Just received a trophy at CPF! :-)

Wow. While the post and picture made me chuckle I can’t help but feel that is a pathetic bunch of people running that forum. Paranoid that you’re a shill, come on now.

I am not at all surprised that they were so unpleasant to you. The moderation is oppressive.

My guess is that you were seen as a threat to their advertisers and hence their income stream. Kerching!

Fellows, as I said in the opening post, I registered much earlier (early 2014) on that forum with the same nick I use here. Some months ago I logged in, without finding any relevant warnings. My account was disabled, though (not even able to edit my profile nor change anything).

Can't remember if I ever made a post there. Maybe, as a n00b, asked or said something “stupid” back then (like how cool is the Ultrafire SK98 flashlight, got one plus a chinese charger and a couple of LG 18650B4 batteries for ≈$20 back then). LoL!

Cheers ^:)

I think considering it a badge of honor is a good idea.
Date you’ll miss them: Never.
Date some people will unsaddle from their very high horse and stop acting like petty dictators: Never.
We’re glad you’re here.

Wow, cpf still up ? :smiley:

Vinh is the only one who makes it worthwhile to maintain an account there. Granted, he’s the exact opposite of budget, but he’s a good guy and he does really good work.

My .02c:

In my house I have my own rules too… You don’t follow my house rules and out you go.

Cpf, and Blf, and other forum, have rules too.

In my house I have my interests to nurture and protect, so does CPF and BLF.

In fact, I started on CPF, then here.

Rules are different in each house, but they will always be there, regardless how good, or not, they are to me.

Peaceful co-existence is not a bad idea, IMO.

I still lurk there, but thats about it. I miss the Bay area CPF get-togethers and night hikes though.

Whats up with this?

Ah, don’t worry about that sign, perhaps just an Attack by the Clones

… badge of honor … I really like the idea !!! :beer: :wink:

CPF seems to be down at the moment. :+1:

I actually like CPF. Never had a problem. I like it here too.

A lot of off topics and non flashlight related chit chat here. You are all warned. I’m closing this thread.

bULLSEYEnoob

(giggles)

I still hang out on cpf some. I don’t hate it there, but I only use it for cpf-type stuff. Both of these communities have a place, even though one of them is definitely a lot more friendly and laid back, and honestly just more fun to be here. But sometimes cpf fills a need too.

That said, this afternoon Chrome started labeling it as a known phishing site and blocking connections. And now its “closed” altogether. So I don’t know what’s going on over there but they seem to be having some issues.

Probably just some guy working for Google got banned there, and now it’s payback time or something.

Actually he’s on here too:
http://budgetlightforum.com/user/1160

Not too active, but I’m sure he’ll answer PMs once he receives the notification email.

Kramer wrote

What, we can’t do BLF night hikes? There’s plenty of us around. Oh, and congratulation on the smack down.

Yeah sure!! I’m up for a night hike any time!!

:sunglasses:

I’ve been on CPF for a little while now and actually been quite active and stayed in line on there site pretty much everyday for the past couple months. As others have said, today the site is hacked or something, so I came over here and this was the first post I read. Cracked me up major.

Date ban will be lifted: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

Look at it this way ….

If CPF weren’t jerks to Mr.Admin. there never would have been a BLF

For the last few days, Google search result links to CPF have randomly been redirecting to a sketchy download page on a site called “MyFilestore”. Today Chrome and Firefox started identifying it as a suspicious site. There was a thread about it in on the forum where a bunch of idiots were being extremely productive by reporting it to Google as inaccurate. The admins then took down the site and posted a link to their Facebook page with no further information, and now the forum is down completely.