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Advertising Trolls!

9 years ago

Has anybody noticed how now there are trolls inserting their crappy advertising posts in our threads? I saw one the other day on either the Antique Forum or maybe it was the Propagation or ID Forum. Can't remember which one. Now this morning there was a big huge one advertising IDs and passports in my Roses "L" thread in the Gallery. If this is going to be part of the norm here, and they allow this to continue, I won't be wasting anymore of my time here. So sad that things have come to this.

If all this came down to the site owners needing money, I surely wish they would've just asked us if we would donate to the site. Many of us pay to have the privilege of using HMF, and I'm sure most people here would've gladly donated to keep these GardenWeb Forums going. What a frickin' shame. It really is the end of an era...

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bethnorcal9
Original Author

9 years ago

Oh ok, I wasn't aware of that feature. Thanks Tamara!

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Tamara
9 years ago
Hi Beth - All forums get spam posts. The one that you saw was no different than what I've removed on GW thousands of times. We will remove them as quickly as possible here as well. When you see a post like that, you can flag it and that will help us find it and remove that much quicker. There is a small flag icon in the top right corner of every post.
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Sherwood Botsford (z3, Alberta)
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I don't mind ads --

* If they are not in the main flow so I can ignore them.

* If they are not annimated.

* If they are relevant to the discussion at hand.

E.g. In a rose forum a tasteful ad for rose fertilizer, hybrid tea roses, a book on organic rose gardening would all be appropriate.
redwolfdoc_z5
9 years ago
Beth, I absolutely agree - I would have happily paid a membership fee to support GardenWeb the way it was! I will, however, say that Tamara and Houzz seem to be doing their best to accommodate us, and are listening to our voices. I miss the old forum every time I come here, though! I don't want to shop...
comtessedelacouche (10b S.Australia: hotdryMedclimate)
9 years ago
I agree, but I'm surprised how much - like, 100% - more restful and less headachey and clinical it is to use since working out how to get the Morning Glory template thingy, similar looking to GW, as background. It comes with a soft pale textured mauvey grey behind the text, which is also bigger and clearer, I think. All the glare and a bit of Houzz flimflam disappears, replaced by panels of morning glories down the sides. Not perfect, but highly recommended, nonetheless.

Comtesse :¬)
redwolfdoc_z5
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Comtesse, I don't know about the Morning Glory template - how do I get it?
meredith_e Z7b, Piedmont of NC, 1000' elevation
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It's at the bottom of this thread over in Antique Roses: I Just Got Here In a Goofy Way [thread on AR]
bethnorcal9
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9 years ago
Wow Comtesse thanks!! Morning glories are a lot better than the plain old white background!
steve_gw
9 years ago
I've switched to Google Chrome and added ad-block, have not seen any thus far...

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