04-04-2012, 07:24 AM
Dear lamkin,
I understand your opinion and i can say i agree with.
We want more users but more users logged in means more bandwith, stronger servers and of course more money.
The result of three years of free forum you can see. A small group of users share and the majority leech.
I remember the days when every day registered about 100 new users and we (the moderators) deleted, warned and banned the spammers searching here a girlfriend or trying to sell something.
You can't imagine how many stupid posts you never seen because we deleted before giving you the oportunity to save your time.
New users if they want activation must pay and they can respect froum rules or to pay one more time after banning.
We prefere after paying the first subscribtion users share and never pay money after this first payment but renew subscription using Engineering Points.
If someone don't share he will pay one more time but at least his money will help to save the forum alive and to give others a place for sharing.
Old users received during the years warnings about our intention to downgrade inactive users but now when we downgraded they we receive funny messages telling - "What do you want, i'm active, i login in forum several times a week."
Our answer - please don't.
We don't need only users logging and leeching, congratulating every new year or holliday but users helping and sharing the knowledge.
I can tell you too the reason is not 0 posts only but we downgraded user with more than 100 posts because he posted only requests and never something else.
As you can see more users were downgraded after the first automatic round and the inactive users have a last chance to begin sharing.
I understand your opinion and i can say i agree with.
We want more users but more users logged in means more bandwith, stronger servers and of course more money.
The result of three years of free forum you can see. A small group of users share and the majority leech.
I remember the days when every day registered about 100 new users and we (the moderators) deleted, warned and banned the spammers searching here a girlfriend or trying to sell something.
You can't imagine how many stupid posts you never seen because we deleted before giving you the oportunity to save your time.
New users if they want activation must pay and they can respect froum rules or to pay one more time after banning.
We prefere after paying the first subscribtion users share and never pay money after this first payment but renew subscription using Engineering Points.
If someone don't share he will pay one more time but at least his money will help to save the forum alive and to give others a place for sharing.
Old users received during the years warnings about our intention to downgrade inactive users but now when we downgraded they we receive funny messages telling - "What do you want, i'm active, i login in forum several times a week."
Our answer - please don't.
We don't need only users logging and leeching, congratulating every new year or holliday but users helping and sharing the knowledge.
I can tell you too the reason is not 0 posts only but we downgraded user with more than 100 posts because he posted only requests and never something else.
As you can see more users were downgraded after the first automatic round and the inactive users have a last chance to begin sharing.