bsa forum

[john robson]

totaly closed forum now bsa.

ie you could look on bsa forum on for sale thread but not now .

is this forum totaly out of bounds to non members.

strange some forums are closed shops.

[Sam]

sometimes its just to attract members or to keep people from leeching certain info i.e where is currently fishing etc. bsa seems a very closed shop at the moment,some parts of this site are open but just in very small portions. 

[Jer]

The whole 'fishing forum ads' swear filter is a tad annoying, I've had a PM about B - S - A and I was wondering wtf was going on.
Personally I think censorship of another sites initials is going a touch far.

As far as the closed shop thing, are we talking about the recent decision to clamp down on the classified section? if so I have to agree something had to be done their were bare faced con merchants taking advantage, I'm not sure about how they have locked it up but it's their forum they pull the shots.

[Sam]

The whole 'fishing forum ads' swear filter is a tad annoying, I've had a PM about B - S - A and I was wondering wtf was going on.
Personally I think censorship of another sites initials is going a touch far.

As far as the closed shop thing, are we talking about the recent decision to clamp down on the classified section? if so I have to agree something had to be done their were bare faced con merchants taking advantage, I'm not sure about how they have locked it up but it's their forum they pull the shots.

Just changed it Jer so its back to normal,something happened on here the last few days which i'll not mention that's why i changed the b.s.a forum word to a censored one i also censored another forum which is also now unblocked.

As for the above in bold,that's what i was on about Jer,like you say its the lads who run it at the end of the day it's their forum,their rules sometimes it may pay to leave small portions of sites open kinda like a golden carrot to attract members to join and view more stuff but i agree the ads section did seem to be getting abused a little on the site mentioned.

[Jer]

Totally agree Sam,
As I said over there I don't necessarily agree with the 50 post thing for the ads but, that's mainly because it will create work for the admins/mods there.
Then again, as I understand it certain people who've been taking the water on BSA (one of whom had a right pop at TT as-well) keep coming back over and over.
I know 1st hand how difficult it can be blocking certain IP addresses because they are not uniquely tied to 1 person which is one of the headaches they are dealing with and no doubt you have same issues here.

Who knows where it will go, trial and error I guess.