Hypnotoad said:To answer the original question. I just got banned. People keep on PMing me over there looking for pictures to a how-to I made. So, I keep referring them here. Apparently, they monitor PMs.
Hypnotoad said:To answer the original question. I just got banned.
Hypnotoad said:People keep on PMing me over there looking for pictures to a how-to I made. So, I keep referring them here. Apparently, they monitor PMs.
Their asshattery knows no bounds. They are world-class chickenshits to be threatened by little ol' *us*?Hypnotoad said:Apparently, they monitor PMs.
Hypnotoad said:You can make a new screen name if you change your ip address. The forum is pretty low tech.
I'm considering spamming the site or just start recruiting just out of spite.
Blckshdw said:Someone might wanna toss this poor member a lifeline
TrailVoy - Chevy TrailBlazer, TrailBlazer SS and GMC Envoy Forum
Yah, it's not like the last 3-4 promoted mods actually stuck around and did anything useful. The barrel bottom is looming closer and closer......Blckshdw said:Ya know, I'm really surprised Loverotties hasn't been made a mod yet...
Voymom said:Maybe it is their way at keeping their numbers? Utter bullshit!
MAY03LT said:Yeah. A while back I posted a screen that showed confirmed banned members in the currently active users list. Gotta keep those stats up one way or another.
We're not hard up because simply acquiring members is not our mission. Nor is making money. We're heartbroken when noobs go there first and don't get their questions answered, but not willing to compromise our principles to put $$ in the pockets of the evil empire from Toronto to continue to participate in their abusive, parasitical business model.Voymom said:They think GMTN is hard up for members due to us trying to bring their members here,
Here's some recent stats:but yet they have more posts and less activity??
If I had ylab or loverotties' physical addresses, they would be getting a special delivery of flaming poop bags for being such asshats. They chose poorly.Denali n DOO said:Hey CdnGman, do you have Loverotties e mail?
Because he can't grasp advanced economic concepts like "unpaid slavery" and "profit-mongering parasitical offshore corporation" and "milking the community instead of nurturing it" ?CdnGMan said:.... why else would he stay there trying to keep the OS afloat??
No part of a community? No dialog with competent diagnosticians, people who can read schematics, and folks who can read the shop manual and understand the systems?MAY03LT said:... he wants no part of this site. ...
Gotta correct this misconception. On web sites, especially forums, the OWNER has absolute say. The 1st Amendment only says the GOVERNMENT will not infringe your right to free speech. Web sites and their bandwidth are private property, and the owners can set any legal rules they want. They can't discriminate against protected classes of people, but if they want to have a site reserved for rutabaga farmers only, then by gum they can. Their $$, their rules. They're not the government, and they're not common carriers.Voymom said:I may be out of line here....but whatever happened to having rights? Do you throw your right to freedom of speech away by using the internet? It sure seem's like you void out all your human rights once you join the OS.
the roadie said:Gotta correct this misconception. On web sites, especially forums, the OWNER has absolute say. The 1st Amendment only says the GOVERNMENT will not infringe your right to free speech. Web sites and their bandwidth are private property, and the owners can set any legal rules they want. They can't discriminate against protected classes of people, but if they want to have a site reserved for rutabaga farmers only, then by gum they can. Their $$, their rules. They're not the government, and they're not common carriers.
Free Speech isn't totally free if somebody else is paying for the soap box.
Just to clarify.
This is a regulation where Europe is ahead of the USA, and for EU citizens, data privacy is huge. PMs *are* illegal to read, even for administrators, in the accounts of EU citizens. Vertical Scope does not respect that, I believe.Voymom said:... their private messages not being private, and someone said something a long the lines of it being illegal(I think).
Well, I can do that now, here.And knowing this now, it's even more scarier being over on the OS. They can literally put words in your mouth and you can't do shit about it.
I happen to view both sites, even combined, both sites don't generate the activity that was once held.
Many of the 'old timers' that have owned GMT360s for some time, have moved on with the platform now defunct.
Yes, it's bad for the noobs. But enriching Vertical Scope by participating as unpaid slaves in their profit-fueled business model is no way to ensure the long-term survival of enthusiast forums. It's VERTICAL SCOPE who's trying to imprison the eyeballs of the noobs by not allowing them to know where the experienced owners have gone.Boricua SS said:its just terrible all the way around... the only people "hurting" are the newbs lookin for advice/help and just get stupid responses on how to look for things...
It's a measure of how poisonous the VS business model is, that they force us to use subterfuge to get the truth out... so for those still recruiting... keep it up
There are still plenty of these vehicles out there. And with the mileage going up on all of them, there will always be people looking for support.CdnGMan said:Not sure how much truth there is in that tho...
Yeah, just look to see if it's owned by VS. If so, RUN!!!!!Boricua SS said:but luckily i know how to look for things and can tell a good community, compared to a bad one...
BO TIE SS said:Yeah, just look to see if it's owned by VS. If so, RUN!!!!!
HARDTRAILZ said:Wow. Hopefully the OP gets led over here for some real help.
the roadie said: