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**Just2Good** · 11-10-2008, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham

As for the spam thing at one stage we had hydras flooding the Toolbox with something like 15 pages of links to Jones sites. This is not an isolated instance; there have been numerous attacks of this kind.

So What? If OzChess (ie. the Toolbox in Kevin's description) gets spammed with Info-War links, what business is that of Kevin Bonham?

Originally Posted by Igor

IMO, Axiom's ban are becoming excessive. To an observer it looks more and more like some sort of vendetta.

I agree, but this was so self evident it didn't really need to be stated so clearly. Axiom is one of their few remaining targets now that Matt, myself, MOZ, Phild707 and Firegoat7 left that poorly moderated site. Occasionally antichrist can be found in the swamp where he is often unreasonably dispatched as well.

Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham

Alex Toolsie has been paying several posters to post on his forum.

Lastly, I see Kevin has made a post on CC about paid posters making posts on OzChess as though there is something sordid or sinister about it. I freely admit that I have have done so, particularly in the early days of OzChess. Its a well recognized method of building momentum that forum owners often employ for new start up forums. In the end, however, I found that the cost benefit analysis didn't make it worthwhile for a niche forum like OzChess to use paid posters (with that niche being limited to Australian chess). So I ultimately came to the conclusion that paid posting is more helpful to general discussion forums, and not niche ones. As such there haven't been any paid posters on OzChess for quite sometime.

Best Regards,

AO

ps- I also pay my mod install guy to install stuff on OzChess

I wonder if Kevin thinks that's a big dirty secret as well

11-10-2008, 01:53 PM	#13 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,054 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Vendetta of CC Against Axiom Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham As for the spam thing at one stage we had hydras flooding the Toolbox with something like 15 pages of links to Jones sites. This is not an isolated instance; there have been numerous attacks of this kind. So What? If OzChess (ie. the Toolbox in Kevin's description) gets spammed with Info-War links, what business is that of Kevin Bonham? Originally Posted by Igor IMO, Axiom's ban are becoming excessive. To an observer it looks more and more like some sort of vendetta. I agree, but this was so self evident it didn't really need to be stated so clearly. Axiom is one of their few remaining targets now that Matt, myself, MOZ, Phild707 and Firegoat7 left that poorly moderated site. Occasionally antichrist can be found in the swamp where he is often unreasonably dispatched as well. Originally Posted by Kevin Bonham Alex Toolsie has been paying several posters to post on his forum. Lastly, I see Kevin has made a post on CC about paid posters making posts on OzChess as though there is something sordid or sinister about it. I freely admit that I have have done so, particularly in the early days of OzChess. Its a well recognized method of building momentum that forum owners often employ for new start up forums. In the end, however, I found that the cost benefit analysis didn't make it worthwhile for a niche forum like OzChess to use paid posters (with that niche being limited to Australian chess). So I ultimately came to the conclusion that paid posting is more helpful to general discussion forums, and not niche ones. As such there haven't been any paid posters on OzChess for quite sometime. Best Regards, AO ps- I also pay my mod install guy to install stuff on OzChess I wonder if Kevin thinks that's a big dirty secret as well __________________ . "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller ~