Commercial posts?
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Le Mans Master
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Commercial posts?
I'm all for supporting board vendors, and buy what I can (which is about $5K in stuff this year) from them when I can, but is there some limit on the number of commercial posts?
Scrolling through the front page of the Z forum there are sections where more than half of the posts are ads for wheels, exhaust, etc.
On the one hand it's nice to hear announcements of new products, but if I were your benevolent dictator, I'd have a separate subforum for ads about sales, promotions, and run of the mill stuff.
It's not a hardship to scroll past them, don't get me wrong, it just pushes down the signal to noise ratio when there content-to-advertisement ratio gets carried away.
Scrolling through the front page of the Z forum there are sections where more than half of the posts are ads for wheels, exhaust, etc.
On the one hand it's nice to hear announcements of new products, but if I were your benevolent dictator, I'd have a separate subforum for ads about sales, promotions, and run of the mill stuff.
It's not a hardship to scroll past them, don't get me wrong, it just pushes down the signal to noise ratio when there content-to-advertisement ratio gets carried away.
Last edited by davepl; Jan 14, 2016 at 02:35 PM.
Melting Slicks
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It annoys the crap out of me! We get scolded for even hinting at posting something that might be misconstrued as a for-sale thread yet the vendors can hock all their crap on us in the tech and general threads. If/when I want to browse for things for sale, I'll go look in the appropriate section.
It is one thing to announce a new product has hit the market, it is another to continuously post and continue to bump the thread every day.
It is one thing to announce a new product has hit the market, it is another to continuously post and continue to bump the thread every day.
Melting Slicks
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So be it. As mentioned by the OP, just scroll past.
