Post by Wandering Man on Oct 18, 2011 20:58:39 GMT -6
I got this message today from Proboards:
ProBoards does not permit the buying, selling, or trading of weapons on our service. Your forum appears to be in violation of this policy. We ask that you please remove all offending content from your forum within 48 hours.
Examples of offending content includes but may not be limited to:
trpistoleros.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tp3&action=display&thread=176
trpistoleros.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tp2
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ProBoards offers their service to us for free, so we can not complain about the price. But if we want to continue with the forum, we must comply with their rules.
The alternative is for me to ask for donations to run the forum. I can purchase the software to set up a more sophisticated forum than we presently have. And then then buy space on someone else's server (such as GoDaddy). The rules would be strictly ours and we would own it. But I would need sponsors or donations to keep the thing running.
I don't have the figures right now, but the costs were not exhorbitant when I looked in to it a couple of years ago.
So, we have a choice, and I put it out to all of you.
Do I start asking for donations (in other words would YOU be willing to donate to the forum each year.
Or, do we kill the "shootin' iorns" board and never offer up a gun for sale or trade on this forum again?
Thanks for your input and your support.
-Wandering Man
I have always wanted to have a forum that was ours to run
Examples of offending content includes but may not be limited to:
trpistoleros.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tp3&action=display&thread=176
trpistoleros.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tp2
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with our policies so that there are no issues in the future.
Terms of Service: www.proboards.com/tos
Community Guidelines: www.proboards.com/community_guidelines
If you have any questions, please contact our Abuse Department at abuse@proboards.com.
ProBoards Abuse Department
abuse@proboards.com
ProBoards offers their service to us for free, so we can not complain about the price. But if we want to continue with the forum, we must comply with their rules.
The alternative is for me to ask for donations to run the forum. I can purchase the software to set up a more sophisticated forum than we presently have. And then then buy space on someone else's server (such as GoDaddy). The rules would be strictly ours and we would own it. But I would need sponsors or donations to keep the thing running.
I don't have the figures right now, but the costs were not exhorbitant when I looked in to it a couple of years ago.
So, we have a choice, and I put it out to all of you.
Do I start asking for donations (in other words would YOU be willing to donate to the forum each year.
Or, do we kill the "shootin' iorns" board and never offer up a gun for sale or trade on this forum again?
Thanks for your input and your support.
-Wandering Man
I have always wanted to have a forum that was ours to run