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Due to the continuing rash of spammers, johnny come lately preparedness companies and other dirtbags just looking for free advertising for their sites, we are NOT giving any more "benefit of the doubt" passes...
What does that mean?
That means for a year and a half now, I opted for the "benefit of the doubt" that the people that came in and immediately put a link to their site in their sig line and/or immediately started posting about their company, blog, website, etc. were just retards that had missed the umpteen times we mentioned not to do that.
I PM'ed people, did visitor messages to them, even tried offering link exchanges to sites with 50 members trying to be cool about this etc. REMINDING them about the "no links in sig lines" "we don't provide free advertising to your site" things that already are mentioned several times in: the user agreement, the rules, the "read this first" post, etc.
A few notable scumbags like "Silas Longshot" even had the nerve to go that route AFTER asking and being told to "hang out for a while, be helpful to folks here WITHOUT pumping your blog, site, crappy book, whatever and then AFTER A TIME, I'll plug your stuff FOR YOU."
Basically dirtbags like that and more recently "readymom" are just looking for free publicity. Some like to conceal their true intentions that by saying they are here to share their "wealth" of knowledge... Sorry to be blunt but the fact that you've been preparing for a whooping 2 years does not impress me :rolleyes::rolleyes: And certainly you should not write a (crappy) book and/or act as an authority figure after such LITTLE TIME doing this. But hey, that sounds rude doesn't it? Wow Robert, you sound like a jerk. Well guess what, I stopped caring about that after 80 to 100 of these scumbags over the last year and a half.
Now, I don't care if your site is "non commercial" and if you think you are being completely altruistic by posting about it, you are no longer able to come here and just plug your site.
ANYONE who joins and plugs their own site or puts a link in their sig line without express (that means you PM ask and get an affirmative BEFORE doing it) is just going to be banned, period. We have ONE type of ban here- permanent. We do NOT do "time out" bans, all are permanent. Understand that.
I just do not have time to keep sending little "reminder notes" to new people that are rude and disrespecting jerks any more. . I'm done with that. Much like the POS "occupy" crowd, those that come looking for SOMETHING FOR NOTHING are not worth ANY effort on our parts.
Seriously people, this isn't hard.... if you join the forums, show respect and use tact, don't assume that you can run amok here or do whatever the hell you want to do- IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
Join, be helpful, show a good attitude, stick around for a while, and I'll be GLAD to hook you up- their are dozens of people on the forums here that are allowed to push their blogs, books, sites, etc. because they proved helpful and stuck around. The scumbag spammers and those looking for free advertising did not, AND THEY ARE GONE NOW.
I remind you for A YEAR AND A HALF we've put up with this crap and I've had a lot of work cleaning up BS from scumdogs. I literally do not have time for any more "benefit of the doubt" passes. It's done.
If you have any questions about this, check the user agreement, the rules, the notes elsewhere about this or post them here.
Robert
Owner SurvivalandPreparedness.com
What does that mean?
That means for a year and a half now, I opted for the "benefit of the doubt" that the people that came in and immediately put a link to their site in their sig line and/or immediately started posting about their company, blog, website, etc. were just retards that had missed the umpteen times we mentioned not to do that.
I PM'ed people, did visitor messages to them, even tried offering link exchanges to sites with 50 members trying to be cool about this etc. REMINDING them about the "no links in sig lines" "we don't provide free advertising to your site" things that already are mentioned several times in: the user agreement, the rules, the "read this first" post, etc.
A few notable scumbags like "Silas Longshot" even had the nerve to go that route AFTER asking and being told to "hang out for a while, be helpful to folks here WITHOUT pumping your blog, site, crappy book, whatever and then AFTER A TIME, I'll plug your stuff FOR YOU."
Basically dirtbags like that and more recently "readymom" are just looking for free publicity. Some like to conceal their true intentions that by saying they are here to share their "wealth" of knowledge... Sorry to be blunt but the fact that you've been preparing for a whooping 2 years does not impress me :rolleyes::rolleyes: And certainly you should not write a (crappy) book and/or act as an authority figure after such LITTLE TIME doing this. But hey, that sounds rude doesn't it? Wow Robert, you sound like a jerk. Well guess what, I stopped caring about that after 80 to 100 of these scumbags over the last year and a half.
Now, I don't care if your site is "non commercial" and if you think you are being completely altruistic by posting about it, you are no longer able to come here and just plug your site.
ANYONE who joins and plugs their own site or puts a link in their sig line without express (that means you PM ask and get an affirmative BEFORE doing it) is just going to be banned, period. We have ONE type of ban here- permanent. We do NOT do "time out" bans, all are permanent. Understand that.
I just do not have time to keep sending little "reminder notes" to new people that are rude and disrespecting jerks any more. . I'm done with that. Much like the POS "occupy" crowd, those that come looking for SOMETHING FOR NOTHING are not worth ANY effort on our parts.
Seriously people, this isn't hard.... if you join the forums, show respect and use tact, don't assume that you can run amok here or do whatever the hell you want to do- IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
Join, be helpful, show a good attitude, stick around for a while, and I'll be GLAD to hook you up- their are dozens of people on the forums here that are allowed to push their blogs, books, sites, etc. because they proved helpful and stuck around. The scumbag spammers and those looking for free advertising did not, AND THEY ARE GONE NOW.
I remind you for A YEAR AND A HALF we've put up with this crap and I've had a lot of work cleaning up BS from scumdogs. I literally do not have time for any more "benefit of the doubt" passes. It's done.
If you have any questions about this, check the user agreement, the rules, the notes elsewhere about this or post them here.
Robert
Owner SurvivalandPreparedness.com
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