game called san andreas multi player forum and they copyed all the topics and boards in my forum. How can i report them for copying

NanoSector

Hi there,

My suggestion would be to first talk to the website owner. Tell him/her that you don't want them to copy over your posts.
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RayOfLight1921

I also need to report a forum. I tried to email them beforehand and the email I got said that they'd be ignoring my next few emails.

Basically, this forum is circulating copyrighted images all over the place, and pornographic content of the users themselves. I can't really find any examples because I was IP banned. Even if I wasn't, though, the site was made private. You'd need an account to access the site. There are also a few accounts of arguments between moderators and members that lead to posts from said members being deleted by moderators and members being permanently banned without warnings. One example would be that complaints are coming in from all over the place about the moderators, and one person decided to PM the administrators. 3 PMs and basically a year later, no replies. They also tried actually PMing the moderators to discuss this and no replies. Then they brought it in public and they got permanently banned and their suggestions deleted. Back on the copyrighted images, they're being hosted at a site that the forums are associated to and there have been complaints from photographers since.

Who can I talk to this about? Should I post the link here?

NanoSector

You can take it up against their host. Google "whois" and enter the address of the site there to find out who that is.
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RayOfLight1921

I just tried that, it says "None of the records publish domain name ownership data; they all use a privacy or proxy service. "

I'm not sure how to use that site though. I figured since it was a simplemachines forum, I might be able to ask someone here to help me.

Illori

there is nothing we can do to help you, it is between you the admin of that forum and the host that serves that forum. smf and sm have no control over how the software is used.

RayOfLight1921

That sucks. Especially since another Admin apparently just took over, and was supposedly one of the people involved in the whole mess.

Do I have any other options?

Illori

nope, you dont. we cant help you in anyway.

Kindred

Simple Machines does not provide hosting services to anyone except our own support forum (here)
We have no contact with or control over forums which may choose to use our software.

If you have an issue with any site other than simplemachines.org - we can not do anything. You can contact the admin or owner of the site. You can contact their hosting company. You could even try lawyers or the police... but we can't do anything about it....
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Tanush

Quote from: Yoshi2889 on March 15, 2012, 10:15:52 AM
Hi there,

My suggestion would be to first talk to the website owner. Tell him/her that you don't want them to copy over your posts.
I am the owner of that forum.

NanoSector

Quote from: Tanush on March 16, 2012, 10:35:18 AM
Quote from: Yoshi2889 on March 15, 2012, 10:15:52 AM
Hi there,

My suggestion would be to first talk to the website owner. Tell him/her that you don't want them to copy over your posts.
I am the owner of that forum.
So you are the owner of your forum and also the "copying" forum in question?
My Mods / Mod Builder - A tool to easily create mods / Blog
"I've heard from a reliable source that the Answer is 42. But, still no word on what the question is."

kat


ApplianceJunk

Quote from: Yoshi2889 on March 16, 2012, 10:44:55 AM
Quote from: Tanush on March 16, 2012, 10:35:18 AM
Quote from: Yoshi2889 on March 15, 2012, 10:15:52 AM
Hi there,

My suggestion would be to first talk to the website owner. Tell him/her that you don't want them to copy over your posts.
I am the owner of that forum.
So you are the owner of your forum and also the "copying" forum in question?

I'm confused now.

Edited to add: Someone should start a site at reportaforum.com

No the .com name has not yet been register, lol...


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