I’m posting this message in the hopes that we can get a representative opinion on the users of this website. Out of 1803 homes, we have less than 40 represented on the Community Forum. Out of those, only about 10 are regular contributers.
Unfortunately, the abuse by spammers and advertisers is making the maintenance of the forum unmanageable. I spent approximately one hour each day cleaning up fake accounts and posts. I have tried countless ways to reduce the spam to little avail. It’s just too easy to spam message boards these days.
I would like to remove the Community Forum from the website, and instead use the Comments section of the main website blog for feedback purposes. I know the Forum is valuable to approximately ten people in the neighborhood who use it regularly, but I really can’t justify all the work put into it for such a small representation.
Please let me know what you think.
Thank you,
Jessica M. Green
Webmaster, SanTanRanch.org
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Jesica,
It seems that no matter what I try since the change I can not log on any where. What am I doing wrong?
Gary
September 4th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Hi Gary,
The Community Forum has been removed, so there is no place now to log into SanTanRanch.org for residents. Please feel free to use this comment format to leave moderated comments for the public to see.
Cheers,
Jessica M. Green
Webmaster, SanTanRanch.org