get rid of links
10-15-2005, 05:29 PM
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get rid of links
i mean the ones that seem to be on every single word people type lately and they are for like stupid things whats the deal?
also could we have a vote people off forum?
also could we have a vote people off forum?
10-15-2005, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Moonrover333
i mean the ones that seem to be on every single word people type lately and they are for like stupid things whats the deal?
10-15-2005, 05:49 PM
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Considering it's a revenue generator for the site, I think they're here to stay.
I've gotten so use to them that they don't bother me much any more. I just ignore the pop-ups.
I've gotten so use to them that they don't bother me much any more. I just ignore the pop-ups.
10-15-2005, 06:39 PM
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Considering it's a revenue generator for the site, I think they're here to stay.
I've gotten so use to them that they don't bother me much any more. I just ignore the pop-ups.
I've gotten so use to them that they don't bother me much any more. I just ignore the pop-ups.
Oh, and as for voting ppl off? I don't think Mugatu would like that very much :p
10-16-2005, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by vectorwolf
If they have to do something to generate funds, I'd rather it be this than pop up ads every time I load a page... It's not really that intrustive?
10-30-2005, 09:30 PM
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They weren't in "my" posts when I wrote them, and I don't like that they make it look like I support what the links are selling. Some of them are for things I wouldn't support. This forum is not what it was, and the sticker is coming off my car...
10-30-2005, 09:57 PM
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Well you can't really take them with you when you go 
. Besides as far as I'm concerned once I press "enter" they become property of the forum. They can do with them whatever they want, I don't really want them back. I have too much stuff now the way it is.
. Besides as far as I'm concerned once I press "enter" they become property of the forum. They can do with them whatever they want, I don't really want them back. I have too much stuff now the way it is.
10-30-2005, 10:06 PM
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There's a difference between allowing the forum to use my words to serve the purposes of the forum, and allowing the forum to change my words to make it seem like I'm saying something I didn't say. It's offensive. I haven't gone back and read the user agreement, but I'd be surprised if adding links to the text is within the agreement. I should be able to use the words "torque wrench" without advertising one that I know nothing about.
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10-30-2005, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by MEGAREDS
There's a difference between allowing the forum to use my words to serve the purposes of the forum, and allowing the forum to change my words to make it seem like I'm saying something I didn't say. It's offensive. I haven't gone back and read the user agreement, but I'd be surprised if adding links to the text is within the agreement. Torque.
C'mon if they were singling people out I could see it being maybe "offensive". Considering it effects us all, try not to take it so personally
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10-31-2005, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by MEGAREDS
There's a difference between allowing the forum to use my words to serve the purposes of the forum, and allowing the forum to change my words to make it seem like I'm saying something I didn't say. It's offensive. I haven't gone back and read the user agreement, but I'd be surprised if adding links to the text is within the agreement. I should be able to use the words "torque wrench" without advertising one that I know nothing about.
When you move your mouse over the link there is a link inside labeled "What's this" and it explains it so that people don't think you are condoning it.
10-31-2005, 12:37 PM
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User fee is a VERY bad idea, we would probably not get hardly any new members. People wouldn't be able to surf the site without paying the fee first. I wouldn't have paid to become a member before seeing what this site could offer first.
10-31-2005, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Shinka13
User fee is a VERY bad idea, we would probably not get hardly any new members. People wouldn't be able to surf the site without paying the fee first. I wouldn't have paid to become a member before seeing what this site could offer first.
10-31-2005, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MEGAREDS
There's a difference between allowing the forum to use my words to serve the purposes of the forum, and allowing the forum to change my words to make it seem like I'm saying something I didn't say. It's offensive. I haven't gone back and read the user agreement, but I'd be surprised if adding links to the text is within the agreement. I should be able to use the words "torque wrench" without advertising one that I know nothing about.
The owners of RX8Club.com reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
This pretty much means you agree by using rx8club, that they can modify any of your posts for any reason.
10-31-2005, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by LostAngel
The owners of RX8Club.com reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
This pretty much means you agree by using rx8club, that they can modify any of your posts for any reason.
This pretty much means you agree by using rx8club, that they can modify any of your posts for any reason.
As to the legality of the inserted links, true, I have not gone back to look, but I doubt that the board has limitless authority to change the individual posts, at least not under the agreement that existed when I joined. The owners of the board would never be within their rights to modify an innocent post solely to suggest that the author was a child molester, for example -- that would be libel, no matter what the agreement says. Nor do I think the board's owers could ever claim copyright ownership over a poem, picture or story posted without explicit disclosure of the loss of the copyright to the work's author before he posted it -- and I've seen none. I've posted lots such stories and photos and, unless shown otherwise, I believe I own the copyrights to those works, even though I think the board has likely taken the right to use them. (If the board sold a photo I took to Car and Driver, for example, it would be violating my copyright to the photo, even though I've probably signed away any right to complain when the photo gets put on the site's home page.)
Am I going to sue? Of course not. Am I going to keep posting? That's the harder question.
-PS: LOL. Car and Driver is an advertised link. Who knew? I shoulda guessed.
11-01-2005, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by MEGAREDS
There's a difference between allowing the forum to use my words to serve the purposes of the forum, and allowing the forum to change my words to make it seem like I'm saying something I didn't say. It's offensive. I haven't gone back and read the user agreement, but I'd be surprised if adding links to the text is within the agreement. I should be able to use the words "torque wrench" without advertising one that I know nothing about.
Nobody with a modicum of intelligence is going to think that the green advertising links that pop up are you supporting or otherwise endorsing the sponsor of the link. Again, you are deluding yourself.
11-01-2005, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jtimbck2
Nobody with a modicum of intelligence is going to think that the green advertising links that pop up are you supporting or otherwise endorsing the sponsor of the link.
