...Rookie, over the past few yrs i have raised issue with AG about board content and have posted here on many occassions about boards security ( seeing bashers ) warning members of attack by Wally-Mart bashers,. I use the green star rating sytem to prove points on how members can sway votes `seeing my score drop 200 points within hrs noted by other board members seeing how boards can be swayed. PS' Ag, bean counts forums as numbers drives their marketing, the thing here, companies pay too have there names wi fied by growen people using green stars to hide behind well they manipulate their thoughts. I see Ag becoming nothing more then a green star bashing board taken over by some on a mission ...posted Jan 11 2010/

Dear traps7,

I totally agree with you. HUBS break down sometimes. Not common but it does happen on seldom occasions. I think you are well aware that AGORACOM has very little control of the editorial content on our forums – that’s a privy of you and over http://blog.agoracom.com/2009/11/12/agoracom-generates-7-9-million-pages-from-131500-visitors-over-last-30-days/">131,500 visitors to our site in the last 30 days.

When things become emotional, people take quarters and even a suggestion of a slight spreads like wildfire. We understand that some of these posts have no right to stay on the board however please consider, that preemptive perfection does not exist. Even Wikipedia gets abused. The best they can do is correct.

If you are receiving abusive PM’s from other members, please advise. A member of our staff requires your authorization before we can open your private message box. Once we have your approval, your profile will be temporarily unavailable. When we are finished reviewing your complaint, we will send you a new password and you can access your profile.

I appreciate your tact and assertion in handling this situation.

Kind Regards,

Andreas Marouchos

Community Director