Post by Female Guitar Players on May 20, 2012 20:06:46 GMT -5
A MESSAGE TO PROBOARDS
by Blackie Steele
Sunday May 20th, 2012
Dear Proboards
I understand that you have to advertise in order to pay bills that enable the provision of the services represented by Proboards. Having said that, and it is just my opinion, but the amount of advertising now taking place in my Forum is way past ridiculous. It took three times longer than usual to copy posts today because of the amount of time wasted uploading countless advertising codes and banners before my page would fully load.
After seeing an advertisement once, and if anyone was interested, the mouse would have been used to click onto anything of any reasonable concern. BLASTING us with non-stop and repetitive boring and unwanted advertising is a repeat commercial of both MySpace and YouTube. And quite frankly, given that we have all been so greatly influenced by such bad examples, one would think that you oughta' know better!
I noticed also that all of the advertising and the amount of Ram required to load it, is causing my computor processor to work over time. My laptop is so hot is shut down on me twice while trying to post in here. What incentive does that give anyone to continue using Proboards? And what incentive does that give anyone to use my Forum? This definately puts a fiddle-dee-dee in the goal of progress, doesn't it?
Have you people here running Proboards ever heard of an over-cooked ham? We are all aware here that Proboards Staff enter into all Blogs, even private ones, and read the contents. So I know that someone, at least one of you, will end up reading this. I am asking you therefore, to bloody well sit up and pay attention.
Something to keep in mind: You are demonstrating a huge message to all Proboard Members, and that message is this: That your advertising campaigns and its precedence of uploading onto the pages first before any actual Forum page loads, shows that
1) Advertisers come first and
2) Proboards members come second
Flooding my Forum with advertisements like this which it excessively and needlessly difficult to use the Forum, and then offering me the opportunity to pay you a small sum to remove the advertising, really does remind me of a local Mafia tactic, and quite frankly, you can stick it right up your kiester with that crap.
Here's another thing that was and is a very bad idea.
These are the most recent topics you have participated in:
#01 2011 FEMALE GUITAR PLAYERS CONTEST - Nov 2011
Last post by Blackie Steele, Today at 7:42pm
Learn Guitar Online With Berklee
Last post by Blackie Steele, Yesterday at 3:48am
Guitar Teacher: Mads Eriksen Lessons
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:49pm
Guitar Teacher: Lick Library
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:45pm
Guitar Teacher: The Wizard Of Shred
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:39pm
Guitar Teacher: Fearedse's Guitar Noob Blog
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:38pm
Guitar Teacher: Yngwie Malmsteen
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:37pm
This box also contains a huge advertisement that takes up a lot of space on my Forum page. And I DO NOT APPRECIATE IT.
I never asked you to add this crap to my Forum. This sort of information is utterly superflouous and unnecessary. It looks TERRIBLE and takes up space better used in a more useful manner. Who told you that you could do this to my Forum, because it sure as hell wasn't me. I find this very DISRESPECTFUL.
There is a thing in this world called SMART ADVERTISING. It is utilized by both SMART SHOPPERS and SMART BUSINESSES alike. You are being asked to give this matter immediate attention and do something about it.
If I can't spend time in my own Forum because what you are doing is hurting my computor, then most likely niether will anyone else. I will definately do some serious research to find another location. Some so-called "good ideas" are just NOT GOOD IDEAS AT ALL. Instead, they DEFEAT YOUR PURPOSES and render you SABOTAGED whiled someone else got all the profits. We've all seen it for years and all I can say is CUSTOMER BEWARE.
The other thing that is utterly ridiculous is an advertisement beside every single damn YouTube video. Why you would even allow that is beyond me; they represent your competition and have made it clear that they're intent is to put you out of business and own the entire internet. What the hell are you people at Proboards thinking?
My last complaint is about this: I never at any time gave you, Proboards, permission to list my Forums with Google Plus. And yet, my Forums are found in the Google Search Engine. I have distinctly made my settings against this option. So who the hell are you to change them and make me go in there and change them back? Stop making your financial profit at my expense and start practicing some sound business principles. No one is here to be exploited by you. And believe me, I will relocate my Forum if your bullshit doesn't stop IMMEDIATELY.
This rant is finished.
Blackie SteeleFemale Guitar Players
by Blackie Steele
Sunday May 20th, 2012
Dear Proboards
I understand that you have to advertise in order to pay bills that enable the provision of the services represented by Proboards. Having said that, and it is just my opinion, but the amount of advertising now taking place in my Forum is way past ridiculous. It took three times longer than usual to copy posts today because of the amount of time wasted uploading countless advertising codes and banners before my page would fully load.
After seeing an advertisement once, and if anyone was interested, the mouse would have been used to click onto anything of any reasonable concern. BLASTING us with non-stop and repetitive boring and unwanted advertising is a repeat commercial of both MySpace and YouTube. And quite frankly, given that we have all been so greatly influenced by such bad examples, one would think that you oughta' know better!
I noticed also that all of the advertising and the amount of Ram required to load it, is causing my computor processor to work over time. My laptop is so hot is shut down on me twice while trying to post in here. What incentive does that give anyone to continue using Proboards? And what incentive does that give anyone to use my Forum? This definately puts a fiddle-dee-dee in the goal of progress, doesn't it?
Have you people here running Proboards ever heard of an over-cooked ham? We are all aware here that Proboards Staff enter into all Blogs, even private ones, and read the contents. So I know that someone, at least one of you, will end up reading this. I am asking you therefore, to bloody well sit up and pay attention.
Something to keep in mind: You are demonstrating a huge message to all Proboard Members, and that message is this: That your advertising campaigns and its precedence of uploading onto the pages first before any actual Forum page loads, shows that
1) Advertisers come first and
2) Proboards members come second
Flooding my Forum with advertisements like this which it excessively and needlessly difficult to use the Forum, and then offering me the opportunity to pay you a small sum to remove the advertising, really does remind me of a local Mafia tactic, and quite frankly, you can stick it right up your kiester with that crap.
Here's another thing that was and is a very bad idea.
These are the most recent topics you have participated in:
#01 2011 FEMALE GUITAR PLAYERS CONTEST - Nov 2011
Last post by Blackie Steele, Today at 7:42pm
Learn Guitar Online With Berklee
Last post by Blackie Steele, Yesterday at 3:48am
Guitar Teacher: Mads Eriksen Lessons
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:49pm
Guitar Teacher: Lick Library
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:45pm
Guitar Teacher: The Wizard Of Shred
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:39pm
Guitar Teacher: Fearedse's Guitar Noob Blog
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:38pm
Guitar Teacher: Yngwie Malmsteen
Last post by Blackie Steele on May 11, 2012, 2:37pm
This box also contains a huge advertisement that takes up a lot of space on my Forum page. And I DO NOT APPRECIATE IT.
I never asked you to add this crap to my Forum. This sort of information is utterly superflouous and unnecessary. It looks TERRIBLE and takes up space better used in a more useful manner. Who told you that you could do this to my Forum, because it sure as hell wasn't me. I find this very DISRESPECTFUL.
There is a thing in this world called SMART ADVERTISING. It is utilized by both SMART SHOPPERS and SMART BUSINESSES alike. You are being asked to give this matter immediate attention and do something about it.
If I can't spend time in my own Forum because what you are doing is hurting my computor, then most likely niether will anyone else. I will definately do some serious research to find another location. Some so-called "good ideas" are just NOT GOOD IDEAS AT ALL. Instead, they DEFEAT YOUR PURPOSES and render you SABOTAGED whiled someone else got all the profits. We've all seen it for years and all I can say is CUSTOMER BEWARE.
The other thing that is utterly ridiculous is an advertisement beside every single damn YouTube video. Why you would even allow that is beyond me; they represent your competition and have made it clear that they're intent is to put you out of business and own the entire internet. What the hell are you people at Proboards thinking?
My last complaint is about this: I never at any time gave you, Proboards, permission to list my Forums with Google Plus. And yet, my Forums are found in the Google Search Engine. I have distinctly made my settings against this option. So who the hell are you to change them and make me go in there and change them back? Stop making your financial profit at my expense and start practicing some sound business principles. No one is here to be exploited by you. And believe me, I will relocate my Forum if your bullshit doesn't stop IMMEDIATELY.
This rant is finished.
Blackie SteeleFemale Guitar Players