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[administrator]

Well, like I was a paying vendor with ties in the actual audio industry, albeit limited, and nobody was enforcing any rules like what seemed forever. Been a member now for almost 17 years, designed for nearly that long for people. Rules USED to be enforced. So, people would argue whatever in the dome, but the biggest morons on this site started arguing outside of the dome with shit in normal people's real audio threads, where the insults had absolutely nothing to do with the thread, such as some morons trying to literally ruin my paid vendor box design thread and also insulting customers who are just audio members, as well. I was called a ********* all up and down this site, insulted and lied about all up and down this site for a period of years based on complete lies while I was a vendor. And it just never stopped for a long time. I'm not trained in audio, but I know enough to be in the industry at some level from just being self trained. I mean, there's that part where there was no moderation for a very long time. Hell, slo ride posted ****** **** on some kind of idk what rant and nothing was done about that lol. I mean, come on. I'm not a perfect personality, but what was allowed on here was absurd. Do vendors even get their own sub forum with any protection?

You’re right, it was under moderated for a good while. I stepped it up and got insulted for even upping the rules then in the Dome. A few regular members left because of it. Damned if I do, damned if I don’t? I’m glad I made the changes though, even if it did ruffle a few.

There’s a fine line between over moderating and I try not to cross it.

But to answer your question, vendor forums aren’t offered right now as part of the vendor membership, but can post for sale and business related threads in pertaining forums.

 

[administrator]

I think it's the numerous 5-6 post threads that we need to pump up. I'm guessing DIYMA does better based almost purely on volume. Problem is, how do we with limited membership create a bunch of bloated 7 page threads? That's such a catch 22, the more popular your website, the more popular Google will make it. Dating apps work similar. IMHO, it's laziness and follow the leader by those that make these algorithms.

Yep, I agree, a lot of threads are short and don’t go very in-depth. In-depth, fresh content obviously helps in search.

Perhaps I should let the Mitchell bot lose and let him post to his heart’s content

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I think that if the primary/majority post made on Caraudio.com are political and in a section of the site that has to be kept away from public view or away from advertiser then it is doing nothing for Caraudio.com. It isn't about car audio so it shouldn't be on Caraudio.com. There are plenty of places specifically made for arguing politics, political points of view or just outright insulting each other.

I think if this section of Caraudio.com is allowed to remain here (a political thread in the lounge) that does nothing for site revenue then it is my opinion that any members wanting to engage in conversations within said threads should be site supporting members, as in paid site supporters. It's not expensive. I am frugal with money, I do it. People waste more than $3 daily on dumb shit... what is $3 a month to get shit off your chest?

I'm sorry if that stings anyone or leaves a bad opinion of me but damn... it seems like people don't care anymore.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

That's a good question.
But of all the servers that should be impenetrable, it should be a DOGE server, no?

Nothing connected to the internet in any way is impenetrable...thinking like that is a fallacy...

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

That's a good question.
But of all the servers that should be impenetrable, it should be a DOGE server, no?

Probably not. I'd much prefer the DOD, Pentagon, etc be impenetrable. Isn't the DOGE website pretty much just a place for them to show the "bad" spending they've found?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

You’re right, it was under moderated for a good while. I stepped it up and got insulted for even upping the rules then in the Dome. A few regular members left because of it. Damned if I do, damned if I don’t? I’m glad I made the changes though, even if it did ruffle a few.

There’s a fine line between over moderating and I try not to cross it.

But to answer your question, vendor forums aren’t offered right now as part of the vendor membership, but can post for sale and business related threads in pertaining forums.

The problem was people straight up harassing and going after people in audio threads. There's should be a clear behavioral difference expected between the car audio related subjects and the lounge or off topic subjects. That's obvious. Criticizing should be allowed but not malicious attacks in the audio sections, and they were. That's not "ruffling feathers", that's just bad management in any circumstance to let that happen the way it has before. Let people be wild in off topic but regulate people stirring up trouble in serious threads. It's not rocket science, that part. It has gotten better more recently though, will say.

Why? There should be sub vendor forums. Vendors hold more weight than anyone else. How is anyone gonna do business with a bunch of threads lost in the jumbles of all the other threads? No business can build anything on this site if it's just another tumbleweed floating by. There's no way to organize knowledge or anything.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yep, I agree, a lot of threads are short and don’t go very in-depth. In-depth, fresh content obviously helps in search.

Perhaps I should let the Mitchell bot lose and let him post to his heart’s content

The whole world is going AI. Pretty soon you can just have a Tesla humanoid robot do your whole system for you by just telling it what you want. Haha, just kidding, we'll all be in 15 minutes cities with social credit scores too low to even rent an autonomous Uber.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

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[administrator]

I think that if the primary/majority post made on Caraudio.com are political and in a section of the site that has to be kept away from public view or away from advertiser then it is doing nothing for Caraudio.com. It isn't about car audio so it shouldn't be on Caraudio.com. There are plenty of places specifically made for arguing politics, political points of view or just outright insulting each other.

I think if this section of Caraudio.com is allowed to remain here (a political thread in the lounge) that does nothing for site revenue then it is my opinion that any members wanting to engage in conversations within said threads should be site supporting members, as in paid site supporters. It's not expensive. I am frugal with money, I do it. People waste more than $3 daily on dumb shit... what is $3 a month to get shit off your chest?

I'm sorry if that stings anyone or leaves a bad opinion of me but damn... it seems like people don't care anymore.

I don’t mind the political thread, to an extent, and we all know that extent by now. It can only be allowed on a private, ad free part of the forum, as I’ve pointed out.

I appreciate the Premium members a lot and also those not using ad block on the site. I can’t force anyone to become a premium member, if they seen it as a value, they would be one. Hell, I appreciate all the members, even the Mitchell bot lol.

I’ll reiterate, I don’t mind off-topic, but I really also wish it could co-exist with a more active regular forum. As the on-topic forum posts slow, so do the rankings, as rankings drop so do visits, new members, new threads, etc. I think everyone gets it. It’s a vicious cycle.

It’s probably all the off-topic threads that got the site demoted with Google a couple years ago and still trying to recover. Back then, they were public for any search spider to see. Google changed their ways, hence the fallout we see here. Search has vastly improved, but the members lost still stings. Those members stopped visiting because of low site traffic/posts.

 

[administrator]

The problem was people straight up harassing and going after people in audio threads. There's should be a clear behavioral difference expected between the car audio related subjects and the lounge or off topic subjects. That's obvious. Criticizing should be allowed but not malicious attacks in the audio sections, and they were. That's not "ruffling feathers", that's just bad management in any circumstance to let that happen the way it has before. Let people be wild in off topic but regulate people stirring up trouble in serious threads. It's not rocket science, that part. It has gotten better more recently though, will say.

Why? There should be sub vendor forums. Vendors hold more weight than anyone else. How is anyone gonna do business with a bunch of threads lost in the jumbles of all the other threads? No business can build anything on this site if it's just another tumbleweed floating by. There's no way to organize knowledge or anything.

I agree, things got way too out of hand around here. I put both feet down and tried to stomp it out.

At this time there’s one vendor member and not active at all. Vendor members can also use a special prefix on all their threads to draw attention. That was a work around I saw to having a sub-forum. A sub forum could work and have in the past, however, they got very little traffic and interest. Having the special prefix, they could start a business thread that gets noticed.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Google is evil

See, Google was probably totally ******* you because you allowed free speech. Google wants to shape your entire life and your mind and that's how they do it. Like the mafia shutting you down over unwritten rules almost. I mean it's literally split society in half, the way big tech has absolutely butt fucked the minds of Americans by information warfare, even waged by the pentagon on Americans.

 

[administrator]

Google is evil

See, Google was probably totally ******* you because you allowed free speech. Google wants to shape your entire life and your mind and that's how they do it. Like the mafia shutting you down over unwritten rules almost. I mean it's literally split society in half, the way big tech has absolutely butt fucked the minds of Americans by information warfare, even waged by the pentagon on Americans.

Allowing free speech could very well be one of the reasons they made the site vanish. Since being private now, they’ve allowed rankings back, although slowly. I assume they will buy Reddit one day and delist forum listings of any kind, basically rendering all but the top forum sites extinct.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Allowing free speech could very well be one of the reasons they made the site vanish. Since being private now, they’ve allowed rankings back, although slowly. I assume they will buy Reddit one day and delist forum listings of any kind, basically rendering all but the top forum sites extinct.

We'll see how it goes. From what I understand they want to make the one internet disappear and just have authorized sites pushing propaganda, like how many search results in google for news were sites funded through USAID. Still waiting on web3.

 

[administrator]

I vaguely remember back around 10-12 or so years ago the big tech giants wanted to do away with domain names (web sites) and have all internet traffic go through and stay on their networks. Something to that nature. They sort of strong armed and got a big part what they wanted.

 

[administrator]

We'll see how it goes. From what I understand they want to make the one internet disappear and just have authorized sites pushing propaganda, like how many search results in google for news were sites funded through USAID. Still waiting on web3.

Yep. Google very much pushes their agenda via search listings. Known fact.