Greg

Nope, it was an insult and you failed to heed my repeated warnings. Machinations, you are now banned from these forums.

You guys are quick! Tmar, Sarah_B, and Oh Canada were all the same people (at least according to their IP addresses) and they have been banned from these forums. Registering multiple accounts for the purposes of providing positive feedback is illegal in these forums. Not to mention that this was an obvious advertisement, which is again, illegal in these forums. I'm impressed, if you continue to see this type of crap, report the post and I'll make short work of their postings!

Ok, sounds good. Drop me a line if you have any other questions.

Is it a forum error message or a browser error message? Can you provide the exact wording of the error message?

Let's all step back and re-evaluate the situation - calling each other racists isn't solving anything, other than getting yourselves abit closer to be either suspended or banned from these forums. Make use of the preview function and consider the consequences of posting insults. This is an emotionally charged issue and recent events in the middle-east have inflamed the issue even more - so I'm giving those of you who have been using insults, like "racist," "jew-hater," a warning instead of removing you.

Your wish is my command. Goodbye Teddy, you are now banned from these forums.

Agreed. This isn't what I would consider an effective search engine if that is the result given. I will investigate and get back to you on whether it can be improved. Thanks for bring this to my attention!

Lets cool the condescending talk in this thread or I'll close it.

I think a local politics, or municipal section is a great idea. However, I won't be implementing any major changes to the forum structure till after the redesign of Maple Leaf Web is complete. With the redesign of this site in progress, we hope to have everything completed by the end of August. Thanks,

Agreed. In the interest of keeping the clutter down in the forums, lets not branch this topic out anymore. Any comments should be made in the existing threads.

Sorry, I don't want to discourge anyone from discussing this topic. I re-read my response, and felt it was abit harsh. Feel free to discuss the evolution/flow/sway of partisanship in these forums - I just wanted to add my 2 cents

Whether this board and or its participants lean right of left of the political specturum has always been a reoccuring theme. However, without going through each thread and or having each partipant declare their "partisanship," any speculation about this issue is going to be suggestive at best. Also, judging the board leanings by my actions (banning of members) is always short-sighted, as I could care less what participants say in these forums. However, I do care about how participants behave in these forums. If you do your research, and track the threads that many of the banned partipants were commenting in before they were banned, you'd see they had no interest in treating other (particularly participants with different opinions) with respect. It is certainly unfortunate Whenever a long-time participant gets banned from these forums, but it is always a result of their repeated ignorance/dis-respect. Eureka, BHS, MapleSyrup, bigdude, mirror, ScottBrison, The Terrible Sweal, THELIBERAL, AllianceFanatic, etc, all took things too far and ignored the repeated warnings. I'm always the bad guy when it comes to maintaining order in these forums, but such is life. I always get a kick out of participants who claim I'm a Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Communist, Facist, etc - you name it, I've been called it. But in the end, the ideological make-up of this forums is entirely out of my control and I imagine it will sway back and forth between the many ideologies that exist in Canada. Isn't that what makes this forum great? I think so...

Come on guys, lets cut the off-topic banter about who's dumber. Use the PM feature if you want to accuse each other of something.

I see a few of you aren't using the quote feature when you're quoting someone elses postings. Please, it is difficult to read your posts if you're not using the quote feature. Thanks!

This flame-bait thread has run its course. It seems some of you children can't play nicely together. Assessing who's at fault here isn't the way I wanted to spend my weekend. Lets all take a break frm the native/Caledonia issues and use some common-sense when discussing these types of issues.

Reading this thread is like kicking a dead horse. Reasonable discussion ended long ago and therefore I will be closing this thread.

Enough with the condescending remarks. This thread has dissolved into nothing more than pathetic race-baiting and I've had enough of it. Everyone needs to sit back, take a deep breath and move on.

No conspiracy here - the forums are blue because this is the default template/skin for this forum software. When I upgraded the forums early last year, the templates/skins that were originally used in this forums (which matched the rest of Mapleleafweb.com) had to be discarded due to compatability problems with the upgrade. Unfortunatley, with my duties as Project Manager for both Mapleleafweb.com and Policy.ca, along with my Masters's thesis, I was unable to complete the required modifications to the new templates - hence why we're stuck with the default. However, look forward to a complete redesign of these forums (and all of mapleleafweb.com) in the next month or so. It will still be slightly blue, but a whole lot prettier

No, Teddy Ballgame was told that he could return in 30 days. There is no need to invite him back.

This is exactly what happend, but it took almost all day to figure it out. I was examining so many lines of code iin the templates that my eyes were going cross-eyed and then I finally looked in the config file and found the problem. However, I've completely reinstalled the forum and confirmed the file permissions, just to be on the safe side. Thanks for doing some research, you can never have enough ideas being tossed around. Cheers!

Thanks for all the emails and the notifications about the trojan virus that was appearing in these forums. Somehow a hacker was able to modify a config file for the forum software and insert a rather nasty browser exploit that attempted to download and install a trojan into anyone using IE. How the hacker was able to do this is stil a mystery, however all FTP, and forum admin passwords have been changed and the file permissions (on the server) have been reviewed and updated. I spent all today reinstalling and reconfiguring the forums, and it looks like no real damage was done. I apoligize for the downtime - I accidently deleted the thread that included some instuctions on how to remove the trojan, however (I was infected too!), almost any reputable anti-virus software package should remove it. I'm using Trend Mirco, and it removed the viruses easily. Trend Micro has a free virus checker/remover here: http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp Again, sorry about the problems, I will investigate this incident further and report back if I find out anything more.

Agreed. This is indeed a large problem and it will hopefully solved when I have the assistance of a few Forum Facilitators. Please stay tuned to the News and Announcement section for more information. Thanks!

Some of you may have noticed some rather strange postings in the forums lately. Some of the postings contained what looked like code. Unfortunately, these were an attempt by someone to hack the forums. The exploits did not work, and the forum was never in any real trouble. However, I do appreciate those of you who notified me of these postings. Please continue to send me a note if you see anything strange occurring, as it allows me to deal with these scumbags quickly. There have also been some spammers posting ads on the site. In this case only a few postings slipped by our registration filter. However, the posts have been removed and the offending spammers banned. Again, if you see anyone spamming the forums, please notify me immediately, and I will delete the spam and ban the offending members quickly. Thanks!

Previewing your post before posting it can also do wonders.

Michael is right, and if I were any of you posting in this thread, I would heed his advice.