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What's up with Yucko |
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Posts: 270 05/07/08 6:15 AM |
I subscribe to a off site spam filtering service, I run anti spyware programs religiously, I update my virus definitions often and now I am subject to ads
embeded in the message body on this board. WTF!!!!!
To the powers that be: Lets rethink our association with Yuku sooner rather than later. |
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Posts: 1241 05/07/08 6:51 AM Administrator |
Kurt,
I didnt know what you meant until I read the board this am. If these ads are here to stay it may be time to find another solution ! Craig |
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paschal |
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Posts: 153 05/07/08 7:30 AM |
that's what you call having something pushed in your face and you can't even close it out like most web ads that are out there. Now if they advertised
the Moto GP that would be one thing but this sh*t .....bring back Ali and Fraser!!
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Posts: 266 05/07/08 8:53 AM |
Wasn't there some talk about the MOA hosting local clubs bulletin boards??
ITS Time To Go.
Sandy Becker now Blue Ridge Beemer
Silver R1200RT Figawi Sport Touring Society Veni, Vidi, Velcro (I Came, I Saw, I Stuck around) |
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BillP |
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Posts: 589 05/07/08 9:22 AM |
I feel YUKU finally crossed the line. It is time to look for another solution.
Who should take this ball and run with it? |
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Posts: 224 05/07/08 10:04 AM |
I agree....It's time to move on and replace Yuku !
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Posts: 360 05/07/08 12:44 PM |
Ads SUCK!!!!..
I thought maybe some people had started getting paid to have ads in their posts... Maybe we should move this whole thing over to Adventure Riders and get our own subsection... sorry guys but that site is the balls functionality wise... Does the club pay for Yuku?? |
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Snaybone |
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Posts: 360 05/07/08 12:45 PM |
Bastards!!! they tagged my post with a Nike ad!!!..... Ooohhhh! that stings!!!
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Posts: 177 05/07/08 2:43 PM |
This SUCKS
Bill K.
Foster,RI 05 R1200RT 05 Vstrom |
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Bob Aint Stoppin |
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Posts: 1043 05/07/08 2:59 PM |
We should get info from the authorities on this shortly, but my recollection is that when we went to Yuku, you paid a small fee to be free of ads, or you could
get free service and ads.
Perhaps someone needs to renew our subscription to ad free service? Edit ps: I got the Nike ad. Can I put in a request to get the three fights ad on my posts instead? |
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Posts: 262 05/07/08 6:47 PM Treasurer |
I have instructed our YB Web Master, Brian, to look into this.
I will let you know the outcome.
Larry Freitas
YB Treasurer |
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Posts: 3 05/07/08 7:08 PM |
A "free" site has to be paid somehow, and the way they keep the site "free" is to have ads so the advertisers pay for the free site.
If we don't want the ads, all we have to do is click the button on top of the forum called "contribute" and when we get enough to pay for a gold membership, the ads will disappear! Simple as that. Kathy Harmacek |
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Posts: 266 05/07/08 7:37 PM |
Well that's one way Kathy but then we would still have yuku. If we have to pay I would want to pay for a better board noy the old crap we were getting for
free.
Sandy Becker now Blue Ridge Beemer
Silver R1200RT Figawi Sport Touring Society Veni, Vidi, Velcro (I Came, I Saw, I Stuck around) |
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Blast5 |
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Posts: 177 05/07/08 8:31 PM |
The amazing thing to me is that we didn't get any of these ads until it was posted that Yuku collects information ....then all of a sudden we have ads on
almost every post.
Bill K.
Foster,RI 05 R1200RT 05 Vstrom |
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BillP |
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Posts: 589 05/07/08 8:57 PM |
Also the ads change and move to different posts. GREAT.
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colt03 |
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Posts: 1241 05/07/08 9:02 PM Administrator |
It looks to me like we just need to pay up- the last payment we paid was April 2006, Brian or Larry make sense ?
Craig |
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Ritalin Poster Boy |
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Posts: 801 05/08/08 6:31 AM |
PAY UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU MEAN WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN SPENDING MEMBER MONEY ON YUKU????????? WE WERE TOLD THIS WAS FREE! ok, breathe Rob, breathe. So for the years we have used this service I have been saying all along it is poison and nothing on the web is free. Now it is time to pay the piper. What makes me so freaking angry is that not only have we been stuck using shit for service *and* helping YUKU make money by providing registered users (more users =more money to put the ads in) but we have been SPENDING MEMBER MONEY TO DO SO. WTF??? I don't know what we spent on this but given the membership was allowed to believe it was FREE I am tremendously disapointed. Just about every time we had a public disucssion of the forum and purchasing V Bulletin the logic was "why pay for VB when we get this free?" In order to actually compare apples to apples I suggest that someone lets us know EXACTLY what using this "FREE" service is costing us. Forget about the cost of being tracked all over thw web, I am asking what the actual amount spent with Yuku on an annual and since inception cost is. Does anyone else find it offensive that we we have to pay to keep ads out of our posts and that we have to pay again and again every year? If the board wants to put the members first perhaps this would be a good time to review options for forum software. We have been told repeatedly that this service is free and IMO that is the major reason why we are using it. Now that we find out that free actually means send money it is time to re-examine our needs and put the users (members) first. |
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Time to pay the piper? | #17 | ||
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Posts: 470 05/08/08 7:48 AM |
So, the question is not just how much (or how little) $ YUKU costs the club, but what the alternatives cost, in comparison.
Kathy might well have the right idea here. |
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Posts: 3 05/08/08 8:07 AM |
Actually, Rob....you have said often that this board is crap. What exactly don't you like about it that VB can provide you?
I'm still confused at what this board is lacking that another board will provide. Maybe what should happen to do an apples to apples comparison is to have everyone list exactly what they want from a board, and then figure out from that list which board best suits our needs. As far as reviewing options and comparing boards, perhaps our webmaster could do that, isn't that suppose to be part of his job? Oh, and one more thing Rob, if you look at the contributions over the years, it's obvious that some members of the YB decided to contribute, all on their own. That wasn't a YB club decision. Perhaps it was important to them not to have ads, however that really doesn't mean that Yuku isn't free. Yuku is just like any other "free" message board. If we choose not to pay the price, that's certainly our choice. No one is forcing us to pay, however, a free board means you get ads. No one lied, this board IS free, we can continue with a free site and have ads. Kathy Harmacek
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Snaybone |
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Posts: 360 05/08/08 8:50 AM |
Ritalin Poster Boy wrote:You don't have cable TV do you?? 
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Snaybone |
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Posts: 360 05/08/08 8:55 AM |
I always figured this isn't the fanciest of sites... but who cares... I really don't want to pay to yak with you guys... so the price (free or
subsidized by the club) was fine with me..
The only other place like this I spend a lot of time on is Adventure Riders... and it doesn't seem that they are vastly superior in their functionality.. I like the look of the site better...and there are a ton of forums.. but is also has way more members from all over the world.. This site is great to touch base with the club members and to see what is going on in my neck of the woods.. |
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