This forum used to be called "The Big Three" but unions, corporate greed and small minded people like you allowed this nation to become a fucking collection of welfare states!
Yeah it pains me to make all the auto forums private, but I am tired of continuing this entitlement process by allowing ungrateful anonymous members to get factual and professional information at my expense!
From now on annonymous members will get what they pay for, NOTHING! From now on this forum will be packed with advertisements for OUR services.
The days of this site running like our government; on the backs of hard working people, while the ungrateful poor soak up free info are over! So yeah... The old SELLC that used to allow 300+ users per day access to information are coming to an end!
I keep you around to remind me what happens to people when they start thinking the world owes them a living. Thank you PowerStroker!
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What is to give light must endure burning -- Viktor Frankl
I have come to my senses and opened up all the public auto forums (including the W126 and R107 section).
Me trying to punish the entire world for a few bad apples on BenzWorld.org was a poor idea. Much of it was due to what seems like an excessive amount of traffic, and what I have to pay. As much as I like helping people I will need to figure out a way to make this place at least pay for itself. Any suggestions?
Some changes that I have made seemed to curb the amount of traffic better than making the popular forums private. Here is what they are,
RSS Feeds. This feature is about worthless. Lazy people that have no intention of contributing sit and wait for their feeds which they more than likely save and keep. Entire threads are sent to people as a text based message without even having to visit the forum. This was the first thing to go and I noticed the biggest drop in traffic by doing it.
Facebook. It goes without saying, "I HATE FACEBOOK!" so thank goodness the option to kick them off my forum was available. I myself think advertising facebook and other social media sites such as MySpace and Twitter is a waste of my time, effort, bandwidth and money. While I by far hate Facebook the most it was with great pleasure I stripped them from our site. To be honest, whenever I see that little "F" on a web page or advertisement it pisses me off. Why should these information selling pricks get free advertisement? FUCK FACEBOOK, and in doing so it seems traffic has dipped, which to me is a good thing. I am looking for quality, not quantity.
There is one other way to put a MAJOR dent in the traffic, and that would be to remove our postings from Google searches aka Google bots. While I have mulled it over I myself use google to search for information and that being the case I have saved time and money with the generosity of many people who share information. In light of that fact I feel obligated to give back and let others who need information be able to find our postings on Google.
Thats whats new, and if anyone has any suggestions I would be glad to hear them.
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What is to give light must endure burning -- Viktor Frankl
"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
