**MULTIPLE** Sales Threads Issue

I believe I disabled it after the big site upgrade a while back, for some reason I couldn’t get it to work. But now I am please to announce….

http://budgetlightforum.com/recent-posts_not-commercial

:wink: Enjoy.

New Home Page!!
Thank you Sir.

I like the deals. Why don’t we make a sub forum for deals. Possibly even make sub categories for batteries, flashlights etc… it would make life a lot easier when looking for something specific than having to ask for deals on threads or searching the entire forum.

Is there a way to make a thread accessible to only the op with one or two updates per day? Doesn’t need to be hardwared but if exceeded subject to :rage: of DM. Basically the same rules governing polite behavior all of us are supposed to follow. Questions can still be answered via pm so that those don’t bump the threads.

I’m switching . Thanks .

Thanks sb. Looks like a win win. Your the best.

The cutthroat competitiveness is definitely noticeable.

the had his exclusive BLF 348 groupbuys for years and recently I noticed that while “the’s” groupbuy is still going on, there are others using boiler room tactics and undercutting his price.

I think a little Ethics 101 wouldn’t hurt.

Healthy competition is great but you don’t have to become the next Ricky Roma from Glengarry glen ross to be successful.

SB :beer: this is Very COOL!!! :wink: :+1:

And using someone’s avatar should be a crime :slight_smile:

when i first got here and started posting as a newb?

we had a “affiliate link” flame war going on… i got here late on it, and when i unknowingly resurrected a flame-war thread that was mercifully dying down? it “ignited” people on BOTH sides to ask me what i thought… heck… i try to be “principled’, and so i replied after asking what an aff link WAS?

was told, and i said :well then, i guess i dont like the idea of someone posting “deals” only to be making commission…

then everyone went ape$h!t… the word “shill” was thrown around a lot…LOL

old lumens PMed me and cussed me out, and told me “i wouldnt last long here!” of all things…

the whole “shill thing” slowly died away… NOW we have ‘this’ controversy going on, rules are being made, admin will see if it works…

geez, its ALWAYS some periodic controversy… and its ALWAYS centered around “commercialism”…

a year or 18 months from now? it will be “this” again, or? “something new”… but it wont be that new, it will be SOMETHING surrounding something commercial…

its a little like “election season craziness” on my site i run… except its not electionism, its somethign else here… same thing in the end, though… just another headache for the guy in charge is all…

:person_facepalming:

Glad you guys are liking the non-commercial Recent Posts list. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Now how about BLF without Cheap Kitchens filter :slight_smile:

These guys seem to post like clockwork, probably bots or just low paid mullets.

Ugghhh, indeed they are annoying. They don’t seem to be bots, at least not to complete the registration steps, because my CAPTCHA is too zany for a bot to figure out.

I find them funny actually, really like it when members post the filthy kitchens in replies.
Your registration steps are fine.
Thanks for keeping this place Real!

Later,
Keith

The new main page is what BLF used to be ….

Sing to the tune of ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles

Yesterday …I could see new flashlights everyday
Now they only post if it will pay
Oh I remember yesterday

Gradually , this place wasn’t what it used to be
Shilling posts expanded rapidly
Oh I miss the fun and purity

Did it have to change , I don’t know , it went astray
It’s become so wrong now I long for yesterday

Yesterday …we were on a hobbyist pathway
Now I need to bring joy to my day

Oh , I believe we’ve found a way

Just noticed the update!

Thanks SB, IMHO that new Recent Post selection you added in the top right of the home page is a great solution to this issue.

oh em jeez, hilarious!

I could never figure out where those threads were coming from. I could understand threads on edged weapons (kinda go hand in hand with flashlights), but kitchens??

Hey, stop hating on the sweet sweet mullet…

Great solution, thanks!