Question for Shawn Why did you name forum "Solicitations & Announcements", why not call it "Announcements"? Don't you know that both words mean the same? Question for everybody. Am I wrong about these 2 words that they have the same meaning? fastreplies
Are you sure about that? Let say, I am Announcing new directory then it will covered by Announcements. Now, I'm telling users, let say 1 year latter, that my directory offers discount, so according to Rules I must go to my original 1 year old thread and post that offer in there. Why use Solicitations if Announcements alone can cover both actions? fastreplies
What if you were soliciting but not annoucing anything? Directories are all pretty retarded if you ask me... Should just rename it "Crap". Since all directories would fall into that category. Has anyone used a directory for anything since 1990?
Isn't then what you're calling Announcement should be called Introduction? Also, are you saying that if I soliciting visitors, I shouldn't use old Announcement thread? fastreplies
OK, I guess I can live with that but what about my question: If I soliciting visitors, shouldn't I use original 1 year old Announcement thread or I can start new Solicitation thread? fastreplies
Now I'm confused completely. Here you're saying: and here making clear that Solicitations & Announcements are 2 different subjects and that each of them has special meaning and place and yet in your next post you're saying "Use same" which contradicts your original statement "Definitely do not mean the same thing". If Solicitations & Announcements is NOT the same, then according to you money saving tread MUST be posted in separate thread and not in directory introduction thread. Am I missing something? For God's sake man, make your mind. fastreplies
Ah, but they aren't similar, one is offering apples and another oranges. Again according to you, they are not the same. Now I'm going to ask you very simple question even you can answer. Sure they can be placed within the same thread (only in DP forum 2 years old one) but what I want to know what is wrong to have them in 2 separate threads? fastreplies
Hard to say without knowing the context of the threads. But a good rule of thumb would be to keep it in a single thread if you are promoting the same directory/site.
Well, one discusses cons and pros of directory itself and announced 2 years ago another is offering money saving available till the end of this mouths and made 5 days ago I heard you first time around http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2115432&p=15906593#post15906593 What I haven't heard from you is your reply to my question: what is wrong to have them in 2 separate threads? fastreplies
Are you talking to yourself? You must be talking to yourself because your lips are moving. If I didn’t know better, I would say, you’re mumbling. This is third time you’re repeating the same chant in spite I told you, I heard you first time around. Why don’t you change record and answer question I’m actually is asking you: what is wrong to have them in 2 separate threads? fastreplies
Not sure what answer you are looking for, but you might as well be asking, "What's wrong with having 2 separate accounts?" Same answer... It's against our rules.
buying and selling are not the same, but most websites have them together in the same forum, because you cant sell, without people buying. both have opposite meanings to each other, yet they go together like man and wife. Solicitations & Announcements go together because they stem from the days of news print. where Solicitations & Announcements were first used in mass media. before then it was usually a notice board in the window of a Solicitors headed Solicitations & Announcements Solicitations are notices for business Announcements are notices of events. you announce a wedding or birth by giving notice, there is no business proposition in its intent. you solicit business by giving notice you are offering a service for a price. hookers offer themselves for a price, they are charged with Solicitation or Soliciting
Granted in the same forum but not in the same thread. Exactly. In real world where common sense takes precedent over stupidity and that’s how things work. Business announces it presents by putting sign over the entrance that says: Joe Shmoh's Shoes and puts weekly Special Sale sign in the window because Joe the Owner is intelligent enough to grasp were that solicitation business sign belongs... except of course if Joe resides in Napolionia where made by idiots Law says that Joe have to post every special deal in his store sign and not his store windows. Oh I see, common sense is against your rules. fastreplies
why are you saying "not in the same thread"? that would be like asking a buyer to start a new thread to reply to buy items being sold by a seller in the same forum, but in a different thread lmao. So yes you can have Solicitations & Announcements in the same post contained within the same thread within the same forum. But you have a motive for all these pathetic posts, so come now, spit out the real reason for your nit picking posts here?
Well there is also enormous entertainment value when we create crazy rules that no one can understand. On top of it, there's an even bigger marketing value. When someone gets banned they simply go to other forums and talk about Digital Point. We are actually working on a system that randomly gives infractions that don't even mean anything. Surely you can see the entertainment and marketing value in something like that?