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No it is not finished. Only if people would stop attacking each other and get back on topic with the original discussion.
I think everything the elf said in his very long post was true. The clients of a free hosting service will never understand what we have to go through to keep the majority of the clients happy. Even though it may seem like we don't care about the users we get just because we are getting nothing in return, in fact we do. Nobody want's people to loose all interest in their business.
Even though I get nothing tangeble in return for my free hosting service, it does draw traffic to my site, and also makes my forum community rather active.
I keep my service clean by manually accepting users, not by an automatic sign-up. And I also have rules and any people that break them will have their account removed. It is as simple as that.
When the user has gotten everything that is stated on the tos and the rules, then I believe they have no right to complain. For example: Say that a site says they have a 98% uptime each month, then one day they are going to do some maintenance on the connection, so they shut the server down for an hour. Immediatly the administrator will begin to get flooded with emails of clients complaining that the service is down. Even if it was posted that there would be a small ammount of downtime every month. Even if there was an announcement made on the board or whatever.
I think many of the users have one thing in common that causes a problem. They don't read everything well. They take things for grantit and expect things withought actually looking.
No it is not finished. Only if people would stop attacking each other and get back on topic with the original discussion.
I think everything the elf said in his very long post was true. The clients of a free hosting service will never understand what we have to go through to keep the majority of the clients happy. Even though it may seem like we don't care about the users we get just because we are getting nothing in return, in fact we do. Nobody want's people to loose all interest in their business.
Even though I get nothing tangeble in return for my free hosting service, it does draw traffic to my site, and also makes my forum community rather active.
I keep my service clean by manually accepting users, not by an automatic sign-up. And I also have rules and any people that break them will have their account removed. It is as simple as that.
When the user has gotten everything that is stated on the tos and the rules, then I believe they have no right to complain. For example: Say that a site says they have a 98% uptime each month, then one day they are going to do some maintenance on the connection, so they shut the server down for an hour. Immediatly the administrator will begin to get flooded with emails of clients complaining that the service is down. Even if it was posted that there would be a small ammount of downtime every month. Even if there was an announcement made on the board or whatever.
I think many of the users have one thing in common that causes a problem. They don't read everything well. They take things for grantit and expect things withought actually looking.
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You can make all the personal attacks against me all you want, if that makes your mission to bring free users more rights. It won't do you any good, because we hosts have the final say in the matter anyway. What we (hosts) say goes, you should have figured that out a long time ago. When you pay for the service, then the ball is on your side. When YOU pay, then WE listen and are slaves. When you don't, we DON'T listen nor care about you. Do I care about the homeless guy down the road?? No. Do I care about my paid customers?? Yes. In this example the homeless guy is the free user-base, and the paid customer.. is well.. a paying customer.
