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Checking his profile - https://lowendtalk.com/profile/dustinc he was seen on LET today as well. Moreover, he has been active on the BF thread taking care of the double bw requests there. The BF thread is still receiving many more double bw requests than this thread. Moreover, looping through the comments here looking for double bw requests is tougher given our comments.
As for the fires, being a company with dc in la, I can't imagine the nightmare they might be passing through. So, I'd request everyone to be patient for a bit more. He will definitely be here
Now, I need the answer.
The other thing the scrape would be useful for is looking for specific users to annouce GAs or flash sales. I know dustin usually gives a heads up post, but maybe that is frowned upon.
I didnt intend to add any auth features so theres no way to try and snpie deals with the parser but again, now i did 50% of the work and someone can finish it off to add that if they wanted.
I'm not having a good night, so I'm just lurking.
Ah thats good to hear hes in the BF thread. didnt think of checking there again today. I checked yesteday and some people were asking if he is still doing the bandwidth. I actually want to purchase a BF deal still but they still havent restocked LA. I have a feeling stock will come in after these 2 sales close out.
The unanswered question is coming back to haunt us from the beyond
ah sorry to hear.. hope it turns around for you in some form no matter how small a change that may be
Thanks.
just noticed @markz is missing another pretty numbered page to give us a call out
Alright guys, think im checking out here now. Reminder I may be almost non-existent tomorrow. May catch a few comments here or there. PM me if any sweet GA or Flash sales come up!
Oh yes. With the fires and such, it will be tough, but it will be back for sure. Only Dustin can give us a timeline on that.
He was active yesternight. Maybe he will be around for 900
@TrK ipad 10th gen available on Fk for 26-27k with card offers. I might just jump the gun if incan find someone with a Kotak CC
Good morning everyone
hello everyone
morning @BasToTheMax
hello page 875
Good morning dude
Hey markz, Ben was asking around for you saying how you might miss 875. Glad you could join
Hello, I would like to double the bandwidth.
Order: 3617059475
Invoice #14584419
Transaction #: Z111039484604654
Thanks!
Any plans for today?
I would love to. The problem is the transfer fee...
True!!!
Work! HBU?
Going to the hospital again today
Hello, I would like to double the bandwidth.
Invoice ID: #14600127
Thanks
Got work today?
rgrds
Sup everyone?
Just going to reply to a couple of parts of this...
In most threads, I'd absolutely recommend looking back to see what the previous conversation was, but it's usually very useful. These kind of vendor threads / megathreads etc generally aren't that way. The goal of every provider is to generate as many comments as possible - because by including hashtag spam with something they've crafted as an advertising mechanism, it promotes their brand, even the pages and pages of "please double my X" shows other potential customers that other people have bought too. In megathreads with lots of providers, it's about getting people to notice your name as much as possible, and usually that's the smaller players who want every sale because the bigger players are able to run and curate their own threads for that.
Like I said, do what makes you happy, and as a introvert myself (for the most part and despite what it looks like here), I understand what you're saying.
That's great to hear! Glad this place helped you out.
To be clear, I wasn't talking at all about the content. I was talking about the competition to make as many posts as possible. When threads like this are created, and Dustin is the main one but there are others, there is exactly one reason why he wants you to make lots of posts. It's not about reaching a certain page number (although that gets some people excited, and sure can help build a sense of achieving something together), it's not about who is posting (although more people doing it point to a more diverse range of people, hence the double my X posts), it's certainly not about the content because there's just too much of it for him to read - even you guys aren't interested enough in the content to read back a few pages in general. Nope. There's exactly one reason these threads exist. Every time you click "post comment", the thread gets bumped to the top of the list and more people see "blah blah RACKNERD blah blah EMOJI blah blah FREE" and maybe someone browsing the forum will click on it out of curiosity - and then they see a wall of "here's my invoice number" and they think, hmmm, everyone else is buying it - it must be good, and so they buy something themselves. That's it. He doesn't care at all about the content. By incentivising a competition based on most posts, all he's doing is ensuring that his sales page is at the top of the forum. That's it. It creates enough sales that he can afford to drop a few thousand on prizes, because it's maybe got a few thousands of extra eyes seeing his deal.
That's great and something that should be encouraged, but almost nothing that's worth sharing - whether about life or Linux configuration or whatever - is actually specific to any vendor. If you find some new cool program that you want to share with everyone, probably that 90% of the forum that don't ever visit RN threads would also be interested, maybe have something to add that helps you out in return.
Again, I'm not saying you should leave the little community you have here. No doubt you'll have forged some great friendships here. But you should also remember that this thread wasn't created to help form a community, it's just a tool to increase sales. I get that you want to give something back to RN, and that's fine if it's something you want to do. But the reality is that actually, we're all (including myself because I've contributed to the post counts), all of us, are being used as tools to help advertising, and effectively being paid to do that by the chance of winning prizes. Ultimately, it's just a quid-pro-quo business deal.
The actual point I was making is that because you've all made it very personal instead of just seeing it as a business deal, you're working yourself far harder than you need to. The top 2 of you are so far ahead of the rest, you're basically guaranteed to win unless there's a secret last minute effort. You've made double the posts of 3 and 4. They, in turn have double the posts of 5 and 6. Sure, 7 and 8 may be challenging them (but honestly, I wouldn't have the time to get to 7 even if I wanted to), but basically this competition is already over. There's no need to do the kind of quick one-line replies we were all doing all yesterday. I know I had a flippant one line reply in my last post, but I hope that was taken as a joke based on the content.
My point is that you've already won. You don't have to spend all your life posting here. You can enjoy yourselves, pop in, chat for a bit as a real conversation, look at other threads or even sites too. Maybe you're doing all that already. Maybe I'm totally misreading the situation. But you guys don't need to worry about having to post just to increase numbers, especially as you already all have a tacit agreement about who's going to get what anyway.
I did have that cheer and spirit once already at the start of my journey. That was 3 years ago now. My intentions were somewhat like:
However you take these comments, I wasn't trying to dismiss or downplay your contributions and the sense of friendship you have with. Just trying to get you to see the context of the thread a little differently.