Power Mac forum hacked!

So the recent "improvements" to "increase organization and accessibility" turned out to be equivalent to dumping all the laundry in a corner of a room.
Socks, shirts, underwear- all just a mass of cloth with no organization.

Picked up a new little brother, the G3 tower, which when separate before, kept most stray posts at bay. We'll see how it goes from here.......
Besides, it's a Power Macintosh, not a Power Mac.
Seems product line mixing is part of "organization".......

Beyond the esthetically displeasing aspects, and the fact that now one can't see what a topic is in regard to at a glance, the top users of the categories were also hacked.

As the top user in the Power Mac forum, I had at least 12370 points.
I worked very, VERY hard for this recognition.

NOW, I have a whopping 3915 as top user in the Power Mac forum.

There are +at least+ 9 other individuals in the Power Mac forum, and then each sub category, that are also affected.

Not only did the organization diminish the accessibility to the forum, it also diminished the stautus, and thus the perceived worth, of those that work so hard to provide support where Apple does not.

We don't get much for our time here.

Now you managed to make the time spent just that much less important.

I feel ripped off and unappreciated.
Childish, maybe, but I feel that I am not alone in these thoughts and feelings.....

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Posted on Feb 6, 2010 7:31 PM

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Feb 7, 2010 2:41 PM in response to japamac

japamac wrote:
As the top user in the Power Mac forum, I had at least 12370 points.
I worked very, VERY hard for this recognition.

NOW, I have a whopping 3915 as top user in the Power Mac forum.

There are +at least+ 9 other individuals in the Power Mac forum, and then each sub category, that are also affected.


I had a theory about "online posts" in the other thread that I though would explain the problem. But all your posts are still online, so there goes that theory. Perhaps something else with the reorganization moved things around to cause you to lose points. You are still the top user.

Not only did the organization diminish the accessibility to the forum, it also diminished the stautus, and thus the perceived worth, of those that work so hard to provide support where Apple does not.


Not really. You still have all your level 4 points. I've never understood where those "Top Users" points come from. I don't think that is a good place to look. That is where you are competing with other users. The level 4 is all yours and is an objective measurement. Other people can knock you off of top user status even without database reorganizations.

We don't get much for our time here.


The satisfaction of a job well done?

I feel ripped off and unappreciated.
Childish, maybe, but I feel that I am not alone in these thoughts and feelings.....


You are not alone. I'm sure you are not unappreciated. You may have been ripped off, albeit inadvertently.

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