OK, fine, since I was told in the other thread I can't be banned for voicing my opinion, here's another rant, these might become commonplace I have a feeling. Get an idea what spam is. Define it how you want, but saying any link to another website is spam is rediculous. Granted, you don't want tons of links to random places popping up and garbage-afying the message boards. But things make me wonder when you delete links to other LP sites. *cough* here *cough* When you delete links like that that are relevant to the band this site is promoting, it leads me to one conclusion. All you want is to be the best LP fansite out there and any other site links is fucking BLASPHEMY. [/sarcasm] You say you don't wanna start wars, no, you do it the conservative right-wing way, you just eliminate any way of people getting to other LP sites from yours. Hell you'd probably make people's web browsers permanently stuck on your site if you could. As far as you're concerned, you're the only website on the internet that's important. Good day. And yes I spelled "Jesus" wrong on purpose, must stay politically correct and not take the Lord's name in vain, since Bush wants to start a theocracy.
So, I guess you don't remember the news post from a few weeks back where another fansite found a Mike freestyle and we explicitly made sure they were given full credit. We consider spamming when someone puts up a link simply for the purpose of gaining hits. My inclination is to closed this thread because of how assanine your tone is and how we allow for civil discussion. Also, don't ever call me conservative again. Ever. If you don't like the way things are run, either talk to us with respect and we'll try to fix things, or leave us be. After all, didn't you already state you had left? We know there is a growing resentment with the rules and we're working on making things better. Give me a break. You're the one being a jerk here. EDIT: Notice how everyone loves to bash us, yet nobody offers ways to make the situation better. How odd is that? :wth:
I don't understand what your deal is Anthony, you used to be such a great supporter of these forums and now all you ever seem to do is nitpick how we 'cant ever do anything right around here'. First, before I try to respond to your post, I must say something. Please do not say "Jeses/Jesus Fucking Christ" on these forums ever again. I do understand that you are not a christian, but many people on these forums are, and would be greately offended by that statement. Changing the spelling of his name does not make it less worse and I believe you need to tone down on the language you use around here. Swear filter off or not, we do not tolerate "jeses fucking christ". This site was just down for 36 hours due to problems that weren't our fault. I busted my ass and got extremely stressed out, and for what? To see that yet another complaint thread has surfaced on the site. Please read Omar's first paragraph. It sums it up better than I ever could and I will tell you one thing, and I hope all the other people who want to complain take notice of this too. If you need things to change, do it by giving us advice, not dishing out insults or being harsh. For now on we arent going to listen to people unless they are RESPECTFUL. I've had it with these harsh complaint threads. Give us a break, we just fought to get the site back up for you guys.
Why should we allow links to other fan sites? They're our competition, and our site shouldn't be used as a way for our competitors to advertise. It would be like putting Pepsi in a Coke machine or Wal-Mart posting ads for Target all over their store. And I think it's rather absurd that you're saying that us removing links to other sites is wrong.
If it's posted for the main reason of just advertising, it will be moved. If it's a helpful link, it won't be. What's the problem?
Alright, ok, yeah, mmhmm, chill out. First of all, I didn't leave because I still believe the good aspects of this site outweigh the bad. Secondly, I honestly didn't mean to be so harsh with my criticism, but I was having a bad day. Wow I sound like Will...but it's true. I'm not against the site or a non-supporter or anything now. If someone asks me what a good site for LP stuff is I'm not gonna be like, "Don't go to LPA." So yeah, just lock this. I'll try not to be such an asshole from now on, I'm not usually like that. Sorry.
The difference is that we're just a fan site. Non-profit. It shouldn't be a competition, it should be a community. If another site has something we don't, big deal, if we have something another site doesn't, big deal. It's really all about making whatever we have available to the people.
We deleted that link because it was blatant advertising and spam. In all honesty we could really care less if another site has something we don't. It's happened before, and we haven't made a big stink about it, we just dont allow for the hardcore spamming of that site to run rampant on our forums. As Todd said, it would be like Coca-Cola posting Pepsi ads all over their website. It's absurd for you to question our judgement simply because we aren't fond of spam all over the place. The only time we allowed a link to another fansite (the Mike freestyle) is because we had an AFFILIATION with that site. There's a big difference between where you shamelessly spam another site, and when we are affiliated with that site that you are linking to. I honestly hope you're telling the truth when you say aren't always like this Anthony, because this is now the second time you've complained about the way we work around here. I know you apologized, but I am honestly starting to get fed up with the insurgence of LPA bashing threads on here as of late. We don't charge you, we dont feature ads (even though it'd be smart), and we dont even have a store with LPA themed merchandise. This website makes no money at all, so if you want to go to a site that has an obligation to do shit right because you pay them to access the site, sign up for the LPU. This is a free site and we ARE doing a good job contrary to the belief of some.
Stop crucifying me for doing my job. Anyone who believes that fansite (mind you it was on a FREEWEBS server) is real is fucking ignorant. I'm doing my job with best intentions, stop whining already. edit: I don't mean to sound mean, I usually never am, but you need to stop picking at everything we do...
Well I wouldn't have known the site was on a Freewebs server since you deleted the link so swiftly. So voila, there we go, no problem anymore. For the 2nd time, can someone just lock this? I see no point in it, I'm not pissed off anymore.