Referring to the deletion of Robbo's and Alan's accounts it seems it's about to happen again!! Longtime contributor Hazy, who has been on a fifteen month break due to health problems, has tried to return only to find these messages from RSPB ... I will post copies of her emails to me as she is currently prevented from doing so herself .... I have also sent email to HQ in support and bringing up the question of her being flagged maliciously during the Peewit affair, you may remember that this abusive poster was trying to track down a certain Hazel Jacobson who she held responsible for her being banned all those years ago?? ****Morning Wendy,
Sorry to send another message but I just tried to post up a message on the forum for the first time in 15 months and received this automated response from RSPB the minute I pressed post. ! .>…….
Dear HAZY:
Your forum thread, Brief hello from Hazy but maybe a long goodbye !, in The Tea Rooms was flagged by other users as inappropriate and doesn't appear on the site right now.
Reason: The author is identified as abusive.
Please help us keep the community content safe and enjoyable for everyone. If you feel your content shouldn't be hidden from the site, please let us know. You can use this form to appeal the finding before 28 Jan 2024 9:08 AM, and we'll promptly review it.
Hello forum friends and hope this message finds you all well and continuing to enjoy your birding adventures. After a long break from the forum and lovely off community catch ups with some of you I signed back in after 15 months but still hadn't posted up anything since 2022. Bizarrely, I received notification from RSPB that my account was flagged for spam despite the fact I hadn't even been on the community for a year and quarter ! I have heard that this has happened to others including Robbo and Alan where their accounts were falsely flagged and deleted so guessing this is some software glitch in the computer system causing problems. Feel a bit like the post office scandal being accused of something I am innocent of although nothing like the dreadful trauma that those poor post masters/mistresses suffered due to a computer software glitch.
I do hope to return at some stage but fear my account will be falsely deleted later today despite no wrong-doing LOL I have submitted an appeal upon receiving the first message from RSPB and they acknowledged receipt of that appeal. Subsequently, I have received a second message stating ..............
A few days ago we emailed you about your user account. That message was to let you know your account was flagged as inappropriate. You have until 21 Jan 2024 9:23 PM to send us an appeal using this form. Note that if you don't appeal the abusive finding, your account will be permanently deleted on 21 Jan 2024 9:23 PM
I have tried using the form link again to re-submit but it says I have already submitted my appeal, hence I can do nothing but sit on "death row" waiting for my account to be terminated later today LOL.
This is what the form link takes me to: Thank you, your response has been submitted. Your appeal will be reviewed promptly. A decision will be sent to xxxxx@gmail.com
I have written an email to RSPB querying how I could be flagged up when I haven't been logged in for over 15 months and never posted anything that could be spam or abusive but I fear nobody is in the office or will see my email until tomorrow which is after the deadline ! To be honest, I am not unduly worried but you do need to be aware that with these weird glitches in the system it can happen to any of you as not sure what triggers these errors. Maybe it auto-generated the glitch when I signed back in a week or two ago after such a long time absent - who knows. !!
So do take care all of you and sorry if I am unable to get back on to the community to maybe start posting again. X
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Regards, Hazel
For goodness sake, what an absolute disgrace. First Alan and Robbo and now Hazy. Come on RSPB (but more than likely you will never see this) please get things sorted, so that descent folk who are posting with like minded folks, doing absolutely nothing wrong, are getting struck off, and all their logged posts deleted and having to start again with a new name. Not good enough. Hazy, I have missed you and all your delightful posts, hope you are back with us soon CL x
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I’m not surprisedby this. I don’t want to repeat myself. No moderators for years. I know myself what should be done. If there’s no moderators. This forum should be an RSPB members only forum. Or if not an all RSPB members forum. Thinking the unthinkable!. Suspend this forum for the forceable future! Unless someone else can think what should be done. Not forgetting that the RSPB have lost large numbers of staff and not just on reserves. And more RSPB members now post on various RSPB and Facebook account websites than on this forum.
Regards,
Ian.