**R.I.P. ZWOL 4/20/2017**

Ricco · Post by **Ricco** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:24 am

With heavy heart I returned to Zwol today after an extended period of time away. The Cancer known as Spammers win. FUCK THEM!! It was a good run here. It's too bad the creators abandoned this thing that created lots of great opportunities to create what we loved. COMICS!

Goodbye all. I'm done here. I feel a little like the Lorax with a kernel of hope that maybe one day....but no...I'm giving this forum permission to go to the light, and leave a black pit of Spammers to implode and be sucked down into the black hole of hell that I'm hoping is reserved just for them.

I'm calling it asistoli 11:17pm 4/20/2017

Goodbye my friends hope to see some of you on the greener pastures of other forums.

Ricco

ArtbyAtlas · Post by **ArtbyAtlas** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:12 am

Any other comic sites you frequent with work opportunities for artists/writers like this one?

ld-airgrafix · Post by **ld-airgrafix** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:12 pm

How can you not be interested in runescape gold??? Really good deals here, why would anyone want to pass such opportunities.
But seriously its ridiculous, many regulars have left. I visit rarely

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:59 am

It was annoying when I first saw it, but, hey, I don't click them. This is still the busiest forum I know for postings related to comic book work, except maybe DeviantArt, but the BS factor is high over there. Reddit isn't too bad. Digital Webbing is pretty dead and Penciljack is. CBR has a little of it.

Geebler-art · Post by **Geebler-art** » Sun Apr 23, 2017 7:45 pm

WillEd wrote:It was annoying when I first saw it, but, hey, I don't click them. This is still the busiest forum I know for postings related to comic book work, except maybe DeviantArt, but the BS factor is high over there. Reddit isn't too bad. Digital Webbing is pretty dead and Penciljack is. CBR has a little of it.

Can you indicate some good reddit places? I'm there but I don't know any forum there to artists looking for work.

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:15 am

Geebler-art wrote:
Can you indicate some good reddit places? I'm there but I don't know any forum there to artists looking for work.

This one. There is a separate section for it that usually is on the first page, but that anthology thing bumped it off it this month to the next page.

www.reddit.com/r/ComicBookCollabs

tomcapung · Post by **tomcapung** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:19 am

who's admin from this forum?
They must do something.

noonecomics · Post by **noonecomics** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:13 am

the spammers are frustating as fuck, but we should defend our ground, when I started a few years ago the gigs were coming faster now is true that everything moves slower and you have to find other sources of income.

so, fuck spammers

Rick Alves · Post by **Rick Alves** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:20 pm

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ArtbyAtlas · Post by **ArtbyAtlas** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:33 pm

Did this site ever *have* moderators?

Celluloidsamurai · Post by **Celluloidsamurai** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:02 pm

I am willing to offer my services to as admin to keep site going this has been one of the best sites around and would like to see it survive this. The powers that be please hit me up.

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:25 pm

Celluloidsamurai wrote:I am willing to offer my services to as admin to keep site going this has been one of the best sites around and would like to see it survive this. The powers that be please hit me up.

You might try to contact this guy but he hasn't been here for three years.

http://www.zwol.org/forum/profile.php?m ... rofile&u=2

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:49 pm

I guess you can try applying here to be a moderator, but is there anyone around to respond? Is someone paying for this forum?

http://www.zwol.org/forum/groupcp.php?g=183

If someone responds, let us know. I would help. too, just to reduce the spam.

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:59 pm

I guess you can try applying here to be a moderator, but is there anyone around to respond? Is someone paying for this forum?

http://www.zwol.org/forum/groupcp.php?g=183

If someone responds, let us know. I would help. too, just to reduce the spam.

I clicked it. But I bet there is no one around to read it. I have seen ghost forums floating around the web, but they were closed.

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:03 am

I thought for a forum to be on the web someone has to pay a hosting fee. But no one seems to be in charge here. The administrator last posted in 20014. The last moderator posted in 2007. Is this forum just floating around the web like an orphan? I sent a PM to the Admin, but I don't expect him to reply.

Geebler-art · Post by **Geebler-art** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 12:11 am

I sent an email for the admin and I found a moderator on facebook and sent him a message. I hope one of them repply me.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:49 pm

Facebook message received! Wow, it's been awhile since I've been on here. I didn't even know it still existed. It's really unbelievable that this board is still in use. I might have to start making daily visits again. So, as for the spammers, as a moderator I can delete post and threads but not users. I have no control over the user profiles, so I don't have the ability to create new moderators. I just went through a few pages and deleted a bunch of threads. But it doesn't even look like I made a dent. I'll send Greg an email, if he's still using that email, and let him know what is happening.

Ricco · Post by **Ricco** » Thu May 04, 2017 1:11 am

WOW!! Great job to Geebler for finding Eric. I guess there is a little hope for the old Lorax after all. Thank you Eric, hopefully with your help , Zwol can thrive and blossom again. You might also notice Spammers here have gotten more creative and are using old threads to post their garbage like the user Robby on this page. Maybe we'll see the lost souls return to this forum again. I know I'll be spreading the word elsewhere.

Once again, thank you.

Ricco

WillEd · Post by **WillEd** » Thu May 04, 2017 1:16 am

We appreciate it.

WRichardRought · Post by **WRichardRought** » Thu May 04, 2017 5:20 am

What if we revived the message board with a new message board and site altogether. I have plans in the works to do just that.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Thu May 04, 2017 10:35 am

It's going to take a while to clean up this mess. I have to open each post and delete them one at a time. I'm trying to figure out if I could build a macro to take care of this in bulk. In the mean time I'll try to swat away any new spam when I see it and try to keep the page 1 threads clean.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Thu May 04, 2017 10:37 am

Also, I sent Greg an email last night to the last known address I had for him. I haven't heard back yet.

Geebler-art · Post by **Geebler-art** » Thu May 04, 2017 1:00 pm

Thank you so much for the help, Eric.

Celluloidsamurai · Post by **Celluloidsamurai** » Thu May 04, 2017 7:11 pm

Yes Thanks!

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