Please Vote - Considering Major Changes for Classifeds

[Okuma]

I really don't want to turn every conversation I join into an argument over this stuff. You guys have a place that's super great but you can never seem to just go there. If it's so great you wouldn't need me so bad.

 

[Okuma]

No, i meant surviving

Sorry about that, misunderstood the statement.

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

Yes, you are not here to post about this topic, you are here from another site to try to raise awareness for them. This is not the place, you guys really need to "get off the tit" and try to survive on your own for a while, it's old.

Whose on the tit? I’m only asking questions here. Have yet to get a reasonable answer and all my post getting deleted.

Speaks volumes.

 

[Okuma]

Whose on the tit? I’m only asking questions here. Have yet to get a reasonable answer and all my post getting deleted.

Speaks volumes.

You and your friends that have to try to ruin everything here I guess. You come into a thread and ask about something unrelated and that you 100% know will get deleted, and then you act like a victim when I don't want to discuss it in a thread that is unrelated to it. That makes me an asshole somehow.

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

I really don't want to turn every conversation I join into an argument over this stuff. You guys have a place that's super great but you can never seem to just go there. If it's so great you wouldn't need me so bad.

In the great words of @Laufen..... Neat.

 

[CQB27]

Can you elaborate on why? I'm just really curious as to why it would be a deal breaker for someone who seems to trade a fair amount. (Just judging from your feedback score, didn't dig into it further than that.).

Sure. Because it's not the deal we made when this whole thing started and I joined on day two. Then it was a sight for selling and trading of firearms exclusively and required no buy in.

I know the sight has grown exponentially since then and I bet the cost to operate has too. I thought the "Supporter" membership/moniker and the "extras" that came with it was good move to generate income, although I think in some cases it quickly grew into a symbol of self aggrandized chest thumping assholery and was the reason I chose to donate to the sight instead of purchasing the banner, but that's a while other thread.

I understand you need to do what you think is best for the site. I have zero issue with that, really, zero. It's just not the deal we shook cyber hands on 9 years ago. It's what you need now to be viable, I get it. I simply will choose not to sell on a sight that charges, actual cost aside, when I can do that same business elsewhere without having to pay for the privilege.

Okuma this is a great sight. My hat's off to you for the work you have done to grow this thing. Contrary to the vocal minority's belief, it is one of the most open, least moderated, entertaining sites around. I have no hard feelings over the changes to come.

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

You and your friends that have to try to ruin everything here I guess. You come into a thread and ask about something unrelated and that you 100% know will get deleted, and then you act like a victim when I don't want to discuss it in a thread that is unrelated to it. That makes me an asshole somehow.

All I want to know is why you are charging to post ads? Keep spammers away? Sinking ship? What’s going on?

Curious minds want to know.

 

[BIKER13]

gosh I got a little vomit in my mouth reading that ****

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

it is one of the most open, least moderated

What are you smoking?! Cause I want some!

 

[payneed]

I think I may try a setup similar to this and if it bombs hard I can pull the plug after 7 days:

Supporters - Nothing changes.
Non-Supporters - 1 free classifieds listing every 30 days. No relists. For $1 you can post the maximum number of listings every day for a month. Get access for a year for $10.

There would be multiple options to pay, including anonymous ones.

It seems like adding the 1 free listing a month would satisfy a lot of concerns.