Change Log: behind the scenes at BHW

For the past 2 months I've been working on overhauling the text of the warning system. It's taken awhile because there were internal rules for the Community Team to update, rules to update (HAF/WTB) and... there's a lot of warnings.

However, I'm happy to tell you that it's done! Warning texts have been updated to use current terms (there were still references to skype, conversations instead of DMs, etc), give a better feel for severity, add links to our Terms and Rules, Support and relevant threads.

The way warnings work has not changed, though while testing the formatting and links I did find one that wasn't working correctly so I fixed it.

Not the most exciting update, but it was a big project and deserves mentioning!

As you all know, we've been working to bring the rules in all the different sections up to date. I'm pleased to announce that with @BassTrackerBoats help, we got the Joint Venture Rules finished and posted!

What has changed?

- As with the WTB/HAF forums, off site contact info is no longer allowed to be posted anywhere in a thread. If you're interested in the JV, discuss it in the thread and then go to DMs.
- Better examples of what a TRUE JV is.
- Requests and/or offers for financial investments/instruments aren't allowed - full stop.

We're hoping that these rules will bring better quality JVs to the section!

In regards to AI spam: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/tagging-ai-posts.1731535/post-19519616

You'll be happy to know we found a farm and nuked around 150 accounts today and cleaned up their spam (IYKYK).

I know guys get irritated that we're not going fast enough when it comes to some of the spam, scams or other things that go on around here. It's a very delicate balance of trying to avoid false positives. I'm 100% sure that some of you would really be unhappy if we took some of the advice to go ahead and just "ban" accounts without clear proof, "lock" threads without clear proof, etc. This is why we take some time to watch what's going on before acting.

Sometimes these farms are like the Magic Eye pictures from the early 90s. You can't see crap in the picture and then all of a sudden one day you see the whatever. And do you know what helped me discover this spam farm that was right in front of my face? Reports that you guys made. Someone managed to report a few accounts that seemed totally unrelated and when I tried connecting the dots suddenly I became all seeing.

So please keep reporting. And we do appreciate your patience because this is never a quick thing (though if you know who's selling that magic wand that really works, please send them my way).