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Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2004
- Messages
- 18
Maybe this is an old well worn topic here, but what's up with diamondtalk?
Initially it seemed to me to be an older and slightly higher traffic site, but less well organized and sans pricescope, but upon furhter inspection, and especially after a bizarre encounter with the moderators, it seems to me that the place is really weird and most of the traffic is pretty uninformative
Specifically, I posted a totally uncontroversial request for opinions on a diamond merchant: americanfancies.com. (I don't know why I posted there instead of here -- I just happened to be logged into that site when I decided I was interested in something they had.)
I searched diamondtalk for any mention of this merchant and I found an old thread on the topic of americanfancies.com; I then added a new message asking for any reports or opinions on this merchant.
Shortly thereafter the entire thread was deleted and I found a PM in my mailbox asking me if I was affiliated with the merchant and asking why I posted to an old thread and why didn't I introduce myself in the "Greet new DT'rs" forum, and was I a "one-post wonder" and a shill for ther merchant and other paranoid things.
Thereafter followed some posts which were edited by the moderators or eventually deleted, but it left me feeling like I had stumbled into some bizarre paranoid community run by people right out of Orwell.
Who runs the place? And who appoints the moderators? (Oh yeah, the "Senators"). And did they have some terrible incident that causes them to be so paranoid?
Initially it seemed to me to be an older and slightly higher traffic site, but less well organized and sans pricescope, but upon furhter inspection, and especially after a bizarre encounter with the moderators, it seems to me that the place is really weird and most of the traffic is pretty uninformative
Specifically, I posted a totally uncontroversial request for opinions on a diamond merchant: americanfancies.com. (I don't know why I posted there instead of here -- I just happened to be logged into that site when I decided I was interested in something they had.)
I searched diamondtalk for any mention of this merchant and I found an old thread on the topic of americanfancies.com; I then added a new message asking for any reports or opinions on this merchant.
Shortly thereafter the entire thread was deleted and I found a PM in my mailbox asking me if I was affiliated with the merchant and asking why I posted to an old thread and why didn't I introduce myself in the "Greet new DT'rs" forum, and was I a "one-post wonder" and a shill for ther merchant and other paranoid things.
Thereafter followed some posts which were edited by the moderators or eventually deleted, but it left me feeling like I had stumbled into some bizarre paranoid community run by people right out of Orwell.
Who runs the place? And who appoints the moderators? (Oh yeah, the "Senators"). And did they have some terrible incident that causes them to be so paranoid?
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