Post by Firefox on Feb 26, 2013 23:58:10 GMT
I can only reiterate what I have said many many times before. I don't agree personally with our domain being blocked on WC, but that's Phil's decision; it's his website. I have asked many times for people not to spam there. I don't know who is doing it, but there's no point at all. You are just causing him a lot of grief and it will all get deleted and blocked eventually. You're wasting your time and his.
There's plenty of opportunity to develop the user base elsewhere than WC. There's a lot of people out there surfing, lost! Tens of thousands. I've got plans for a feeder website to this one for example. It's going to have lots of content to attract links on other sites, but it will feature prominent links here and probably to WC too. That's a constructive way to develop a community. WC will benefit with a link, as well as here.
Although we have some of the same members at the moment, I see the two sites as having different markets. This one is more about off-grid living, self-building, free living, full timing and self sufficiency for more experienced people. WC will probably appeal more to people who are newer to the game and want the excellent back up support for sat navs and other full time technical support that a subscription site can provide. I may be wrong in that, but it seems some of the more experienced people have complimentary membership there anyway, so they are not the ones driving the market and current subscriptions there.
Whatever the situation, there's loads of potential members out there to be made, new friends to be gained, and new knowledge to be shared. We can both coexist peacefully in our different niches
So please no more negative posts about Phil or Wild Camping. It is not doing yourself or us any favours. By all means discuss WC in a sensible fashion though - it's a popular site after all and many people visit both. It is clear that the majority of people here want a peaceful site with a positive atmosphere about what WE can do to develop a community.
Be aware that we do have constitution and 10 mods/admins. Anyone of those may post a poll at any time suggesting a temp/perm ban of a member who is damaging the community(s). We'd do that very, very, reluctantly but we WILL do it if we feel the positive atmosphere is being threatened or WC or Phil being unfairly targeted.
There's plenty of opportunity to develop the user base elsewhere than WC. There's a lot of people out there surfing, lost! Tens of thousands. I've got plans for a feeder website to this one for example. It's going to have lots of content to attract links on other sites, but it will feature prominent links here and probably to WC too. That's a constructive way to develop a community. WC will benefit with a link, as well as here.
Although we have some of the same members at the moment, I see the two sites as having different markets. This one is more about off-grid living, self-building, free living, full timing and self sufficiency for more experienced people. WC will probably appeal more to people who are newer to the game and want the excellent back up support for sat navs and other full time technical support that a subscription site can provide. I may be wrong in that, but it seems some of the more experienced people have complimentary membership there anyway, so they are not the ones driving the market and current subscriptions there.
Whatever the situation, there's loads of potential members out there to be made, new friends to be gained, and new knowledge to be shared. We can both coexist peacefully in our different niches
So please no more negative posts about Phil or Wild Camping. It is not doing yourself or us any favours. By all means discuss WC in a sensible fashion though - it's a popular site after all and many people visit both. It is clear that the majority of people here want a peaceful site with a positive atmosphere about what WE can do to develop a community.
Be aware that we do have constitution and 10 mods/admins. Anyone of those may post a poll at any time suggesting a temp/perm ban of a member who is damaging the community(s). We'd do that very, very, reluctantly but we WILL do it if we feel the positive atmosphere is being threatened or WC or Phil being unfairly targeted.