Mega super site

[Kefengarahall]

Mega site. I will go often.
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[Forrest Flanagan]

How nonspecific.

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[CoryG]

I for one would like to call for a boycott of o-bio.org - their just
taking the DIYbio Google Group and scanning it for threads in their
forum. As of the time of going to the site the most users ever online
was about 2x the number of actual users, so their also making fake
accounts to look bigger than they are. I also use the word "they"
when its probably really only 1 person trying to sell ad revenue.

On Feb 18, 12:33 am, "Kefengarahall" <DIYbio.list.gate...@O-Bio.org>
wrote:

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:36 AM, CoryG wrote:

I for one would like to call for a boycott of o-bio.org - their just
taking the DIYbio Google Group and scanning it for threads in their
forum.  As of the time of going to the site the most users ever online
was about 2x the number of actual users, so their also making fake
accounts to look bigger than they are.  I also use the word "they"
when its probably really only 1 person trying to sell ad revenue.

o-bio.org is from back in the day when you guys were complaining that diybio wasn't a forum. So someone made a mailing-list-forum gateway. However, forums are targets of spam just like everything else. So, Jake, you should stop using the default phpbb captcha and amp up the moderation. If the spam continues, my guess is that Mac or Jason will put <DIYbio.li...@o-bio.org> on moderation.

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[J. S. John]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Bryan Bishop <kan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> o-bio.org is from back in the day when you guys were complaining that diybio
> wasn't a forum. So someone made a mailing-list-forum gateway. However,
> forums are targets of spam just like everything else. So, Jake, you should
> stop using the default phpbb captcha and amp up the moderation. If the spam
> continues, my guess is that Mac or Jason will put
> <DIYbio.li...@o-bio.org> on moderation.
>

Bryan's right. We got it started because a couple of us, including me,
were confused at using a mailing list and thought that a forum was
better. Well, I guess, we started to like the mailing list format so
no one used the forum. The forums and list are linked so the forum got
spammed and it ends up here.

I think also this was set up as an archival method since Google Groups
didn't have a good search feature. I don't know if that has been
resolved yet.

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, J. S. John <phill...@gmail.com> wrote:

The forums and list are linked so the forum got
spammed and it ends up here.

Fun times with spam:
http://google.com/search?q="Mega+site.+I+will+go+often."

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[Andrew Barney]

> I think also this was set up as an archival method since Google Groups
> didn't have a good search feature. I don't know if that has been
> resolved yet.

Well, i find that it's easy to search through the achives here:

http://groups.google.com/group/diybio

[Ruediger Trojok]

Isnt it ridiculous what strange nonsense the internet is producing?
Damn, I grew up with it, but it still makes me scratch my head and ask
"why..???"sometimes.

Mega site. I will go often