I understand your frustrations with the spam on the site recently, and I appreciate your comments on this thread.
We have tried our best to remove the spam as we see it, but of course like Raptor said the time difference leave them up for longer than desired.
When we originally took over ownership of ROV World we wanted to keep the integrity and community of the site as it was and work on improving the usability for newcomers to the website. What James and Gina built was a great community of ROV pilots and industry professional like yourselves to come discuss current news, and we never want to change that. Rather, we would love to continue the community's growth and engagement.
We have discussed many different ways to secure the forum to continue being a community discussion, while enhancing the overall website to be a modern design that will provide easier access to discussions and recent news. As you may know, the website hosting and forum providers were originally put in place many years ago, and upgrading these platforms has proven difficult. We did receive training from James prior to taking over the site, but we are still learning many things about its nuances. I appreciate you chiming in and helping out James on this thread, as well as all of your help during the transition time.
I did receive your email Raptor, and I apologize in the long delay to get back to you. Your message started a larger discussion for us to determine how to increase certain users' admin access and brought up the discussion again of upgrading the platform.
Again, my sincere apologies for the way that the website has been spammed lately. We do sincerely hope the discussions will continue on ROV World, despite the downturn in the industry as of late. If you have any specific areas where you think ROVWorld could be improved or would like to discuss ways that we can work together to better the forum, please PM me, we are happy to chat about any ideas to bring together the ROV industry.
~Amanda
We have tried our best to remove the spam as we see it, but of course like Raptor said the time difference leave them up for longer than desired.
When we originally took over ownership of ROV World we wanted to keep the integrity and community of the site as it was and work on improving the usability for newcomers to the website. What James and Gina built was a great community of ROV pilots and industry professional like yourselves to come discuss current news, and we never want to change that. Rather, we would love to continue the community's growth and engagement.
We have discussed many different ways to secure the forum to continue being a community discussion, while enhancing the overall website to be a modern design that will provide easier access to discussions and recent news. As you may know, the website hosting and forum providers were originally put in place many years ago, and upgrading these platforms has proven difficult. We did receive training from James prior to taking over the site, but we are still learning many things about its nuances. I appreciate you chiming in and helping out James on this thread, as well as all of your help during the transition time.
I did receive your email Raptor, and I apologize in the long delay to get back to you. Your message started a larger discussion for us to determine how to increase certain users' admin access and brought up the discussion again of upgrading the platform.
Again, my sincere apologies for the way that the website has been spammed lately. We do sincerely hope the discussions will continue on ROV World, despite the downturn in the industry as of late. If you have any specific areas where you think ROVWorld could be improved or would like to discuss ways that we can work together to better the forum, please PM me, we are happy to chat about any ideas to bring together the ROV industry.
~Amanda