yes, and so far I haven't seen anyone mention manual verification of links as a direct consequence of banning thumbblogger from TBN.... other than that... the cliffnote is ... BAN Thumbblogger ... what did I miss?

You sure are a whiny little bitch.. Your statement here indicates you don't know shit.

Read it again,.. Someone did Mention it.

I did.

As far as everything else you've been missing, well, read the notices within TBN guide and help section which have led up to this?

We're constantly updateing them to keep the members aware of everything. Since that is the logical place for them considering thats where members would normally look 1st when they cant verify a trade

i voted for banning

i dont like to get hundreds of requests from one person to link to his thumblogger over one night or with automated scripts.

You should definitely compromise and allow users to determine whether or not they want to accept trade requests with thumblogger sites. It seems like the most viable option that will keep most people happy.

ban them, or:

also do something with some of the fuckers that drop links. thunder-ball see them as they have the links on their sites, in fact are deleted

Dude... seriously I have no idea why u r trying to make this into some sort of computer science paradigm ... I know you did mention the "manual recip verification thing" thats why I addressed it in that post...but other than yourself no one is concerned about it...

I don't see your logic that banning thumblogger sites will make everyone have to manually verify links.. see second point of the proposed solution:

Now as far as your answer as to what I am missing... I have to say... dude what? ... I know what triggered this move by TB .. its on the first post for crying out loud... I don't need to go into the help section to find out whats going on! and I won't since I don't have thumblogger sites and I don't deal with them.....

If thumblogger is to be banned from TB .. that is a move I don't oppose and rather endorse because of obvious reasons... other than that I really don't see how my POV disagrees with the things that have already been said in this thread ...

Allow ThumBlogger Domains at Thunder-Ball.net !!!

nice first post :upsidedow

those requests are annoying, but so are all the other free blog hosting sites i get requests from as well. so i say ban them all, only allow domains.

i voted for "ban" but i would co-sign on the idea of making a user setting like "accept thumblogger sites" or "don't show thumblogger sites" or something. i even have one thumblogger url in there (out of like 20)

when i get a request from someone i pretty much ignore all their thumblogger URL's. it'd at least be less of a nuisance to have it that way

not all thumblogger sites suck. but if i'm in it for backlinks, a thumblogger backlink doesn't do me much good

bn them + all other freehosts

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:pimp

I like the idea.:1orglaugh

I like the idea aswell, Yea a filter for free hosts, as someone else suggested also. Nice :thumbsup

As far as thumblogger, some others who have posted here have missed, or do not want to accept, what I've been trying to say...

Which is that Twain has made it clear with his actions that he does not want his thumblogger associated with Thunder-ball in anyway.

But I like the filter idea and would definetly co-sign on it aswell for other free hosts :winkwink:

...and then if someone tries to send a request and they have only thumblogger, have Alicia say "Hey Douchebag! This webmaster doesn't want your Thumblogger links!"

:pimp

I voted for banning

you should ban all free blog hosting domains. all requests from them are almost pure shit. if i see a request from a free blogging host i automatically delete without even looking. or at least give the users an option to allow free blog hosts domains to requests exchanges with them or not.

thx :winkwink:

rarely i accept thumblogger trades so i dont care if you ban them, and it would clean thunderball up pretty good...

i was going to say the same thing too....ban all free hosts

no!!! why???

I wouldn't ban them, but offer an additional filter/block option for subdomains. I'm against banning any service in general. Every user has a blacklist feature for other users, just add one for domains and everybody can make his own decision.

"Fuck it".

I use Thumblogger blogs, i have about 4 or 5 and they all perform quite well, they get indexed fast, get perfect rankings and good value traffic. Like from every other site, links from thumblogger can be a waste of time or can give good linkjuice. What i want to say: Thumblogger blogs are not all bad, if you know how to use them (again: Same as own hosted domains! If i can choose between a selfh. domain with 100 Backlinks and a thumblogger blog with 1.5k backlinks, i would take the thumblogger backlink 4 sure).

The other problem is the blocking of the TBN Bot by thumblogger - i dont really get why they do that - backlinks drive traffic to thumblogger, ergo - they earn more money - why the fuck dont they want that?? (my guess is some kind of private problems between the owners, otherwise i wouldnt have a explanation) - and for that fact, YEAH - FUCK THUMBLOGGER - why block good business?

OK, the vote ... Difficult. Really difficult. I cant decide, but must say, i tend to vote Pro Thumblogger, they just rank to good on google.

EDIT: What i really want banned, are those tubes... FUCK free porn!

Awesome.... glad to see!

I think a filter is the best option, if thats not possible then ban them

Get rid of them

IMO the best option is offering an option similar to domain addition where users can add domains to their shitlist so they cant receive any requests from it.
That way you can leave thumblogger and other free hosts for those who want to use it, but also make other users that dont need it happy and free of spam/whatever.

This way you can kind of separate experienced webmasters from noobs... and stop someone spamming you without shitlisting them.

:2 cents:

Set it so that anyone with 2x more shitlists than friends has their account suspended AND the domains on their account can not be readded on a new account (to prevent people from making multiple names).

Let the users weed out the idiots by shitlisting them. If everyone shitlists spammers with crappy links the system will be clean in a few weeks.

There are plenty of asshats spamming things other than Thumblogger and plenty of good traders with quality thumblogger link offers.

Tball already has the solution built into it... give shitlisting someone TEETH. Get shitlisted no problem... get shitlisted by 50 people and unless you have at least 100 friends yer fucked. :2 cents:

Good idea, really! Some of those spammers never add your link to their site. Your link is up for months and they dont link back, those shitbags :mad:

lol Good one :thumbsup

I agree. Let the members of TBN to choose if they want or not to trade with any free host.

Really good. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

alicia hurts my feelings all the time. :(

maybe a special section for thumblogger and the freehosts ... a filter like someone already suggested

I voted for allow, because I strongly feel that adult (age-wise speaking) webmasters should be able to deal with each other on mature level.

I think Twan's behavior is a fucking scandal. I strongly urge him to WHITELIST TB's spiders.

It is possible that his thumblogger site constantly identifies TB's spiders as malicious attacks and that the software therefore decides that it should be blacklisted.

That's why I think that not only should TB's spiders be UN-BLACKLISTED, they should also be PERMANENTLY WHITELISTED.

No IP on a whitelist should ever be able to get on the blacklist.

Twan... make that fucking whitelist goddamnit.

what is thunder-ball.net ?