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We have too many vendors
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Vigo on August 23, 2014, 12:26:22 am ---My 2 cents is that anyone with a business webpage should be wiki only. These folks start a thread for every new product they introduce and don't conduct their business primarily through pm anyway. Leave B/S/T for the little guys who focus on one product/service and members selling or looking for stuff.
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I like how KLOV does it - they have a thread for vendors/services only, a thread for parts only and a thread for whole machines. Here, a vendor/little guy split would probably be fine.
Then again, for me it doesn't matter, because I view by unread posts anyway! :cheers:
lamprey:
--- Quote from: saint on August 23, 2014, 12:03:32 am ---We previously had vendors in their own forum - everyone complained loudly. I'm happy to do it either way, would need a pretty good consensus vote here to change it.
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Out of curiosity, what was the main complaint about this? It seems reasonable to me.
My main impetus for posting there was my agreement that vendor sticky list is too long. I don't mind if they are posting a new product or what not. However, I don't see the need to maintain a sticky for that business. My assumption is that these businesses are paying (sponsor) for the privilege of the sticky. Assuming that is true, I certainly appreciate companies sponsoring this site, but I'd rather see a list of sponsors prominently displayed rather than all the vendor stickies.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: lamprey on August 28, 2014, 03:47:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: saint on August 23, 2014, 12:03:32 am ---We previously had vendors in their own forum - everyone complained loudly. I'm happy to do it either way, would need a pretty good consensus vote here to change it.
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Out of curiosity, what was the main complaint about this? It seems reasonable to me.
My main impetus for posting there was my agreement that vendor sticky list is too long. I don't mind if they are posting a new product or what not. However, I don't see the need to maintain a sticky for that business. My assumption is that these businesses are paying (sponsor) for the privilege of the sticky. Assuming that is true, I certainly appreciate companies sponsoring this site, but I'd rather see a list of sponsors prominently displayed rather than all the vendor stickies.
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No one pays for vendor stickies. They just have to be a vendor in good standing.
PL1:
The list of B/S/T stickies is periodically reviewed to check if the vendors are still active.
Scott
Generic Eric:
How about if the vendor sub forum was a place that only vendors could make a post. Catch is that they could only have one post at a time so it would be like a billboard of sorts. Anyway to automate that?
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