[the text below is actually a letter from an anonymous reader of my Russian language blog that I received recently and took the liberty to translate and publish here because I too had similar experiences with the site mentioned in the letter - Blog Admin]
BEGINS
Unfortunately, the Russian watch forum - forum.watch.ru - has recently degenerated into a vile and ugly resource where, besides the majority of decent forum users, there are sadly a lot of trolls, informers and flamers, as well as moderators and administrators who violate all the laws of decency, and also their brown-nosers mainly form the ranks of the foreign intelligentsia both far and near, and many just very sick people (and often not in the good sense of the word).
BEGINS
Unfortunately, the Russian watch forum - forum.watch.ru - has recently degenerated into a vile and ugly resource where, besides the majority of decent forum users, there are sadly a lot of trolls, informers and flamers, as well as moderators and administrators who violate all the laws of decency, and also their brown-nosers mainly form the ranks of the foreign intelligentsia both far and near, and many just very sick people (and often not in the good sense of the word).
The Market section is clogged with gray and black resellers duping unsuspecting noob buyers into buying sub-standard, bruised and dropped "luxury" watches, factory theft watches, gray market specimen, exhibition
samples, and all too often even 100% fakes at the prices of new elite watches.
The forum is also a grazing ground for scores of scammers, and not without success.
The forum is also a grazing ground for scores of scammers, and not without success.
The number of defrauded people on the forum has long gone into the tens
and hundreds, and the sums taken from forumers - into hundreds of thousands if not millions
of rubles, but the forum administration - in their all-consuming pursuit of illicit profits - does
nothing to protect the members of the forum community and to compensate them for
damage.
One of the forum administrators - Expert
- is in particular notorious for bending rules as it suits him, issuing violation points at will in line with his personal dislikes, for cultivating his gang of forum rats, and interpreting the points of the so-called Rules as he wants.
However, the real violations go unpunished.
The administration and owners of the forum profit from watch lovers,
since it is precisely the posts of watch lovers and all forum users that
provide cash flows to the forum, views and clicks of advertisements, a
high rating in search engines; however, in return, the forum users have no rights but only obligations to the “administration”, who scoffs at them,
considers them to be “dumb cattle”, can arbitrarily delete their posts
(protected by copyright, among other things), can block access to their
own personal account, including their own photos, can collect their personal
information (e-mail addresses, passwords, IP-provider addresses) which
then becomes the easy prey of scammers, and even in individual, but very
frequent cases, can block their access to the forum forever, including
their own personal accounts, photos and other resources.
In addition, the administration does not respond to requests from members of the forum, does not satisfy their rightful demands and even refuses to provide information about the legal and actual addresses of the administration and owners of the forum, although by law this information should be posted on the site itself and be accessible without the need to demand it.
In addition, the administration does not respond to requests from members of the forum, does not satisfy their rightful demands and even refuses to provide information about the legal and actual addresses of the administration and owners of the forum, although by law this information should be posted on the site itself and be accessible without the need to demand it.
ENDS.
Below is the kind of future that awaits forum.watch.ru if it doesn't mend its ways soon.
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