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Are those Black Friday deals still active? Noice!
If I'm not mistaken, you still run ColoCrossing - correct?
So it seems like the owner of LEB and the president(?) of CC are the same person and the president of a company would have an interest in continuing sales and growth. (Especially with the upcoming (potential) loss of a large customer like Virmach)
Sure, marketing goes great when you keep unsinking his threads. Mods have confirmed this - that they sink his threads only for them to float back up like a turd.
If I didn’t already have a VPS, I would jump on those deals!
Backlash? In point of fact, RackNerd was voted the top provider last time we took a poll. By you. The community.
So yes, his threads keep bobbing up. The adult way to handle this is to make a suggestion/open a thread/send a PM/flag some posts and say "this provider's posts are clogging up the site".
I've set some of his older threads to sink.
Seriously, "the biggest scam known to LET"? Not even.
Actually some are - I think over two dozen at this point. They're provided to the community and RackNerd is not paid for them. Obviously, he includes a mention of his company which is perfectly fine. Here is a recent example.
By the way, any other provider who wishes to do this is more than welcome to.
What posting rules is he "defeating"? The giveaways are very popular and people like them. Are you saying you don't want them here? Because that is a very minority opinion. You're seriously complaining that a provider is giving free stuff away?
Obviously, RackNerd does not exclusively keep LET alive but they are a major advertiser.
To be blunt, LET/LEB costs a ton of time and effort to run because (a) it's a forum which takes a lot more horsepower just due to the nature of forum software, (b) it's vanilla, (c) DDoS attacks, and (d) all the other things that go in running a community. Advertisers make LET/LEB possible. There would be no LET/LEB without them.
This is also true, which is why it's a symbiotic relationship. Eyeballs create a market for LEB buyers which attracts providers who buy ads. LET is a bit extraordinary in that even the poorest provider can effectively market themselves by posting offers. Some want more and buy ads. So yes, absolutely, the users are vital and drive the community but it's all part of the same circle.
This is true. There is absolutely no direction or secret rule to give CC hosts preference here or on LEB. Since I write up all the offers on LEB, I can tell you I have never once been asked to give anybody preference.
A few realities:
(1) Most hosts are lazy. I was joking about this with @jbiloh just the other day and we both agreed it's amazing. I can't tell you how many hosts I've reached out to and asked if they'd like to do a free interview, submit a press release, provide a story or something to get free advertising. Free. Advertising. I've periodically posted articles about free things providers can do. You'd be appalled at how few respond and how few take us up.
(2) OTOH, @dustinc is very eager and often proactive. He posts popular offers, sponsors giveaways, contributes content, and often gives me "camera ready" content that is easy to post. Don't criticize him just because he works harder than other hosts.
(3) There is a long tradition on LET of carping about ownership and to some extent it was justified in the past. I think LET today is as transparent as it's ever been. People joke about @jbiloh wanting more clicks, etc...well, of course, silly. He's the one who ponied up money to buy the sites and the one paying for them monthly. You have an independent owner who still allows anyone to post nearly anything, reasonably orderly sales threads, oftentimes incredible offers, and a strong community spirit. Although the end may be nigh for a lot of things, LET readership is growing and the sites are performing well.
(4) So where's the beef? If you have suggestions, have mods ever refused to consider them? (corleone voice) When have we ever refused a favor or not given an accommodation? (/coreleone voice). To some extent, there's a group of people still living in the past, and there are trolls who would probably troll a site handing out free $100 bills. Troll on if you wish, but ultimately LET/LEB are flourishing and serving the community.
I'm opening up a Meta category for discussion of site improvements, complaints, bugs, and other feedback. Please use it.
Tldr
Can't please them all
I'm guessing that would be a big "nope".
Okay so since this thread got derailed, I might as well...
If the Virmach thread was sunk, what usually is the criteria for such threads to be sunk. I think I read it could be due to age, just want to understand this. If there isn't really a criteria that is standard or near standard, then I see why that would upset people.
Personally, if a thread is as popular as another thread for good cause (not spammy), don't see why it should be sunk - since I am pretty sure a lot of work would have been done (wrt offers) and if I was a provider, I would love to keep my sales going. I could be oversimplifying this because maybe mods and admins try to avoid old threads being resurrected?
RackNerd has IPv6 in Los Angeles DC-02.
They are still on The List because there's no IPv6 in other locations such as Ashburn.
Putting "thanks" on a comment is a reaction to this particular comment.
It does not imply agreement of everything the recipient said.
LET leadership just asked to join the Nigh Sect.
There is internal dialog happening as we try to understand why the Virnach thread was sunk. Vanilla doesn't log these things.
Whatever the conclusion is, an even application of process and treatment is important. So we will get it right.
"Top providers, Faustus!"
Thanks to all who offered suggestions, explanations and ideas wrt to the problem in my OP!
@jbiloh Thanks for apparently having turned some screws ... I'll try again.
Edit: Blocked again by CloudF#&$!
To hopefully help you to debug this: My post is relatively long but there is no code, HTML, CSS or special characters in it. Actually it's very similar to my other benchmarks/reviews which worked more or less without trouble. It seems that some parameters in your config have changed or that CF has changed something.
I'll closely follow this thread as well as my PMs during the next hours in case you have any questions or want me to test-retry posting my stuff.
Do me a favor and send me an email with what you're trying to post. Sorry for the trouble. I'll pm you my email address.
I don't think he/she qualifies to join the Nigh Sect. A leader can have impact and influence on the interpretation of Nigh, thereby affecting how the Ending is perceived as a whole, while making the sect obsolete in it's fundamental teachings.
It's the length. Make more smaller posts.
Ban them.
Yes, possibly. But I did try to make the posts shorter, but alas it didn't work.
Wtf do you do with them?
Great question, I wondered the same!
Work stuff :-)
You probably spend more than almost any others.
I highly doubt that tbh. Do not underestimate the users that don't participate in threads :-)
I've been here a few years and Alpha Racks does stand out as the biggest scam. If you easily remembered a bigger one off the top of your head, you should have said it!
Didn't you say you still contract/consult with CC? That's the least amount of Kevin Bacons away.
It's clearly because they believe Dustin to be Alpha Racks and another scam is cooking (and LET allowing/enabling it). Unless you can convince them Dustin didn't profit from Alpha Racks, you're not going to resolve their issues.
Personally, I think their pricing is unsustainable and have too much overhead, so while I have no idea if Dustin owned Alpha Racks, I don't see them being profitable the legit way.
Expand.
maybe it applies in general, probably on all systems.
high rank, have high rights
OTOH very low on freedom
Boomer.host is a scammer? Evidence?
@ezeth
FYI: I'm pleased to announce that the review is finally online -> https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173348/contabo-new-raw-nvme-speed-product-line-benchmark-review
A big THANK YOU to @jbiloh for his friendly help and support!
You don't have a right to assume @stevewatson301 doesn't want to improve this site. If LET followed Steve's advice and stopped playing favorites with those like @dustinc who resell ColoCrossing, LET would be vastly more fair.
You would have to have your head buried in the sand not to notice resellers of ColoCrossing are given special treatment at LET due to LET's owner being a consultant for ColoCrossing.
An anonymous informant told me.