Thread: Not the answer, Bill.

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First of all, let me get out of the way that my rant wasn't directed at you personally, Bill. Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting you I like you and think you do a very good but thankless job here. How you do it I have no idea.

My frustration is that the doors of the forum now seem to have been opened up to anyone who somehow becomes a "vendor" to post as many threads as they want for the sole purpose of listing an item or offering some service. The vendor in question has only 13 posts but 100% of those are advertisements or items for sale. My first question is, "What exactly is a VENDOR?" Is it someone who has paid for that privilage, like a sponsor, or what??????????

The problem becomes, if we let one guy run as many threads selling items as he wants, where does it end? What if we got Charlie Price from Vintage Speed on here, for example.............he sells a zillion items and would be able to run one thread per item. Suddenly any threads we regular members post would quickly be crowded off of the home page and into the archives.

At first I thought this new vendor was a spammer who was uninvited and just here hocking his goods..............but apparently he is INVITED and hocking his goods with the blessings of the Administration. Do you see why we might be upset? I just would hate to see what was once such a strong, wonderful forum become just page after page of advertisements.

We've all sort of accepted the recent changes, but this one is over the top IMO.

Don

Brent, sorry, you were posting as I was typing. What is the situation specifically with vendors doing this sort of thing?