I usually frequent the Spanish forum but have not had Internet access for a few weeks so I was horrified to see what has happened there. I too have contacted the admin. people to see what can be done to stop this troll. For anyone who would like to 'talk' gardening in Spanish I suggest you try www.infojardin.com (and just yesterday I was recommending gardenweb there for them to practise English!) Its a very friendly forum and for many members Spanish is second or third language so there are often errors and grammatical mistakes but the main thing is our common interest in growing things so language takes second place. It is a moderated forum but as there is mutual respect among the members it is rare for the moderators to have to act. Basically no-go topics are porn, religion and politics. If there are others here on this forum who could also contact the webmaster re. what is ocurring on the Spanish part I would be most grateful.

Because the Veggie Forum is quite a fast moving forum, it is possible that someone, member or nonmember brought up your post via Google and replied to it, even though your post is no longer viewable on the 67 pages of posts there. Once a thread has dropped off of page 67, it will never be brought back up on page one with any new replies. The thread is just out there is cyberspace, and there isn't really anything that can be done about it, imho. A Google search of your member name and the subject line would likely find the thread, if you are curious to see if what I'm thinking has happened, really happened. The oldest 'replies' to threads at Veggies is Aug, 2010. Here is a link that might be useful: For example...a 3 year old thread from the Kitchen Table Forum

Yes thats right Len I tried to get on again last night but could not get on at all. Last night you could not even log on. They has this message up saying there were doing something and it would be finished by 6am EST. But which 6am EST did they mean, certainly not ours, but its good it see it back on again. Have you noticed that the lines are not as long as they used to be .... Cheers..MM.

I agree, but Houzz would have had to have a separate server to retain all those posts. I guess it set a time limit and space limit on retained posts, so we lost a ton, but every now and then, I see some older posts pop up from someone's search. I think they did away with all the 90s and only kept those from the 2000s, because I've seen a few pop up from 2003 and 2005. Sadly, the early days were the best, when there were so many more members and so much great information.