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“Remove the Latta Outdoors link on the right border box...it's NOT a Great Outdoors site, it's an abandoned piece of crap that has become a haven for sex ads and bull#&%!$ posts describing Homosexual Rape.....

REMOVE THE LINK, or remain associated with the most worthless POS moderator of a backpacking site there is...MATT.”

“80”

“The stats tell the tale..look at this link from 2009 to today...see a pattern?

http://www.lattaoutdoors.com/index.php?action=stats;expand=201108”

“I'm still trying to get Demand to fix the apostrophe problem for the trips page (and the edit function for posts and the profile) and get the picture posting functions working”

“Haha that's the best description of Matt I've seen.”

“If Demand Media cared about fixing the technical problems, they would have done so by now.”

“In Matt's defense, I don't think he gives a schidt what anyone thinks.”

“Wait wait wait.... Super troll is Matt and not Bacpac? Man, I miss everything!”

“ST - those stats are pretty amazing - especially the ballooning numbers of trolls on his site - looking at the "new posts" and "new topics" numbers, the spammers have been rampant. And, actually, Matt must have done a lot of work deleting. Looks like he needs a better way to screen new members - maybe a captcha screen or a referral only policy.

There was a time a bunch of folks were really trying hard to keep conversations going over there. It's sad to see the spammers overwhelm the site.”

“I've never even clicked on Latta Outdoors, I thought it was for hikers that drank Cappachino”

“captchas don't work any more, bots can defeat them. Plus most spam is crowd-sourced these days.”

“Yeah, like we all know he is a vital piece of the puzzle. More so than anyone else here.

And all because he found a turd in his pack.”

“DOH!”

“stovie, maybe you should start an Occupy TrailTalk movement.”

“He already does.”

“I LOVE SQUASH!”

“There's yet another 'unbiased' 'mod'.”

“Latta seems to be cleaned up at the moment...sad it took such a strong post to get any action on it.”

“Ok ST , forgive me of my ignorance but I need to catch up. A brief synopsis of what's Latta? Did Matt make it after he sold TT? Is that " the dark side"?I slogged through it a bit and found it quirky and clumbsy to navigate”

“Look immediately to the right of your post...see the link to Latta Outdoors?..Matt Started it after he sold TT to Demand Media...then he got busy doing other things and let it run downhill...

It has possibilities, but you can not let the spammers and Wildeebeests run rampant...

Hope now he looks in a little more often so it can bloom as a BACKPACKING/OUTDOOR site once again.
last edited: 11/21/11 7:05:50 AM”

“Lol.
Stovie, I'm just done trying to save the world. The people who don't get it never will and thats why its stupid. so I'm movin on. I thought it was funny when the vile one threatened me. It showed his true colors when the light is shined on him. I never gave it a second thought, honestly. He couldn't scare me out of a paper bag. Lol, I just made that up.....”

“A gentle reminder to keep fuego talk on fuego. Not saying the line has been crossed here, but it could go there quickly.”

“Sunshine and lollypops

8)”

“Why can't I edit my post?”

“Demand Media hates the use of the apostrophe.

I'm not a 'mod'.”

“Inability to edit is the Demand Media process improvement tool designed to make sure you use best effort to get it right the first time.

Next question?”

“Measure twice, cut once?”

“Cut once..got it.”

“You can't edit any post with single apostrophes. Double apostrophes will work and show as singles as hopefully they will with this edit.

I have been asking Demand to do something about this for a while. Hopefully some other mods will join me in nagging them.

The same problem exists for modifying your profile and posting trips (even on the initial post for trips) - the functions don't work with single apostrophes.
last edited: 11/29/11 7:02:45 PM”

“I bet administrators can use apostrophes....”

“Yep! Anyone can - you just have to use double apostrophes when editing a post or posting a trip.”