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04-24-2012, 07:14 AM #1Disabled
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Black List Searcher
Originally Posted by webmasterpfa
Iriehost should be put in a blacklist. They are simple stilling money . They are a scam .
They are most of the time offline or with troubles, it is imposible to not lost money with them . Also, they never answer a phone call and only sometimes answer the tickets with useless answers .
Where you can search either a business or a name in a search box and it searches the WebHostingTalk Blacklist.
Moderators can add sites and names to the Blacklist when they ban or find out from loads of people or Premium / Corporate members could assist them.
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04-24-2012, 07:30 AM #2Junior Guru
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The problem is how to decide who goes on the list. There are some true scams that occur, but a lot of such stuff is people moaning about reality being different that what was expected, or don't really understand what "unmanaged" or "you are responsible for your own backups" really means. Because well over 50% of members here have a commercial interest in the hosting industry it would be very hard to administer a blacklist withour perceived conflict of interest.
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04-24-2012, 08:29 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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Not to mention that WHT's staff includes active hosts and providers... it'd be rather difficult to maintain an unbiased list.
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04-24-2012, 11:04 AM #4Newbie
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If a Hosting provider does not answer to Support Ticket then do they go to black list(if OP's idea goes on & WHT start blacklisting )?
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04-24-2012, 03:58 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Actually there is a blacklist, but you have to do something extremely horrendous to get on it. Your company name would show up as *************
(example only no name was typed in )Nothing here right now.
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04-24-2012, 09:06 PM #6Disabled
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04-24-2012, 09:32 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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04-25-2012, 11:09 AM #8Dennis Johnson
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That would certainly work. But, truth be told, most censored words are censored because of SPAM. Sometimes it's the only way to stop someone from spamming their name all over the forum. We only use it as a "last resort" kinda thing. Because we'd much rather people be able to talk about spammers and scammers.
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04-25-2012, 11:11 AM #9Dennis Johnson
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04-25-2012, 11:18 AM #10Dennis Johnson
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I'd say it's more difficult to find moderators on a web hosting forum that are fully disconnected from any piece of the web hosting industry. That's a perceived bias we're never going to get rid of.
But I can tell you that if we notice a HINT of bias from any moderator, there would be no discussion, we would need to find a different moderator.
But to touch on your first "sentence", there may be 1 or 2 moderators that are actively hosting. It's rare that we'd bring on a member that is actively hosting or providing. But if they've demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that they hold no biases towards hosting entities, I don't see a reason to exclude them.There is no best host. There is only the host that's best for you.
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04-25-2012, 08:37 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Aren't all staff members bias (whether positively or negatively doesn't matter) towards some members? I could understand if they were working to suspend and harm competition and thus be suspended, but to be bias towards people based on past dealings is only natural.
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04-26-2012, 05:35 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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Oh, and here's a look at it in action too
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1142412Nothing here right now.
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04-26-2012, 05:59 AM #13Dennis Johnson
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05-03-2012, 12:47 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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