DOOKEY

Thank you. I'm a manufacturer in the off road world and there it is much different. Vendors don't have the rights to barge into every section. There are for sale sections for a reason. That system works. We know exactly where to go to search for products when we want to buy.

When people want to purchase something they go look for it in the vendors forums. I'm not saying it is 100% correct. So far... for me... it is just different. But it doesn't seem like I am alone in that feeling. So it is worth some discussion. I appreciate you letting me know who to contact.

ccz

Same thing. I am a vendor in the Gun World. While I no longer advertise (I have enough business to keep me busy without advertising), it was like you say. We couldn't post anywhere but the vendor section. Which made everyone happy. Once you get one person posting in a section other then the Vendor section it just turns into a Vendor forum. 50 posts on page 1, 43 of them are vendor posts , 7 of them are genuine posts. That gets old fast and then the forum disappears.

simplegto

That was a big help, thanks.

ed209

these message forums are really full of frustration these days

DOOKEY

This forum will eventually go away. Social Media is winning in all areas of online connectivity. Unfortunately, most places won't notice it until it is dead and bloated.

The forum administrators need to step up and make this place nice for the users. Without users here the vendors have zero reason to buy their expensive yearly membership.

J T

Look at the member's account that you're replying to and do a search. The member made a lot of one-liner posts to likely try and achieve full access.

That said, Administrator Jim (SaveWave) has set rules about Vendors' posts. When it's brought to his attention, he takes the appropriate response if the rules aren't followed.

The forums are free for members to access and use, but it's far from free to operate. This website could not run on a $9.99/month host due to content and activity. Far from it. Vendors help pay those bills to keep the site free for members to access despite it's not free to operate.

Additionally, the Ad team believes they found the source of the pop-up ads that would appear on Android-only devices that also was part of this multi-purpose thread. Feedback suggests that has been resolved, for the most part.

I think this thread, which had no activity for nearly 30 days until a member "spammed" the forum and dragged this back up top, has finished its purpose.