ROFR Thread April to June 2025 *PLEASE SEE FIRST POST FOR INSTRUCTIONS & FORMATTING TOOL*

[VGCgroupie]

What does that mean, if it’s “filtered”?

This thread explains it https://www.disboards.com/threads/p...-site-you-wish-to-mention-or-discuss.3821848/

 

[jambox]

This thread explains it https://www.disboards.com/threads/p...-site-you-wish-to-mention-or-discuss.3821848/

So, we can’t discuss negative experiences with bad brokers or bad title companies that are NOT on the approved list of names to mention? Even privately in PMs? I’m not sure if the moderator’s warning was intended for me, but I did tell someone they could PM me for details of a really awful experience because I didn’t want to make a negative public post. I definitely don’t want to break the rules. I love it here!!

 

[Cfabar1]

So, we can’t discuss negative experiences with bad brokers or bad title companies that are NOT on the approved list of names to mention? Even privately in PMs? I’m not sure if the moderator’s warning was intended for me, but I did tell someone they could PM me for details of a really awful experience because I didn’t want to make a negative public post. I definitely don’t want to break the rules.

my understanding is that if a company is "filtered" you are not officially permitted to discuss them using this website/software positively, negatively, and/or neutrally.

I do not know how this company has decided which organizations they permit and do not permit discussion about, and I believe they do not share their reasons for this decision (nor are they under obligation to do so as it is their website).

 

[VGCgroupie]

So, we can’t discuss negative experiences with bad brokers or bad title companies that are NOT on the approved list of names to mention? Even privately in PMs? I’m not sure if the moderator’s warning was intended for me, but I did tell someone they could PM me for details of a really awful experience because I didn’t want to make a negative public post. I definitely don’t want to break the rules. I love it here!!

You can try typing out that brokers website and see if it pops up filtered, if it does I guess we aren't allowed to talk about them at all.
Example https://www.fidelityrealestate.com/ is fine to talk about but https://*******.com/ is not.

 

[Brian Noble]

we can’t discuss [...] companies that are NOT on the approved list of names to mention?

Not quite. We can't use DISboards to discuss entities that are in the filtered list. It does not matter what you want to discuss about them---good or bad.

 

[Sandisw]

So, we can’t discuss negative experiences with bad brokers or bad title companies that are NOT on the approved list of names to mention? Even privately in PMs? I’m not sure if the moderator’s warning was intended for me, but I did tell someone they could PM me for details of a really awful experience because I didn’t want to make a negative public post. I definitely don’t want to break the rules. I love it here!!

It was what prompted the reminder. You can share your experience for any and all brokers whose sites have not been added to the boards filter by the owners of this site, which includes via PM.

Test the link, and if it shows, good to go! If it’s ****, then you can’t discuss them.

Sometimes, people do think being general and just saying “broker” is okay, but it’s not.

As mods, we don’t know why owners have chosen to filter some sites and not others.

Now, there are some sites that we do overlook if names as used because we know they are allowed. However, that can change so my advice is always use the link!!