Rant: Vertical Scope Automobile Fora

westslope

Wheeling
We own a 2015 Kia Soul EX 2.0 litre. Decent little car but you have to provide maintenance in function of the issues that come with a GDI engine. (GDI = gasoline direct injection).

The Kia Soul fora hosted by Vertical Scope is helpful though most posters are no where near as sophisticated as the folks on the this and other off-road vehicle/light truck fora.

The good folks at Toronto-based Vertical Scope decided that if you do not edit your post with a few hours after posting, you can no longer edit that post. Then they relented and allowed a limited number of edits within 10 days. 7 to be exact. Except it does not work. Once you have made 7 edits, that is it. No more.

Why? I asked the administrator for data on folks hacking the system through edits and they replied that they could not share that data. Which I doubt they have.

Strikes me as boogey man. Strikes me as the kind of measure that would be driven by risk averse, ass-covering snivel snervants. (Actually lots of civil servants are just fine, I'm pissed.)

In what... roughly 3 decades of participating in web-based chat fora I have never run into editing restrictions until Vertical Scope took over the TheNewX.org and https://www.kiasoulforums.com/.

Look, I am educated, I read widely. I have NEVER come across post editing as a security issue. NEVER. But please, do feel free to educate me.

The outcome? Why on earth would I ever post anything of length and complexity on these boards?
 

outback97

Wheeling
Supporting Member
Location
SLC, Utah
It's not for security reasons, it's for their financial security reasons.

They effectively own the content you create, so they don't want people messing with that ad revenue generating content later. And it's in their interests for people to start many new threads.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable could offer a better explanation, but that's my probably over simplified understanding of it.
 

westslope

Wheeling
:cool:

@outback97: That might be the goal but like so many things (like taxes on sunk capital and wealth), perhaps it secures old content but it also discourages new content. On average I would expect new content to be just as or more valuable than old content as the CAFE regulations are forcing innovation at a faster pace than might otherwise be the case.

(For delirious fun, check out all the transmission failures on the 2020 Kia Soul. IVT = Intelligent Variable Transmission. Should be renamed UNIVT = unreliable, not-so intelligent variable transmission. More evidence in favour of buying used vehicles but I digress.)

VerticalScope is simply making a bad business decision.
 

IM1RU

Skid Plates
Supporting Member
Location
SLC, UT
VerticalScope is simply making a bad business decision.

I don't think they understand what a build thread is, and how it should work.

gobble knows they don't understand that seeing a user nominated truck on the home page is what the users want.

They came in, torched it, asked for input, then told us all to go get ufcked.
 
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