Forum Moderators: martinibuster
If you can hack the forum software as to alert you if any of these terms are used might be a good idea too.
they just reinstated my account, after i got their phone number, i had a lengthy talk with them.
Wow, we have a new story about a reinstantiated account!
and reinstate me
They are known for slack management, where the rules are weak, never applied straight across the board, and the mulitiple accounts per human can run into the hundreds. That reduces the credibility of the board, it's users, and lends itself to wide rumor mongering. That is the nature of forums. Under those circumstances, it is hard to get advertisers.
Does your forum require users to use their real name, and do you verify accounts by address and phone? I know the anwser is, no. It is too much trouble and has too great an expense, so you don't bother. So, if I was Coca-Cola, why would I want to be seen there?
When you do get advertisers, you have to just about promise them on a case by case basis you will watch their back. How do you do that? There are many ways but, the most common method is for the owners and mods to create mulitple users accounts for the purpose of posting positive comments to outweigh the negative, while mods decide if the real user negative comments require deleting. That invalidates the entire forum.
I will stop short of saying every board owner manipulates the user base and posts for their own benefit, their friend's benefit and trading partner's benefit, there are exceptions. But, of the hundreds of board owners I have personally known over the many years, they all did it. Since I don't personally know this board owner, he would be excluded from that last statement.
It is a tainted system at best. I would charge a modest subscription rate, something most any user would easily be willing to part with. Forget about the advertisers.
