PM's and E-mail...............It really dosnt bother me but its allways best to play it safe when you dont know the people....

Shyeez. . .and I thought we liked to talk crossbows. . .We have spent far more effort on this than any crossbow thread!

sniff sniff......i smellgoatarse Thats some funny sh_t right there.

Can we just let this POS die a fast death?

Well said! Let it die!

OK, one last comment, to answer a question I brought up, then I will leave this alone.

Websites are paid for their advertisements based on how many "hits" that particular sight gets in an average day, week, month, whatever. Just like any other form of advertisements.
A website promotes it's self in hopes of creating traffic, the more traffic that crosses a site the more money the advertising space is worth.
Say a website gets 50 people a day, the advertising costs are reflected on that amount of people seeing the add. If that same website gets 50,000 "hits" a day their advertising space is worth far more.
Look at it like this, you have a business that you want to promote, you decide on advertising on a billboard. There are two available, one has 200 cars drive by in a day, the other has 10,000 cars drive by in a day.. Which one is worth more money? HNI has spent time and money to have people "drive by" their billboard more often than the other one. Give respect where respect is due. Look at the top of this page, the advertisements you see are based on the work of this website, and this website alone, deterring traffic is an excellent business move, and involves a bit of strategy, stepping in and taking it away with no foundation is just uncool.
Again, this is not about the new site, it is about how you chose to go about promoting it.

Most websites are designed to create traffic, once traffic is established then advertising space becomes valuable, this site gets traffic because it contains good people and good information, and because of that the space purchased by advertisers becomes an issue of value, and Value = income. Hence, this is why I mentioned the monetary aspect of why it is not cool to come to an established site to promote another with the sole intention of deterring the "traffic".
This isn't a personal issue for me, I could give a flying f*** what you do with your time, but in my experience here I have seen trolls/spammers and anti's bounced pretty quick, they were bounced by the administrators to make this a better place for us, while still maintaining a decent site for us to depend on, it has come at no cost to it's members and should be shown respect for that reason alone.
Your lack of support for this aspect of our sport rubbed me the wrong way.
Does that clarify what the "money involved comment" means?
If not, I have more.

I hear taps.....

I do not know about this above quote ............ I probually missed part of this thread as I do not get on the net much any more, but I feel that I nedded to make a comment.

The internet forums are having a nasty problem of trolls, spammers and just plain flamers.

I feel that promoting, well not promoting, but just just mentioning a new site which helps promotes a safe hunting comunity is not a bad act, It is more in how it is done. As a first post, alot of people will jump to the conclussion that your spamming (unwanted advertising) even if your not, but only trying to add to this comunity.

The hunting comunity needs to grow, and if that means that newer sites get formed on the internet, then it will benifit all of us, including this site HNI. Now, if a site is good, like this one, then the newer sites will not detract from them, HNI will still survive, probually grow larger as newer forums bring more people into internet forums.

Now as to who will post on a fourm which does not have a vested comercial interest or got paid .................. well all I wish is that I did get paid for all the help which I have given out over the years. I have hunted with crossbows for many many years, hunted for what seems like forever so I have learned alot over the years. I have seen many new people come and go into the crossbow world with very incorrect conceptions as to the capabilities of the crossbow (different toppic as to how they achived most of them [:@]). All I try to do is educate these people, to make their transition into this world easier then it was for me way back when. Most people that come into the crossbow world is because of a disability and their inability of shooting the vertical bows any more. This will also mean that they now have limited funds and any money spent is a major factor in their life. IF a forum (this or any other) can help educate these people with enough knowledge that they can choose what they feel is best for them, without them making costly mistakes, then nit is better for everyone in the hunting comunity. The more people that enjoy our sport, the better it will be for us all.

OK now where do I go to get the money from my vested comercial interest ..... well I guess the new knowledge I personally gain as well as new friends from these forums is enough for me ................ ........... That is unless you want to donate

Very well said you are da man,if my social security check was a little
bigger I would be glad to donate,but my money lady said NO!

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