Quote Originally Posted by dualbrain View Post
I'm completely on your side with the way you do it as far as you describe it.

The huge-banners and "i first want to thank Abmahntuning (written in huuuuge) and Phoetus for their superior products" texts at the beginning of the first posting of a worklog is, what I think is disgusting. I just know it in its extremest uglyness from the german forums, where they pulled the emergency-break because of this. There were 70% of so called "zombie-worklogs" where the only purpose was: The sponsor was praised, no matter what the worklog was, no matter if it was total garbage etc. Only 30% of active worklogs were without the huuuge banners of the two mentioned names.

That's what I refer to basically I don't know if the other place you talk about had these kind of developments.


I completely disagree with you , thereīs no superior level behind being sponsored or not , is just to thank the brands for the suport of course its free publicity but a forum doesnt lives only of the brands that pay for the adds

And the companies pay millions for adds that arenīt even sucesfull sometimes , this is the best marketing itīs a win/win relation for the brand and the modder or the person that is sponsored , and its really cheap publicity , you dont like it because those cases in germany?

Than kind of makes me laguh, itīs ridiculous the point that people get just by jealous or by being afraid of losing the companies or brand suport or banners or advertsiment or whatever, if we modders need suport , brands need publicity , its one of their main requirements so for me it doesnt makes sense, if a forum doesnt wantīs sponsor builds then do the same thing that this one did.


And not everyone can be like Darth Beavis , he has lots of sponsors and is recognized by his builds , so brands are easy with him but the "little" modders dont have this kind of advantages , so itīs unfair some arguments that you try to use

There are many points of view about this issue , but this is for the forum Admins to decide, if they forbidden the sponsored builds itīs obvious they will lose a lot of users ...