I'd bet my life these folks are on more than just cannabis.
And here we see they have no plans to do away with lieworld, but if you read the threads, and visit their UK forums, you'll see that they are going to obfuscate the fact that they are 'moderated' by lieworld. A little late considering the entire world knows there are paid shills and stalkers there doing the dirty work.
Reading along throughout the loooong thread, there are also suggestions to limit the amount of IDs that anyone can have in order to avoid having the forums system gamed. There you'll see that some of the biggest fraudsters and cheaters are the ones queefing and objecting the most.
But why should ebaY forums not be gamed, when everything else there is?
I wonder if they are aware that a lot of ebay critics and enemies are a direct result and product of the shenanigans on and from those forums? Because I know of at least one or two who may not have ever made a fuss, had they not been stalked and harrassed by the ebay forum lieworld troll-tool team.
Sad fact-- ebaY can NEVER be cleaned up until and unless they get some sort of reasonable limits on the amount of accounts that any one person or household is allowed. Especially in light of the epidemic of fake IDs and accounts for sale etc.
But we know that sleazebay will never do that because they rely on that fraud and cheating for their survival. They rely upon those trolls and stalkers to silence any noise, and dissuade posting of any damning, critical or embarassing content.
I imagine their membership numbers would drop by 50% or more if they imposed a limit of one account per household
After watching these videos, there can be absolutely no doubt that the ebay forums are completely fake and contrived. Listen to all the hoo-ha about 'seeding' conversations etc.
A cheap con-game and scam run by slicksters frauds. Nothing more.
So ebay had it's big forum redesign. Two things I see missing. Post counts and of course any reference to ebay's sleazey propaganda/paid liar-poser service, lieworld.
At some point, they had some sort of glitch there, which (among other things) took away the link to the very last post of any given thread. (meaning you had to open the thread, then click to the last page, rather than being able to click only once to get to the same place.)
I'm wondering whether that wasn't some sort of purposeful thing aimed at making users click more, in order to increase the apparent view count/traffic?
Here is a then & now of alexa pages for ebay. Note the traffic to forums has declined a tad, even with that little tweak. Even those hundredths of a percent may be quite a large actual number.
ebay's new forums seem to be causing inadvertant hotlinking / bandwidth theft. Maybe someone needs to adjust settings or users need to learn how the TinyMCE stuff works?