Is Blonde becoming spam city?

[action man]

it seems to me that these days every other post seems to be about "upcoming tournaments on blondepoker" even the live tournaments are spammed up with a message on everypage, not to forget "tonights up and coming $20 tourney only on blondepokerleugue.com etc...."

and now the blondeshop. selling hats t-shirts etc.... This site started as a forum, and i for one have enjoyed being a member for a couple of years, however i for one don't like the way it is going, maybe im being cynical or have got the wrong end of the stick but it seems on a lighter note that we are all (the members) being used as marketing tools and salesmen to promote the pokersite.

[ifm]

I woulda thought they'd be giving the merchandise away, after all you'd be a walking advert.
I have already voiced my opinion on spamming events
The thing is we are the player base for the poker room so they have to keep us informed don't they?
Personally i hate some of the changes that have occurred over recent months but i also realise they are a necessary evil, it can only get worse too.

[RED-DOG]

At the end of the day, the site costs a lot to run, and the live updates are very expensive.

I have no finacial interest in blonde, but I realise that all the services are provided to the members for free.

We can't really grumble.

[TightEnd]

Just to correct one thing...the site was always www.blondepoker.com that contained a forum as part of it....so the site did not start as a forum.

I am sure tikay can answer your points better than I, I'm just an unpaid volunteer but I will merely say that the site costs money, staff to pay, live updates to finance etc its only reasonable to expect a degree of commerciality as you would get from any business

and a lot of memebers get a lot of fun from the cardroom

[action man]

agreed red-dog, but they managed before the site was introduced.....

[TightEnd]

Did they manage? How do you know this? It might have been costing the shareholders a fortune for all we know

[action man]

what my main point is, is that saying spamming is not allowed on blondepoker.com then everyone plugging tournaments is a case of the "pot calling the............" very  hypocritical if u ask me

[Heid]

Interesting tack here.

I'm not jumping in as a mod, or anything other than an interested party who cares a lot about blonde and it's future.

I know that bandwidth costs money, travelling expenses cost money, and the site has to be able to recoup some of these costs.

Spamming is repugnant to some, and aceptable to others - after all you don't have to read it do you? I suppose DC and TK could decide to make it a forum where you pay in order to post and see pics etc, but I don't think they would want to do that.

Yeah it as free, but it's a lot bigger now, and running things to the level (certainly live updates) that we are accustomed to can't be cheap - not if you want to do it properly. Think of it as the Beeb - they don't allow advertising (ok for an entirly different reason), but they advertise their own stuff - and rightly so - why shouldn't they?

My feeling on spamming blonde "stuff" isn't important, but your take (the forum as a whole) is important - but before you start to say how bad it is, you have to look at the alternatives that would have to be in place if spamming didn't occur.

Not having a go at anyone, or anything, just being Devil's Advocate

Heid

[Mr F]

what my main point is, is that saying spamming is not allowed on blondepoker.com then everyone plugging tournaments is a case of the "pot calling the............" very  hypocritical if u ask me

But isn't it more a case of " we won't spam on your site so please don't spam on ours?"  

Blonde representatives won't go on other forums etc to spam events on blonde and doesn't expect other sites to do the same here.  I don't think anyone said anything about promoting/spamming Blonde events on the blonde site/forum?

[TightEnd]

Well The Baron is the only one who spams the BPL tournaments, after all his paid job is to run BPL etc. Lots of people play in the tournaments against other blondeites and now in the new league so ti would be strange if it wasn't mentioned on blonde's forum.

[action man]

i enjoy the forum immensly, just worried theres too many people trying to make a killing from it, thats all, breaking even is the main objective of every business, which blondepoker has become.

[RED-DOG]

what my main point is, is that saying spamming is not allowed on blondepoker.com then everyone plugging tournaments is a case of the "pot calling the............" very  hypocritical if u ask me

Look at it like this. If you paid to advertise your used Ford Escort in the Auto Trader magazine, would you want several other people's used Ford Escort's to be included in the add that you paid for?

[Claw75]

Is it really that bad?  I'd hardly say 'every other post' was about blonde tournaments/merchandise etc.  I've only been here for a few months, but am 100% behind the blonde ventures and hope they do very well.  The 'spam' doesn't actually bother me at all but, if it did, I would see a few advertising messages on the forum as a very small price to pay for everything I have got, and continue to get, out of being a member of this community.

[TightEnd]

just worried theres too many people trying to make a killing from it,

chance would be a fine thing, just off to buy a new yacht.

[TightEnd]

and blonde isn't just the forum...there's masses of stuff on the main site, just so happens that the forum is very popular and the first port of call for most people