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    Default Re: FPG Refuges Status Area: The 2020 FPN Diaspora

    If they block the blockers, I will likely greatly reduce my visits there. I am close to ending several of my youtube subscriptions, too: the ads have become intrusive and impalatable to me. I try to help some folks get a little money for their efforts, but I am growing weary of the entire arrangement.

    Others can go for it.

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    Default Re: FPG Refuges Status Area: The 2020 FPN Diaspora

    Quote Originally Posted by TSherbs View Post
    If they block the blockers, I will likely greatly reduce my visits there. I am close to ending several of my youtube subscriptions, too: the ads have become intrusive and impalatable to me. I try to help some folks get a little money for their efforts, but I am growing weary of the entire arrangement.

    Others can go for it.
    I agree with you. The constant intrusion of advertising is ruining the internet experience. It's almost like trying to have a private conversation on a party line (the younger members may have to Google 'Party line') of the bad old days of the 1950s with every other party line member butting in to add a comment or two.

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    Default Re: FPG Refuges Status Area: The 2020 FPN Diaspora

    Assurances.

    Not worth a damn. A customer services rep at my energy supplier gave me a guarantee that in future they would get the billing right. I asked what that guarantee meant if they continue to bill me at the wrong rate, would they compensate?

    Any malware carried on the back of the FPN ad agency approved advertisement would be for the user to sort out. Any assurance from Wim that that they had done everything possible to prevent loss or damage to your computer is worth precisely nothing at the end of the day.

    FPN, by its own admission, is a long way from what it used to be, if it wants to make life difficult then it can FRO.
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    I have not encountered the ads or moderation on FPN. What am I doing wrong? LOL!!

    There have been some good discussions recently about the new Parker 51. There are some nice members there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    I have not encountered the ads or moderation on FPN. What am I doing wrong? LOL!!

    There have been some good discussions recently about the new Parker 51. There are some nice members there.
    Does not surprise me, the iron fisted moderation/censoring there is fast and they wipe any traces out (like post modifying, post deletion, up to thread deletion, muting people that they can’t post anymore (but still show as active and not banned),.... so they have big arsenal to use).
    So if you do not observe such a thing in real time you will most likely never know.

    ..... until it hit yourself......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pterodactylus View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    I have not encountered the ads or moderation on FPN. What am I doing wrong? LOL!!

    There have been some good discussions recently about the new Parker 51. There are some nice members there.
    Does not surprise me, the iron fisted moderation/censoring there is fast and they wipe any traces out (like post modifying, post deletion, up to thread deletion, muting people that they can’t post anymore (but still show as active and not banned),.... so they have big arsenal to use).
    So if you do not observe such a thing in real time you will most likely never know.

    ..... until it hit yourself......
    Maybe. More likely, I am able to play nice in the sand box.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Pterodactylus View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    I have not encountered the ads or moderation on FPN. What am I doing wrong? LOL!!

    There have been some good discussions recently about the new Parker 51. There are some nice members there.
    Does not surprise me, the iron fisted moderation/censoring there is fast and they wipe any traces out (like post modifying, post deletion, up to thread deletion, muting people that they can’t post anymore (but still show as active and not banned),.... so they have big arsenal to use).
    So if you do not observe such a thing in real time you will most likely never know.

    ..... until it hit yourself......
    Maybe. More likely, I am able to play nice in the sand box.
    Maybe, maybe not....... (a simple harmless drawing lead to my termination there, I also thought I play nice with the others in the sand box) 🤪

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    Quote Originally Posted by An old bloke View Post
    I have to admit that when I've -- figuratively speaking -- 'looked in' to see what was happening on FPN lately, I've noticed that the self-appointed PC police waste little time ganging up on anyone with a diverse opinion or humour they personally find objectionable. With that, I have to agree with previous comments (when the site was down) alluding that tolerance is not a feature of FPN.
    They have no sense of humour. I told the joke about the ex boyfriend texting his former girlfriend saying he had walked past a florist and saw some red roses and thought of his former love, knowing that the red rose was her favourite. She texted back 'I have been out for lunch and had baby carrots and thought of you. Bye'

    That joke lasted all of 5 minutes on FPN.

    I don't know any other forum that makes money demands like FPN, I may be stoopid but I cannot see why I should pay to read that some joker disagrees with my pen or ink choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TSherbs View Post
    If they block the blockers, I will likely greatly reduce my visits there. I am close to ending several of my youtube subscriptions, too: the ads have become intrusive and impalatable to me. I try to help some folks get a little money for their efforts, but I am growing weary of the entire arrangement.

    Others can go for it.
    That's about where I am on it, as well. In many places where you have to turn off AdBlock, the ads then fill the page and drown the content.

    And some of these YouTube channels are getting really bad. I watch one repair and restoration channel that is down to ads every 5 minutes. It actually becomes difficult to watch the channel. Other channels have managed very well - just one ad at the beginning, and usually it's done by the content creator himself reading script (thinking of Mark Felton Productions, for example).

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    I - and several others - commented in the the thread about the offensive ads. Wim "disappeared" the comments and locked the thread. That's what gets my back up with FPN. Wim's sheer bloody arrogance in daring to take down other people's comments. FPN wouldn't exist without our input! I think they can do without mine in future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eachan View Post
    I - and several others - commented in the the thread about the offensive ads. Wim "disappeared" the comments and locked the thread. That's what gets my back up with FPN. Wim's sheer bloody arrogance in daring to take down other people's comments. FPN wouldn't exist without our input! I think they can do without mine in future.
    I thought about putting forwards an alternative, creating a new part on the idea of Marketplace where pen, ink and paper companies can have announce new products, provide links to their websites, do whatever they wish all within a commercial area instead of jamming up the site with adware and annoying the hell out of people who are there to contribute. Payment could be via an annual fee with a top up of pay per click on their website, as happens with energy and insurance comparison sites.

    Given the fact that I have been told to clear off I thought sod it, you can go your own way.

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    To those complaining about Youtube ads. There's a Youtube ad blocker that works very well. It's called AdBlocker for YouTube™.

    In fact I hadn't seen ads on Youtube for some years and completely forgotten until I sat down at a computer with an old version of Firefox and saw just how bad the ads had gotten over time. Some of the ads are minutes long! Almost feature length.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eachan View Post
    I - and several others - commented in the the thread about the offensive ads. Wim "disappeared" the comments and locked the thread. That's what gets my back up with FPN. Wim's sheer bloody arrogance in daring to take down other people's comments. FPN wouldn't exist without our input! I think they can do without mine in future.
    So if I have this right Wim runs a forum where members pay in order to be able to contribute yet he and his cohorts can just disappear input that they have in fact paid to provide, at any time. That's a neat trick.
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    I checked for myself and I have 0 warnings. Which comes as a surprise to me, because I feel like I should have gotten some for some of my posts. Some people I just can't stomach on FPN.

    The ads are much. The site is barely readable. Or at least it was the last time I visited it without an ad blocker, which was a long time ago.

    The problem I have with these divisions is, that I just don't think this community is large enough for them. Then again, I feel like forums are slowly dying out in general.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eachan View Post
    I think they can do without mine in future.
    As they could have in the past.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
    So if I have this right Wim runs a forum where members pay in order to be able to contribute...
    Nope, you don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adhoc View Post
    I checked for myself and I have 0 warnings. Which comes as a surprise to me, because I feel like I should have gotten some for some of my posts. Some people I just can't stomach on FPN.

    The ads are much. The site is barely readable. Or at least it was the last time I visited it without an ad blocker, which was a long time ago.

    The problem I have with these divisions is, that I just don't think this community is large enough for them. Then again, I feel like forums are slowly dying out in general.
    I don't see where they display warnings. Or perhaps I am too saintly to get any.
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    On your profile page, left-hand side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Empty_of_Clouds View Post
    On your profile page, left-hand side.
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    Default Re: FPG Refuges Status Area: The 2020 FPN Diaspora

    Take a look how long this shit hangs around. Best part is that the mod (GP) wrote me privately that it wasn't really my fault...

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