Just wondering if it annoys any of the admins, that certain users are well basically stealing members, or at least, advertising other forums, on this forum ?
I know it'd annoy me ...
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Just wondering if it annoys any of the admins, that certain users are well basically stealing members, or at least, advertising other forums, on this forum ?
I know it'd annoy me ...
Its a bit rude to say the least.
... and whatever happened to loyalty ?
If we can keep this THE BEST vb site I don't think we'll have much to worry about.:p
But it won't be if all the talent keeps visiting other sites :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by GlenW
If we can keep this THE BEST vb site I don't think we'll have much to worry about.:p
Lets threaten to send the boys round.:D
bah there's nothing we can do about it except for the admins banning the advertising of other forumsQuote:
Originally posted by GlenW
Lets threaten to send the boys round.:D
Its due to forum members getting above their station and wanting to be admins themselves. So when they can't they run away and take their toys with them.
well put :)Quote:
Originally posted by RSINGH
Its due to forum members getting above their station and wanting to be admins themselves. So when they can't they run away and take their toys with them.
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goddamn I can't stand filburt...
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;)
I wholeheartedly agree ;)
*cough* pick-a-name *cough*
Yeha and people that advertise forums in their sigs, like well I dunno, say oh, turtletips, yeah, they should be shot ;)
Hmmm, I think that's going a bit too far. Just string them up from the nearest lamp post by their goolies.Quote:
Originally posted by plenderj
Yeha and people that advertise forums in their sigs, like well I dunno, say oh, turtletips, yeah, they should be shot ;)
Turtle sandwich anyone?;)
I do it for the referrals (i.e., all 1 of them I'm ever likely to get :D)
Well I just think its a real bad idea, and a very not nice thing for people to be advertising other people's forums on the vbforums.
It completely undermines the concept of an online community
:( Don't hang me please....think of my children.:(
You're exempt - someone has to look after the kids and make sure they behave(at turtle tips);)
One of the main reasons I joined is that it is more closely associated with my time zone. VBF turns into tumbleweed city quite often after you Brits go home from work.
I think the loyalty thing is a little over the top....do you buy s/w from only one source? If you found something cheaper and more convenient for you wouldn't you buy it there?
I love VBW and most of the people in it. Going to another site as well as VBW doesn't make me disloyal!!!!!
There is also the no kovan and j4u things going for turtletips! A definite plus in my book!
Advertising is allowed to a certian extent. Filburt1's signature is a perfect example of something adequate.
What a complete load of bollacks.....quite frankly l don't think anyone has anything to worry about here.....
Jez vbf is no. 1 for vb questions, but some of the members are truely painful....turtle tips has a much nicer feel to it. Also as Furby states, is more aimed at hardware and general software forums.....
Jamie you can actually belong to multiple boards, currently belong to five or six, and visit three on regular basis
Just to piss Jamie off
www.vbworld.com
www.dbforums.com
www.turtletips.com
Chill Bro, have a pint of green beer for St Pats day....
dont you go to www.boyzForum.com?Quote:
Originally posted by Jethro
What a complete load of bollacks.....quite frankly l don't think anyone has anything to worry about here.....
Jez vbf is no. 1 for vb questions, but some of the members are truely painful....turtle tips has a much nicer feel to it. Also as Furby states, is more aimed at hardware and general software forums.....
Jamie you can actually belong to multiple boards, currently belong to five or six, and visit three on regular basis
Just to piss Jamie off
www.vbworld.com
www.dbforums.com
www.turtletips.com
Chill Bro, have a pint of green beer for St Pats day....
re; filburt's point about 27,000 members.
You know thats as much as I do.
All 27,000 members don't frequent the board ever day do they ?
And anyway yeah I still think its not nice to be advertising other forums proactively on the vbforums
Hear, hear!
(Me no likes the ads either...)
I sincerely doubt the mods don't mind other forums (ie. the competition) being advertised.Quote:
Originally posted by filburt1
as the mods already pointed out, they don't mind other forums being "advertised"; and Megatron explicitly said that my signature was perfectly acceptable
And yes megatron did say that your advert in your signature is acceptable, but it doesn't mean he, or anyone else likes it!
wow, its not like people are forcing people to join other forums at gunpoint... a lot of people have left here because of all these freako religious fanatics... maybe if we kept those people out then this forum would be more succesful, and i know that people agree w/ me... cuz there was a discussion about it on another forum the other day...
Chit chat in here is like a boil on a butt... Sure the boil is fun to play with and squeeze etc but it wouldnt survive without the butt. The reason that the other forums are doomed is that they only have the boil and it cant survive long being butt-free. :)
first of all, terrible analogy, and second of all i bet they will survive, look at dimava's forums, though they aren't getting too much traffic they still have a relativly high userbase... as long as filburt can keep the money flow up he will be able to keep TT forums...
Umm.... yeeeesss..... :confused:Quote:
Originally posted by beachbum
Chit chat in here is like a boil on a butt... Sure the boil is fun to play with and squeeze etc but it wouldnt survive without the butt. The reason that the other forums are doomed is that they only have the boil and it cant survive long being butt-free. :)
LOL, nice metaphor :pQuote:
Originally posted by beachbum
Chit chat in here is like a boil on a butt... Sure the boil is fun to play with and squeeze etc but it wouldnt survive without the butt. The reason that the other forums are doomed is that they only have the boil and it cant survive long being butt-free. :)
You see now this is why advertising is bad.
If you hadn't of made your stupid ****ing forums you spastic, then no-one would want to make a forum to compete with yours, and so on, and so on, etc.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=155026
God almighty I could just shoot you.
Look, if you have a personal problem with me, then harass me in PMs. You don't have to drag the entire Forum Feedback forum with the admins into it.
I'm not trying to harass anyone you spa.
If you didn't make your stupid forums, then no-one else would make opposition forums, and no-one else would advertise theirs over yours and vice-versa.
I was not the first to make forums and "advertise" them here. The first to come to mind was Dennis' Promasc, and you didn't seem to have a problem with it. What's more, find a post where I refer to my site. Now find one where somebody else does it. I bet you my life savings that others are referring to my site much more often than I do.
Either way, the admins have already stated their opinion, and they said that not only was my signature acceptable, but, to quote Megatron, "advertising is allowed to a certain excent." Considering I haven't been contacted by an admin for months, I assume that I'm within that extent.
I just searched for posts by anybody with "www.turtletips.com". That returned 19 hits. Of those posts, only two were by me, and both was because I quoted somebody.
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by filburt1
Look, if you have a personal problem with me, then harass me in PMs. You don't have to drag the entire Forum Feedback forum with the admins into it.
god everyone, stop yer bitchin... if you don't like it than ignore it...
You do remember the "signature contest (filburt1 being the winn...)" thread don't you ?Quote:
Originally posted by filburt1
I just searched for posts by anybody with "www.turtletips.com". That returned 19 hits. Of those posts, only two were by me, and both was because I quoted somebody.
:confused: What about it?
Think about it.
Even you'll get it eventually
Have stopped the spamming Jamie...sorry didn't know it was an issue for you:(Quote:
Originally posted by plenderj
Think about it.
Even you'll get it eventually
huh ?Quote:
Originally posted by Jethro
Have stopped the spamming Jamie...sorry didn't know it was an issue for you:(
:confused:
You seem to have taken issue with ppl mentioning a certain other web site, so will refrain from doing so, in the interests of public sanity, and Australian Irish international relationship
Cheers..........
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Originally posted by Jethro
...Australian Irish international relationship
Cheers..........
We have a relationship?
:confused:
I think you pretend to have one so you can get guiness more cheaply
Nothing wrong with that then :DQuote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
I think you pretend to have one so you can get guiness more cheaply