So when is C B going to start selling stock?

[Okbroncoman]

Lol. I am in for a few

 

[barronj]

There's a Canadian company that has bought up some of the bigger boards (corral comes to mind), because of their membership numbers. It's all about revenue, and the more the members, the bigger the audience for targeted ads (in the middle of a thread, very annoying).

How long can we keep it off the radar? ;D

 

[Jeff76]

Becareful what you ask for. Different rules...different culture. You may lose the things you like about it.

 

[blamejane]

Becareful what you ask for. Different rules...different culture. You may lose the things you like about it.

Well said. I too hate the large ads displayed between posts (ala barronj), which I've seen on many a forum. Also, I orignally wanted an image in my signature, but found this wasn't allowed. Now I've come to like the fact that signatures don't have images; especially large animated ones!

 

[hyghlndr]

They ruined the vintage mustang with selling out and ten million ads & pop ups. They started to charge for classified and tons of other stuff. I stinks now, no longer a community. Just dealers and some diehards.

I want the owner to make something for all of their work but if it goes like some it would be better for members to start another site.

 

[barronj]

it would be better for members to start another site.

That's what happened to my other favorite site, DFWstangs.net. It was bought up, and the disenfranchised members started DFWmustangs.net, and it's just as cool as the original site (which is now a ghost town compared to its former self).

 

[Airmapper]

$12 makes you a Contributor, same as buying stock, helps keep Admin Jon paying the light bill to keep the place running, and if there is some left over for him to keep I'm cool with that too. $12 isn't bad, low enough even a cheap individual like myself would pay it, and in volume hopefully plenty to cover costs, especially with vendors advertising as well.

I wouldn't appreciate if this site became more commercialized, but I think the ad's for the Bronco vendors and other 4x4 vendors are tasteful, and handy as I frequently use them to jump over to a vendor site to check on parts I need. I can appreciate ad's that serve a purpose, not just being sprayed with spam.

With commercialization will come restrictions, a ton of legal concerns that really make no practical sense (thank corporate America) a load of Moderators without any sense of humor, you'll have to be PC and sugar coat everything you say for the sensitive masses.

This place is great as it is, don't change a thing! I've quit using several boards where administration got too big for their britches, and got more commercialized. Running members off by getting all high and mighty makes for a lonely board full of narrow minded, blindly following sheep, with no broadness of knowledge, and mostly no fun.

 

[sprdv1]

Amen, don't change a thing... ;D

 

[73stallion]

didn't facebook's stocks start at $37 or $38 per???? they're already down to $31.91, he made some good money quick!

 

[sprdv1]

Yup. Pretty much.

 

[ransil]

I hate forums with 3/4 page of signatures and lots of ads..

thedieselStop went to crap and someone purchased it ..

 

[Jeff76]

$12 makes you a Contributor, same as buying stock,
.

Great Point!

 

[Scoop]

I hate forums with 3/4 page of signatures and lots of ads..

thedieselStop went to crap and someone purchased it ..

Same thing with FSB. About 2 weeks ago Nitto Tire THREADS - not pop up ads - started showing up as the first thread in EVERY forum. Kind of like a sticky but not exactly. Got so many complaints they finally pulled them.

 

[Bronco Biff]

Same thing with FSB. About 2 weeks ago Nitto Tire THREADS - not pop up ads - started showing up as the first thread in EVERY forum. Kind of like a sticky but not exactly. Got so many complaints they finally pulled them.

Yea, and the memory gobbling ads they started plugging in when you tried to go anywhere that popped up first made it slow and not attractive to me to hit so I barely go on at all now........bad taste will take a while to wear off!!