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ads, Ads, ADS everywhere!
So now that I have been cruising the forums more regularly now, I've noticed the smattering of ads everywhere. I'm not talking about the banner ads on the left, but the ads peppered throughout the non-for sale forum posts. They appear as normal posts, but they clog up the community of relevant informational and conversational posts. I would expect the fro sale ad posts to be in the for sale sections only. Is this the way of CF these days? 
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IB4TL... LOL! I wasn't aware this kind of question would violate the TOS. Are membership fees not enough to cover site operation costs? If I choose to pay a yearly fee towards the costs of operating this site, do these ads disappear from my view?
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Memberships are voluntary, so no, they do not cover the costs of operating the site, and no, the ads won't disappear.
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This is an old topic. The forum vendors pay for keeping this site free for the rest of us and as a result, they are allowed to post their products for sale in the various sections, not just the for sale areas. I have no problem with it - I can always just skip over their ads if it is not something I am interested in.
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Yep as long as we follow the rules we can post up in these sections.
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I've noticed the smattering of ads everywhere. I'm not talking about the banner ads on the left, but the ads peppered throughout the non-for sale forum posts. They appear as normal posts, but they clog up the community of relevant informational and conversational posts. I would expect the fro sale ad posts to be in the for sale sections only. Is this the way of CF these days?
Couldn't agree more. Never seen anything like it in any other forum community but be on notice...the forum Police locked a similar thread I started. I wasn't bashing, just asking for a reasonable explination. Are the servers gold plated? Does the forum pay a corvette tax too?
We all know why the ad's exist and I understand you can scroll past them but why don't they have their own section where they won't get in the way of members questions/info?
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I am looking for Santa to bring me the most COMPREHENSIVE NOS 100-150 kit at the best deal, no if's and NO butts lol. I am on a kid in a college budget but if the deal is right I am a buyer ! Thanks Vendors
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explanation been posted 1000 times.....
heres the simple one
Commercial posting
Supporting vendors pay for the considerable bandwidth charges on the Forum, making it free for the rest of us. In exchange, they get the privilege of using the Forum to market and promote their goods and services. Historically, we allow them to post in the generation sections and the regional sections to market and promote their products/services.
Forum members are welcome to sell a Corvette or Corvette parts they purchased for their own personal use. They also are welcome to use the Forum to purchase items for their personal use. Anything else is considered to be a commercial sale or a commercial purchase for the purpose of re-selling. Please check the sales rules regarding eBay sales and links:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/foru...eir-parts.html
Members are not prohibited from mentioning it when they have a good (or bad, for that matter) experience with a non-supporting vendor. But such mentions cannot be so specific (address, phone number, e-mail address, URL, price, part number, offer to send contact information via PMs, etc.) or so frequent that they become marketing and promotional references.
Only supporting vendors can post Group Purchase threads. Only supporting vendors are permitted to post threads to gauge interest in a product.
Members can include a mention of their personal businesses in their signatures so long as the enterprise does not compete with an existing supporting vendor, is not Corvette-related and is not so detailed (address, phone number, e-mail address, offer to send contact information via PMs, etc.) or so frequently appended to their posts that it becomes inappropriate marketing and promotion. The same applies on references to other Internet automotive communities.
For details and pricing on the site's supporting vendor program, contact the advertising team at Internet Brands through this link:
http://www.internetbrandsauto.com/contact
if a vendor has too many ads in a particular section we will remove them.....99% of the time they are in compliance....maybe you need to adjust you forum settings to show more threads per page
explanation been posted 1000 times.....
heres the simple one
Commercial posting
Supporting vendors pay for the considerable bandwidth charges on the Forum, making it free for the rest of us. In exchange, they get the privilege of using the Forum to market and promote their goods and services. Historically, we allow them to post in the generation sections and the regional sections to market and promote their products/services.
Forum members are welcome to sell a Corvette or Corvette parts they purchased for their own personal use. They also are welcome to use the Forum to purchase items for their personal use. Anything else is considered to be a commercial sale or a commercial purchase for the purpose of re-selling. Please check the sales rules regarding eBay sales and links:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/foru...eir-parts.html
Members are not prohibited from mentioning it when they have a good (or bad, for that matter) experience with a non-supporting vendor. But such mentions cannot be so specific (address, phone number, e-mail address, URL, price, part number, offer to send contact information via PMs, etc.) or so frequent that they become marketing and promotional references.
Only supporting vendors can post Group Purchase threads. Only supporting vendors are permitted to post threads to gauge interest in a product.
Members can include a mention of their personal businesses in their signatures so long as the enterprise does not compete with an existing supporting vendor, is not Corvette-related and is not so detailed (address, phone number, e-mail address, offer to send contact information via PMs, etc.) or so frequently appended to their posts that it becomes inappropriate marketing and promotion. The same applies on references to other Internet automotive communities.
For details and pricing on the site's supporting vendor program, contact the advertising team at Internet Brands through this link:
http://www.internetbrandsauto.com/contact
if a vendor has too many ads in a particular section we will remove them.....99% of the time they are in compliance....maybe you need to adjust you forum settings to show more threads per page