Web Hosting Talk : Other Forums : WHT Announcements, Feedback and Questions : It's almost impossible

[Deadhead]

for hosts that can't offer dedicated servers for $99 a month to even get their name out there when people get 7 or 8 friends together to keep their threads at the top.

Every day, the same 4 or 5 threads get bumped and everyone else falls away.

Isn't there some kind of line being crossed here?

[Choppy]

Deadhead this is so true!

I think the most i have seen one of my adverts stay close to the top was when people were actually generally interested but many of these other ads get bumped more and more and more!

What can you do!

kind regards

[Deadhead]

And there isn't much the mods can do, these guys have their friends pretending to be interested customers.

[Akash]

I agree, my threads usually move off the first fold within a day...


There should be a rule for the special offers forum where you can only reply with a question about the service, not a bunch of "wow your offer looks tgtb"

[Deadhead]

Or conduct business via email.

Post offer and close the thread...take up questions with customers through email.

[Akash]

Originally posted by Deadhead
Or conduct business via email.

Post offer and close the thread...take up questions with customers through email.

That would work too....but then we have to have the same rule for the requests section....I hate those "PM Sent msgs"

They should make it strict, like a 1 week ban! Mayby then us "smaller guys" can make a living....

[cabalstudios]

ehm...

sorry to interfere in your aqusitions and discussions but there is a section on this board dedicated to such a thread

WebHostingTalk Suggestions and Feedback
Feel free to post questions, comments, feedback and suggestions on WHT.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumd...?s=&forumid=31

Imran

[Deadhead]

Suddenly he cares about WHT having a proper way to be run.

Suddenly sanctimonious.

[cabalstudios]

WHT will never run the way you want it too, there are too many things to take into consideration.

As, it happens to be everyone on this board cares how WHT is run, if we didnt we'd never advertise our business here.

You've got alot to say for a Newbie who's just signed up?


Imran

[thesmallguyshost]

<decided this didn't belong in the ads forum>

[EzCool]

It's a consumer driven market, if you can't capture attention saying 'no fair' will not help you in the long run.

[Pentameter]

It's hard to capture attention when people offering "unlimited space and bandwidth for free" are bumped to the top along with the other one's being referred to.

And I'm not so sure that calling out people for unfair tactics is "crying".

[richy]

gotta agree, these threads need a time to live before being booted to another forum. theres certainly been a common theme recently of a few threads being at the top all the time. and before you flame me, i dont advertise on here, so i dont have any issues apart from the fact as a third party i can see it happening. its sooooooooo obvious. some of it is innocent posts, some of it certainly isnt. after say a week the threads should be bumped to another forum or something.
maybe the newbie is a regular posting afraid , with justification, to reveal who they are , due to the nature of the posting.

[Chicken]

The only solution to the problem would be to turn off replies in the offers forums. We've done this before in the requests forums, some people liked it, some hated it.

The advantage of it is that posts are in order and stay in order by date. The bad thing is that this is a discussion forum and this sort of kills that whole aspect of things.

The same argument could be made in *any* forum on the board. Hot topics are kept and not-so-hot topics drop quickly, sometimes before getting enough exposure.

There isn't a solution that works perfectly and that everyone would agree on 100%.

[Deadhead]

Perhaps just having people respect the rules.

Having friends come in and talk about everything under the sun in an ad thread kills everything else.