We only have a few little rules around here and I guess I've slacked off lately with enforcement and will try to get things back under control.
one solution that i am considering is:
i might put a password on this forum and unless you are invited, you won't even be able to read the posts.
Here are the rules and they will be strictly enforced until things get back to normal. We seem to go through one of these phases every 3 months or so. Now is the time to end this one. if you don't like it, get the hell out of here. if it gets back to just me and IE posting, along with a few others, then that's what it will be.
no bashing and fighting
if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it. didn't they teach us this when we were kids? think before you post. if you don't think your would say something to their face, don't say it on the forum. that's simple enough. it's just like the guy that gives you the finger when he's driving away. no balls. posting something behind the keyboard is being the same kind of coward. grow up!
no advertising and no posting of email addresses. also,i am going to quit being an email forwarding service, so don't ask me to send you someone's email address. i won't even respond to your request. if you need to ask them a questiom, ask them on the forum. that's what the forum is for.
it took me 3 years to build this site to what it is (traffic). i didn't spam my site on other forums. i did it through advertising and link exchange. i didn't spend all that money and all that time building up the traffic so that people can use me to promote their site, or service, or whatever. build you own site the right way. don't spam yourself on my forum. if you want to exchange links, i have a 'links' page for that. go there and read how you can get on that page. you're NOT promoting yourself on the forum, period! same goes with email addresses. there are too many out there with an agenda and this will not be your free ride to scam people.
don't post 'off topic'.
baseball info goes in the baseball forum and hoops goes in the basketball forum and football goes in the football forum. duh! all other topics go in the general forum. why? because we get so many topics and posts, we start losing good info to the 2nd and 3rd pages. stick to the subject and that won't happen.
if you NEED to see a how a forum SHOULD run, take a look in the golf forum. they mean business in there and, guess what? they make MONEY in there. let's try it in the other forums as well. it works!
making this forum an 'invitation only' forum, where you need a password to view posts, might be the answer.
thanks!!
one solution that i am considering is:
i might put a password on this forum and unless you are invited, you won't even be able to read the posts.
Here are the rules and they will be strictly enforced until things get back to normal. We seem to go through one of these phases every 3 months or so. Now is the time to end this one. if you don't like it, get the hell out of here. if it gets back to just me and IE posting, along with a few others, then that's what it will be.
no bashing and fighting
if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it. didn't they teach us this when we were kids? think before you post. if you don't think your would say something to their face, don't say it on the forum. that's simple enough. it's just like the guy that gives you the finger when he's driving away. no balls. posting something behind the keyboard is being the same kind of coward. grow up!
no advertising and no posting of email addresses. also,i am going to quit being an email forwarding service, so don't ask me to send you someone's email address. i won't even respond to your request. if you need to ask them a questiom, ask them on the forum. that's what the forum is for.
it took me 3 years to build this site to what it is (traffic). i didn't spam my site on other forums. i did it through advertising and link exchange. i didn't spend all that money and all that time building up the traffic so that people can use me to promote their site, or service, or whatever. build you own site the right way. don't spam yourself on my forum. if you want to exchange links, i have a 'links' page for that. go there and read how you can get on that page. you're NOT promoting yourself on the forum, period! same goes with email addresses. there are too many out there with an agenda and this will not be your free ride to scam people.
don't post 'off topic'.
baseball info goes in the baseball forum and hoops goes in the basketball forum and football goes in the football forum. duh! all other topics go in the general forum. why? because we get so many topics and posts, we start losing good info to the 2nd and 3rd pages. stick to the subject and that won't happen.
if you NEED to see a how a forum SHOULD run, take a look in the golf forum. they mean business in there and, guess what? they make MONEY in there. let's try it in the other forums as well. it works!
making this forum an 'invitation only' forum, where you need a password to view posts, might be the answer.
thanks!!
