Linar,

We sympathise with what you're saying but:

1. It's often difficult to determine if a member is making false or legitimate positive claims about a company so it wouldn't be right to remove their post without good reason. If it is fairly obvious that the claims are false (WoodysGirl's post had piqued my interest) then we will remove it.
2. Libellous content possibly puts both the poster and PropertyInvesting.com in danger of legal action. Even if a statement is true, having no supporting evidence still puts the poster at risk.
3. If members are to criticise business practices then they should do so more tactfully. We will not remove content unless it could be construed as libel.
4. We try to keep the forums clean of blatant advertising. If members like yourself see posts that fit the description then please report it using the report abuse link that can be found on every post. Even if you're unsure.
5. We don't mind members advertising a business or service in their signature, or if it's relevant to their post. Just as long as the post is relevant to the forum thread. This can be a grey area however…

We appreciate help and understanding from the PropertyInvesting.com community with these matters. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hi Katrin,

Steve's last seminar for this year will be in Brisbane on the 29th of November. More information will be released very soon through email (to those subscribed to our newsletter) and on the website.

Steve does hold seminars in Perth sometimes, but not very often because the demand tends to be greater on the east coast.

David

Hi guys,

Unfortunately, the data center where the RESULTS web server is hosted has been having major electrical problems. They assure us that it should be all up and going again sometime today, but they have not given us an estimated time of when that would be.

I will keep you posted!

Great looking puppies!

Considering all that you've done for the forums, these kinds of one off topics are fine by us. Good luck with finding them a good home Simon

Hi L.A Aussie,

If someone has that next to their name in a post, it means their account has been deleted.

David

Hi Elka,

The spellcheck error should be fixed now, please let me know if you see it occurring again.

We're glad you're liking the new features

David

The original post has been removed for obvious reasons.

Nathan, I recommend this site http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm. It's always good for a chuckle

elkam wrote:

Great improvements. Love the new features and the look of the site. Love the spell check.

One suggestion.

I wonder whether it is possible to limit the use of an avatar to one member only .
I have no idea how difficult or possible it is technically but maybe you could remove it from the list offered as soon as someone uses it.

I seem to be seeing 3 Steves and at one stage 2 Qlds007.

Elka

Unfortunately Elka, we're keeping those avatars available for public use as they're just a way to generally make a distinction between members (and there are a lot to select from). However, you should find underneath the avatar selection box a place where you can upload your own avatar. It's marked as "Upload your own avatar", and you just select an image off your hard drive which is less than 30kb in size. Ideally the image should already be 85×85 pixels or under so that this site doesn't have to resize it and potentially lower it's quality.

If people want an avatar outside of what we offer and don't really have an image on their computer that they would like to use, there are plenty of ones available on the internet. By just searching for avatars on Google, you'll find many websites dedicated to this

David

The speed shouldn't be much of a problem now. The comments in this thread were made before the new platform was launched (March 24th)

There is always room for further optimisation however!

Yes you can. Just click the subscribe post button under the first post in any topic. You can maintain your subscriptions from the "My Subscriptions" link in your user block to the right of the screen. You can also subscribe to whole forum categories from that link.

– David