So anyway, given the fact I was there for 5 years I have some stories to tell! This would be my first "Dating" forum that I have ever reviewed, as most of the times I would only visit automotive forums but the place had a halfway decent "Current Events and Politics" forum that had a pretty equal mix of liberals and conservatives that allowed you to beat any given dead horse beyond recognition. 

When I joined the forum in late 2013, I had just gotten my iPhone 5s and wanted to try out new apps since if you all remember, I was going to try and get by with just my expensive iPhone - no desktop. Who would have known that 5 years later I'd still be getting let down by both! LOL, but incase anyone was wondering, my closing my account had much to do with my telling Customer Service to "Fuck off" when they tried to suggest I was posting a members photo. Actually, all I did was place a link to a photo that was drawn up using Google's photo search. I guess if you are one of the losers that pay their $9.99 monthly fee, you might have more clout than someone like me who reviewed this forum under the "Free Membership". LOL, of course we did at one time re-review a forum under it's premium membership plan once, only to be banned shortly after the ink dried on the credit card receipt. That company did end up giving me a refund, but you had to wonder what kind of business does that. Just an FYI.

But let's break that down, I was there 5 years, times 12 months equals 60 months... 60 months times $9.99 equals $599.40, that I didn't have to pay. woot-woot! Stick that in your pipe and smoke on it Match.com! LOL

That being said, there are countless complaints by the members there about the lack of an "edit" button... and it would seem that threads there have an expiration date! Unlike this forum where you can drudge up an old thread from the deep end of the pool in 2006, that system seems to make inaccessible threads older than a month or so! Kind of really sucked so I am not going to miss any of that nonsense. You were also unable to embed YouTube videos or even communicate with people outside the forum except for their monitored in-house email! That's right! They literally monitored your emails to ensure you're not sharing phone numbers or "hooking-up" with actual people from your area! In my 5 years there, I never met anyone in real life, obviously because I wasn't looking but I did make efforts to identify and verify that these people were real, yet in every instance it come to pass the person on the other end was not the person they claimed to be in their profile! After a few years it got me to thinking, are any of these people in there real? The popular saying around there was, "You were just there for the forums" LOL! Truer words could never be spoken when it came to my membership!

Yet what really got me was this one site in China,

https://www.gagahi.com

It got me to wondering if these website were harvesting images, and exactly what purpose a faceless company had with all the data... Well in the case of the link above it's one of many Asian web sites that appear to charge the user for each conversation or emoji that is sent. And elaborate system is set up with photos of women, men, whatever it is you want really. The stories that go along with it are somewhat funny, and as always I did not spend a dime - but I had to follow the rabbit all the way down the hole.

Anyway, my 5 year membership has come to an end. It was quite amusing really, but when you hang out with people for 5 years and not even one of them drops in to say hello after knowing that you closed your account, well that just let's me know that I did waste 5 years on people who were probably not even real, arguing about politics that many of them probably didn't even understand except to stir opinion. 

I'll give this thread a few weeks in the public forum before I move it to the private members only AFR forum where it will live on in infamy with all my other conquest! LOL

And to all my longtime forum buddies shaking their heads in disbelief, I know that you're only doing so because you can't believe I made it 5 years somewhere without getting banned!

Damn! You met her on Match.com eh? That's a pretty good testimonial, as I do love a happy ending!

There was this one crazy lady on the politics forums named CinnamonHaze, everyone said she claimed to have an attic full of bat $hit in her historical house - thus people said she was "bat $hit crazy"! LOL, she was a raging liberal too and even posted as living in MN!

That's not PrincessPutz is it? LOL? 

Gee, no response from PowerStroker... I hope that wasn't his chick, lol!

As always I was sure to savor my very last post and apparently this is kind of how it went down,

That's where I noticed I couldn't post or respond anymore... apparently telling customer service to "fu$k off" and then flagging their post as offensive and then trying to block them was too much for them.

So I closed my account,

I was thinking about joining eHarmony to see what their forums were like, but I didn't even get past the application!

{Just kidding about eHarmony lol}

Looks like DH is closing on May 9th! LOL

HA-HA!

Just wished I could let them all know that we're still open for business here, so they should come over here!

this joint will fill up in no time!

we're gonna have some fun!

Great great idea to break it into little groups if possible

like 

DH Chitter Chatter - off topic stuff

CURRENT Events - Falcon needs a place to post his doom and gloom, he would love that.

probably start a thread on DH so everyone will see where they can go Now that DH is finally closing. 

This is perfect for all of us!

That hairy guy went viral back in the early 2000's! I remember using it in many forums.

I just made the DH forum (lol)... Whoever wants to be the first to post in it, it's there!

I'll be switching back and fourth between admin accounts to register the expats, but I really am very happy some people at least come to visit after 5 years on the Current Events and Politics forum! Thank you!

Welcome Clarity! 

It's an old school forum, but not too bad once you get the hang of it..

Standard forum commands to add photos and command bold, italics - ect. 

Lot's of different emoticons too, click where it says "More emoticons". 

You can insert You-Tube videos by copying the link and then clicking on the little YouTube icon above, from there you insert it into the box and your YouTube video is embedded without anyone having to leave the thread.

You can go where it says "Profile" and add any photos or information that you like, or none at all. 

Most of the times people are coming here looking at post to fix their cars, but I have always like having a variety of different forums. 

Over the years this place has changed a lot from when it was started back in 2006. This is the first time I have ever had a "Dating and Hook-Up" area..

The regulars here have questioned if I have been hanging out with Bill Clinton. 

:tv:

Hello Stellar! Or is it Rex? 

{Clarity} {Hasslefree} Love you both

Good name, see how it could get confusing though! Mine was not common 40 years ago. I was in a store and a Mom yelled SHAWN to her kid, I turned and yelled WHAT!! It was then I realized I was not the last of the Shawnees.

Im wondering if the DH demise was caused by the same law that saw Craigslist discontinue their entire Peronals area and Backpages complete eradication?

I too am very curious what they plan on doing with all the data and user list from DH, Haslefree..

It would seem there is a lot of data there, so I am curious if come the 9th of May they will somehow re-open it under a different name or something.. I was reading on the forums that the original owner (Dustin?), had sold the place. If that was the case, why in the world would someone buy a forum and not at least maintain the forum? Usually big companies that buy up all the good web forums will keep them all because the hardest part of setting up any online forum is getting a lot of post for people to read. DH had a LOT of members and a LOT of post! The reason I like this place is that all my post go back till 2006! That is 12 years of my thoughts and the thoughts of others! I can't even count on one hand the amount of times the media or some fringe liberal group tried to re-write history and I had to reference back to a 5 to 8 year old thread to reference information that had all but been white-washed from google!

Stellar007 wrote:

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Interesting Stan! That's some good information, I'll have to research this IAC company and see what we come up with.

Shawnee, what is a switchblade forum? Not familiar with that name, but perhaps I know it as another.

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 It was called TSF, the switchblade forum. Was for collectors, sellers, makers and we had many custom makers. Check out my site. www.hermitriver.com  Hasn't been updated, email no good. Cool pics of customs I did for people. Click images to enlarge. Sometimes from scratch sometimes just rescaled and fileworked. I used alot of shell, mother of pearl, abalone.

Stan_147 wrote:

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Stellar007 wrote:

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Interesting Stan! That's some good information, I'll have to research this IAC company and see what we come up with.

Shawnee, what is a switchblade forum? Not familiar with that name, but perhaps I know it as another.

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 Chelsea Clintoon sits on the board.

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GTFOH! - You're kidding, right?

Shawnee_B wrote:

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Stellar007 wrote:

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Interesting Stan! That's some good information, I'll have to research this IAC company and see what we come up with.

Shawnee, what is a switchblade forum? Not familiar with that name, but perhaps I know it as another.

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 It was called TSF, the switchblade forum. Was for collectors, sellers, makers and we had many custom makers. Check out my site. www.hermitriver.com  Hasn't been updated, email no good. Cool pics of customs I did for people. Click images to enlarge. Sometimes from scratch sometimes just rescaled and fileworked. I used alot of shell, mother of pearl, abalone.

 

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Did you make / customize these yourself? If so that's pretty good! Switchblades used to be illegal here in Michigan but I think recently they did away with the ban. I'd have to double check, but I recall reading that.

Now that makes sense, because before when you said you were running a "switchblade" forum I was under the impression that was the name of the forum software you were using. LOL

I'll check out your site for sure! When I was a kid I had one of them switchblade combs - I though it was sooooo cool! 

Hey everybody!

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Great great idea to break it into little groups if possible

like 

DH Chitter Chatter - off topic stuff

CURRENT Events - Falcon needs a place to post his doom and gloom, he would love that.

 

probably start a thread on DH so everyone will see where they can go Now that DH is finally closing. 

This is perfect for all of us!

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 I'm glad Falcon made it. Far left? yea but good guy.

Xman379 wrote:

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Hey everybody!

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 Hey man! Glad you made it here.

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