Post by Naria on Mar 26, 2016 19:22:00 GMT -8
Tooting your own horn isn't going to persuade me you are value for money. Nor do I know of any support forum for free forum software that has a section dedicated to people praising them. I'm sorry but your praise board just reeks of arrogance and self applauding. If I would have seen when I first tried Proboards I would have stayed clear of the software. I don't think any company representatives should make grandiose claims about their company unless they have the evidence to back it up.
There's only a few reasons for me staying with pb. Otherwise I would use the competition.
And if you sell something as 50k pv per month you have to honour that statement. In the UK you would be breaking Trading Standards laws. Don't know what the USA has as equivalent. Either do ad free on a monthly basis with no limit on views or do it by a set limit on views. You can't have both without the consumer loosing out.
Several people in this thread have even said that's the problem they have with ad free. So it seems you are cutting your nose off to spite your face. So there's another option to make money. You would get more purchases of ad free if you made it fair to consumers.
Also calling your userbase that uses ad blockers thieves is insulting and rude. They are not thieving anything from you. If so the ad blockers would be against the law. You can't steal what isn't even there to take. As someone representing Proboards your comments reflect badly on PB. You're supposed to be impartial. If I phoned up a call centre and the operator accused me of being a thief I would take it to their boss or consumer protection services.
I understand how advertising works. You choose the charges you set per impression unless you are using a third party like Google adwords. I have used adwords myself before.
And as I said, the ads sometimes stop before we can report. Plus it's impossible to report the mobile redirects as you don't get any chance to screenshot the redirect. I had one happen a earlier.
The 50 dollars for setup is a waste of money for free boards as there is no guarantee the board will even get lots of members. Even businesses can't guarantee it will be used but they ten to have more money to burn than random people looking to run a community.
It's all well and good talking about v6 but that's not here yet and probably won't be for a good while. So fix things in the present and worry about v6 when it's in beta.
There is a mobile ad scanning tool that they have now mentioned several times, so no, it is not impossible to report mobile redirects