Membership List pruning.

[Veronica]

For various reasons ... mainly to protect ourselves from spamming ... we propose to prune the Membership List regularly.

This will clear out the masses of people who sign up, but never complete their registration ... and so create an inactive account.

But it will also remove those who have completely signed up, but never bothered to post.

This will be run fairly frequently.

The rules will be that ... having signed up, everyone is allowed SEVEN DAYS to complete the Registration process ... by activating their account ... and then making at least one Post ... if nowhere else, then to at least say "Hello" in the "Welcome" Forum.

There is absolutely no point in signing up unless one is prepared to make Posts into Topics.

As a Guest, anything 'public' on this entire Board can be read as much as necessary.

(As we say in the Terms & Conditions) All Mods & Admins can reject Private Messages from those who have not made sufficient Topic Posts. (This rule is to stop the 'quick fixers' from getting themselves into trouble by going for a 'quick fix' without bothering to understand what they are actually doing).

If you can't even say "Hello", then there is absolutely no point in signing up ... is the way we look at it ... and this new mechanism will (we hope) limit the possibility of being auto-spammed with porn, or 'whatever'. If we still get spammed, we may have to reduce the time limit and/or take other defensive measures.

Under no circumstances whatsoever would we ever do anything to preclude 'the genuine article' from this Board. However, as our 'fame' spreads, we fully understand that we will be targeted by organisations who are just out to have some fun, and those who are not so funny.

[Veronica]

Pruning was run on the 27th July, 2009 at 1:30am. More than 600 unresponsive Members were removed from our lists, reducing our total active Membership to about 400+

If you do not wish to Post, then there is nothing (that we know of) stopping you from reading ... and you are welcome to do that.

We will be pruning regularly from now on, so there is no point is registering just for the sake of it ... (or with the intention of spamming ... you bastards ... 'coz you won't get very far!).

[Veronica]

Please Note: We are now pruning this Board regularly, and removing dozens of inactive users & new registrations.

There is no point in registering unless you wish to post something.

You get SEVEN days to do that ... otherwise you are removed.

ONE POST is all that it takes to remain a Member. We consider that a minimum requirement. All you have to do is to say "Hello". If you can't do that ... then you are wasting our time & resources, and your own.

[Veronica]

Maybe I should add ... if you are deleted ... YOU ARE -NOT- BANNED. There is nothing to stop you re-Registering (you will probably be able to use the same Username) ... and then SAY "HELLO" ... at which point you won't be removed again.

[owl]

OMG Veronica

No sooner have I found something (FMOTL.com) that I find empowering it starts to fall apart (TOKERS). I was going to email you but I can’t find any contact details so I am posting here.
I am a product of the 50's and have felt that something is not right since that abomination THATCHER and am absolutely outraged about 9/11 and Iraq.
I have been writing to my MP about our MP's attending Bilderberg meeting and the war crimes committed in Iraq not least the evil that depleted uranium munitions do, my heart breaks when I see the suffering of the civilians of Iraq all done in our name V. (That psychopath Blair needs to be standing in the docket in the Hague).Well I have been ignored so far and obviously they can carry on ignoring one man, what there needs to be as I know you fully understand is a ground swell of opposition or 10,000 Ghandi's. LOL

fmotl need to stick together and stay focused and it is a shame what has happened on FMOTL.com but this is a plight that many forums if not all suffer a natural real life community would not tolerate these people and a lot of them once part of a real life community would sense the importance of its aims and sincerity of its members and behave differently.

I have introduced a few people to FMOTL.com and they have come back to me saying it is a bunch of nutters scamming their way out of council tax etc, I then have to explain the situation get them to watch money as debt (I personally like the secret of OZ by Bill Still) and then point out Legal fictions and who owns them it is a slow process and I get thought of as a conspiracy theorist but at least they have been enlightened and even if they take no action now when the time comes as it must they will know which side to empower.

I am sure Ghandi had many setbacks and had to start over so don't lose heart or be discouraged by these idiots as Kipling wrote. "

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:"

Anyway if you are carrying on somewhere else I would very much like to here from you as I can see I have a lot to learn and there is so much to do, Physically I have Multiple Sclerosis and a few years back when I was house bound I took my bank to court and got my charges back with interest using common law and since those days I have managed to get much better health wise by taking charge of my own health rejecting NHS medication, taking to a Palaeolithic diet and then with concentrated power of will I am walking unaided and am back at work and appear normal to everybody else. when I look back a few years where I am now seemed impossible and when I told people I was going to get better and go back to work they said i was in denial but they didn't take into account what human beings are capable of and what strength is inside some people when faced with something unacceptable.

I am not so bothered about myself though I do want to be free and my family to be free but what I really want is to stop these evil bastards damaging and oppressing the good folk of this land and the rape and pillage of other countries people in my name.

So keep up the good work.

Kind regards Simon.

[kliff]

owl,

were still here, welcome

Kliff

[imbalanced]

hi all. just getting my head round all this

[imbalanced]

there is a site called project camelot that some of you might find of interest.

[01324633791]

John from Falkirk, hullo in the welcome forum.
" Hullo I must be going for I only came to say, I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way." ( Incredible String Band.)
Normally a seriously,content, boring individual,with one success in reclaiming from a bank, credit card, almost £4K, with another,almost £6K, inc' ppi, claim with finance company, ongoing, without much haste, via the ombudsman.The Notice
of Request to Cease Harrassment, taken from Templates on this site, sent to debt collector on 10/2 as they were a third party intervener, acting without authority. Also I AM preparing to issue the Notice of Discharge of Outstanding Demand and
Request for Clarification, also from Templates on this site, if necessary.
Twelve hours daily caring for a slightly disabled oap, X7X 52X till death do us part, Some days not anough time to open email so, likely to be an occasional skim reader, posting even less. Expect outcome submission whenever.
In the light of the Cadder ruling would one wish compensation for 27 convictions over 30 years obtained after being interviewed and charged without a solicitor present in spite of 27 requests ?

[Farley]

We all get membership before getting into these forums?
I don't know why still complaints are for spamming.
Can anyone tell precisely?