bolt is not coming back....and for those who say that they heard from meepz and this mod and that mod...show us......
Like most sites there is good and bad about Bolt. I have been a user and supporter, both financially and with posted material, for a number of years. I have had a few problems there, I lost a considerable number of TV shows i.e. a whole 'Tube Collection' after the last major crash. I also discovered a problem whereby a Private Special Interest Group I was running turned out not be as Private as it was supposed to be. The Groups were subsequently removed for security reasons. My biggest complaint about the site is/was always the fact that people can effectively copy and paste a previous post, and claim it as 'new' and by so doing increase their post count and member status. In some cases that meant you could have 30 or more people posting the same copied original files.
web.archive.org/web/20151010012703/....//bolt.cd/board/
when i joined here i used the same name i have been using on bolt for years for 2 reasons
#1 in the hope that it woulld be regognized by an also onece upon a time bolt member..#2 to show that i am genuine and that i have nothing to hide.
are you guys who say you were bolt members using the same bolt name too ( coz i dont recognize any of ya) or have ya all changed y're name.
it seems that i gotta go to the hospital now coz i am overcome with the sugary sweet posts i am reading about wonderful on the ball meepz and his ever so member loving mods....when the truth is sooooo very very different ...and ya'll know it.....bolt is not coming back....and for those who say that they heard from meepz and this mod and that mod...show us......
I run my own by invitation only site, primarily foreign subtitled television. A number of people when invited to join offered to donate towards costs, but I always declined the offers. The purpose of the site is to share stuff I like with like-minded souls who had followed posts I made on other sites, not to make money. Everything posted is my own purchase, rip, or capture and translated by my working partner. To avoid even the suggestion that we were out to make money from what we did we made sure we had no 'affiliate' memberships, no referrals, and no ads on the hosts we used for posting and everything posted is accessible by free users on those sites. Some may not be fortunate enough to be able to afford to do that, but it has always been my way of doing things.
i have been reading what i think is undeserved praise of this meepz dood.i was a member of bolt since -08 or thereabouts....and there was a great deal of resentment 'tween members and mods....including meepz.
then last year for the 1st time i recieved a message from this meepz asking for a substantial donation....i gave it much consideration b/4 deciding to donate...weeks went by and no recognition was forthcomming from him or any other mod....so i flooded them with messages regarding thei promise and what reasons they have for ignoring me...i got a response saying that meepz has no recollection of any correspondence with me...so i sent them copies of his original message/my reply/my letters to and from paypal regarding the issue etc...finally i got a letter all apologetic , and correcting everything...then 4weeks or so ago i got another letter asking for another donation....thats when it hit me....the bright light flashing in my brain was telling me that meepz and crew were about to close shop and run....taking as much from the members as they possibly could....and they did....this didnt just suddenly happen with them....the reason it cant/wont be fixed is that you may well be able to repair databases and all the other tecky stuff....but ya cant repair the duuds that run the system.
i hope they rot in hell.
Bolt.cd is back online again. Great
Threads merged we don't need a zillion topics about the same site
Yes I'm glad their back as well but considering the time they were down I'm disappointed that admins could not be bothered to post an announcement somewhere of what was happening & I told them as much in my original reply along with a glad your back at bolt only to have it deleted. It shows bad form on behalf of bolt management in my books that they can't accept a little bit of flack & decide it's easier to delete rather than address the issue. I class staff like that as plastic people.
Anyway good luck to bolt
As you say, Search isn't working and apparently even mods don't know what happened. Still, part way there is better than nothingBolt Admin don't know what the problem was because nobody has heard from meepz yet. The Search function isn't working yet and Admin are now trying to get back up to speed. Obviously everyone is just glad the site is up again. Membership is closed at the moment.
Threads merged we don't need a zillion topics about the same site
Yes I'm glad their back as well but considering the time they were down I'm disappointed that admins could not be bothered to post an announcement somewhere of what was happening & I told them as much in my original reply along with a glad your back at bolt only to have it deleted. It shows bad form on behalf of bolt management in my books that they can't accept a little bit of flack & decide it's easier to delete rather than address the issue. I class staff like that as plastic people.
Anyway good luck to bolt
Threads merged we don't need a zillion topics about the same site
Yes I'm glad their back as well but considering the time they were down I'm disappointed that admins could not be bothered to post an announcement somewhere of what was happening & I told them as much in my original reply along with a glad your back at bolt only to have it deleted. It shows bad form on behalf of bolt management in my books that they can't accept a little bit of flack & decide it's easier to delete rather than address the issue. I class staff like that as plastic people.
Anyway good luck to bolt
Yes, low class they can't be bothered to put up an announcement. Shabby they deleted your post. Currently I see this by an admin:
Today, 04:21 PM
To be honest, we still don't know why the site went down or why it's back up. We won't until meepz lets us know.
As to the search problems we're having, they can't be addressed until we hear from him.
I'm so sorry we can't do more, but as staff, our talents and permissions are limited.
So this revolves around meepz's control of what appears to be everything, including his refusal to provide admin relevant information on why the site was down just over two weeks.
So effectively admin are dealing with pm's from people wanting to know what happened, not being able to give any sort of information, and meepz, as usual, is nowhere to be found.
Considering, in my opinion, this is only 1 of 3 viable sites for ebooks, there's not much to be done.
Mobilism has a large set of rules and regulations concerning ebooks and a host of nasty admins, so there's little point being there.
WBB's main ebook section gets flooded and finding anything is impossible. Its Fiction Ebook Zone has perhaps 10 people posting to it, with little of the material not already everywhere else. Their search function for ebooks is as bad as it gets, so there's no point being there.
If there was at least 1 other site that was large enough to sustain heavy traffic, I'd go there.
End of story: Bolt is up, a few features aren't working (the number of views per thread, search is down, no registration permitted for the moment).
And meepz is hiding like always. In the 15 days the site was down, it seems he didn't condescend to even inform his own staff what was going on.
Shabby.
andywiz
How does one join your system....?