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I completely agree. I think all effort possible should be put towards anyone not using a provider tag and that the future growth of the community may even depend on it
To be fair, this whole discussion kind of came about just because I was defending my statement around boycotting Providers and that the idea isn't as bad of an idea as it sounds.
Is "unsinkable threads" a feature granted to the paid providers?
Just noticed my last offer thread from before the random invoice for the paid provider service has been set to sink, but the other pointlessly bumped threads aren't. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/176638/incognet-llc-netherlands-kvm-ryzen-nvme-big-bw-ipv6-snapshots-30-off-and-a-giveaway
If I give you money, I can have mine constantly bumped with nonsensical replies that hold no community value as well?
Just wondering.
Oh dang. Yeah it's set to sink.
@jbiloh Care to comment on the lack of sinking on offer threads for paying hosts vs sinking offer threads for non-paying hosts?
no one really expected to be able to bump their old offer threads if they are not paying, right? ... RIGHT?
People expect things to be documented. If that was one of the perks that a Provider role gets, OK, then just make sure it's known. That's all.
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what if we just rolled everything back to right before LET became this corporate entity with payroll and advertising budgets and needing to grow to stay growing and stuff.
Then how does Jon get paid?
In all honesty? Donations. I'm sure he could have easily gotten a good chunk of cash, if donations were an option, instead of turning this place into a low end corporate environment.
I think he long since burned through most of the goodwill that folks here have for him.
Oh yeah, that bridge was burned, then bombed, and then a horse took a crap on it.
Maybe he could run a RackNerd affiliate site? Hmm wait a minute
How would that make sense? Especially considering the recent activity within the thread in question did not actually contain user engagement.
Will answer you this question with post few posts below, you seems to miss it somehow.
I am not sure we are talking about the same thing.
If the expectation is that a policy needs to be created for every condition, then that is a lot of policies.
That said, in the thread in question there was activity that is not real engagement, and that host is also not part of the Patron Provider group. About a week ago I mentioned in a related thread specifically about the "Pointless bumps" that I thought they were not helpful, but they continued.
I would much rather avoid sinking threads because if there is user activity within them I think that is great.
It is ultimately a balancing act between maintaining the essence of the Patron Provider model (for those who can create advertising threads and are supporting our community), and not simply sinking all past advertising threads, and at the same time building user activity within all threads.
So a pointless bump is bad but a pointless bump for bandwidth rewards are okay. Or are we saying those aren't pointless?
Since you want to run LET as a business - you need policies in place. Thats how businesses work.
Wanna talk about pointless bumps?
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Our strategy is meant to increase user engagement, and it's done exactly that. On top of that, it helps drive new members, as you can only imagine lurkers/buyers don't always register, and with our creativeness, it has brought many new members.
As a result, we've found great success and continue to give back to the community. Many freebies are provided, giveaways, cash, swag and so on. If other providers are doing the same - I doubt mod/admins would have an issue with it.
If we go through the users that you consider are "engaging" in your threads and then LET - about 80%+ only spam with requests for double bandwidth, with 0 (ZERO) meaningful contribution. And 80% is a very conservative percentage, its likely well over 90%
So don't act like you are doing LET a favor, by bringing your spam here. You must be on some serious drugs, if you really believe your own nonsense.
Based on our views, comments, conversions, new users contributing to the community, being voted top provider, and most professional by you, the community I'd say there's little to dispute here.
We've had great success and couldn't be any happier.
The quality content you speak of is copying and pasting some phrase over and over and the new user engagement is English as second language users complaining about delivery and performance, strung together via Google Translste.
Real high quality content.
"Pointless Bump" bad but had I requested (before you ever mentioned paid provider status) people bump the thread with "Incog Gang hrr drr" that would have been the quality user engagement that you're trying to attract.
Top tier content.
He got burned on an AlphaRacks thing and believes Dustin took that money and started RackNerd. Dustin had a big response debunking pretty much all the assumptions KermEd made and then KermEd basically ignored the response and carried on being ultra butthurt at Dustin and by extension Jon because he allows Dustin to carry on instead of banned as the AlphaRacks scammer.
Do you have a link to that big response? Sounds like a fun read.
That is an excellent summary of events
No, and given the amount of posts KermEd and Dustin make, I'm too lazy to find it.
Edit: Ok, so it only took 3-4 pages of searching. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3368968/#Comment_3368968
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Don't forgot I also hit on your wife or something a few times too, and after proving you wrong a good 30 times or so on here for just you being a general moron, you've been a touch on the obsessive side ever since. I don't mind the attention, no judgement from my side.
Afraid to ask but how could this happen unless he knows your identity and / or vice versa, not like you guys are using your real names like me?
I can't disagree you've brought in many, many new members though I think we might define 'engagement' differently. I must admit however that it's been quite some time since I've gone into one of your threads deeper than maybe a page so perhaps it has changed.
This also I wouldn't begin to disagree with. You've been very generous. I myself have benefited from your largesse.
All the new users that Dustin attracts to LET are potential customers of yours too.