Actually,
@Shark VapeI'm not blaming the member, I'm just looking at it realistically.
You essentially stood out on a hill with in a lightning storm brandishing a golf club at the clouds.
The inevitable happened, and there's no point yelling at the storm.
That's a lovely metaphor Tyger but hardly accurate. You're rationalizing and shirking
your responsibility.
Let me give it a try...
I essentially trusted you with
an asset... like money... nearly 2 years of my content.
And we both know in the forum world, in the Google Analytics world, content IS money.
I
trusted you/VU to keep it safe... somewhat like a bank.
But sadly, the VU 'bank' is insecure, you've
chosen to leave the vault open all night.
The bank president
chose to install a trapdoor in the vault instead of
locking the door or having a security guard to protect the assets...
(like all other forums do)
Problem is... when burglars come in you flush the money along with the scumbag.
Then blame the account holders saying you told em you leave the vault door open.
That's what happened. It is
YOUR responsibility to protect forum content, no one else's.
So I'd be grateful if you and your staff didn't try to mislead folks into believing the deluded hogwash above.
No other forum I've heard of treats member content with so little regard. And you do it over and over.
5 times now? In less than a year? And you still don't care enough to fix the problem???
So the lesson I've learned here is VU simply doesn't care enough to protect your members like other forums.
If I can't trust VU to hold my post history securely, then I'll stop posting on-topic content.
I type at the speed of glacial drift; it takes me a long time to help people here. But I enjoyed doing it.
Let me be clear one more time: I'm not nearly as offended at your mistake
as your attempts to blame the member.
4 mods rushing in here to point their finger at the member who lost because of a VU management error. Bunk.
If you can't get control of your forum security,
at least don't blame the members who have lost
because of your careless irresponsibility
. <--- That's a period.
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Sorry you all have chosen to air this out in public...
A PM would have probably been better.