maximus
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posted April 04, 2008 03:29 AM
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everyman has a price. hehehe
wee
You know that is correct every man has his price, how much will it take?
But you know there are just some things in life that are priceless.
I would hope you would not sell your kid or your old lady out, I would hope you have some value in your life that you would not sell everything that has meaning to you.
Every man has his price, but not every man has pride brother, just depends where you draw the line, if you draw a line.
  
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stevewfl
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posted April 04, 2008 03:33 AM
well said-
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Sticks_n_Stones
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posted April 04, 2008 04:41 AM
No, I don't believe everyman has his price. A truly, truly happy and content man or woman, given enough time to think it over, could honestly tell you "No Thank You" to ANY offer if it involved them becoming something that they werent before.
And then you have those stubborn yet honorable souls that will use different words and a finger gesture to tell you the same thing. Just because they dont like you.  I think Fish falls into the latter category.
I do kinda feel guilty about the owners missing out on a potential payday though. For no loads like me who don't give them any $$ for the use of this quality site. Guess it's time to buy another Bikeland hat. Ordering it now Fish!
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fish_antlers
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posted April 04, 2008 03:14 PM
a billion? perhaps not... but a jillion? now you're talking 
heck... just got ANOTHER Verticalscope spam begging me to come back... this time from R1-Forums...
quote:
Hello, fish_antlers!
We've noticed that you've not been active on R1-Forum.Com for quite some time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and much much more?
If you don't remember your password, you can request it here:
http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/login.php?do=lostpw
We hope to see you soon
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MAXIMUS
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posted April 05, 2008 01:48 AM
Mr Fish you leaving us?
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SilverD
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posted April 05, 2008 05:26 AM
Heehee ... I got one from Kawiforums the other day as well, now I know why....
I figure it's just the pendulum swinging back and forth, and this "buying up" will result in a surge of new enthusiast driven sites if the rest of the world shares the opinions here.....
quote:
a billion? perhaps not... but a jillion? now you're talking
heck... just got ANOTHER Verticalscope spam begging me to come back... this time from R1-Forums...
quote:
Hello, fish_antlers!
We've noticed that you've not been active on R1-Forum.Com for quite some time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and much much more?
If you don't remember your password, you can request it here:
http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/login.php?do=lostpw
We hope to see you soon
Kindest Regards
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nabrxx
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posted April 05, 2008 10:02 PM
Well....for a jillion...I guess anyone would sell. This site is certainly worth more.
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posted April 05, 2008 11:48 PM
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Heehee ... I got one from Kawiforums the other day as well, now I know why....
I figure it's just the pendulum swinging back and forth, and this "buying up" will result in a surge of new enthusiast driven sites if the rest of the world shares the opinions here.....
quote:
a billion? perhaps not... but a jillion? now you're talking
heck... just got ANOTHER Verticalscope spam begging me to come back... this time from R1-Forums...
quote:
Hello, fish_antlers!
We've noticed that you've not been active on R1-Forum.Com for quite some time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and much much more?
If you don't remember your password, you can request it here:
http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/login.php?do=lostpw
We hope to see you soon
Kindest Regards
R1-Forum.Com
http://www.r1-forum.com/
I got the same email from Kawi-forums. I don't even remember joining? Fish did you sell me out biatch!?
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stevewfl
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posted April 09, 2008 06:54 AM
Hello, stevewfl!
We've noticed that you've not been active on 600RR.net for quite some
time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and
much much more?
If you don't remember your password, you can request it here:
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posted April 09, 2008 09:07 AM
so sad.
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vozizm
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posted April 14, 2008 01:56 AM
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so sad.
indeed!
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thekaz
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posted April 15, 2008 02:32 AM
I just got some of those but if the site is full of squids,fucktards,adverts and begging emails then ya see yas 
I'll stick with BikeLand and ADV thank you very much
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kz2zx
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posted April 15, 2008 10:35 AM
 Edited By: kz2zx on 15 Apr 2008 17:36
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VerticalScope seems to be sucking up enthusiast born forums of automotive/powersports, technologies and general sports topics to create some sort of self serving, monolithic, advertising opportunity.
These to links seem to kinda define their "goals".
http://www.verticalscope.com/aboutus/acquisitions.html
http://www.verticalscope.com/aboutus/ouredge.html
After just a brief visit to some of their latest acquisitions, it seems that they all look strikingly similar. One can only assume that there will be slow "sterilization" of editorial content to make it more appealing to potential advertisers.
If I were one of the former owner, administrator or even moderator of one of these forums, I'd puke everytime I'd open a forum. I'm pretty sure VS would lock me out within 48 hours.
They deleted the one-and-only post I put on R6MN the day they converted it, where I said it was too much commercial crap for me to want to stay.
There are a few refuges left.
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Big Daddy
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posted April 21, 2008 08:56 AM
Damn happy this hasen't happened to zx-10r.net
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OddDuc
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posted May 06, 2008 07:21 PM
Well, the anvil has finally dropped on DucatiMonster.org. I saw their closed for remodeling sign and knew it was finally time. Sure enough it happened like all before it and the bickering and bitchfest has started. Hopefully it and all other VS boards dry up and fade away. They have themselves so broadly based and commercially supported it will take a great many people upset enough to cease posting and avoid purchasing anything from it's advertisers to hurt them.
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fish_antlers
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posted May 10, 2008 11:00 AM
as always bikeland.org remains independent & we support freedom of speech .... bummer about the sellouts 
lame.
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stevewfl
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posted May 17, 2008 03:52 AM
stevewfl! We miss you!
Hello, stevewfl!
We've noticed that you've not been active on 600RR.net for quite some
time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and
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Kindest Regards
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fish_antlers
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posted May 19, 2008 03:05 PM
got about a dozen emails this week from them.... 
quote:
Hello, fish_antlers!
We've noticed that you've not been active on R1-Forum.Com for quite some time now, and we miss you!
Could we not tempt you back?
Did you know we have Bike of the Month, Contests, Tech Articles and much much more?
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