Copy of Coop?

Interesting. Success does breed copies I suppose.

http://www.yourcan.com/

But it is almost an exact copy! Code and all.

 

Very Cheeky

Unless I know who's behind it/whether I can trust them with my links, I wouldn't sign up. Ads might show an all sorts of dodgy pages.

Anyone know who's initiative this is?

 

Ned is the admin for the copy coop and also a forum member here at digitalpoint.

It was bound to happen but it is such a direct copy of the coop. Directions, code, implementation. Maybe I am jumping the gun here, but only Ned can explain how it is different than THE COOP?

 

I just signed up as #47

It's a complete rip, but I couldn't care less...

Another network= More links

 

Hi all,

Yes that’s my work, however, it’s not a rip of anything. I would never rip off someone else’s code, I’ve had it done to me and it’s not nice.

Some of it is similar I agree (mainly because that’s the only efficient way to do it in php) but I did everything from scratch myself, the weighting system is different (i presume since all of Shaun’s code is hidden) but has the same purpose/end result, in fact most of it different. If you log in you'll see how different it is.

Obviously the main purpose is the same. To display text links/banners with no click through scripts, the code is bound to be similar as Shaun has coded his in the most efficient way to do it and so have I.

I didn’t mean to cause offence and hopefully I haven’t.

Cheers,

Ned

 

are you banning dodgy sites (porn, casinos etc etc) ?

 

hmmm, taken from http://www.yourcan.com/?page=about

Not signed up so I don't know if they have ad validation or if they let them live *then* review them...

Which makes a interesting point. Although ads have to be validated on digital coop network sites do not (?) Therefore if I had a really nasty spammy naughty site I can signup and put ads on....Is that bad?

 

That's what I'd like to know. What level of 'respectability' will there be in you're CAN? I don't want gambling, porn or other shady sites advertising on mine.

 

All adverts are reviewed before going live. So no dodgy, porn, gambling , e.t.c ads will ever be shown.

 

Do you plan on starting a second network especially for those kind of sites?

 

John Loch has got those covered I believe... Launch in 2 months (gut feeling someone might beat him to it).

 

Never really thought about that, certainly a good idea.

Wonder how much interest there would be.

Damn Shame porncan.com is taken though hehe

 

You can register .coop domains...

Bargain for the first one to register ad-network.coop or network.coop (both available, I checked).

 

The more the merrier...

A lot from me.

 

Expensive though, and there are restrictions

 

LOVE your avatar

 

Thanks and merry Christmas and all that stuff. Wish you all a lot of weight (co-op that is)...

 

People normally try and lose weight over Christmas, and here I am trying to gain it

 

Now that would be a bit different. Allowing a coop just for non-mainstream sites.

 

I've been thinking about a non-mainstream site coop ever since the coop ad network came out. It would definitely be useful to those webmasters. What's the deal on John Loch? Does he have a url for his soon to be released version?