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Has admin considered advertising and letting the world know we’re here?
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Maggiebee AB is all about advertising, that's their income is it not? I'm to believe that income is now falling to a dangerous level hence the donate request.
To suggest advertising AB, would in my view look silly and without doubt unaffordable in any case at this moment in time.
I've not really any idea how you could increase footfall on AB but even if you did would that really increase revenue?
My only short term solution at the moment until things pick up would be to do away with the donate idea and request a yearly fee from members.
I have no idea of how many members AB has but a £10 yearly fee from everyone is not going to break anyone's bank at the moment even in these hard times, the latter might be small but its more than they are getting from members at the moment.
At a later date or even now you could also charge a fee for each post you answer ( a little like a 5/6p text) I don't mean for every answer or response on that post, just when you first enter the OP. Now i await to be pulled to bits :))
To suggest advertising AB, would in my view look silly and without doubt unaffordable in any case at this moment in time.
I've not really any idea how you could increase footfall on AB but even if you did would that really increase revenue?
My only short term solution at the moment until things pick up would be to do away with the donate idea and request a yearly fee from members.
I have no idea of how many members AB has but a £10 yearly fee from everyone is not going to break anyone's bank at the moment even in these hard times, the latter might be small but its more than they are getting from members at the moment.
At a later date or even now you could also charge a fee for each post you answer ( a little like a 5/6p text) I don't mean for every answer or response on that post, just when you first enter the OP. Now i await to be pulled to bits :))
Typed this out a couple of days ago, been sitting on it, have dithered about posting, but ok...
It's a bit of a disjointed rant, sorry.
Ever wondered why a new user doesn't come back to their 1st question?
A big problem is that there are far too many "comedians" here that think they're **oh, so witty** when responding to a newbie with a question that might (with some desperate shoe-horning) just fit into their "Carry On..." mindset. Oh, it might *actually* be a genuine query, but why would that matter when instead of trying to help, they can show off their shining wit?
It's utterly pathetic to watch & those AB'ers should, frankly, know better but can never control their moronic tendencies.
I despair at the way long-established AB'ers constantly run the site down, creating the very threads that a newbie might look at & think "Not for me, thank you...", all the while being unable to see that it's them causing the problems. "Can't be my fault, he/she started it, waaaahhhh, not fair, I want everything my way & sod everyone else".
You all want to be treated as adults, so start bloody well acting like adults; for a start, stop whining about the Mods - suck it up when a post or thread disappears & it upsets you *simply because* you like watching cyber-bloodletting or you're annoyed that you didn't get to see the punches thrown. You know who you are & it's puerile. Oh, & the never-ending wailing about "that Mod only does it because they don't like that poster"? Absolute nonsense. The Eds are far better than most give them credit for & wouldn't tolerate such behaviour. It's noticeable that those moaning about Mods are those more likely to conveniently "forget" the rules.
Moving on... when the "Beta" version of the site was being trialled, all of the banned users' posts vanished, exactly as it should be. Unfortunately, the site came back online with the original database & all of the offensive drivel is still there. I pointed it out to the Eds at the time, but heigh-ho, that came to naught. That crap is still viewable & then you get those that ask "What happened to BannedIdiot, I liked them", which never helps, but those threads keep coming & they *never* go well... Moving on...
...Banned should mean exactly that. Come back with a *provable* new name & expect to go asap. This needs to be tightened up by the Mods & Eds. There are people on here that have blatantly broken the "no more than one username" rule, keeping the others in reserve *simply because they know they're going to be suspended/banned*. Enough. Ban every iteration they come up with & stop them from adding their garbage & preventing the site from moving on to whatever it might evolve into. Give it a bloody chance.
All of the above will, IMO, be reason enough for new members to turn away & look elsewhere.
The good & genuine people here far outnumber those that treat the site as their personal playground for mischief-making. Let's not allow that minority to ruin it for the rest of us. You never know what you've got until it's gone.
Yeah, sorry - but not really.
It's a bit of a disjointed rant, sorry.
Ever wondered why a new user doesn't come back to their 1st question?
A big problem is that there are far too many "comedians" here that think they're **oh, so witty** when responding to a newbie with a question that might (with some desperate shoe-horning) just fit into their "Carry On..." mindset. Oh, it might *actually* be a genuine query, but why would that matter when instead of trying to help, they can show off their shining wit?
It's utterly pathetic to watch & those AB'ers should, frankly, know better but can never control their moronic tendencies.
I despair at the way long-established AB'ers constantly run the site down, creating the very threads that a newbie might look at & think "Not for me, thank you...", all the while being unable to see that it's them causing the problems. "Can't be my fault, he/she started it, waaaahhhh, not fair, I want everything my way & sod everyone else".
You all want to be treated as adults, so start bloody well acting like adults; for a start, stop whining about the Mods - suck it up when a post or thread disappears & it upsets you *simply because* you like watching cyber-bloodletting or you're annoyed that you didn't get to see the punches thrown. You know who you are & it's puerile. Oh, & the never-ending wailing about "that Mod only does it because they don't like that poster"? Absolute nonsense. The Eds are far better than most give them credit for & wouldn't tolerate such behaviour. It's noticeable that those moaning about Mods are those more likely to conveniently "forget" the rules.
Moving on... when the "Beta" version of the site was being trialled, all of the banned users' posts vanished, exactly as it should be. Unfortunately, the site came back online with the original database & all of the offensive drivel is still there. I pointed it out to the Eds at the time, but heigh-ho, that came to naught. That crap is still viewable & then you get those that ask "What happened to BannedIdiot, I liked them", which never helps, but those threads keep coming & they *never* go well... Moving on...
...Banned should mean exactly that. Come back with a *provable* new name & expect to go asap. This needs to be tightened up by the Mods & Eds. There are people on here that have blatantly broken the "no more than one username" rule, keeping the others in reserve *simply because they know they're going to be suspended/banned*. Enough. Ban every iteration they come up with & stop them from adding their garbage & preventing the site from moving on to whatever it might evolve into. Give it a bloody chance.
All of the above will, IMO, be reason enough for new members to turn away & look elsewhere.
The good & genuine people here far outnumber those that treat the site as their personal playground for mischief-making. Let's not allow that minority to ruin it for the rest of us. You never know what you've got until it's gone.
Yeah, sorry - but not really.
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