[meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <579703.88333.qm_at_web30701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

A well written advertisement only needs to be run once. Once a week would allow for the release of 52 different meteorites in a year! The point is that if everybody ran 20 ads a month X 12months X 900 members you would have over 216,000 extra posts a year. It is disprespectful not to honor Art's and the majority of the List member's wishes. List members voted for the one-ad-per-week rule and as the above formula suggests, a few bad apples post way too many advertisements. They are jeopardizing the other members' ability to advertise just once a week. Art could just say, "NO MORE ADS, PERIOD" like many forums have already done but thankfully he has an extremely long fuse.

Best Regards,

Adam




----- Original Message ----
From: "ensoramanda at ntlworld.com" <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thu, October 15, 2009 10:20:23 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule

I think that the adverts add to the list and I would be disappointed if they were to disappear altogether...but too many would be a shame.

Michael's email has however done exactly what he intended...I think? and drawn even more attention to his sales and many many more emails 'advertising his sales' than he might ever post!!!. Great marketing.

Graham E UK

---- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> The fact seems to be forgotten that a consensus was taken by Art about advertising in his forum. Advertising is a privilege, not a right and Art was considering having no ads at all due to abuse. The consensus, at the time, was that way too many ads were being posted and that one-ad-per-week should be a rule. List members input was taken into account so this was not only Art's wishes but the majority of other members as well.
>
> I know of several people who will not subscribe due to the number of ads, some of which instead read the archives on a daily basis. Even then, scrolling through hundreds of ads would drown out more useful information in the archives which are permanent and cannot be deleted. An ads usefulness disappears immediately, yet it is stuck for eternity in the archives. The delete key will not help here. A lot of forums will not allow any advertisements so we should feel lucky.
>
> Art would not have made the rule if he felt it was not important. Out of respect for him and other members, I feel the rule should be honored or we might all lose our advertising privileges due to a few members who cannot and will not control themselves.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Adam
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