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Originally Posted by mutantchicken
LOOK lets be practical here, SBF is a business, the guys who run it have a right to profit, so lets all be honest that the days of shareing is caring are gone...and whilst i agree with SEAJ that "stealth" agents should be castrated and i do my best to expose them, but in this environment and like any others its buyer beware...if the newbie cheongster doenst read the forum, doenst pay attention to the warnings, doenst know the going market rates, then they deserve to be ripped off my locals AND stealth agents for their own stupidity. Guys like me i actually dont make a profit to justify advertising, nor would i really want to advertise and attract the attention of the law, maybe one day if i become really popular..who know what will happen...nowaways as with H88 my conditiosn are like his with friends ……..
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Oh sure!! I Agree 100% that H88 is being fair to you under the circumstances, and I’d rather suspect that H88 himself is probably chafing under the rules that Boss has mandated. But it’s these same rules that has allowed these real nasty piece of work Stealth Agents to run rampant on this board, and doing so whilst extending their middle fingers to SBF!
Caveat emptor – of course – but the way things are, endorsing/not prohibiting the activities of these Stealth agents to steal from the naïve hapless newbies is being complicit in their activities – something which I’m very sure Boss and the Moderators here do not want to be.
I’ve got a friend who just wanted to help out his GF who used to be a WG to get back on track; she started a room sales job at a hotel where her remuneration is of course dependent upon the number of rooms she can book for the hotel. My friend started a SBF thread to ask friends to book their hotel rooms through him/her and SBF required that he pay advertisement fees (Quite rightly of course), even though he made no direct money from advertising on here.
I can see similarities between your and his case and PERHAPS (just a suggestion), there can be a lower priced category of advertisers here, but a requirement that EVERYBODY must be declared an advertiser for any products/services. This should force the hands open of these stealth agents to openly declare that they’re not doing all this for love!!
And clones? Other boards tackle this by declaring that henceforth, no clones would be tolerated and anybody using more than one handle will have all their accounts banned. (In fact, they would permanently ban the actual IP address of those transgressing rules). Everybody MUST declare within a certain period of time all multi-user names/clones and the Mods will ban all except the one the declarer wishes to keep. ‘Kill a chicken to scare the monkeys” and I’d think that most decent members without nefarious intent will fall in line.
How to police this? Just look at any IP address with multiple users who continues doing so after the period of moratorium. Proxies/VPNs? Track down handles who keeps on signing on using different IP address each time. And it’s a simple matter for mods/other decent members to report/question anybody whose posts are suspect. As it is, right now I cannot figure out who are real or who are clones/stealth agents…and of course I ain’t gonna question him as I know that all I get would be a torrent of anonymous Zaps from him and cronies with their clones. Ahhh….anonymous zapping….sigh…and yet another topic. LOL!
SEAJ