Appeal to the site owner
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Appeal to the site owner
I have never seen a forum which had such fantastic categorization, so poorly moderated. Every single section is cluttered with non-relevant vendor ads, it's been escalated on several occasions and met with a 'deal with it' attitude. Your site hits are maybe 15-20% of what they could be. You're going to have the noisy die hard top 10% that will sift through the garbage but the reality is your site is losing hits because of the stance of ignoring your user base. For me personally I only come to MBworld if a google result brings me to it. I've never done that for any other forum I'm on. I'll spend lots of time on Audizine, 6speedonline, L4p, even honda-tech browsing the boards but not on MBworld because of the ad volume and the only car I'm in ownership of and modifying is an E55. 
Moderate the site properly, improve your site-hits and in turn improve your position with what you can reasonably bill your vendors.
Moderate the site properly, improve your site-hits and in turn improve your position with what you can reasonably bill your vendors.
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From: Kingsville Ontario (South of Detroit)
2003 S500 4Matic (SOLD) + 2004 S55 (SOLD) 2005 CLK 500 Cabriolet 2008 S 450
There is one member, as an example, who advertises various Mercedes cars for ale offering financing and shipping who is not shown as a vendor. On one occasion he had 5 , all in a row, relatively new Mercedes for sale. Don't you get Vendor complaints for this?
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<p>If the vendors or moderators see them, we will take action. As you know MBworld members post several thousand new unique posts daily, no one can read them all. 
Please report the post you feel should be reviewed. Thank you.</p><p>Bob</p>
Please report the post you feel should be reviewed. Thank you.</p><p>Bob</p>
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Thank you for the responses guys. This guy is a bad offender;
3WD is posting all over the place
https://mbworld.org/forums/wheels-ti...i-r-stock.html
3WD is posting all over the place
https://mbworld.org/forums/wheels-ti...i-r-stock.html
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The issue needs to be addressed. It is getting out of hand. Vendors, though they are needed to generate revenue, are getting out of hand with pointless bumps, replied to all PM's, ETC, ETC. Then number of vendor posts are starting to outnumber the member posts. https://mbworld.org/forums/w212-amg/...dor-posts.html
I recommend one vendor thread per sub forum and only one bump per week or take all vendor posts and list in a sub forum similarly to what was done on the W211 E55 forum. Either way, something different needs to be done. The forums are becoming so cluttered you may start losing valuable posts from members. Without the members, you have no forum; rather, you just have an advertising site and that's what it's starting to resemble.
I recommend one vendor thread per sub forum and only one bump per week or take all vendor posts and list in a sub forum similarly to what was done on the W211 E55 forum. Either way, something different needs to be done. The forums are becoming so cluttered you may start losing valuable posts from members. Without the members, you have no forum; rather, you just have an advertising site and that's what it's starting to resemble.
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Hi,
Thank you for the feedback. Our vendors want maximum exposure for their products/services without clogging discussions with ads. It makes poor business sense to tick off your potential customers. When you feel it's excessive please report the post and we will talk to them. I have never seen a vendor decline our request to limit bumps and to not drop an ad in the middle of a conversation. Thanks.
Bob
Thank you for the feedback. Our vendors want maximum exposure for their products/services without clogging discussions with ads. It makes poor business sense to tick off your potential customers. When you feel it's excessive please report the post and we will talk to them. I have never seen a vendor decline our request to limit bumps and to not drop an ad in the middle of a conversation. Thanks.
Bob
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PLEASE! the site is getting so diluted and polluted by advertisers that I find myself not coming or contributing as often. Vendors completely pollute and derail threads with their misplaced interests.
