CGC Mike

Thanks. One small step for man. One giant leap for your profile. (no, I won't give up my day job)

The Achievements box that served no function in everyone's profile has been removed.

You have started several threads like this. If these are your consignments, I recommend you stop posting these types of threads, as they are in violation of the marketplace guidelines.

That's a fair note. The banning that has been mentioned was also a matter of protecting the community from harassment (or worse). As a rule, I would not like CGC to dictate what I say or do outside of the forums. As with most rules, I am certainly open to exceptions. I'm not sure that telling us to not discuss others elsewhere is a good idea, so long as nobody is doxxing or being realistically malicious. The 'line' not to cross may be different for each person. Moderation has nothing to do with the probation list. That is the difference

CGC has no control of anything that is posted on another forum. I do know that management doesn't even want discussions from other forums brought up here. Warnings were issued by admins in the past for these kinds of discussions. So, lets drop this subject now.

They are saved for a later date. Nothing was deleted.

Are you referring to the first post of this thread? If so, that has already happened for the most part. As far as all of the problems with the boards, I have just created a thread and organized all the problems in separate posts, which include members posts. That was sent to management today.

I am currently working on this weeks experiment.

You're welcome Oak. If I've overstepped the mark by suggesting we won't be moderated to the point of extinction, and that all that was being asked for today was for some people to show some reasonable restraint, I'm sure Mike will put me straight. In the last 3 weeks, I believe I have issued 2 warnings for posting guidelines and politics. Before I took over and we marked many things under review, there were about a dozen a week handed out. So, I don't think people have been moderated to the point of extinction lately.

I know kav can be a pest, but he's really a gentle soul. 🤔 (I better bite my tongue)🙊 My post wasn't just about Kav. He wasn't the person that used it 15 times in 2 days.

If everyone take into consideration with what I have said, and stop using it ALL THE TIME, I won't put the phrase on the spoon list. I don't think it's too much to ask.

Exactly. I don't want to have to ban any phrase that doesn't violate the terms of use. However, I also do not want to see this phrase every time I click on a thread, and that is what's happening. I looked at one person's post, and it was used 15 times in 2 days. I am certainly willing to overlook the occasional use but, the over use has been going on for months, and is not slowing down.

That is fine but, if it is continued to be used to the magnitude that is is now, I will add it to the list of spoon words/phrases, and enforce it that way.

I am going to ask that people stop using this phrase: "That's what she said" This is being posted in multiple threads. We would like to attract female collectors to this site. This type of comment doesn't help us accomplish that. Thanks

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I will be submitting all the chat board problems to CGC on Monday. Hopefully, they will be fixed soon.

I will make sure to mention this to them. Thanks!

Thank you for posting this.

I have asked, and was told by the techs that google is not blocked. They asked for examples. I posted a few and haven't heard back. @universal soldier is VERY tech savvy. Maybe he will chime in again.

Well, you have been here for over a year and a half. I am sure you can participate.

@universal soldier covered this pretty well. Here is 2 of his posts. So it's pretty easy to test this via Google search and I do think that it will resolve itself with time. As I posted earlier, one of the main factors in getting your site indexed is the robots.txt file. As you can see here: https://www.cgccomics.com/robots.txt the old URL was blocked. user-agent: * disallow: /boards/* It seems however that boards.cgccomics.com is not blocked but it does take Google time to come back and reindex your site. Eventually it will follow the Chat Boards link on the cgccomics.com navigation and results should grow. It might not be a bad idea to remove those lines from the robots file to make sure. I also am not privy to any other settings that may be in place within the site settings that would prevent this either. I don't see anything in the webpage source code that would block this. Testing: One of the easiest ways to see if this or any site is indexed by Google is to use "site:" when searching. site:boards.cgccomics.com returns 1680 results including some threads from 2005. That's a positive step in the right direction. site:cgccomics.com returns 68,100 results including many links to boards.cgccomics.com site:cgccomics.com/boards returns 56,600 results but random sampling shows no comic related results, only coin forum threads. Ultimately I would think keyword searches or pre-pending your keyword search with boards.cgccomics.com is the best approach for now. For instance searching for "boards.cgccomics.com moderation policy" (without the quotes) returns Matt Nelson's post from last week as the number one result. Getting better results from just keywords will take time as you are now on Google's schedule but searching should be easier going forward. I really have no idea why this was blocked in the first place. To back up my point if you search- boards.cgccomics.com Marvel UK Price Variants You get the same top result for the old URL but the second one is for the new URL and it has a description. Google will sort this all out with time...

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Here is @thirdgreenham's last grading contest (round1), and the prize thread.