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Magno

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Guess you must be a socialist as you don't care if somebody is losing money as long as you get something for nothing.

Brian

Who is lossing money?
Here we share our knowledge for free. If you want the people to pay for your advice, you should not participate in this free forum. From what you say, I think you are using this forum as a way to get customers. Bad done.
 

ChipperT

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I see four ads per page. With the traffic on this site, the ad revenue should pay for the upkeep. The advice is provided gratis, so the forum should be as well.
 

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Who is lossing money?
Here we share our knowledge for free. If you want the people to pay for your advice, you should not participate in this free forum. From what you say, I think you are using this forum as a way to get customers. Bad done.

It wouldn't have taken much effort to see that I am retired. In the many years I have been giving free advice on here I can't say that I have ever noticed your input.

Brian
 

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Who is lossing money?
Here we share our knowledge for free. If you want the people to pay for your advice, you should not participate in this free forum. From what you say, I think you are using this forum as a way to get customers. Bad done.
Well done MAgno:cool: Taken you over 3 month to reply to Brian. Shows how much you dont contribute to this forum
 

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Well done MAgno:cool: Taken you over 3 month to reply to Brian. Shows how much you dont contribute to this forum

It's all "spiritual" contributions. :D :D :D
 

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Guess you must be a socialist as you don't care if somebody is losing money as long as you get something for nothing.

Brian

As a capatalist - why should I care if someone else is losing money, as long as I get a good deal?

If the good deal is worth paying for fair enough. I think he mererly said to him, it wasn't. Maybe not actually.

Anyway -

Capatalism should at least have freedom of choice shouldn;t it, without being labelled a freetard or socialist if you prefer not to be a customer.

I think you were a little harsh, whichever way, but I thought it a more free market reality , than cooperative motive.



Its all a good bit of market reseasrch anyway - lets not all pretend we'd pay - only to see the site struggle when many dont.

The best things in life are free!

I wont be here when its payable - so theres a plus for it!
 
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ChipperT

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As a capatalist - why should I care if someone else is losing money, as long as I get a good deal?

If the good deal is worth paying for fair enough. I think he mererly said to him, it wasn't. Maybe not actually.

Anyway -

Capatalism should at least have freedom of choice shouldn;t it, without being labelled a freetard or socialist if you prefer not to be a customer.

I think you were a little harsh, whichever way, but I thought it a more free market reality , than cooperative motive.



Its all a good bit of market reseasrch anyway - lets not all pretend we'd pay - only to see the site struggle when many dont.

The best things in life are free!

Too bad you don't have a free dictionary so you can learn to spell capitalist and capitalism. :D
 

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Hi Jon (and everyone else),

I realize, being quite a newbie here, that I don't know much about how things have "always been" or "always looked", but I have some questions/suggestions I think might be worth a look.

First, the Google Ads on the Products, Services, and Learning tabs seem a bit odd to me. What I mean by this is that the Ads themselves are visually larger than your content.

Why have the Ads larger than your content and above the content? Ads should be a great way to earn some income to help diffuse the costs of hosting, however they should never (in my opinion) diminish your content.

Second, on the Home tab, perhaps adding a bit more column padding between the center Content column and the left/right Ad columns would be a bit more appealing. Currently the three columns visually kind of "merge" together.

Finally, I know that asking people to donate money is not the most profitable way to add income, and requiring it might turn people away who only visit for "free information". What about a middle of the road option for now, until a decision is made about moving to a new version and implementing which ever revenue generating option you'd like to take?
My suggestion for this "middle of the road" is to add a PayPal donate box and if people donate, they donate. If they don't, they don't.

I think those who want to, like boblarson (I believe he's the one who mentioned way back in the posts he donates a few bucks here and there), will donate, and would like the option to give back to a forum like this.

I found this forum because my job required me to create an Access DB, and I had to Google some issues I was having and voila. Now, I find myself checking here even when I don't have an immediate question.

I feel like there are those who will stick around, and those who wont, and it wont matter what decision you make, except NO DECISION if you expect everything to stay as it is.

Just my thoughts as someone new here.

Love the site; learning a lot! (Hopefully one day I can help others as I've been helped.)

:)

*Another thing*

I just finished reading through a lot of the posts for newbies such as how to get a response to your question and how to speak to a programmer.

I think the stickies are good, however a lot of the discussion was as if a train derailed! Perhaps locking the posts when they are general advice and having discussion in a different thread?
 
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lencoo12

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Thanks Bob for your excellent suggestions. We are waiting for the beta version of vBulletin 4.0 publishers suite to come out and might go for it early, without waiting for the most stable release. It is a huge task, since we will have to recreate the entire site structure. But, I think it is the right long term direction for the site.

The benefits are many and I especially like the facility whereby you can promote certain forum posts so they become articles within the main site section. This way, we can cream off some of the best posts and build a really good knowledgebase inside the main site, all categorised.

I am aware of the hosting issues. It is a real pain and we are looking at alternative hosting but with a viable budget. In an ideal world, we could afford the best hosting around, but we try our best. I hope a new host we are looking at will prove more reliable.
Please don't do what UA did many years ago and change to a smaller font so that us visually challenged guys have to fiddle with our settings to quick read it. They ignored, ie did not respond to such comments from many users.
 

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