Dear all. 

Firstly I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday break. I appreciate every single member and their contribution to making this a great, peaceful and happy platform to enrich each other with knowledge and advise. This was the goal when I started in 2013 with myself as 1 member.

As the aviation industry is a very uncertain career I started the powerforum store about 2 years ago. I don't and will never request any member of this forum to be obligated to purchase from the store. There are many other commercial suppliers that offer just as great service.

Since the beginning in 2013 , every member that has joined has been checked and manually been clicked on to be accepted to the community. There are so many spam individuals out there that want access to post unsavory topics. 

Some of these individuals sometimes get through as they have a perfectly looking Gmail email addresses and locations.

I have tried many different types of automatic spam filters but none are as good as checking with the human eye.

Okay to the point 🤣 : if any members notice a scam or spam member posting I ask you to make use of the report button. Please see the attached image. I require two members to report the post to be automatically hidden for moderation.

The members who have reported the post are also logged. So don't go reporting and hiding a freindly debate. ;D !

This will help me greatly as I constantly have my phone in my pocket checking for scammers to protect our community.

I would like to say thank you again for making this community great and also we nearly at 20 000 members!

Have a safe and restful holiday break.

Thank you all.

Sincerely

Jason Back

 

 

Your forum is most valuable and has distinguished itself from others. The amount of toxic response is unusually limited but there must be a deterministic reason for it, and we thank you you and others for setting up a good culture here.  I have jumped into the deep end on solar, and with the help from human  resources here, i  am gratefull. 

This the most helpful and best run forum I have ever been a part of. Thanks so much

Edited December 21, 20222 yr by DaveAWalker

HI Jason,

Even as more of a lurker who is very new to this the forum is greatly appreciated.

Hi Jason,

Many thanks for providing this forum for the benefit of all of us, I'm more than happy to kjeep an eye out for spammers and report as needed.

Compliments of the season to you, your family and all forum members (spammers excepted)

J

I really do like the comradery and non-toxicity that exists here - its refreshing - we are all learning and trying to help each other out. Thanks @Energy-Jason for creating this forum

Thanks Jason for making this forum. It's a treasure trove of priceless info and advice for newbies and pro's alike!

Thank you Jason for this excellent informative forum, happy holidays to you and other members!

It's a tireless & selfless endeavour that provides a comfortable place for many of us. Have a good break & thank you for your large contribution!!

Having run my own forums before, it is a tireless thankless task.

Get some moderators and hand it over to them also

 

Many hands make light work!

Happy holidays to you and family!

Look, I may be relatively new when compared to other members but I love this forum. I have learned so much here, gotten loads of help and tried my best to help others. This really is my favorite community at the moment and cannot tell you how much I appreciate it being here and the fact that you're still doing stuff to make it even better!

If you ever need help maintaining this great community, please do not hesitate to ask and myself and many others would be more than happy to help in any way we can...

Otherwise, we appreciate you and have a great festive season to you and the rest of our "little" community! 🤙

You're doing an awesome job on this forum Jason (and whoever might be assisting you).

Keep up the excellent work!

This forum is a hive of information and help. Specially to us newbies.

 

Thanks for having the foresight in starting this forum.

Many may not mention it, but it really is a great help

Thanks for having this forum I'm far so difficult to buy, but for me is the number one forum for the inverter that I use, hope you can keep the good work and manage to keep things running, I know it's not cheap in money and most important you personal time.

Thanks Jason, awesome forum which has been absolutely invaluable through my solar journey.  Keep up the good work.

Very much appreciated being a member of this forum and the invaluable information I have received has greatly enriched my knowledge, even to the point of also being able to assist other, so am truly grateful and wish you and yours the very best of the coming holidays... "black-out free", all things being equal.🤣

Dear Jason, thank you for your work.

Hello @Energy-Jason
We the community appreciate the platform you created for the exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge.
As with all Forums and Platforms, mutual respect and common decency make or break the atmosphere. Spammers will be spammers and they troll everywhere; they stick out like sore thumbs and we shall continue to report them to maintain your Forum's overall integrity and intent.
A blessed Christmas to you and your family and let's remain optimistic about the ability to get others to realise they can be self sufficient and independent.

Edited December 21, 20222 yr by zsde

I'd just like to wish everybody here happy holidays. I've received some valuable information here from some generous folks, and I hope I have paid a little of that forward.

You 've done a great job with the forum @Energy-Jason. I showed your post to my brother in law who is a software engineer and he said that you can stop spammers easily by checking the header of their browser when they register and if they are using proxies the registration process will not complete for them.

14 minutes ago, droid.cleverland said:

You 've done a great job with the forum @Energy-Jason. I showed your post to my brother in law who is a software engineer and he said that you can stop spammers easily by checking the header of their browser when they register and if they are using proxies the registration process will not complete for them.

Will very much PM you. Mostly they all come from Proxy servers. We be in touch asap. Thank you!

Sincerely

Jason

What a brilliant idea Jason, I have personally been transformed by this forum and that is greatly appreciated. I would like to wish you Merry Christmas and Prosperous new year together with every member of this platform. The spam alert is well noted will keep our heads up as well. 

 

Thank you 100%.

Thanks Jason for this great resource! Vaughan 

Hi Jason

You mentioned the aviation industry. Are you still in the industry? 

Regards

Kevin

54 minutes ago, Alltronix said:

Hi Jason

You mentioned the aviation industry. Are you still in the industry? 

Regards

Kevin

Good to hear from you. Yes sir I maintain my lisence but not on the line.

How about you?

Jay