davepl

I logged on this morning and literally 80% of the threads were commercials:

1) Kooks Headers
2) Corsa Exhaust
3) Akrapovic Exhaust
4) DeWitts Radiator
5) Discount on LPE pulley
6) Billet fluid caps
7) Tire/wheel package
8) CHUCK CAN TUNE YOUR TRANS OMG DON'T WAIT
9) Gorilla nuts (too scared to open it)

And that's just above the fold. There was one thread above the fold that wasn't a sticky or an advertisement.

Now I get supporting the board vendors and I enjoy finding out about new stuff, but you guys are drowning out your own content.

Nobody owes me anything, this site is free. I'm just pointing it out because I've seen bigger sites (Download.com as an example) go south when they oversaturated their users.

So... thanks for the site, please consider a commercial subforum. Or some reasonable limits.

schaibaa

It gets worse on the tech/performance sub-forum at times.

I do appreciate unique threads about parts when they provide a lot of technical info or some way to learn new information. But most of the vendor threads are just sales advertisements.

hootowlc7

God forbid if you criticize them.... (vendors)

jdmdohcpower

I agree and not lumped into c7. Z specific section for buy and sell would be great

feeder82

Here you go again waa waa waa is that really a big effort to move the wheel on your mouse and not click on the ads? Jeez

davepl

No, but reading your whining took a few minutes off my life.

It's not hard work to fast forward through an ad on my TiVo either, but if ads were 50 minutes of every hour show, then you'd have about what we have here. Crisis of epic proportions? Clearly not. Annoying? Yeah, it is.

BearZ06

They pay for our forum. Just scroll on down if you're not interested just like with any other thread that doesn't interest you.

hootowlc7

Many of these forums are bought up by one company in Canada. They have been buying them up for years now. Private guy starts a forum.... he builds it up with the untiring help of a bunch of unpaid moderators. Once the site has a very large following, the company comes in and buys it. After that it becomes commercial central. I saw it happen more than once. It's simple free enterprise. The losers are the moderators and the subscribers wallowing through the advertisements and slow loading pages packed with ads. The winners are the guy that sold the site... often 6 figures, and the company that now owns the site. Advertising revenue is big money today. Currently, while not big money, I get 2-300 dollars a month from You Tube.... just from people clicking on my videos. I do nothing but upload videos.

Gomer

Speaking for myself only, a couple of those threads are the reason I am here today. In particular, the DeWitts thread where the owner of the company is giving detailed information about the installation of something that is important to me. While this may not be important to you, it is very important to me and I for one appreciate the information in that thread. Thank you for not hammering him to where he is reticent to make additional posts that are important to me.

schaibaa

There is a huge difference between threads about product development, that contain very specific product data and show the community the engineering/development process and threads that are just selling parts on a web site. We need more of the first and less of the second.

Gomer

I don't disagree with that but OP included the Sponsor post I was talking about so that is what I specifically addressed.

schaibaa

Agreed