WTF? Do the mods read the threadfs here?

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Ok Dave.. this is in reply to your last post, I didn't want to use the quote because it was so long..

Tia, if you post on topic, have input to the board, and are a valuable member you can post away... if you fly by here based on a boardtracker alert, you are a spammer. I know you from another baord where you have/had an active presence, and I have recommended you many times to people, because your product was good. Good products DONT need to spam

I always post on topic, and I always advertise my business.

You said good products don't need spam. I'm assuming you mean advertising here.. Let me ask you, how are new people supposed to know about my product if I don't tell them about it?

Now you may say.. buy some advertising. I will be honest and tell you that I don't like the ROI on purchased webmaster board advertisment. I've done it before and it just wasn't worth it. I haven't bought it from here, but have from other boards. I find it's a better investment to spend my time posting.

I understand you have a business to run here, and I also understand that it's a tough thing to balance paid advertisers with ones who get it free from posting.

Other boards have tried to eliminate signatures, and it hasn't worked out very well for them. No one wants to pay for advertising on a board with a low post count.

You sell to surfers.. we sell to you.. I post because I want to promote my business. I also post because I like helping newbies, but the promotion part is my main reason. Posting on boards is a very good tool for promotion, and it's not something that I can see stopping anytime soon. I've known from the very start how Greenguy and Jim felt about spam, and self promotion. It's tolerated less here than almost any other board except for two which I won't name.

I'm sticking my neck out here and being totally honest with you about my intentions and reasons for doing what I do. If you feel you'd like to ban me, go ahead, if not, then I'll conduct business as I always have.

Tia said:-If it weren't for Content providers, Hosting Companies, Designers, Programmers, Webmaster Resources, and others who provide services, it'd be pretty hard for a webmaster to have any type of business at all.

Is not the reverse also true???

Of course it is, but I think that sometimes board owners don't see providers as webmasters, but as competition. . It'd be different if I were in the Adult Webmaster Resource business, because then I would be in direct competition, but to treat us this way just because we don't buy ads in my opinion is just bad business practice all around.