Greystoke spamming the site

[electronjohn]

Originally Posted by Greystoke

I get your point and tend to agree but something else happened that resulted in me going all OCD on securing/closing anything I didn't need right now. I was slowly shrinking my digital footprint since retiring a few years ago but several months ago, my main e-mail account was flooded with over 1,000 messages from all kinds of random sites - many asking me to "confirm my subscription" and such. My mind instantly went to "I'm being hacked" which sent me racing down a digital rabbit hole with anxiety in the red zone.

I don't want any of this to sound like making excuses - not my intent. Before retiring, I was in the IT field for 40+ years and saw the havoc that can be wreaked from hacked accounts and that surely played into all this - but is absolutely no excuse for my mess.

Very long story cut short, none of this justifies or excuses anything. I just hope to make it right. And I hate that y'all have had to deal with it - I honestly thought it would get my account banned and posts deleted quickly and everything back to normal for y'all.

Tell ya what: It's going to take a moderator quite a bit of time to tidy things up. You might consider making a donation towards site maintenance, There's a link at the top of the page under "notices."

[Greystoke]

Originally Posted by electronjohn

...You might consider making a donation towards site maintenance, There's a link at the top of the page under "notices."

Absolutely - I sent a message to the admin Saturday about all this and offered to donate to the site/pay his time and am waiting to hear back.

I'd like to specify that a donation goes to VideoKarma, if possible, but I don't see a way to do it through that link. Searching AudioKarma, it appears donations to AK and VK are combined into one pot. That's fine - they share the same server and the same admin/owner - but I'm hoping to "pay restitution" toward returning to normal here as quick as possible.