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Originally Posted by lcw16
Probably to protect the interest of the advertisers on this board. But hey, so far all the updates we have been getting are from various brothers and not the advertisers! Is this a forum? Or has it become a "yellow page" for mongering?  |
Totally – and of course ONLY IMHO…
But there is of course two sides to every matter.
Whilst a forum IS a place to share information, opinion etc., one must also remember that Admin IS providing this forum FREE for most of us and as such, it is totally understandable and acceptable that he must also protect the interest of his paying advertisers; after all, how else is he going to fund all the expenses associated with providing this FREE forum to us just regular Samsters?
Ever since Chang Ping “went down,” I’ve been reading up on other mongering destinations on SBF as well as other forums – and I have noticed that there are MANY agents/tour guides who are taking advantage of the opportunity/grey area of each forum to promote their services for free. This to me is fine and OK... I guess.. (LOL – don’t know what the owners of the forum thinks!!), especially if the agent fully declares that the reason why he posts is to promote his Paid-for services. I can then decide for myself if his words are worth reading/can be relied upon or if just self-serving.
As an example, IMHO Lookingaround2’s posts have been useful and he DOES declare that he was attached to the Regent, then HMTL and now…?? But there ARE others here who do NOT declare their actual profession and befriends unwary members here in order to screw them over; I’ve even heard of some even pretending to freely “help-out” to organize activities and then….! A further problem is that these “stealth agents” would also recruit others and organize Zap campaigns/lynch mobs to discredit those who he thinks is possibly causing problems to his crap activities on here. And agents creating and using clones?
I’d say that the first thing that any agent should do, is to FULLY declare that he is indeed an Agent and that he does charge for his services; perhaps as part of his signature line.
Just IMHO
SEAJ