Chas:
dle1uk:
It’s a shame that it as gone this way, as a member of many forums trucknet is by far the worst for the keyboard warrior.
You don’t ride a motorcycle then !
If you did, you might have come across a forum called ‘Bike Chat Forum’ (or BCF for short). A forum that exists solely for autoposts, troll posts, sock puppets & the odd occasional passer bye. It has been rumored in some of the ‘real’ bike forums for some time that it is just another subsection of 4chan !
I frequent a few forums myself. Trust me, TNUK is a predictable one. The owner of the forum has a duty to make £money, so some of the postings can be put down to serving their needs, which is generating traffic, so they can sell advertising, & what precious little privacy you thought you once had, TNUK is a small part of the system that strips it away.
I have some tin foil you can buy
, We have the ability to extract your-mail address’s from the database and spam you with offers, but we don’t seen to have done that, we could sell your e-mail address’s to the various mailing lists. we don’t seem to have done that either. We could do promoted posts on every forum , but we don’t seem to have done that either, yes our sponsors get a highlighted thread for their news but its not exactly intrusive.
Yes we do put up posts that helps our business needs… but we are not exactly covert about it, and make no apology for it, running and hosting this website isn’t free, and we are not a charity, but we cover our costs and keep this website free for you to all use, without selling any of your data -or compromising your privacy, the odd sponsored post isn’t too much to bear for that is it?
Oh and for the more cynical, or just plain nosey - we had a financial target for 2013 for TruckNet - which has already been exceeded - meaning that we will be around for the foreseeable future, sorry to the doomsayers but the facts are we are doing all right, more traffic, more page views. more unique users and six months into the year have past our financial targets, without selling on anything from our database- but some say we are dying- the facts say otherwise