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Precisely, the backlink on both forums alone is still worth some money.
Even though I have my fair share of criticism of LET (just see my recent threads and replies to jbiloh), I'll admit that this is a place where you can express your thoughts freely without having to fear that some mod will come down on you to "teach you a lesson", so to speak.
WeLoveLET
Not much of a fan of WHT.
Lawless?
WHT's forum style is a dying breed. I really believe they know that and it bothers them that LET is so active. At the end of the day, it's not a contest about who has the bigger one, but who's getting more action.
Next level drama, i love it.
WHT is a bunch of boomers crying about LET providers becoming more popular than them.
People also want some restriction on Purple Spam threads here..
They even voted for that..
That's a fact, I had to get the words "exit scam" removed from my thread to get it indexed by SEO. I don't know who did that, but I do know someone changed the thread and then @raindog308 got it moved back.
So LET isn't innocent on censorship either, like Alpharacks and Woothosting don't exist and Dustin didn't run them. The title was accurate, I said less than needed and the title still had to get changed to get indexed.
Good old bear. The real SJW. LET is openly toxic and simple, but WHT has that hidden passive aggression. Constrained by rules which are easilly bought for money and those who opose corruption are shamed and banned. It is dead place, full of zombies which advertise.
Oh god there were so many Idiots there, I worked for KnownHost at the time and I had multiple people attempt to sell KnownHost server management that approached me. like.. really people? Do you not do your research? I know I had other equally as dumb encounters there but I was pretty toasted and thankfully don't remember much about them.
I also hung out with and had some fun with Adam Ng and @dustinc
I actually have a picture of when they mentioned LowEndTalk. lol
This was their guide on how to "Engage with those options"
Sorry for the poor quality it was 5 years ago and crappy lighting.
but
not everyone (hoster) has the guts
for
duel battle, skirmish or mayhem war
love
wild west culture in LET
so I can see now why they just keep unbanning scammers... as every one of them could some day turn in their biggest part of ad earnings (like it somebody told is now happening with that "purple" one)
especially as such resurrected providers are much more pushed to "invest" in ads
All I'm saying is someone definitely moved it from general to offtopic and to get it back to tutorials the title had to be edited, and I'm not necessarily blaming @raindog308 because I think he's for the community.
But, there's most definitely censorship happening here.
Of course it does. This is not 4chan or reddit (even there moderation/censorship happens). As soon as censorship levels reach that high as it is in WHT, people will bail this forum and continue on. Past 5 years WHT is nothing but advertisement cest pit. No value, no drama.
LET clock is ticking also, don't have illusions. So enjoy while it lasts.
LET is not privately owned, the owner of it, owns ColoCrossing so that part is incorrect.
So we are still owned by CC? Oh... the plot twist!
I thought that was common knowledge, hence why I corrected the OP.
I sold ColoCrossing to the Deluxe Corporation in June 2018. As part of that transaction Deluxe purchased LowEndBox and LowEndTalk. I purchased LEB and LET back from Deluxe in January 2020.
I talked about all that here in a prior interview: https://lowendbox.com/blog/interview-qa-with-lowendbox-lowendtalk-owner-jon-biloh/
I assume your LinkedIn is just outdated?
Sort of yes. After the buyout I was asked to retain my title. These days, however, I am essentially a special advisor.
I've not been on LinkedIn in years. Maybe I should use it to advertise LEB and LET but that audience probably isn't our core.
this was quite an obvious one actually. so its now apparent who's paying top dollars.
To be fair - Jon has already publicly said that Dustin is paying top dollar, and has shown with his actions that he will allow him to do as he wants, due to that top dollar payment.
Purple spam? Nah, we will call it "purple user engagement" and will salute him for that, and will comment on each and every thread as to how excited and happy he is for said user engagement.
But in the end of the day - we all know that "double my bandwitCh" is a way to circumvent the rules and throw spam in our eyes.
Money makes the world go round.
Ok so technically you consult for ColoCrossing in an employed capacity? You also own LEB & LET
WHT is so BS, i feel LowEndTalk are reasonable in decisions sometimes. WHT think they're a cut above the rest and make providers jump through hoops even if they're paying them lol
No offence but the amount of spammy "U POST I IZ DOUBLEZ YOUR BRANDWIDTH" posts here from specific host(s) & thus capturing the front page of LET is turning into a plague too.
Please do something about it! At least charge the spammy host(s) if they want to keep spamming. Use that money to donate to ADHD, etc. mental illness cause. WIN WIN Situation!
Is LET perfect? No. But any longtime member here knows this place is much better than it was years ago, and this is coming from me who used to be pretty vocally against some of the old practices of house brands getting preferential coverage back when vpsBoard was very much a worthwhile alternative in the old VPS forum drama days.
It's hard to please everyone, anyone who runs an active community will tell you that.
It feels weird for me to defend LET, but this place is certainly better than it was in the past. No community is perfect but in my opinion, this place has come very far.
I am not an employee of Deluxe or ColoCrossing.
Woot woot, glad to have you here.
Can confirm. I thought Jon was just being too snooty to add me.