Not being a tech guy- I always wonder why moles, kitchens, and Korean text can't be easily filtered by software which simply excludes such terms/members from the forum.
I feel an introduction to the landscape/background might hook you right up here. Pardon me while I get nerd on for a moment.
Let's speak of ideas around tech levels for a second.
There are many different general types of websites from a technical aspect. To be honest, the idea leads to a sort of biological branching sort of view on it. We'll be way high up on the tree... let's say at the mammal/fish division level.
Simple ad sites that deliver little or no functionality would be one major branch... let's give them the 'fish' label. These are cheap, standalone beasts that have little or no dependence on other 'services'. They can be easily implemented and maintained.
The mammalian branch (420Mag is a mammal) includes database connected dynamic beasts that can roll many complicated features together to create an ever undated version of themselves to humans (well, other beasts too, but that technical boredom need not enter this conversation).
Let's look at the mammal branch.
It's next major split is between custom codded websites that rely on a development team writing fancy web code and database queries
versus websites using a pre-construsted code-base rented or puchased, usually running on servers not under your control, administered via webpages.
An example of the latter would be 420Mag and a huge sea of others... any site running on Wordpress or any other number of backends. This is hugely cheap compared to custom code. Like.... many orders of magnitude. The only folks taking the custom code plunge are folks that really-really need that functionality/security/flexibility. The dollars involved in maintaining ninja coders vs running a Wordpress site is the difference between flying to Cuba for a fun weekend and traveling to the moon.
So... 420 is a Wordpress or other software sort of beast.... I could look, but that would bore me.
Plus, I would guess that they're running on servers not in their direct control. They might be running their own software on rented virtual servers... maybe real hardware, but probably not.... again, money. The might be on the Amazon or Google cloud.... again, I could look, but boring. Plus, from a backend perspective, they're probably sharing code-base and hardware/software with other sites.
So.... in a world where you're presented with an administrative interface to a fancy Wordpress (or whatever) site, you really don't have direct control to change things at the real level where the issue occurs. Your options are to get the vendor of whatever software bit that's giving you grief to correct the issue. Now, these vendors can actually be quite responsive... it's their biz after all.
If one had control of the servers and code-base, one could loose those ninja coders and mega-sexy sys admins (can you tell which category Tead falls into?) onto the problem and resolve it yourself... but again, money.
Hope this helps you with your views on the issue.
Disclaimer.... Tead has absolutely no knowledge of 420Mags systems... just guessing.
