PPrune

[Guest Glenn]

Very well said Pedro. :)

 

 

[Guest Crash Lander]

Well, I aint too impressed with the new management over at Prune so far. The site is down at the moment! LOL!

 

 

[Robbo]

i got a feeling its gone die soon, they would just spam it with advertising u watch !

 

 

[Robbo]

Danny reckons he sold it 5 months ago !!

 

It's a huge conspiracy. Just look at the speculation already. If I told you that the sale took place nearly five months ago, how would some of you react? Shock? Horror? indignation?

 

If no one noticed the changes since the sale five months ago apart from the fact that InternetBrands carry the PPRuNe logo on their website then it is comical, no... farcical to read some of the speculaltion on here.

 

Now, back to the conspiracy theory... no moderator input from anyone, including me. Hmm... difficult one but perhaps those of you who do know me realise that I do actually fly B744's on long haul for a living, hence my aptitude for having an opinion and the right to dictate what stays and goes on this website. When I first noticed this thread in R & N, I was on my way home after a long night crossing the North Atlantic. I was sitting comfortably on a train making my way back to my rural abode and checking R & N on my iPhone, struggling to stay awake. Best thing, I thought, was to move the thread from R & N to JB where it would be discussed ad nauseam with the conspiracists (I just made that word up!) making wild claims of future degradation and advertising taking over the site.

 

Now, after getting some useful sleep and being a little less jet lagged, I have come on here to torpedo the doom-sayers and conspiracists. It is not a secret that I sold PPRuNe to InternetBrands. It's just that I prefer that my private financial life remains that way. It is no business of anyone who posts on here how I run my financial affairs. I have agreed to stay on for at least five years running this website in the same manner as I have always done which is probably why you haven't noticed any changes!

 

However... seeing as it is obviously a bit of a concern to some of you, considering you haven't noticed the change of ownership (as opposed to who is running the show on the forums) perhaps your fears are, if not unfounded, premature. Perhaps my reassurance that it isn't going to change in any noticeable way is not enough? In that case, then nothing I tell you is going to make a difference and this thread will go the way of most threads in the JB forum, either rapidly downhill and into oblivion or else will continue to rotate like a hamsters wheel as protagonists fail miserably to persuade their adversaries to come around to their own way of thinking in some interminably boring fantasy that only the participants believe in!

 

Thankfully, InternetBrands is in a position to provide the necessary support for infrastructure improvements as PPRuNe continues to expand at a steady rate. I do not have to go out begging for financial support from the over 433,000 unique visitors that we get every month, and increasing. We get 1.6 million visits from those 433,000+ unique visitors every month, and increasing. We show almost 14 million pages a month, and increasing. For so many years I funded this website out of my own pocket and eventually set up an advertising revenue to fund it. As it has grown the cost of each upgrade has increased exponentially and finally, an offer was made that made it worth my while to hand over the financial obligations to a bigger company who were prepared to let me continue running this website in the way I have always done.

 

As for our advertisers, well, they all seem to think it is worthwhile as we obviously reach their target markets and whilst not every advertiser finds it the best medium, we certainly have a large core of long term clients who know that our demographic reach is right for them. We give them an audience at a very competitive rate when compared to other mediums and websites.

 

So, is that so bad? For some, probably. For the majority... heck, they didn't even notice!

 

So, go on, speculate and conspire. It is self perpetuating and keeps some of you out of the real world for a few more minutes or hours. As for the rest of it, just keep taking part in PPRuNe and we will continue to satisfy the majority of our members and visitors. We can't please all of the people some of the time and we can't please some of the people all of the time. We aim to please most of the people most of the time.

 

Have a great day y'all!

 

told you, it's all a big conspiracy. You are all being milked dry every time you log on to PPRuNe. So, goodbye, as I'm sure you'll not want to take part in any of the forums on PPRuNe. Your Usernames have been logged and you will now be blocked. As to the rest of the Muppets who are accusing me of somehow selling out and that your email addresses have been sold to spammers, that level of ignorance and petty whingeing isn't needed on here so I'll just delete your Usernames as I'm sure you do not want to be associated with such a conspiracy.

 

Edited to add: In order to clarify what I mean by ignorant Muppets:

 

Quote:

 

Originally Posted by Wet Lettuce

 

So as a totally non-aviation professional who has a teeny weeny bit of a background in this internet and cyber stuff I am fascinated by the fact that a forum can be bought and sold.

 

The only asset is the user database.

 

US....

 

Just goes to prove that old analogy that you're better off having people think you are fool rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt! Wet Lettuce obviously doesn't have the IQ to figure out that if I were to sell a list of 160,000 or so email addresses I'd probably get about $5 if I was really, really lucky. He obviously can't get his head around the fact that the number of visitors is worth a lot more if I can persuade other companies that advertising on here is worth a bit more than selling an email address with no other associated information.

 

Dontcha just love it! Lots of "flouncing" and "drama" here. Now, about those personal titles.... I believe that I still get the dosh from them because of the time it takes to set each one up. You wouldn't believe how dirty it can get under the bonnet of this thing each time I have to bolt on a new PT.

 

I just hate it though when I have a few nuts and bolts left over!

 

Keep flouncing... it makes for entertaining reading when a few posters take themselves too seriously and start wailing and gnashing their teeth.

[Guest AussieFlyer]

What else can I say? No respect from the top order of the said forum towards it's members, we are the ones that made pprune work!!!

 

Just look and the attitude within the writing of the posts copy/pasted by Robbo... It's disgusting!

 

Fair enough he invested his money and time, but SO HAVE WE buying personal titles!!!!

 

A simple explanation would have been enough.

 

Oh well... :roll:

 

 

[Robbo]

Danny doesent own the forum anymore so he doesent give a "s**t" about the members that have made him big $$$

 

Edited by Admin

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

Here at TAA you can have a personal title for FREE!

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

Just face it that it's shyte along with another messageboard in YSSY. Glenn, edit what you will buddy.

 

 

[billyh42]

Usually good forums turn bad when the owner/operator thinks they are GOD...and they come to think that people should worship them.

This is certainly true for the PPRuNe forums.

 

Amusingly I was banned just last week for updating a link in a post and asking a question!

 

I specialise in 360 degree panoramic photography and had a few shots of an Avro Lancaster on the forum. These shots were there for a couple of months.

 

I however changed my web server and the links (which had received over 1200 hits) became invalid.

 

I edited the post to update the links but then I received a few PM's telling me that the links were missing.

 

I checked the post and sure enough, no links. I assumed that there had been a problem after I had edited and put the links back in.

 

Next thing, an email from a "Moderator" telling me that I was on my "final" warning for posting commercial advertising.

 

It turns out that they were complaining about a small Amazon link that is on the bottom of the page that hosts the panorama movie.

 

I pointed out that almost every image on PPRuNe was hosted on a commercial site such as PhotoBucket with advertising on every page.

 

That was it - banned! No discussion, no reasoning! My ball, my game!

 

Pathetic!

 

billyh42

 

 

[Guest OzChris]

Usually good forums turn bad when the owner/operator thinks they are GOD...and they come to think that people should worship them.

This is certainly true for the PPRuNe forums.

 

Amusingly I was banned just last week for updating a link in a post and asking a question!

 

I specialise in 360 degree panoramic photography and had a few shots of an Avro Lancaster on the forum. These shots were there for a couple of months.

 

I however changed my web server and the links (which had received over 1200 hits) became invalid.

 

I edited the post to update the links but then I received a few PM's telling me that the links were missing.

 

I checked the post and sure enough, no links. I assumed that there had been a problem after I had edited and put the links back in.

 

Next thing, an email from a "Moderator" telling me that I was on my "final" warning for posting commercial advertising.

 

It turns out that they were complaining about a small Amazon link that is on the bottom of the page that hosts the panorama movie.

 

I pointed out that almost every image on PPRuNe was hosted on a commercial site such as PhotoBucket with advertising on every page.

 

That was it - banned! No discussion, no reasoning! My ball, my game!

 

Pathetic!

 

billyh42

 

Pathetic indeed!

 

I know a few people who run forums who think they are above it all, in particular, their members!

 

Funny how some people think that they are so important in this world...:roll:

 

 

[Guest g_i_jack029]

billy, your 360 shots are welcome here anytime... but i'm not the admin, i'm sure Glenn won't mind... i hope

 

 

[Guest Glenn]

billy' date=' your 360 shots are welcome here anytime... but i'm not the admin, i'm sure Glenn won't mind... i hope[/quote']Wrong topic Jack