# ROAST!! **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 4, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/roast/125958 "2009-07-04T10:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![roast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/roast/32/5498_2.png) [@roast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/roast)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/roast/125958/14 "2009-07-04T20:23:22Z")
> [@BALLLLLIN!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/balllllin/22887/26): > > I would have put this in front office but i cant start a new thread! > all you do is come on for a minute and closed threads. > > in a thead you just closed the man father owns a (big) shop with about 5 workers. like others they trying to get business up, which honestly they doing great during these hard times. WHY does he have to talk to bing or whomever to do a group buy for painting cars… so nobody else can make money like bing unless he gets something out of it? > > you close alot of threads for stupid ass reasons. i notice alot that when ppl start making a lil money on here Bing and whomever starts to push them to get vendor status and pay SON something. i was even mentioned months ago in a thread that SON is turning into a cash grab and its looking more and more like the truth! > > DONT get me wrong membership fees for member section is understandable. > > thats my rant and opinion!! Junior, I don’t know what to say. Honestly, I’ve closed a few thread where someone is trying to make a buck by posting an ad for a business. We’re in a tough economy and not only has my company laid off employee’s, my friends are now being let go. I understand that we need to pull together to ride out the financial downturn and I would love to help struggling business out but we’ve made a commitment to our current Vendors to give them advertising services (own forum, banners, group buys, etc) at [son240sx.org](http://son240sx.org). The fact that I closed/moderated his thread is well within reason to keep our current Vendors happy. We’re the premier 240sx community for Southern Ontario, we have top notch vendors who satisfy each and every customer with professional service. We have thousands of registered users and we have users who exclusively come to SON to buy parts. Our vendors are visited, contacted and used by SON. We want to keep them happy as they add to the community. Your buddy, krayzie94 can talk to Bing/Mike/Gautam to become a vendor, I PM’d him and let him what I did and why. He know’s to contact Bing or Mike to become a vendor and can explore if SON is a fit for his business. > [@New RS6 Avant](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-rs6-avant/22924/18): > > Thanks a lot, Junior. > > There’s no use fighting it, if that’s how things are then I’ll let it be. > > I just figured I wouldn’t be doing any harm, because as far as I can see, there are no other body shops advertised on SON so I wouldn’t be stealing business for anybody who has paid for advertising. > > I’ve contacted “roast” about becoming a “Vendor” on SON. > > He needs to do a better job moderating this place though, my thread was up for a while before being closed. > > Once again, thanks for bringing attention to what has happened. > > In my opinion, he’s taking away from the SON240SX community by doing this. For the most part, no harm done. I don’t think our current vendors would lose direct revenue by advertising a group buy on paint jobs because, you’re right, none of them are in that business. If your ad re-directed potential revenue away from, let’s say an SR swap, then yes, you did harm their business. If you become a vendor, it’s up to you to market your product and pull business in off this site. We’ll provide banners, forums, group buys, etc. But, you have to make sure SON is the right fit for a body shop. There’s too much on SON for one person to solely moderate. If I enforced every single rule, I’d have a third full time job. You have to understand, each one of the admins work full time and volunteer our free/spare time to run this website [read: none of us get paid.] I can see your intentions are good but maybe you were a little over zealous. If you took your thought process one step further and put our current sponsors/vendors shoes on, I don’t think you would have made your group buy post without contacting an admin. > [@a fore-warning: bust in north carolina](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-fore-warning-bust-in-north-carolina/20973/66): > > In MY opinion, we should be able to express our opinions freely. Like we are doing right now. > > How long before he locks this? 😛 You opinion is welcome, same with Junior’s and anyone else. We setup the front desk so that people could express their concerns with SON. How the community perceives you is none of my business. If you come off as unprofessional, that’s your problem, not mine. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/roast/125958)._