Did you guys get the email from Mike (MyPens66) about FCB???

[Jays_Cards]

This thread, and everything associated with it, is absolutely ridiculous. This is a FREE message board brought about by collectors for collectors. If you do not like general direction of the forum, dont visit. I, for one, have never had a better experience on any message board on the internet and I appreciate everything that Chris and the rest of the moderation staff have done to provide such a great place to discuss our collective hobby. Everyone that is demanding an explanation for what happened, get over yourself. We are all here to enjoy the hobby, not act like 15 year old girls.

 

[cgilmo]

PER TOS:


"In an effort to keep the message boards and the chat area safe and friendly for everyone, we have several active moderators and administrators who examine the message boards on a daily basis. In order to maintain certain standards of the website, note that your "private" messages can be accessed, and will be accessed if the administrative (not moderation) staff feels that it needs to do so to maintain the integrity of the site."

That answers your question.

You agree to it by joining the site.

SCARY!!!

It shouldn't be.

It is a statement/rule that basically is a precaution taken to make sure all other rules are followed.

As long as you abide by the laws of the site, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

i disagree.

We don't directly access anyone's pms unless there is evidence that person is ripping someone off.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

anyone who deals in baseball cards has their email and personal info "out there"

i crack up at people that are so hesitant about having the info out there.

 

[MTBright]

PER TOS:


"In an effort to keep the message boards and the chat area safe and friendly for everyone, we have several active moderators and administrators who examine the message boards on a daily basis. In order to maintain certain standards of the website, note that your "private" messages can be accessed, and will be accessed if the administrative (not moderation) staff feels that it needs to do so to maintain the integrity of the site."

That answers your question.

You agree to it by joining the site.

SCARY!!!

It shouldn't be.

It is a statement/rule that basically is a precaution taken to make sure all other rules are followed.

As long as you abide by the laws of the site, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

It is scary, even if you dont do anything wrong. Because who states what is wrong. It is a paranoid mindset.

That is a similar argument people use to say illegal search and seizures are ok in cases.

 

[miguelcabrera]

One of the primary concerns I have, is that mypens used CC instead of blind carbon copy to email you guys.

Now everyone that has ever registered here has access to our mailing list.

i do

 

[scotty21690]

I think Terry was behind this some, that is what I am hearing.

Terry? Got anymore info?

 

[chuckbartowski]

This thread, and everything associated with it, is absolutely ridiculous. This is a FREE message board brought about by collectors for collectors. If you do not like general direction of the forum, dont visit. I, for one, have never had a better experience on any message board on the internet and I appreciate everything that Chris and the rest of the moderation staff have done to provide such a great place to discuss our collective hobby. Everyone that is demanding an explanation for what happened, get over yourself. We are all here to enjoy the hobby, not act like 15 year old girls.

Thanked...completely agree.

 

[cgilmo]

anyone who deals in baseball cards has their email and personal info "out there"

i crack up at people that are so hesitant about having the info out there.

Yes, but now people that are commercial members here have our mailing list, and can spam all of you.

 

[Cobra29svt]

he isnt banned


he did not promote CI through PM's

Chris,
What does PM stand for? I always thought it meant PRIVATE Message. Are you guys reading out PM's? WTF is that sh*t?

+1

that would be me. No, we don't read your PMs. but if someone is causing trouble on the board or creating bad trades, PMs will likly be gone through to help find a resolution. That said I AM THE ONLY ONE ON THE SITE, that has access to this information.

So what is to stop you (or any other mod) from reading any of our PM's? I always wondered why certain members would send e-mails instead of PM's. Now I know.

 

[bouwob]

It is scary, even if you dont do anything wrong. Because who states what is wrong. It is a paranoid mindset.

That is a similar argument people use to say illegal search and seizures are ok in cases.

I do

 

[PaulKonerkbro]

I advocate the use of spam filter

 

[GAbballplayer148]

Thanked...completely agree.

OT, but I am amazed by the cards in your sig...I hit F5 5-6 times in a thread just to see the next card

 

[Resident Bay Fan]

He's not the "true founder" of this site. He opened a board and when Chris proposed a better option for the members he agreed to transfer over. Chris is the founder. Plain and simple.

Sooo, according to you, Chris never agreed to run this site WITH MyPens66? And Chris had the idea to bring all the Beckett traffic to a new message board?

He did on both accounts. I talked with Chris a lot during those first couple of days and he did come up with an idea, but the group had already moved. He had a board set up before Beckett collapsed that turned into this. I was one of like 10 members, nobody ever posted. So they did agree to move from Mypens boards to Chris boards.

Mypens never did anything for this site except be a member. I never saw any moderation from him and we already know that there was no money involved.

I really don't care how this turns out, because I really like this site and the people on it. But your post just gave me this scenario(sp).

Chris sets up a site and has about 10 members that nobody post's on.
Mike gets a bunch of people from the old BMB to join his site and people are posting like crazy.
Chris talks to Mike(15 or 16 yr old kid) and they agree to switch over to Chris's site, and it turns into FCB as it is today.

I'm not saying this is how it happened because I don't know, but this is the picture that your post just gave me.

Art

 

[ThoseBackPages]

anyone who deals in baseball cards has their email and personal info "out there"

i crack up at people that are so hesitant about having the info out there.

Yes, but now people that are commercial members here have our mailing list, and can spam all of you.

i dont know anyone that has trouble hitting the "delete" button on their email.

or if its particularly bad, "this is spam" button

 

[MTBright]

PER TOS:


"In an effort to keep the message boards and the chat area safe and friendly for everyone, we have several active moderators and administrators who examine the message boards on a daily basis. In order to maintain certain standards of the website, note that your "private" messages can be accessed, and will be accessed if the administrative (not moderation) staff feels that it needs to do so to maintain the integrity of the site."

That answers your question.

You agree to it by joining the site.

SCARY!!!

It shouldn't be.

It is a statement/rule that basically is a precaution taken to make sure all other rules are followed.

As long as you abide by the laws of the site, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

i disagree.

We don't directly access anyone's pms unless there is evidence that person is ripping someone off.

Did you access nextlevels pm's?

 

[[email protected]]

anyone who deals in baseball cards has their email and personal info "out there"

i crack up at people that are so hesitant about having the info out there.

Yes, but now people that are commercial members here have our mailing list, and can spam all of you.

I don't think that that will be any harder on my spam folder than all of the ****** and cialis **** I get...maybe it is trying to tell me something

 

[ThoseBackPages]

anyone who deals in baseball cards has their email and personal info "out there"

i crack up at people that are so hesitant about having the info out there.

Yes, but now people that are commercial members here have our mailing list, and can spam all of you.

I don't think that that will be any harder on my spam folder than all of the ****** and cialis **** I get...maybe it is trying to tell me something

my favorite emails are the ones asking me to join AARP!

LOL

 

[cgilmo]

he isnt banned


he did not promote CI through PM's

Chris,
What does PM stand for? I always thought it meant PRIVATE Message. Are you guys reading out PM's? WTF is that sh*t?

+1

that would be me. No, we don't read your PMs. but if someone is causing trouble on the board or creating bad trades, PMs will likly be gone through to help find a resolution. That said I AM THE ONLY ONE ON THE SITE, that has access to this information.

So what is to stop you (or any other mod) from reading any of our PM's? I always wondered why certain members would send e-mails instead of PM's. Now I know.

There are no software restraints. However, you have to have DIRECT database access to do it. 2 people have that, me and bouwob. And well, you will just have to trust us, we can't hide that we have the ability to do that.

 

[chuckbartowski]

Thanked...completely agree.

OT, but I am amazed by the cards in your sig...I hit F5 5-6 times in a thread just to see the next card

Thanks...I'm glad that Apharis showed us the site to create that code.

 

[PaulKonerkbro]

a lot of thanks going around here...