I am unhappy with questionable ads in my category!

i'm not going to post my URL since i dont want to expose my business. but i would give it to an admin who emailed me.

 

shawn - www dot downloadz dot ws is CLEARLY illegal. it can't even be compared to iTunes. we are talking about a site offereing all the video game and movie downloads you want for .89 cents a month.

would it be hard for reviewers to classify the site they review? maybe you get more new sites then i think, but doing a quick check into site content can't take that much time. but again, if you have to pay people to do it, make a $20 entry fee to the coop network. that would pay for a site review.

 

Why should anyone take you serious then

What do you have to fear

Are you selling illegal games to underage kids or something

 

acp -
What shawn said, basically was, give him some proof, then he'll take action. You can't just tell him "it's obviously illegal because they are cheap". The coop is free, so as a member of the community, it's all of our responsibility to do what we can to police it. Shawn has a lot of other things to do besides review sites for potential problems that have already been approved.

There are a lot of threads here in the forum for sites that got removed. Just post a message stating:
1) This url has an ad in the co-op.
2) It violates the TOS because {state violation here}

There are a few sites in the coop that are not up to par, but that's the price you pay for free advertising. There are a lot of quality sites in here as well. The more quality sites that join the better.

If you have a problem with existing sites that do not violate the TOS, then think about how you would go about creating a rule that would weed those sites out - then suggest that rule be added to the TOS. You'd be surprising how difficult that is. It's easy to say "this site shouldn't be allowed because of x", but for one reason or another "x" can't be a hard and fast rule because it would unfairly impact some webmasters.

If you have a site that can't handle the co-op in its current form, then perhaps you should try it out on one of your other sites for a while first. Over time, it evolves and gets better. It already has improved significantly within the last several months in my experience.

 

I would have to agree that the coop network is NOT appropriate for a multimillion dollar ecommerce site.

I mean, if I had a site like that, I would not do anything on it that I didn't have - complete - control of. Never a link that I didn't know where it went ahead of time, never text that I didn't approve of myself, never a charactor out of place.

The coop is for us bootstrappers, up and coming, seat of our pants, innovating, entrepreneurial types. Why would you ever consider putting a feed, controlled by other people, with unknown links, on an established, multimillion dollar business site?

 

That guy is pulling your leg man, he has no multi-million dollar business, in fact he is full of it.

 

I agree... that guy is a living joke...

 

Yes, that is what I suspect as well...

 

There are only a few kids that have real brains like Josh does, you can tell some of these guys are real young kids by their posting style.

Some of them are not even in high school yet (see post #5)

 

anthonycea (and others):

if it it makes you feel much better about yourself to not believe in others successes, be my guest. or maybe it is your curiosity that makes you disbelievingly challenge people in hopes that they will reveal something about themselves. good luck.

like the other guy said, this is a network for bootstrapers, anonymous adsense folks, and people having a good time pushing their sites to the top. you might be most interested in being the #1 in a search term like "vioxx attorney" so that some moron will visit www vioxx-attorney-online dot info, see your ugly site, and click the ad box to get away. and you pocket your $8 to buy your next domain for your next 'muti-million dollar seo idea'.

i guess it weirds you out that a large business would be interested in the coop in the first place. but seo is a very important part of ecommerce. coop just isn't ready for that.

but i'll say it one more time - if i could have more control, i would pay GOOD money for it.

 

do you have the local elementary school kids do your web design? www dot searchenginesinternational dot com is a gem! i passed that along to my webmaster and a few friends for a good laugh...

 

You would know all about the local elementary school because you are still in one, dude why not just tell us the URL of your multi-million dollar game site

PS: The "other guy" he was talking about was his friend in the following thread, they must be twin brothers or something


http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=129078#post1290

The other guy's name is "TheHonz"

 

Has anyone tried the new tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch sandwhich from burger king?

 

No I eat the "finger food" at Wendy's GTech

Where in the hell have you been, you should have been talking sense into this crazy kid for the last two nights

 

The username of the person starting the thread just said it all ... "not even worth looking at"

I am suprised it has gotten to 4 pages.

 

Actually anthonycea, I'm the 'other guy' he is referring to.

And I said, with pride, that the network is for us "bootstrappers, up and coming, seat of our pants, innovating, entrepreneurial types". It's not something a staid, stuffy, formal, multimillion dollar business would partake in.

If anothercooperson was actually running a multimillion dollar business and website, chances are he wouldn't be here, bickering and complaining at us lowbrow rabble rousers on an easter weekend. If he really ran such a site and wanted backlinks - he would just go buy them.

 

Yeah but this kid is full of it and so is "TheHonz"

 

And me. Don't forget me

Ha ha. I guess it wasn't only me who thought your site is crap.

 

Yeah, what a pile of excrement