Welcome to RCF - WHF

Jaddon · Oct 12, 2005

Hi GTAce and welcome to RCF, I have been on lurking as a guest on your forums (after I made my post here) I own jaddon.com and RCF owners are my very close friends as well as I am friends with many of the members here.

So yes my first thought was your site asking us to install a script to ours did strike me to be concerned and I don't want my friends who have worked so hard building their sites to be scamed!

Anyway I would rather get our questions answered here then at your forums please.

I did not find any detail info on your site about what that install you want your users to install - why is that script needed? and why do you need to know our statics? The fact that one of the first things I saw on your site was that we had to install that is what gave me reason to be concerned.

Glenn I · Apr 22, 2005

I don't think I will be bothering with this. Membership is increasing nicely and traffic is great. I have a few links placed around different sites and they are proving to be a great way of attracting new members.

Also any new members I get will want to register because they are aviation enthuiasts and not those wannbees who just want to get a few extra points.

I'll stay the way I am.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Right now I feel the same way you do, Aussie. I want people posting here because they like the community and feel comfortable with all of us and will share their thoughts, wants, joys and sorrows because they want to.

I don't know what to think about having people post just so they can get posts on their boards. Only reason I can see any reason for that would be for someone to be making money via advertising or "clicks"

Don't mean to be ugly or over suspicious GTAce, I'm just being honest and I don't always say what I mean in the best possible way. But I don't mean any harm.

Maybe with a few questions and answers we may come to know your program better and understand it as a good thing.

sunny

Rizzo · Oct 28, 2005

Glenn, i don't think you'll find that that will actually happen. The people sign up to those they are interested in, and there's a big long list, so they'll just skip yours if not into aviation...

FTAce, thanks for coming on and answering questions, that makes me feel really good about this whole thing!! wave

ps. Do i get extra credits for advertising it? nana

Jaddon · Oct 12, 2005

I am sorry GTAce but I feel the same way as Aussie and RB - well said RB!

I really don’t want or need members who are coming just to get more post or clicks for their site! My site is not about that anyway - I don't even require my members to have a certain amount of post to get benefits like many other forums do.

Also would hate to see that happen here - as RB said that they want here, is one of the main reasons I love it here at RCF is because it is a small community where we are all friends, there is a family feeling here and that is what I feel is better then the large forums where there are to many post to keep up with and most don’t even know each other. That is also my goal for my forums as well.

More members and post does not make a site better.

I also agree with RB we need more info the first impression I got was not good but I am willing to learn more and change my thoughts Smile

GTAce · Apr 16, 2006

It's totally fine with me if you guys would rather have genuine members who found your forums on their own - I understand that completely and am the same way myself. The reason I created this system is because I saw a dire need for it. If you frequent other webmaster forums, you will notice that the post exchanging business is HUGE. There are a LOT of forum owners exchanging posts...not all do and it's not for everybody, yourselves included, but there are definitely a lot of people who do.

As Rizzo said, it's not as if anybody and everybody will be posting in your forums...there is currently a list of ~120 forums to choose from...this means that members can go through the list of 120 forums and post at the ones they are most interested in.

Regarding the need for installation and statistics. The whole point of the system is to exchange posts and keep track of how many posts you both make and receive - this way we can give more credits to those who post the most and thus list them higher up...which means they will in turn receive more posts in return. To collect this information, you place our script on your site. It consists of two files. One configuration file, and another file which contains the script. The configuration file contains one line that you must edit...you don't need to edit any other files - not your forum files and not your database. As far as the script, your forums, and your database. All that it looks at and reports back to us is usernames and post counts. The script itself connects to your database, but it never sees a password and neither do we.

Since you cant see the Privacy Policy and Agreement as a guest, I'll post it here. *NOTE* This Privacy Policy might not be up to date - it is up to date at the time of this post, but no later.

Jaddon · Oct 12, 2005

Thanks GTAce for taking the time to post that info for us! Smile

I think you should make your Privacy Policy and Usage Agreement available for guest to see by hiding it to guest makes it look like you are hiding something. Don't you think guest who are considering joining should be able to read the privacy policy and any other info needed BEFORE they join? Just my thoughts since that is what caused most of my concerns as a guest I can see you want to install a script on my site but I have to join to get the details?

As I guest I was able to read your topics and post which I did read many, you do have a lot of good info on there for webmasters great tips on how to advertise sites. I just don’t agree with the trading of post but you do have lots of good info on your forums.

GTAce · Apr 16, 2006

Thanks Jaddon

You are probably right about the Privacy Policy thing and guest access...that is something we will take care of in a future release.

Regarding the trading of posts, hey, I agree with you. However ironic it may sound, I don't like to trade posts either...I think that there are better ways to get your forums going - but the fact of the matter is, a whole lot of people like to exchange posts, so I've made it easy for them to do so.

You're not the only one who chooses not to do it though Wink

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

You're right, GTAce, as you say it's not for everyone but for some it can be very useful and valuable. If your message board has a lot of advertisement then membership, activity and traffic is very important. Vital as a matter of fact.

Seems like a good program you have going, I wish you much success.

Check this out!

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Jaddon · Oct 12, 2005