Just to throw a newbie to the boards point of view in here.
I left a board to come here....Why? Because it was filled with designers, hosts, content providers and paysite owners that were not interested in helping out the new guys on the block and more interested in sellin their shit.
Coming to this board has been refreshing to me because I have found LL owners and submitters who are honestly trying to help those of us not "in the know" to become better educated in this business.
As has been said before in this thread, a good service doesn't need to be spammed. If service providers were truly interested in helping out an individual webmaster by providing their service they could do so through PM's and not sig whore or spam openly in the thread. Especially when their posts are usually limited to one or two line responses that basically just say "Hey, our stuff is good....click here!". The sight of that type of post alone just makes me shake my head and ignore the entire post and move on to the next.
GG & J is head and shoulders above the rest in their control of shameless spamming and I for one greatly appreciate their efforts. I don't care if webmaster service providers get upset about the spam control policy on this board because that very policy is what is keeping me coming back to it everyday.
It may seem extreme, but their philosophy is dead on. If you want to advertise your business, then buy a banner spot, or provide a better service to webmasters and the good word will get around a lot faster than spam ever will.
You can hate my post and quote it to the max and try to argue the point....but spam is spam, and it frustrates all of us who are here honestly trying to learn something about this business.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled program
