Quote Originally Posted by Bec View Post
I don't get this at all Lee. If the men and women who make up this community can't talk about their business unless they're a paid sponsor, how is that "leveling the playing field"? WE are the ones actively supporting this community just as much, if not more so, as the guy that forks over $$ for a banner every month.
Bec,

Sorry but you are the one who implied you had to be a paid sponsor to post your news, not me. I said those people who are 'actively supporting' i didnt say ONLY paid sponsors and i never have.

While I can appreciate that you want to get a new board going, I don't think it's right to expect we all want to register there or use it on a daily basis to find out what's happening with GWW members and their programs.
Clicking on the existing 'announcements and spam' forum link took you to a page listing all of the threads in that section of the GWW Community, clicking the link right now, takes you to a much more defined listings of those exact same announcements and spams.

I can certainly respect that the drive-by-1 post-wonder needs his ass redirected to a spam section, but I don't feel that should apply to the regular contributors of this board.
So i should discriminate based on how many posts a GWW Community member has?

Those of us that are here daily expect and want to know what others are doing. Our sites ARE our business.
You still can know what others are doing, i havent taken that ability away from you in any way, shape, or form.

And with the spam section essentially eliminated, we can't even SEE if someone here has made an announcement.
There in lays the problem, we have Michael one post above yours telling us all he has never even visited that section of the community, then we have you implying that you visit it on a regular basis.

My choice was this Bec, remove the announcements section completely from GWW or; move it across to SpamBoards and leave the current link to the announcements and spam section where it is.

Again, no matter what i would have chosen to do, id still be made out to be the 'bad guy' because there is no way i can please everyone all of the time.

All i can say is that the other changes over the past few months have been good for the community and its members overall, at this moment in time, some 2 hours since the change was made, im hoping this change will also be good for the community and its members.

Regards,

Lee