Both of them fell

I posted two different threads over in the "close politician" section, and now I’m looking at it and... they're just gone.

The first one was basically asking if there's some specific political party pulling the strings behind this forum. I kind of get why those might have been scrubbed... I mean, you can't exactly question the sanctity of this place without running into trouble, let alone putting it in writing...

The second thread was about whether that site www.foxnews.com had gone offline or maybe got hacked. Since that site covers so much heavy political stuff, I thought it was relevant to the discussion here, so I wanted to see if anyone knew what happened... but that topic vanished too.

Why is that happening?

Here is the situation regarding www.patriotnews.com:

Dear readers and contributors,

Since the website www.patriotnews.com refused to back down despite all the threats and buyout offers, this is what happened...

Our account has been frozen, along with our entire access to everything related to the site,

including our database, user accounts, and pretty much everything else.

The excuse they gave us was that some sort of script overload was taxing the server space,

even though we haven't even used 10% of our allocated storage, and we have

unlimited bandwidth. When we asked them to just remove whatever scripts are bothering them,

they basically told us they had no idea which scripts they were talking about and suggested

we go check it ourselves. Well, obviously, we can't do that since they've

locked us out of everything completely.

Because of this, we aren't even able to send an update to our users,

since we can't get to their email addresses anymore.

It's pretty clear someone finds our presence extremely inconvenient.

Fixing this isn't going to be easy, because it involves

migrating everything, fighting for the domain redirect, and essentially rebuilding our whole

platform from scratch.

We expect this whole process could take somewhere around

two weeks.

So, please bear with us and keep supporting us; we are pushing forward

to make sure you can still follow our work at www.patriotnews.com

The Editorial Team

Wait, why are we supposedly not allowed to talk about this on this forum?

Thanks

I was pretty worked up about the shutdown of my favorite local hobbyist site, so I just sat down and hammered this out quickly...

Well, there goes the third topic... shut down. Honestly, I don't quite get the logic here. Like, what was actually wrong with it? It feels like instead of just cleaning up the off-topic posts, they just pulled the plug on the whole thread...

I was holding out hope for some kind of answer, but honestly, it doesn't even matter anymore... the site is back up and running again, so I guess this whole thread is pretty much dead in the water.