idea for HHO...

[exasko]

I had this idea long before WHT did it, I actaully thought of it when I saw a forum that was only about sponsorship. Why not add a place on here at HHO for sponsorship for hosting and design... I think it may be a nice touch...




though i understand if you people are against it since WHT already has it...

[Adam]

This was spoken about previously and though the forum needs some kind of money in to help running costs i dont *think* Chicken will be allowing full forum sponsorships however i dont recall him ever saying a definite no.

But why dont you define to me your idea of sponsorship as some peoples ideas differ. To you you may think a simple sticky saying that forum sponsored by some company but to me i see images on each forum advertising the company at every possible place.

[exasko]

like a place...
so instead of taking up space asking for for sponsorship in a webhosting request... where companies go to try and sell there space and in that forum you can place all kinds of sponsorship request, and then have a place for compaines to come and offer sponsorship..

so lets say.. i want a website... 1gb space - 50 gb bandwidth - Cpanel ect. and i wanted a company to sponsor me.. instead of going to Shared Requests and posting a thread, you would go to the sponsorship area and post it. this way you save people's time...

[Chicken]

That is what I had intended the 'barter' forum to include. It's not clear, and people probably don't know it's even down there.

[Robert]

I think to keep the forums neutral, it would be best to keep any and all advertising off the site (paid that is).

[Chicken]

Well, normally I'd agree with that, but I have banned members who were advertisers at WHT (who paid quite a bit for that banner up there), and willfully ignored thread closure requests by employees of RackShack when they owned the forum. I'm a, "call it as I see it" person, and advertising doesn't change that.

Advertisers were treated like any other member (sometimes to their surprise), and although some people didn't like that very much, I think they still respected that stance.