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Originally posted by BILLW:
John,
I don't think it's a joke. The map used to have a moderator of sorts - I guess they decided to close it.
I'm thinking we can start a new one, who's game ?
Bill 
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OK Bill if I understand you correctly you are saying that somewhere there is a supreme being called a moderator (not to be confused with our own dear Charlene of course) at frappr who moderates all messages and activity on the plethora of maps to check for such sins as obscenities or sedition or antii-Bush sentiment or terrorist plots, whatever and if he/she finds anything that he/she objects to he/she then has the power to not only delete all such messages etc unilateraly with no communication with the map's "owner", but also reduce the membership to zero and delete all their photographs and location pins and also substitute any artwork he/she objects to with any other piece of graffiti whether relevant or not?
I am sorry Bill but I don't buy that at all and that cannot possibly be the correct answer in our case.
consider the facts:-
at about 1:30 PM EST yesterday I had been chatting to Sharron during which I had opened the corfid map as part of my logging in testing and am certain that the corfid map had its previous compliment of over 100 pins. certainly the initial screen showing the USA was as stuffed with pins as I expected to see it .I know it was about 1:30 because we broke off our chatting I think because Sharron wanted to go and have lunch and I remember thinking it was early for her but about the right time for me . Bear in mind that probably only a few visits to the site have been made recently.
I was extremely surprised therefore to discover when I came back after lunch an hour or so later that when Ichecked he corfid map the original copy of Florian;s discussion forum logo had been supplanted by the silly slogon as illustrated in my screenshot that I showed above
Note that when I made that screenshot unfortunately I did not include the address bar but I assure you that it was
http://www.frappr.com/?a=showmap&gid=62138&landing=1
and that moreover the page at the time of my sceenshot declared as my screenshot clearly shows that
"corfid now had 0 members (0 people 0 places)"
the other strange thing is that later and now when trying the same link that silly graphic had in turn disappeared
Note that the address bar now is definitely
http://www.frappr.com/?a=showmap&gid=62138&landing=1
Today I recalled that when the original map disappeared before, somebody (possibly Violet tried to start a new "corfid" map but was told to get lost so I though I would try
No way Jose
I then had bright idea.
If violet's replacement map is at:-
http://www.frappr.com/sitdownyoungstranger/
and he link that worked earlier
http://www.frappr.com/?a=showmap&gid=62138&landing=1
now produces rubbish as shown above
then possibly the more logical equivalent address for our "corfid" page would be:-
http://www.frappr.com/corfid
So I tried that and was told unequivocably
I also point out again that I am reasonably certain that somebody here at one time concocted the rhyming slogon "morbid corfid" but as I said no amount of searching these forums or googling will prove my point but I definitely remember it so I feel that one possible explanation is that that phrase was part of one of one of the many topics started here recently then deleted by the originator.In my considered judgement this act of vandalism is not the work of some outside troll or any moderator at frappr who just happenned to think it clever to rhyme corfid with morbid but an inside job.
What bothers me now is that if we all spend precious minutes adding our names and pictures to the SDYS map what likelihood is there that whichever hooligan played this stoopid prank
will get it into his tiny mind to repeat the exercise sometime
So Bill I am sure that something far more sinister has happenned here
And I repeat it is a joke in exceedingly poor taste.
I do not know what to suggest other than for you as the person who initially brought the corfid member map (as created by Watchman Al) to the attention of the General Discussion Forum
should report this problem to frappr and ask them to investigate and see if anyone else has sufferred this stupidity, and of course how could
anybody able to wreak havoc in this way anyway
John
The alternative is obviously to do nothing and all of us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the corfid map will one day reappear just as it did the last time