Banned from Glocktalk

[Raggedyman]

Eric banned me for posting a link  to my last article. That's not even my blog, in case anyone was wondering. Real pissant move, I think.

[The_Shadow]

I hear ya!  Some people don't appreciate good information from good people.   

[Intercooler]

Sorry to hear they made this decision. What did they give for a reason? If it wasn't advertising in anyway, I just don't understand.

[The Earl o Sammich]

Banned from Glocktalk....

....is that a bad thing, or a good thing?

[gandog56]

Banned from Glocktalk....

....is that a bad thing, or a good thing?

[sqlbullet]

In an age of free email and web proxies, the idea of "banning" an actual, contributing person is funny.  If they really wanna stay around, they will.

We are glad to have you and your posts, even if they link to your blog, here.

[Patriot]

Glock talk is a business. They are out to make money and they don't want anyone pushing an outside website. They have so many ads I refuse to use their site. Last time I checked them out I had two popup ads, one for chevy and another for John Deere, and a big flashing John Deere ad at the top of the page.

They can keep it.

No ads here, ever. Guaranteed.

[BT8850]

Glock talk is a business. They are out to make money and they don't want anyone pushing an outside website. They have so many ads I refuse to use their site. Last time I checked them out I had two popup ads, one for chevy and another for John Deere, and a big flashing John Deere ad at the top of the page.

They can keep it.

No ads here, ever. Guaranteed.

One of the many, many reasons this is one of the best forums around, You the man Patriot/Grim!

It's their loss Raggedyman, if they want to miss out on the information you have and are willing to share, it's their problem. Myself and I'm sure others here very much enjoy reading your articles and I don't believe you'll ever be shunned for sharing them here, keep up the good work! 

[Raggedyman]

Sorry to hear they made this decision. What did they give for a reason? If it wasn't advertising in anyway, I just don't understand.

Here is the message:

You have been banned for the following reason:
After reviewing your recent posts, it is pretty clear that the only reason you are on the site is to poach traffic for yourself and inspite of the warnings you have received, you continue to do so. I am not going to keep playing this game with you.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

Eric told me that I wasn't allowed to post links to my YouTube videos. I think that's retarded but I complied with his rules. He said I was allowed to post the results and pics of tests with a link to my channel in my sig line, which I did. He did not say I wasn't allowed to post a link to an article which has links to my videos in it, on a blog that doesn't even belong to me. I got no warning in regards to posting the article link.

I post on quite a few gun forums. Most of my posts are in reference to my tests and/or articles. The articles often reference my testing. I also post from time to time in other threads if they're interesting but I'm not a super poster on any forum except maybe Arfcom. No other forum has ever told me not to post links to my videos. Good content doesn't drive traffic AWAY from a site. Good content drives it to a site. Eric is a pathetic fool who doesn't understand how the internet works.

[Raggedyman]

In an age of free email and web proxies, the idea of "banning" an actual, contributing person is funny.  If they really wanna stay around, they will.

We are glad to have you and your posts, even if they link to your blog, here.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I could probably even write a script to create a couple dozen identities for me up to the Captcha part and then just manually enter that myself if I wanted to be really annoying.

The whole thing was BS from the beginning. I had been posting my tests and videos in the 10mm forum for months and even had a tacked thread in the reloading forum which consisted entirely of my videos. when I did a test of another caliber (don't remember what it was) and posted that in a different forum. That's where he locked the thread and sent me a terse message about "advertising." He got REALLY pissy when I told people what he did. If you can't stand behind your actions in public, maybe you shouldn't be doing what you're doing.

The whole thing could have been avoided if he had just acted like, and treated me as, a grownup.

[Raggedyman]

Glock talk is a business. They are out to make money and they don't want anyone pushing an outside website. They have so many ads I refuse to use their site. Last time I checked them out I had two popup ads, one for chevy and another for John Deere, and a big flashing John Deere ad at the top of the page.

They can keep it.

No ads here, ever. Guaranteed.

I use adblock for Firefox so I never see that stuff anyway. I've got no problem with the business. If he wasn't a moron, he'd realize that having good content drives traffic to his site and increases ad revenue.

[Raggedyman]

Glock talk is a business. They are out to make money and they don't want anyone pushing an outside website. They have so many ads I refuse to use their site. Last time I checked them out I had two popup ads, one for chevy and another for John Deere, and a big flashing John Deere ad at the top of the page.

They can keep it.

No ads here, ever. Guaranteed.

One of the many, many reasons this is one of the best forums around, You the man Patriot/Grim!

It's their loss Raggedyman, if they want to miss out on the information you have and are willing to share, it's their problem. Myself and I'm sure others here very much enjoy reading your articles and I don't believe you'll ever be shunned for sharing them here, keep up the good work! 

Thanks for your support, guys. And yeah, this is one of the very best forums on teh interwebz.

[denclaste]

He is a prime example of that old saying:"you just cant cure stupid". Their lose, our gain.

[The_Shadow]

I am quite surprised they haven't banded me for pushing our 10mmFirearms website!  Oh yea I plug it quite often! 

It good time I suppose I too shall be banned!   

[4949shooter]

There is Glock ID:

http://id.glock.com/