Anyone else getting unnecessary infractions at WebHostingTalk?

@HostXNow, the owner of WebHostingTalk is iNet Interactive, as was mentioned above. It changed a number of hands since inception, but iNet is the company that owned it for a long time. Although I believe iNet itself was purchased by an investment fund a few years ago.

@HostLeet, as per the well-known advertising slogan crafted by a car rental company AVIS, exactly for the reason that we are #2 - we try harder. http://www.avis.com.cy/We_try_harder.html
 
Art, your post brought a tear to my eye bro. I agree with 100% of what you just said and I must say, bravo! I couldn't have said it any better myself.

"I've been a member of WHT since 2002 and I don't think I've ever received an infraction or a warning. It is possible that I did receive either of those, but I honestly don't remember. Mind you, I have always been very careful and I've always made sure I knew what the rules were prior to posting. In spite of this, I have always lived with a mentality that I can lose my account privileges at any time. It could be tomorrow, next week or a year from now. I just got used to that style of thinking seeing how others have been getting penalized for something that was taken out of proportion. There was just too much policing and as consequence the forum never made me feel that I was a part of a very friendly family-like community..."
 
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Pull yourself together, romes. Be strong. No crying. :D

Actually we had a bit of our own various history with iNet. At first, they tried to shut down HD through legal threats made to previous owner. A year or two later when I was already the owner, they inquired about a potential acquisition of HD and a couple of other sites of mine. I wasn't interested in selling as I had ideas of my own at the time. It would not have been worth much back in 2004 anyway.

I'd say that I have never had anything against iNet personally. I respect the company and what they've managed to acquire and build. I just wish they would have been more involved in the actual community lives to get a better sense of what it is like to be a member. Either that or have more information on how the forum is run (from different perspectives).
 
lol I'll try. Yeah, I am happy you didn't sell to them Art. HD would have been like WHT and went down in quality and it wouldn't be the forum it is today. Hell, they might've just merged the two and just made WHT even bigger.

But, HD will always be better than WHT :)
 
easyhostmedia said:
appealed and never got any reply, even contacted iNet and still no reply.
i think they have their favourites who cant do anything wrong and if you report these then they ban you as a trouble maker.
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I disagree (and as someone who gets labelled as a trouble-maker, have some experience) - yes there are "individual personalities" with each moderator - but the basic rules they operate under are fair and it's always (in my experience) been possible to get into a dialogue with them about anything you disagree with.

I can also say, that despite peoples "thoughts" that advertisers get preferential treatment, they dont, and advertisiers complaining and threatening to take their business elsewhere get the basic answer " where would you like your refund check sent to" !

Have I had infractions @ WHT - yep, plenty.
Have they been justified - sometimes, sometimes not, sometimes arguably
Have I complained about them - occasionally.
Did that help - a few times

Do I get "victimised" or "attacked" or "badly moderated" - No.

I have had the good fortune to meet a number of the mods, inet staff and others involved with WHT on multiple occasions, especially through HostingCon, which I *completely* recommend you all attend if possible.

Remember, Mods are people, and people make mistakes based on their own viewpoints, sleep habits, personal frame-of-mind, home-life and experience - it's not perfect, but it's better than anarchy

So suck it up and get on with your life, the points will expire eventually, just carry on proving your worth by actively contributing to the community :D
 
othellotech said:
I have had the good fortune to meet a number of the mods, inet staff and others involved with WHT on multiple occasions, especially through HostingCon, which I *completely* recommend you all attend if possible.
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That is what I'd like to do, but the events are always in USA (too far for me, at the moment anyway). :( They should have one in UK (London). I'd definitely attend then. :D

othellotech said:
Remember, Mods are people, and people make mistakes based on their own viewpoints, sleep habits, personal frame-of-mind, home-life and experience - it's not perfect, but it's better than anarchy.
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True. True. :)

othellotech said:
So suck it up and get on with your life, the points will expire eventually, just carry on proving your worth by actively contributing to the community :D
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I did, I said

Ok. My apologies. You can remove my forum sig if you want to.

I don't mean for any of my posts to look spammy. Sometimes I contribute by writing a lot of content, sometimes I don't depending on mood/time I have. Should you decide to unsuspend my account I'll be MUCH more carful with my posts, which you'll see... should you decide to unsuspend my account.
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Don't know how I missed this thread!

- We're actually in the same boat as myself (Tanner) was suspend (years ago) on WHT because a friend of mine that's also named Tanner posted a review about my company..well they assumed the worst and it got to the point of them investigating over my facebook and finding out that he wasn't listed as one of my friends (Privacy settings I assume as he's there when I'm signed online).

It resulted in our domain being censored, and all our employee accounts becoming suspended (10 + accounts).

I'm very disappointed with their helpdesk/moderation methods and the way that they always assume the worst and almost have a fear of letting others into their lives. I do hope to see them realize that they're just "ticking" off their previous loyal members of the forum, and have no "sympathy" with any type of infraction given on the forum.

I will admit, I do miss not being permitted on WHT as they offer quite the advertising section which has hurt business but I know that HostingDiscussion will grow to that point with the continued support and how rapidly WHT suspends there members. We'll be huge in no time!
 
It has been our experience that WHT tends to ban/infract first then ask questions later and when you question it, they tend to turn a deaf ear to the issues.

They also have a documented history of being very heavy handed towards certain users for whatever reason's they choose.

We have not had much luck with attracting customers on WHT and the one's that do attempt to sign up for services, tend to be scams/spammers who don't pass fraud checks.

Personally, I like the format of these forums better, the topics are more in depth, and it doesn't seem to be filled with a bunch of needless bickering back and forth. It is my hopes to be able to be done with WHT and find a better avenue to connect with other industry professionals and attract high quality clients to our services.

Thank you for offering this forum for the more adult person's who can have respectful conversations and agree to disagree :)

Regards,
AB
 
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