AFAIK you write about reading a post in the threads you yourself have subscribed to. PLUS you instructed the site to send a message to your own mail if there is any disturbance of the force.
Look into your account
= My account:
= Supscriptions
+ Do NOT send me updates by email for my subscribed threads
Do NOT automatically subscribe me to threads I create or participate in
Send me new post notifications by email even while I am logged on
IMHO everything you are experiencing you have brought on to yourself.
All you have to do now is just un-doing it.
My quess is that mr. Admin is busy enough with his regular duties to check upon everybody’s reading habits.
wle’s point is that no one knows who Mr. Admin is or what he does with the data. BLF could be a Chinese data farm for all you know.
Looking at the admins post history, I don’t see an “introduction post” or what not. Maybe it exists but I am not finding it and have never seen it.
As far as I know the Admin was/is from Brazil. I don’t know his technical background, occupation, age, business affiliations, etc.
I navigate this site with a certain degree of trust in its ownership, whether warranted or not, but I also know that anything I post can be capitalized on by anyone. More candid discussions occur in PM, exchanging contact information and commercial ideas, and it would be nice if those discussions did stay private, but of course anything particularly critical would be better discussed through more secure channels.
> if that ever happened – someone trying to buy user info from the site – who would benefit?
If that has happened, the chinese masterminds have not used the data to improve their lights - so much is clear. It is amazing how many good proposals to improve lights have been made in vain. Over and over again.
Oké, you’re right about that. But the symptoms wie mentioned are (imho) caused by the boxes he ticked in “My account”.
About Mr. Admin. It’s his site, and it’s his rules. And he watches that we keep coloring within the lines. And if not, we get a fair warning. Nothing wrong with that. Your membership goes back in time further than mine, but I’ve never had a feeling that there is more at hand with this site than meets the eye.
A feeling I did not have with the other site and “she whose name shall not be spoken”.
There is nothing going on here that is any different than any other forums I participate in. I think those email options in your account settings are enabled by default, you just have to turn them off. Heck, Reddit is even worse.
