vbForums.com members stealing other members

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 07:47 AM

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 ...

**RSINGH** · Mar 15th, 2002, 08:52 AM

Its a bit rude to say the least.

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 09:58 AM

... and whatever happened to loyalty ?

**GlenW** · Mar 15th, 2002, 10:33 AM

If we can keep this THE BEST vb site I don't think we'll have much to worry about.

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 10:35 AM

Originally posted by GlenW
If we can keep this THE BEST vb site I don't think we'll have much to worry about.

But it won't be if all the talent keeps visiting other sites

**GlenW** · Mar 15th, 2002, 10:37 AM

Lets threaten to send the boys round.

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 10:56 AM

Originally posted by GlenW
Lets threaten to send the boys round.

bah there's nothing we can do about it except for the admins banning the advertising of other forums

**RSINGH** · Mar 15th, 2002, 10:59 AM

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.

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:00 AM

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.

well put

[mutter]
goddamn I can't stand filburt...
[/mutter]

**parksie** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:09 AM

I wholeheartedly agree

*cough* pick-a-name *cough*

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:13 AM

Yeha and people that advertise forums in their sigs, like well I dunno, say oh, turtletips, yeah, they should be shot

**RSINGH** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:18 AM

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

Hmmm, I think that's going a bit too far. Just string them up from the nearest lamp post by their goolies.
Turtle sandwich anyone?

**parksie** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:19 AM

I do it for the referrals (i.e., all 1 of them I'm ever likely to get

)

**plenderj** · Mar 15th, 2002, 11:20 AM

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

**barrk** · Mar 15th, 2002, 12:48 PM

Don't hang me please....think of my children.

**RSINGH** · Mar 15th, 2002, 12:57 PM

You're exempt - someone has to look after the kids and make sure they behave(at turtle tips)

**barrk** · Mar 15th, 2002, 01:49 PM

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!

Megatron · Mar 15th, 2002, 02:35 PM

Advertising is allowed to a certian extent. Filburt1's signature is a perfect example of something adequate.

Jethro · Mar 15th, 2002, 04:41 PM

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....

**kovan** · Mar 16th, 2002, 03:34 PM

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....

dont you go to www.boyzForum.com?

**plenderj** · Mar 20th, 2002, 04:16 AM

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

**rjlohan** · Mar 21st, 2002, 04:37 PM

Hear, hear!
(Me no likes the ads either...)

**plenderj** · Mar 22nd, 2002, 03:32 AM

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

I sincerely doubt the mods don't mind other forums (ie. the competition) being advertised.
And yes megatron did say that your advert in your signature is acceptable, but it doesn't mean he, or anyone else likes it!

**Skitchen8** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 01:11 PM

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...

**beachbum** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 04:15 PM

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.

**Skitchen8** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 04:35 PM

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...

**rjlohan** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 05:11 PM

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.

Umm.... yeeeesss.....

**filburt1** · Mar 23rd, 2002, 05:26 PM

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

**plenderj** · Mar 25th, 2002, 06:00 AM

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.

**filburt1** · Mar 25th, 2002, 11:53 AM

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.

**plenderj** · Mar 25th, 2002, 12:24 PM

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.

**filburt1** · Mar 25th, 2002, 12:34 PM

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.

**filburt1** · Mar 25th, 2002, 12:37 PM

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.

**InvisibleDuncan** · Mar 25th, 2002, 12:52 PM

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.

**Skitchen8** · Mar 25th, 2002, 04:02 PM

god everyone, stop yer bitchin... if you don't like it than ignore it...

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 03:48 AM

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.

You do remember the "signature contest (filburt1 being the winn...)" thread don't you ?

**filburt1** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:50 AM

What about it?

**plenderj** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:51 AM

Think about it.
Even you'll get it eventually

Jethro · Mar 27th, 2002, 11:06 AM

Originally posted by plenderj
Think about it.
Even you'll get it eventually

Have stopped the spamming Jamie...sorry didn't know it was an issue for you

**plenderj** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by Jethro

Have stopped the spamming Jamie...sorry didn't know it was an issue for you

huh ?

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