I guess after 5 yrs, I should atleast give a response. If you want my reasoning I'll give it to you..
Do you remember when this site started out? It started out on borrowed bandwidth. One fellow mustang lover let another borrow some space. It quickly outgrew the space that could be borrowed so Dan had to go out on his own, I respect that. Dan did alot of work to get this site to where it is. A bunch of us found this place and it was a friendly mustang web site. Well, bandwidth cost money and so there had to be advertisement, people complaining that it takes longer to load.. I understand completely. I was willing to pay a yearly fee to help cover the expenses(if asked) but I doubted many others would. I absolutely love this forum! I kinda resent you making assumptions on my comment "This place started out a friendly mustang board", I didn't say it wasn't now. This forum is a close knit family and I've made many many close friends here. The members are still very friendly, some of the best folks that I've found on the web. I have a problem with the fact that the other mustang sites(that could actually help members here) are being blocked. It appears to me that this site is going from mustang lover helping mustang lover to full out commerical, this is the only place, noone else can help you, its either 'here or there' kinda place. I can't change it, its not my forum and I'm not asking anyone to change anything but.. I won't be a part of something like that.. the other sites don't block the MustangWorks, I checked!
If I want to help someone and tell them that
www.crutchfield.com is the best car audio place online I've dealt with... I don't think it should be blocked unless its in direct competition with an advertiser, which I understand(but don't really like). That is something I can live with, if it happens to be something on the corral(that can help a fellow mustang lover).. I feel the same way.
Blocking other mustang sites because?? I don't get it. I did a search on the other mustang sites for mustangworks and guess what, the other sites all have links to the mustangworks in thier post. I don't think the members of this site should go through life with blinders on because they happen to have found, in my opinion, the best damn mustang site out there.
As far as the cookie thing, I'm not going to get into that.. I think you know where I stand on that. I may be wrong but it just don't add up.
Do you know what I have to do to make a post on this board, I really don't understand this either. I have to log on, type my post, submit, log on again, hit 'back' twice and submit.. and hope I don't have to retype or log on again. I don't have to do this on the other boards.
If Dan can make money and/or get free parts, I don't begrudge him in the least for doing so. Heck, if I were him I'd feel like I deserved it for all the blood, sweat and tears(time and money).
To me it comes down to principle, mustang lover helping mustang lover. When did this change?