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Update regarding offers on LowEndTalk
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how about the same thing applies to signatures? No commercial offers in signatures without approval. How about no commercial offers in your signature unless you OWN the host that the offers are for. (Cutting out all the sig spamming affiliate middlemen.)
Have you seen 'kossen's sig?
ya he's one of the exceptions.. he doesnt post absolute garbage in threads just to spread his links around.
A mod is a mod, different than a member. A provider is still considered a member of the community. Before we introduced the provider tag, we never had a mod as "moderator, member", it is just weird.
Sure dude. I always thought that an extra friend is an extra path, sorry if I offended you by being friendly.
/me monkey
This is actually a pretty good idea. It really should have been implemented a long time ago.
30-day offer ban for those using the community offers without reading the rules.
First offense second offense give them a more permanent solution for a bit. People really need to start reading the rules around here. Most can't even conceive of the $7 rule anymore.
I'm going a bit easy on people right now, as not everybody either notices, or bothers to read, the announcement.
Once the daily load of PMs has subsided a bit and this has been added to the Rules and Guidelines we may start imposing penalties eventually.
Is there an ability to display a link to this thread from the "Post Discussion" section if your account is limited? I failed to notice this in the new discussions section, and figured that my account was limited as opposed to needing to contact an admin to re-instate my ability to post in the offers section.
No.
We expect every member to take note of announcements. They're on top of the recent discussion list and marked as unread from the moment they're posted. The only way to miss it is to not pay attention or to skip the front page and go straight to the offers section.
To put it harshly: if you don't know, it's your own fault.
I think we should force all members to use Bing search engine, thus allowing them to post offers.
thanks for letting us now.
Bing is ugh
@mpkossen What about IPv6 in offers on LEB, http://lowendbox.com/blog/cloudieweb-4-50month-512mb-linux-or-windows-kvm-in-new-jersey/ has none. I thought you will require IPv6 from now on. Got 98 thanks at the moment: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/1217197/#Comment_1217197
9899.If I remember correct it was said that september would be an IPv6 month?
Some offers had been queued formsome time and it wouldn't be fair to remove them when a post had been promised.
You can click the URL provided and read exactly what was said... nothing about limiting that to September whatsoever.
Changes doesn't happen over night. New received/found offers will be ipv6.
The queue will have to be cleared before that.
@mikho are you the appointed spokesman on this issue? Because I remember asking @mpkossen, not someone else.
We have spoken about it among us (staff) and since mpkossen hasn't answered the last three times I've read the same question I stepped up and gave you an answer.
But he later said somewhere else it would be limited to Sept as a trial or something. Can't remember where that was said but it was.
Was October actually, as you can see here. He mentioned that in the last paragraph.
@rm_ I sense a certain hostility. Is that correct?
@mikho is free to provide an answer on on these matters as I tend to discuss these matters with all staff. It's quite rare that they don't know about something. I trust them to figure out themselves when it's wise for them to answer or when to defer it to me. It doesn't make anybody a spokesperson. It means we're a team and we back up each other.
Oh I did not see that post. So you backtracked, just like many expected. Not that it's all too surprising, but still disappointing.
What I think is disappointing is the fact that you seem to have disregarded my question. So I'll ask you again: I am sensing hostility from your end. Is that correct? And if yes, what make you so hostile?
Because it's irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
I'm simply asking concrete questions, and now I got the answer, thanks.
You seem to be trying to turn this into some sort of a conflict or a personal argument, I wonder what for.
I don't think so. I think it's very relevant. And the fact that you don't seem to want to discuss it even more so.
I think I asked a concrete question and you seem to be ducking it.
Don't turn this thing around to be about me. I'm not out for conflict, just for a healthy discussion between to people. So far, you're the one ducking the questions. This is yet another reason I think there's hostility from your end and I genuinely wonder where that's coming from.
@mpkossen it's just him, he's grumpy towards everything
If you're genuinely curious...
I was personally promoting that "50 thankies" thing in multiple IPv6-related IRC channels. Several people from there signed up on LET back then, wanting to cast their vote. We were running a countdown in #lowendbox, "35... 37... 40... 42... just 8 more, go go go!" And then we all celebrated when it finally hit 50. Like a small victory that we achieved together. Of course there were posts from naysayers, "@mpkossen will get removed if he does this, he'll not be allowed to ban CC offers". Personally I didn't believe that'd be the case, not with the strongest possible wording of the original post. But in the end, despite the post getting twice as much votes as requested, it all turned out to be in vain. Just a proof that miracles do not happen.