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Originally Posted by Appliancedude
Hey, I'm not saying they are valid. I'm not arguing that point at all. I think they are pointless as well. Even though I did sign the one for Cali. Like Comifornia would ever leave Obamaville. 
Go look right now at how many "guests" are on here. Ever heard of web crawlers? They are bots perusing web sites. How did you find TFF? From a friend or a web search. Me? Web search. I was looking for reloading info. Its all stored somewhere. Everything you post is out there for someone to read. Is there a specific person somewhere in their undies eating cheetos and documenting everything we type? Don't know. But there are computer programs out there that scan data for info. They are scanning every post we write on here. Thats not paranoia its fact. How do you think they find the obscure web sites that terrorists use to plan attacks. They are scanning data looking for flags. Think about it  |
Couldn't be anymore true and accurate, automated programs of Big Brother are constantly searching for keywords on any website that is publicly accessable, the only other 2 forums I belong to are private, and closely watched, the only way a new member/user can get in is by recomendation of an existing member, an application/vetting process by the owners and moderator's, IP address's etc are watched so they know if your account is being used from a computer that it is not usually used from, a "courtesy" email is sent to make the user aware, that they are aware, of possible comprimised account, a quick email back to the admins letting them know I was on from my parents house, in Nebraska, and all good,
This may seem excessive, but it is as close to a guarentee as you are going to get that noone is on your forum that isn't supposed to be,
It stops lurkers/trolls from just hanging out and benefitting from member info, and not providing anything in return, everyone participates/contributes or are put out the door, rarely happens, the vetting process is strict,
And both of these forums were started for the same reason THIS forum was started, some members on a PUBLIC forum were not getting along and ruining it for everyone with the fighting (owners of TFF, sound familiar?) so we said F'em, let's start our own, private gig, 2 different forums were spawned, one that is Blue Water only, and one that is Blue Water, Bay, and Delta combined, as the bodies if water are connected,
So these 2 private forums where started, members recruited/cherry picked from the public forum that had grown too large, was full of takers just looking for info, but not contributing, and just too much infighting,
These forums, where we share gps numbers, reports/techniques/bait/lures used, that are made the evening of day the fishing trip was taken on, for the benefit of the folks going the next day, as close to real time info as possible is key to ocean/bay fishing success as the fish, depending on the species you are after are migratory, and constantly on the move, so info from 1 or 2 weeks ago, like from The Fishsniffer rag, is pretty much useless,
The only way to get in otherwise is to have hacked someone's username/password, which or course is not totally out if the question, but measures are in place to combat that as much as possible, I have never, in 10+ years, seen any spam or intrusion of any kind, I am fishing/hunting partners with the owners of both forums as well, which can have it's perks as well,