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I handle advertising as little as possible. I concentrate on the community side of things. Without the community there is no need to sell advertising.Pete do you have someone else handle advertising on the site? Christie's Blue XT Sea has an ad running on the left side of Cozumel forum. Nothing wrong with that, but it is advertising.
Which means he doesn't keep up with who advertises here, or care with regard to treatment of Operators. Pete is about as fair a man as you'll find. I may not always agree with him, but I always respect his views.I handle advertising as little as possible. I concentrate on the community side of things. Without the community there is no need to sell advertising.
What you are or aren't mean very little to me when I read your post. While I did not specifically call you a coward, I find the flat out denunciation of volunteers without corroborating evidence a cowardly act. Calling my patriotism into question does as little to justify such an attack as pointing to your own. There is no honor in doing so.A coward. Ok. That's real impressive and noble of you NetDoc.
I believe what is probably bothering Kev is how very often one certain dive op promotes in here with impunity, while posters with nothing to gain are censored when and if that certain op isn't the target of said promotion. Set a standard and enforce it equally. I could spend 30 minutes cutting and pasting to prove the point, but then the thread would be deleted...and I'll not do that to Kev.
Because your post takes business away from a dive op that has for some time had this board and some of of its mods bought and paid for. Post something that will take business away from BXTS and your thread will either be locked, deleted completely or moved to oblivion.
Well, I think it's wrong that BXTC continually comes into threads about other ops (that weren't started by those ops) to share her viewpoint that the service she provides is better, the dives are longer, the dives are better, etc. There was another thread about a month ago wher someone asked about Diving With Martin and there were many positive posts about DWM. Then someone said they felt DWM cut dives short to keep their schedule so apparently that opened the door for BXTC to come and tout "we do 90 minute dives and hour plus surface intervals" and we stay on schedule She later admitted the afternnon trip sometimes doesn't leave until 230pm when I pointed those logistics were impossible. I reported the post because I didn't think she should be advertising herself when the OP asked about someone else but her posts were not removed. I wouldn't call it protectionism but she does seem to operate with some level of impunity here.
In the the thread being discussed now, she stated folks would be better served "to curl up in bed with a good book" rather than dive the east side of the island. Those divers didn't go Coz to read books, they went to dive!
I do NOT read the original post as an offer, I read it as someone pointing out Aldora has an alternative when the Norte blows in. I would NOT have known that without him posting it.
I decided what I wrote was even too inappropriate for me.
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What is wrong with you people?
I think the best idea is that you clowns just leave ScubaBoard and start your own, the audacity you have to argue with the SB owner is the WOW. This is not a democracy, he owns it, his rules, his interpretations, you get to lump it or leave. End of story. I vote for leave.
Let's do this one more time and see if it will make sense to you this time:
"Hey Jen - it's true! Aldora has two boats over there and they sent out one boat this morning. It is for qualified divers only, so not for newbie divers - of course you are MORE than qualified! I actually had a diver set up this morning to go out with them, but even in this cold rainy weather - east side diving is not a fun option! The only thing worth doing today is staying in with a good book or a movie and snuggled up in bed! Wish that's where I was!"