Michael Brown

The SSL cert expired and there should be a new one applied by morning.

Not being a home inspector I only see it from its SEO value... because it's copied from another site it would likely considered negative and no benefit to TIJ. To use duplicate content safely you would need a conical meta tag on this page pointing back to original content. Google would then pass link juice etc. back to the original page. This post is negative towards our seo and Google doesn't care if the original writer posted it or not, and has no way of telling if it was him or someone just ripped it off and posted it here. Not to mention this isn't a great idea for Kenton either as his original doesn't have a conical either. Larger sites can often rank better with the duplicate content than the originals sites. Conical tags on original content help stop scappers from stealing your content and ranking better than you with it. This was also posted as a topic not a reply to some question... so very lame indeed! It's just two paragraphs tho... and certainly not the first or last to be copied up here. There are probably some changes coming to our posting guidelines directed towards guest posts and link droppers, but this case is already covered in our posting guidelines: https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/guidelines/ The moderators hate censoring anyone and always try and avoid it, however many of us have wasted hundreds of hours deleting spam... it doesn't take much for a spammer or link dropper to get banned here. Simply because they waste our time! Kenton came up to TIJ riding the line... in this and his other recent posts... my advice would be to become an active participant of the community by posting original content, before dropping links and trying to gain a biz advantage. He can also talk to us about advertising costs if he wants to go that way.

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As the saying goes... "it's never safe to update" LOL Sorry for the interruption. Michael

There was a problem after the last update on the weekend that caused errors and prevented posting. The errors have been fixed and all should be working as expected.

As we tried to upgrade software some setting from old server took down the site. Sorry for interruption. Michael

We have moved to a new server. Some image files are still being transferred but should be finished in the next 24 hours.

This weekend we moved to new faster server hardware and infrastructure. The name server and IP's had to be updated so the site was down for a while. During the move it looks like a couple posts got left behind on the old server(hard to time this stuff exactly). This also includes anyone else I'm hosting at nitroshock.com. Michael

I am not jumping onto Marc's bandwagon either but lets attack the comments not the commenters. This just drifted off topic. No I'm NOT trying out for moderator... it's an awful job!

I just thought i would point out that the original post was: Is a 1969 home likely to have aluminum wiring in Solon, Ohio? Everyone is welcome to their own opinion but lets try and stay on topic and not drift or hijack threads into other topics that belong in their/your own threads. That being said I admire your humility.

This is fixed now. I was looking in the wrong place for the settings... although I'm wondering how any members were able to send messages at all.

It looks like it might be a glitch in the system? I checked all your settings a couple times. Thought it might be the 5MB report you uploaded in PM... I deleted it but nothing changed yet. Somethings are not updated right away so I will leave it and check again tomorrow and see if it's still the same. Will let you know when I find the issue. We have full support from the software provider if needed.

Try it now... let me know if you find anything else. Thanks for the feedback!

We are on a new server with a different IP from before. We are also https now with new software, every page url has changed including the home page (now https). Old bookmarks are junk. It could also be the DNS Resolver Cache on your machine (pointing to old IP), it's only a couple steps to flush.

Flush and Reset the DNS Resolver Cache in Windows 8? http://mywindowshub.com/flush-and-reset-the-dns-resolver-cache-in-windows-8/ Sounds like it could be pointing at the old IP possibly? But before doing that why not try and login with a different browser on that machine?

What's the message your getting when trying to login?

Try Activity on menu: https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/discover/

The board totals your likes and content contributions: https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/leaderboard/ We can offer benefits to users with high rep, but at this point nothing like that is set up.

TIJ is paid for by Advertisements but we plan to limit ads for our members. Like the previous board the ads will be primarily be for visitors, lurkers and members with only a few posts. This should be all setup in the next few days. Please be patient.

Please report any broken/missing thumbnails and or images. Post a link to the topic. The new forum is case sensitive unlike the old Windows forum software. If you decided to capitalize your user name sometime in the past many of your image links could be broken. If that's the case I will have to run a replace in the database.

All images have been uploaded and topic attribution has been fixed.

Just a quick update on progress. Most of the images have gone up but some are 0 bytes. Users images with names that start with M and many N are 0 byte so they are being reprocessed now and should be re-uploaded soon. We have written and tested a script to fix the topic attribution and will try and apply that tonight. There are still quite a few changes ahead but these have a high priority. If you find one of your posts with some code that didn't get converted quite right (youtube vids etc.) go ahead and do an edit.