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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 27, 2017 13:18:24 GMT -5
Found out during the brief period amwfans.com was accidentally expired (ugh!, I can't believe I let that happen), that no one could view the threads via google search since everything's set to amwfans.com now. In other words, the original forum name "americasmostwanted.freeforums.net" works if the domain name doesn't work but only to view the website as a whole. So if someone were to search for "Jesus Salazar" for example, it would have went to page explaining the url has expired and to go to americasmostwanted.freeforums.net making it appear like the thread no longer existed. (I hope everything made sense). Now I'm at a dilemma as to what to do. I bought a domain for this forum to make it look more professional. But apparently it may backfire on me in a sense in the future. Although I plan on actually remembering in the future  , if the domain ever expires for whatever reasons anyway or isn't working because of technical glitches, apparently people who aren't net savvy will just think the threads no longer exist. (really all you have to do is if it says amwfans.com/thread/238/Jesus-Salazr-1999 (I know that's not the actual thread title, just an example) or whatever you'd just type in the same exact address except put americasmostwanted.freeforums.net instead of the amwfans.com but people who aren't net savvy wouldn't know that). In retrospect I'm starting to think I should have have never brought a domain name but it's in the google search results already so I guess we're stuck with it now lol. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 27, 2017 13:24:45 GMT -5
Just realized I could always ditch the url and change it to a free forum address that sounds a little more professional than "free forums" like amwfans.proboards.com. I already renewed our url for the time being and paid money to do so (sorry that is important lol) but it's something I'll think about for the future. It would be a matter of how long it would take the search results to reflect a name change though since it would be the same problem as mentioned above until that were to happen. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 27, 2017 19:19:03 GMT -5
Just realized I could always ditch the url and change it to a free forum address that sounds a little more professional than "free forums" like amwfans.proboards.com. I already renewed our url for the time being and paid money to do so (sorry that is important lol) but it's something I'll think about for the future. It would be a matter of how long it would take the search results to reflect a name change though since it would be the same problem as mentioned above until that were to happen. I actually like as a professional backup url. If needed, I feel that guests would still take that website url seriously. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 27, 2017 19:38:13 GMT -5
Just realized I could always ditch the url and change it to a free forum address that sounds a little more professional than "free forums" like amwfans.proboards.com. I already renewed our url for the time being and paid money to do so (sorry that is important lol) but it's something I'll think about for the future. It would be a matter of how long it would take the search results to reflect a name change though since it would be the same problem as mentioned above until that were to happen. I actually like as a professional backup url. If needed, I feel that guests would still take that website url seriously. Unfortunately I can't make it a backup url because I registered the forum as americasmostwanted.freeforums.net, but it is an option as a new address should I ever choose to no longer have a domain name. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 18, 2017 17:00:32 GMT -5
Just a note guys if you ever want to delete a thread please let me know in advance. I had to re-do a bunch of threads because a poster who hasn't been here in two years for some reason decided to come back and delete all his posts. The deleted replies to some threads were no big deal, but some of his deletes were fugitive threads started by him, which meant I had to re-make them. I dunno I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he got spooked or something but I would have preferred to know in advanced he wanted to delete his stuff or be given a heads up he was going to delete them and I would have handled it from there, but at least I was able to re-make the threads again in record time lol.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 24, 2017 3:28:50 GMT -5
With summer coming up I feel now is a good time for a site re-shuffle, re-emergoze the site and put the most.popular.cases up front again so apologies if the forum looks weird the next couple of days. (Once again I decided to only do this once a year tops so don't expect another shuffle until 2018.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 25, 2017 6:23:53 GMT -5
Top list and TV fugitives sections reshuffled. Missing on Unsolved on TV probably in the new few weeks or months.
Decided to lay off exclusive sections since we're constantly adding threads to them but at the end of the year when I take my usual hiatus from posting cases I want to make at least the recent fugitives missing and unsolved sections in chronological order from most recent to least recent. (Recentness is more important to me in exclusive threads since the newer cases have a a better chance of getting solved- people generally come on the forum for the tv cases sections which is why I focus on most popular cases in them)
In other words I want people perusing the tv cases section to see all the "hey I know that case!" Up front to draw them in. Since they are less likely to be familiar with any exclusive case to be drawn In, then with those I'd rather them just see the newer cases up front.
Ok this is the most rambling post ever and I've gotten about 8 hours of sleep in the past two days combined so I'm logging off for now.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 4, 2017 16:54:36 GMT -5
Just a note so that all of us know- I know I've private messaged some of you in the past and I'm not singling anyone out- but let's face it- 95 percent of the fugitives we discuss on our website if not more are guilty as f***. However, by legal definition- they are still technically innocent until proven guilty. So I would please caution against using language automatically assuming guilt only so it doesn't cause problems for our site. For instance, "so this guy shot him because he looked at him- that's stupid" should instead read "so this guy allegedly shot him because he looked at him- that's stupid." This isn't the strictest rule- it's just advice I politely request everyone follows- and obviously leeway would be given to victims or relatives of the victims in the cases. (I hate to say it but legally speaking alleged victim if the person posting is actually the person said to be harmed). Technically speaking, you're just stating your opinion. It's just I want to reduce any potential problems for the site so I'm politely requesting (as opposed to a strict edict) that we try to be as careful as possible when discussing cases. In any case, happy 4th of July everyone! |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jul 4, 2017 17:30:11 GMT -5
Just a note so that all of us know- I know I've private messaged some of you in the past and I'm not singling anyone out- but let's face it- 95 percent of the fugitives we discuss on our website if not more are guilty as f***. However, by legal definition- they are still technically innocent until proven guilty. So I would please caution against using language automatically assuming guilt only so it doesn't cause problems for our site. For instance, "so this guy shot him because he looked at him- that's stupid" should instead read "so this guy allegedly shot him because he looked at him- that's stupid." This isn't the strictest rule- it's just advice I politely request everyone follows- and obviously leeway would be given to victims or relatives of the victims in the cases. (I hate to say it but legally speaking alleged victim if the person posting is actually the person said to be harmed). Technically speaking, you're just stating your opinion. It's just I want to reduce any potential problems for the site so I'm politely requesting (as opposed to a strict edict) that we try to be as careful as possible when discussing cases. In any case, happy 4th of July everyone! I agree with this decision Scumhunter. This is especially important since I post a lot of the case threads on this forum. Here are some of terms I will be using from now on to not automatically assume the guilt of a fugitive. "Detectives say" "Alleged" "Accused" "According to the witness" (I know witnesses are not 100% accurate so this would be said with special case-by-case consideration) |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 7, 2017 7:15:46 GMT -5
So just a note that in numerous threads I've added links to Reddit "Unresolved Mysteries" discussion of the cases. Some may wonder why I'm linking to a technically "competing" forum. Basically it's because A) Reddit has become a very popular social media site that it's hard to ignore when they discuss unsolved cases. B) some of the theories Redditers we have we may want to bring up and discuss. Because there's more of a broad range of people, I feel they have the most variety in terms of discussion/theory. C) Its admittedly also an excuse to bump up threads I felt had been getting ignored lately. At least I admit it. |
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Post by fugitivesearch on Dec 30, 2017 8:11:12 GMT -5
I was thinking that for the captures section, the admins could add a case update section so that updates from cases where the fugitive was apprehended years ago aren't lumped in with recent captures
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 30, 2017 9:27:34 GMT -5
Haha yeah I've been scouring the site for updates lately so it's not likely to be that way all the time but I understand even little by little with any update from a past case it may confuse with the recent captures. Problem is updates are still technically captures and belong in the captures section because of that imo but I'll meet you in the middle in 2018 and every time there's a recent AMW, Hunt or tv capture I'll put under the section description in bold lettering "latest tv shows captures" and links to whatever captures from AMW and The Hunt for the past month were. If worse comes to worse and it's still difficult to sort out, I'll just sticky the latest captures instead. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 6, 2018 20:13:34 GMT -5
What are everyone's thoughts on a sticky thread for US Most Wanted page sites at the state, county and local level. The difference between this idea and say Fugitive Hunter/US Most Wanted is we would only have "up-to-date sites" and those who profile fugitives wanted for more serious felonies than drug possession and probation violation. We could highlight those sites that have case descriptions as well.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jan 6, 2018 21:24:02 GMT -5
I have an idea that’s off topic to stickying lol, buti was thinking what if we had a Game Trivia thread and everyone will take a turn to ask a question which will run each week and the rest of us who didn’t make the question have to figure it out and answer it and the questions will be anything you guys would like, (crime shows, Most wanted lists, missing persons or fugitive) and see who answers correctly.
How’s that for a suggestion?
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 6, 2018 23:47:52 GMT -5
I'm not sure if stickying is necessary but an off-topic list of most wanted page sites that we bump up/update from time to time sounds fine if anyone wants to so that.
A trivia thread may be fun initially but tbh I'm not sure if I'd always reply as my priorities would be our actual crime cases on our forum. I remember when we had all these fugitive face-off contests when this forum first started and it was great initially since it helped participation when we didn't have as many posters but eventually it started to feel like a chore. (This is not meant to offend any posters who made such contests back in the day, they were needed and fun back then, just there can be too much of a good thing!)
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, if the domain ever expires for whatever reasons anyway or isn't working because of technical glitches, apparently people who aren't net savvy will just think the threads no longer exist. (really all you have to do is if it says amwfans.com/thread/238/Jesus-Salazr-1999 (I know that's not the actual thread title, just an example) or whatever you'd just type in the same exact address except put americasmostwanted.freeforums.net instead of the amwfans.com but people who aren't net savvy wouldn't know that).
