DPRevived being censored by DPReview

I find this unlikely. DPR isn't a particularly important part of Amazon, so I don't think anyone in sufficiently high position of power cares much about what's discussed on one acquisition of theirs that's about to get axed.

I think it's just an attempt to concentrate all talks about the site being shutdown to a minimal number of threads. There doesn't seem to be particularly consistent policy about this on different forums how this is handled. As for the idea of attempting to handle it like this, I can kind of understand the reasoning, even though I don't think it's working well at all in practice. Kind of like trying to herd a large number of cats.

I agree. But some mods may have a different agenda.

(that hopefully doesn't involve those moderators).

Just came here (and registered) after hearing about the site for several days. There are several mentions in the DPR Canon EOS R forum's "where to go now" thread about this site, and they have not been taken down. Fingers crossed for us DPRefugees' new home, if this is it!

Good to see you here. Nice seeing all the familiar names pop up.

Absolutely nothing to do with DPR censoring. We have several thread of alternative sites in the m43 forum, and none of them have been locked or deleted. It has to be a specific moderator's decision to do so. Maybe they want to keep just one thread live at a time, which might be somehow useful (Although i don't see how), but to me makes no sense. Especially when your moderation privileges will cease to exist in less than 2 weeks.

On dpreview this new site is posted on the “site feedback and help” forum by a moderator

We now have guidance from staff. Don't delete or lock threads that don't violate DPR guidelines.

Or, without the double negative, let threads that conform to DPR guidelines alone.

IMHO, a sensible approach.

That has been my moderation behavior for over 11 years. By the book.

Me, too. But we now have guidance from DPR staff that the old rules apply to the new situation, together with a warning to mods to keep their thumbs off the scale wrt the competing sites. It was a while in coming, but I think they are doing the right thing.

Thank you for the information, Jim. Much appreciated.

Aside - There are a few moderators I hope disappear with DPReview. They are most unpleasant persons.

I respect your opinion, but...
Since I posted that, a friend on DPR made a comment over there about someone, and ended with "I've never seen him again". I made a joke saying "What, did you send a couple friends over for a visit?".... and that comment was removed. It happens a lot. Could be Smaug but I'd bet any money it's Mako. We've had a longer history. It's not necessary... it's malicious. I've modded places and you learn to just stay objective even if they irritate you. If they don't break rules, do nothing.

I don't think they cared about guidance, Bob.... They enjoyed doing what they wanted.

I came here just now after seeing it being mentioned on DPReview in the Ricoh Talk...

Just posted a 'goodbye' message on DPR with a link to this forum - and got it removed with a threat to be banned with the following explanation:

And I just mentioned dprevived in the end of my message.

This is the most unhelpful and harmful approach. What kind of 'regular' discussions they expect to see on the forum about to die and get wiped??

The best thing DPR moderators/admins can do right now - stick a post with links to potential DPR successors on every single subforum. Moving topics and closing them because of already opened similar topics doesn't really help now. I think Amazon doesn't care about the links to the successor forums, and I'm disappointed in how DPR moderators handle it right now. The more links - the better. They must be on the very top.