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They took them down to increase fees paid to them SE, it is as simple as the greed in their bones when they found out webmasters would pay them to advertise in their marketplace!
There are many forums that offer the same for free plus give members signatures, so Sitepoint can suck an egg until they address my charges!
PS: I have to sign off, you guys have fun, later all......
I think the fundamental difference between you and most others is the way your going about this. Yes, backlinks are important and you have every right to complain but your making this a personal crusade. Forums ARE allowed to make money if they want to. They are not evil or greedy because of this. If other sites offer then same calibure of information as Sitepoint with all the features you want, what are you waiting for? Leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by FPU
On your cruisade you have been banned 3 times (at least) and at least two threads (probably more) have been locked because you can't handle rational arguements. We can all agree it is an important issue but its nothing to get suited up and war monger for.
Sitepoint as others have every right to use SEO to their advantage just as you use it to yours. Your sites are completely jam packed with keywords, so much so its almost unreadable. Should we boycott you for having an unreadable site?
BOYCOTT ALL FPU SITES, THEY ARE UNREADABLE AND THE PAGE GOES DOWN TOO FAR AND HE IS USING TABLES OMG!!!!!
Stupid no? Just take it easy man. Move on and forget about these sites. There are like billions of forums you can go to. AND! oh my gosh! you can make your own!
All Sitepoint is doing is giving a bigger oppurtunity to places like websitepublisher.net and digitalpoint. I don't remember even looking in their job posting section, let alone posting anything in it, but I'm sure other people have. When big sites drop the ball its their loss. Considering that we are all in the for-profit internet publishing business I don't see how this is worth arguing about.
I don't really have time to read all of this, but I'm sure it's the same thing I've read a hundred times...I just wanted to say, regarding the thread he linked to here -
Yes, the majority agree with his poll, but if you will notice, we do not agree with the way he is going about this...The thread got out of hand at AdminFusion and we were forced to close it. Anthony, you need to calm down with your stance on these things...you have a valid point but are taking it way too far. Nobody is going to boycott Sitepoint over this, it's just so stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by FPU
The thread got out of hand, that is a joke for sure, I would say that you over reacted to a few members that really did not have their act together that made idiotic comments!
Let me be honest, I don't like the way you run your forum, your administration borders on a teacher watching a bunch of grade school kids making sure none of them say any bad words!
Why not tell us about the posts that were removed for no reason and give us a valid reason on why you closed the thread ???
Here is another one at almost 90% saying Sitepoint is wrong man!Quote:
Originally Posted by The New Guy
http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/gen...members-2.html
They should address my charges like I told them on day one!
You know, it's not necessarily such a bad thing for them to do if you think about it. $10 to post a job posting, that's pretty cheap. I mean, I'd definitely prefer it to stay free, but also adding a small posting fee weeds out about 99% of the non-serious and spam posters. Of course, if it were me I'd add a lot more ads and continue to keep things free, but that's just me. I'm sure they considered going that route, but figured since their sell a site section does so well, then so will their job posting section. I don't think it's a disaster whatsoever. If anything people will just get a bit more serious about what they post I guess.
This does however give Website Publisher and Digital Point an advantage of revamping their forum and adding sections like those, because free or not, they definitely do give a bored lurker something to look at and keeps them interested on their site. I've always found myself lurking on those sections in SPF and WHT just because they are sometimes very interesting to read.
DP already has a marketplace that is active, it is FREE.
We have one at our forum too, it is FREE, it was just started, but we are not going to let offers that are bad stand, they will be deleted if they are spam!
Dude, how can you get so angry about this kind of stuff? Take a breath!
I don't understand what is going on here? I mean, is there really an argument over this? WHO CARES! If you don't like it, don't ever visit SitePoint again, right?
I just see it as they are a business, business' try to make money, SitePoint is no different. They don't run the site and all of the features just for fun, it's to make money.
Go tell the people at Digital Point to quit talking about it and all of the other forums too while you are at it. :eek:
Another thing guys, since the signature issue means nothing to you Sitepoint supporters, please show us your dedication by taking your signatures down here! :bawling: :eek2:
Done.
Done.
Thanks guys, you are true Sitepoint company men, getting screwed everywhere you go! :lol: :lol: :idea: