twall
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KEEP IN MIND, ALTHOUGH I POST THIS THREAD, I DO NOT ENDORSE CHEAP AZ BUSINESSES COMING HERE TO MOOCH OFF THIS SITE!!!
Due to the way our Google ads are now (which seems to be our only advertising), I see how it might be hard to legitimately advertise to a fertile sales opportunity such as our community. We may have a lot less problems with advertisers sprinking their snot all over the forum, if they had someplace to do it. It would also give members a place to point a blatant mooch, and give Briana a place to put the moocher threads (if they pay for it).
Every day these SOB's have a thread with their email and website attached to it without adding a smidgen to this forum, is a day's worth of free ads, and I would ask any member of this forum to be very choosy on any mooch in this forum you decide to do business with. You gave them your money because of LMF, and LMF got nothing from it. They laughed all the way to the bank.
Back to the 'paid forum' idea:
HOWEVER, I think it should be a 'paid' forum. You must PAY to post in this forum area (yet ANYONE, including non-members can view the threads). You must also pay to have your mooch thread be moved into this area to relieve it from 'mooch' status to just another annoying ad. Those of us who don't come to LMF to be advertised to, can avoid all the garbage altogether. (other than the Google garbage, which is a necessary - yet relatively unobtrusive - evil) That way, they can have the benefits of PM, and the like, without disrupting the forum. They'll have their FB name, their email, and their website on the thread, and they can go away (like they usually always do, while adding nothing to the site other than their advertising). They can even have a moniker above their avatar, as "advertiser" if they pay a fee to advertise in the 'annoying' area, and they can post in this restricted forum. It can be LEGIT this way. Right now, all we can do is tell them to go away. It doesn't have to cost a fortune (like maybe $10-15 a quarter to have your 'advertiser' status and threads stand). It'd also be added revenue for LMF.
Because IMHO, this moocher advertising is getting really outta hand really quick.
Due to the way our Google ads are now (which seems to be our only advertising), I see how it might be hard to legitimately advertise to a fertile sales opportunity such as our community. We may have a lot less problems with advertisers sprinking their snot all over the forum, if they had someplace to do it. It would also give members a place to point a blatant mooch, and give Briana a place to put the moocher threads (if they pay for it).
Every day these SOB's have a thread with their email and website attached to it without adding a smidgen to this forum, is a day's worth of free ads, and I would ask any member of this forum to be very choosy on any mooch in this forum you decide to do business with. You gave them your money because of LMF, and LMF got nothing from it. They laughed all the way to the bank.
Back to the 'paid forum' idea:
HOWEVER, I think it should be a 'paid' forum. You must PAY to post in this forum area (yet ANYONE, including non-members can view the threads). You must also pay to have your mooch thread be moved into this area to relieve it from 'mooch' status to just another annoying ad. Those of us who don't come to LMF to be advertised to, can avoid all the garbage altogether. (other than the Google garbage, which is a necessary - yet relatively unobtrusive - evil) That way, they can have the benefits of PM, and the like, without disrupting the forum. They'll have their FB name, their email, and their website on the thread, and they can go away (like they usually always do, while adding nothing to the site other than their advertising). They can even have a moniker above their avatar, as "advertiser" if they pay a fee to advertise in the 'annoying' area, and they can post in this restricted forum. It can be LEGIT this way. Right now, all we can do is tell them to go away. It doesn't have to cost a fortune (like maybe $10-15 a quarter to have your 'advertiser' status and threads stand). It'd also be added revenue for LMF.
Because IMHO, this moocher advertising is getting really outta hand really quick.
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