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DJWorm · 11-02-2007, 04:19 PM

Recently Key Words In My Posts And In My Responses Have Been Appearing As Green Highlighted And Double Underlined Links.

I Did Not Install These Links Nor Did I Authorize These Links Nor Do I Endorse Where They Are Linked To.

I Think This Is A Great Disservice To Supporting Vendors And This Policy Should Be Stopprd Immediately. These Posts Lead To Many Vendors Who Do Not Support This Site And Even Have No Relationship Or Relevancve To A Corvette Or This Site.

I Respectfully Ask That These Links Be Removed From My Posts And Not Be Inserted Suruptitiously Into My Posts.

I Find It Ironic That Many References And Links To Non Supporting Vendors, Even For Informational Purposes And Even When Non Competing With Supporting Vendors Are Diligently Purged, The Links Are Removed And The Offending Members Scolded And Chastized.....then A Link Is Inserted Into Someones Post Without Their Knowledge Or Authorization.

WHY WOULD I EVER WANT TO FOLLOW A LINK TO EBAY TO PURCHASE A PART FOR A YUGO FROM A NONSUPPORTING VENDOR ???

Stop This At Once Or I Will No Longer Support This Site!!

**wvphoto** · 11-02-2007, 04:23 PM

if it is linking to someone.. they would be a paying vendor.. this is common practice on lots of sites.. they dont direct to just any ol vendor.. LOL . .someone is getting paid..
the new owner is upgrading and doing alot here.. he is going to make a buck or 2 ... i don't have a problem with it.
we will get used to the changes.

**MikesZ06** · 11-02-2007, 06:23 PM

Don, this is a new deal that the owners are testing called 'IntelliTXT Ads' I think.

You can disable it by going into your user CP, clicking on 'edit profile' (or something like that) and clicking the disable IntelliTXT Ads.

I really don't know much about it other than a recent post from ekool.

Mike

(moved this thread to 'Site Help' section)

MoFo Z06 · 11-02-2007, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wvphoto

if it is linking to someone.. they would be a paying vendor.. this is common practice on lots of sites.. they dont direct to just any ol vendor.. LOL . .someone is getting paid..
the new owner is upgrading and doing alot here.. he is going to make a buck or 2 ... i don't have a problem with it.
we will get used to the changes.

virginyfotomike,

there has been a announcement on the front top page for 24 hours.

I shut mine off 20 minutes after it was posted.

God Bless

Jofu · 11-02-2007, 06:47 PM

I think Don's concerns are from the point of view of a forum supporter, not as a user... So changing your CP preferences would not address any part of the complaint.

Geoff

**MikesZ06** · 11-02-2007, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Jofu

I think Don's concerns are from the point of view of a forum supporter, not as a user... So changing your CP preferences would not address any part of the complaint.

Geoff

Geoff, I understand Don's concerns and I moved the thread to this section because I think the site owners keep a fairly close watch here. They will probably respond in due time.

Like I said previously, I really don't know anything about it other the ekools post.

Mike

btw Don, only links and contact info to non supporting vendors are removed or edited, not references to those same vendors.

MoFo Z06 · 11-02-2007, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJWorm

Stop This At Once Or I Will No Longer Support This Site!!

Mikez

he's bluffing, I can tell.

To throw it on the line for a feature that can be TURNED OFF?!

He took it public and NOT PRIVATE? Man up, Donnie.

God Bless, Spree

MoFo Z06 · 11-02-2007, 09:30 PM

Hey Donnie,

what kind of cash is it costing you here, $10K or $20K A YEAR?

If it is, that's a bargin my Bru.

God Bless, Spree

**wvphoto** · 11-03-2007, 08:15 AM

i turned mine off.. i don't like pop up or link type ads anyway.. i consider it spam.

MoFo Z06 · 11-03-2007, 08:42 AM

Don,

sorry for jumping the gun regarding the Bluff comment.

It's just hard to take the gamer out of me.

God Bless, Latrell.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJWorm

Recently Key Words In My Posts And In My Responses Have Been Appearing As Green Highlighted And Double Underlined Links.

I Did Not Install These Links Nor Did I Authorize These Links Nor Do I Endorse Where They Are Linked To.

I Think This Is A Great Disservice To Supporting Vendors And This Policy Should Be Stopprd Immediately. These Posts Lead To Many Vendors Who Do Not Support This Site And Even Have No Relationship Or Relevancve To A Corvette Or This Site.

I Respectfully Ask That These Links Be Removed From My Posts And Not Be Inserted Suruptitiously Into My Posts.

I Find It Ironic That Many References And Links To Non Supporting Vendors, Even For Informational Purposes And Even When Non Competing With Supporting Vendors Are Diligently Purged, The Links Are Removed And The Offending Members Scolded And Chastized.....then A Link Is Inserted Into Someones Post Without Their Knowledge Or Authorization.

WHY WOULD I EVER WANT TO FOLLOW A LINK TO EBAY TO PURCHASE A PART FOR A YUGO FROM A NONSUPPORTING VENDOR ???

Stop This At Once Or I Will No Longer Support This Site!!

**MSiska** · 11-03-2007, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wvphoto

i turned mine off.. i don't like pop up or link type ads anyway.. i consider it spam.

I did the same. Couldn't take the ads.