John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I considered geek day with this but it's not really about the technical side of it so here seemes better.
vBulletin forums, a couple of sites I use have recently upgraded/I may have just noticed and now there is a google ad under the first post in every thread.
It's extremely annoying, I can only read one post on screen without scrolling wheras on here for example I can see at least 3 depending on who has posted, total waste of screen space.
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Sam
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I think VB has a subscription type system, i.e. pay the site it's on for a subscription and the adverts are gone. Although I'm sure the admin decides what to do with that as opposed to it being a mandatory system if you get me.
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John
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It's forums I have no intention of registering with, i'd stop using them instead of paying to get rid of adverts.
CS is so much better than other forums because of things like that.
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ed
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VB does my head in. Forums that use always look totally crap and properly cluttered.
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John
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They've changed it again and to equally as bad if not worse 
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Hammer
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Serves you right for being on a Skoda forum imo.
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John
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 it wasn't just them but aye, the vx220 forum doesn't have adds like that 
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mattk
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whay are they all so over moderated too? as soon as something even remotly like a heated debate breaks out the thread is locked "while it is cleaned up"
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ed
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You can't even go on http://pprune.org/ without some kind of ad-blocker.
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luciaadr
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Adblock here... no adverts
Is it VB forums software that truncate hyperlinks? Annoying that.
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MatG
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the things you are moaning about are set by the people that run the forums, you dont have to have them. We dont on Astra Owners Club.
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John
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Is aoc anything like astra sport used to be.
Somebody posts a big kitted abortion, any reply except that looks good mate resulted in a deletion and a ban, just like matt said.
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ed
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Apart from vBulliten sites always looking cluttered and poorly designed.
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MatG
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Is aoc anything like astra sport used to be.
Somebody posts a big kitted abortion, any reply except that looks good mate resulted in a deletion and a ban, just like matt said.
AOC is Astra Sport and yes barry boys threads are closed, if you want that kind of thing then Barry Boys provides a forum just for it 
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John
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That was just one example.
It's been a while since I've been on but it used to be terribly over moderated.
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MatG
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in your opinion. Like you say you have not been on in a while, all forums have ups and downs and learning curves
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mattk
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Ive just had 2 threads locked on FiatForum now because I havent hosted my pics with their site, I FUCKING hate that site, it gets on my tits! 
someone make a decent forum for Fiats please, that one is shite
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danward
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Registered: 14th Nov 06
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vB I designed is quite good (if I may say so myself).
http://www.street-legal.biz/board
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John
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After waiting half an hour for that to load, it's crap.
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Marc
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Scoobynet used VBulletin, they kept changing it and it got quite annoying with all the adverts. The site also had a very expensive club membership which would do away with the sponsored links and adverts should you be a "Plus Member". £30 a year wasn't worth it for getting rid of a few adverts though.
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