Visit Blue host hosted sites.

[boostgameplay]

www.markadrake.com -> blog
www.wpresence.com -> web design, dev, internet marketing, seo
www.onslaughtgd.com -> it will confuse you, it does everybody else - there's no public information here to see
www.boostgameplay.com -> thinking of reselling hosting plans directly to guilds for a few bucks, services for guild masters to set up a donation page for a certain amount of money, tools for guilds really

[boringsm]

I hope this is allowed, but if you all want to visit my site, it is http://www.BoringsMusicStudio.com

I appreciate comments and feedback (positive or negative) on my site, as I am trying to improve it all the time. I also would like help on how to use Frontpage 2003 to create "user profiles" where my students can log on to visit "private" things like billing, schedules, and practice assignments.

Thank you,
Kristin

:)

[dylanfalkhutchings]

lol my sites i have hosted on bluehost:
www.drownedbacon.com - flash/pivot portals
www.pivothost.org - over 2000 members pivot uploading site.
www.fileape.com - image hosting

[marinelife]

www.usmas.org
www.marinelifeweb.com
All Saltwater Related

[yourcribsite.com]

topsite for socialnetworks

www.topsocialsites.com

[pwillis]

this link will die as soon as I finish building the site but for now, you can take a look at my site (http://www.invisableworld.net/index_temp_b.html)and I'd appreciate any and all constructive feedback. :confused:

[mjasonprickett]

http://jayprickett.com:my main personal site and blog.

I had some other stuff set up, but I recently tore most all of it down. For example, I erased one of my WP installs (http://ofvarieddelights.com) and redirected that site to Tumblr, a neat little blogging tool that I love. I got rid of my unused MediaWiki install and a whole bunch of Fantastico stuff that I set up back when I was tryingout everything that Fantastico had to offer.

I also still have a half finished site (http://chadandlori.com) I did for my sisters wedding. She never gave me any copy to put up on the site so I never finished it. Probably tear it down soon.

[lauramba]

http://lauramba.com/
http://writingwhite.com/
http://laurascroggins.com/
http://lymelife.com/

Thank you BlueHost for affordable, dependable hosting.

[Korr]

SMF is fun and easy to use but Joomla still isn't doing quite what I want, oh well!

I've only been at this for a month or so, my sig shows what I've come up with so far.

[wooffi]

http://www.gardensoyvey.com/

Full functional site but forever under construction

[spullen]

check out http://boozrs.com
tell me what you think.

[BucHum]

Here's mine. Downstairz Entertainment (http://www.downstairzet.com) I dont come here much. I usually come by and read about Blue host updates. :)

[pwillis]

Nice site Buchum, I like the wallpaper! What exactly is it you do with your site?

[BucHum]

Thanks pwillis for checking out our site. Our site is to provide information about the music we do. We're a hip hop crew. We're trying to help people with free tutorials and any help they might have when trying to start a home studio related to hip hop music.

Pwillis, do you have a site I can check out? :) I think I miss your post while browsing through this thread.

[pwillis]

Hey BucHum,

Cool idea you have as there are many kids just starting out in the music business that need support groups. After all, it's one of the most difficult businesses to break into and succeed at.

My site's dedicated to the same type of service with the exception that it's a general focus whereas yours is targeting hip hop. Our site is still in several states of disrepair and many of the links are not set up as of this time but feel free to take a peek at it. (http://www.invisableworld.net/index_temp_b.html)

I've spent the last week trying to decide whether or not to use Joomla but I find it to be quite confusing. So far, everything I've done with our site has been done using Dreamweaver. There is a phpbb board which is operational but I'm about to convert it to SMF just bcz SMF is much easier to modify and for my money, it looks much better.

Good luck with you site and maybe somewhere down the road, we can work together.

[ActionWiring]

http://www.homeconstructionforum.com

Discuss home design, building, residential remodeling, and related topics.

[BucHum]

Hey BucHum,

Cool idea you have as there are many kids just starting out in the music business that need support groups. After all, it's one of the most difficult businesses to break into and succeed at.

My site's dedicated to the same type of service with the exception that it's a general focus whereas yours is targeting hip hop. Our site is still in several states of disrepair and many of the links are not set up as of this time but feel free to take a peek at it. (http://www.invisableworld.net/index_temp_b.html)

I've spent the last week trying to decide whether or not to use Joomla but I find it to be quite confusing. So far, everything I've done with our site has been done using Dreamweaver. There is a phpbb board which is operational but I'm about to convert it to SMF just bcz SMF is much easier to modify and for my money, it looks much better.

Good luck with you site and maybe somewhere down the road, we can work together.
Site looks good Pwillis. :D I like the layout a lot. I like the navigation of it also. It's good to see other people that are into music. Music is a good way to take a break from the world. Well it is for me anyways. haha. I'm running SMF and I like it a lot. Yeah for sure we can do something in the future, like maybe colloborate and try something new. :D

[freezzo]

I finally got my website up and running on my bluehost account. I built a website using rails and the idea of it is to help prevent the issue of linking to a website, and then someone tries to go there, and they get a page not found down the road. Anyway, you can check it out at:

http://www.freezzo.com

Comment and concerns are welcome!

[DannyTMurphy]

This site was created for really anyone I know, it included a forum to talk about anything and tons of pictures and videos of my random childhood.

~!!! www.DannyTMurphy.com !!!~

Here are some domains I have that are being worked on and also for sale.

www.honeynatch.com :D
www.bosstossing.com :rolleyes:
www.journeyboys.com ???
www.bluescreenteam.com :cool:
www.collegestay.com :eek:

[free2001]

I just re did this site please email me some feedback. Use the contact form on the site. Its for college students to post reviews on there teachers. Good so you can see what teachers to take.

whototake.com (http://www.whototake.com)

[lauramba]

Free2001 - clean design, uncluttered, easy to navigate. Good job

[blakeayers]

Whoaa. BlueHost rules!

My site - not finished at all. ha. To busy with school.

www.blakeayers.com

[free2001]

lauramba thanks for the good feedback :)

[hofmax]

I agree the college review site is very neat and uncluttered. I can't actually find where to read reviews:confused:

[charlesgan]

I just re did this site please email me some feedback. Use the contact form on the site. Its for college students to post reviews on there teachers. Good so you can see what teachers to take.

whototake.com (http://www.whototake.com)

think its better if you can show few of latest review on main page.
Or even some voting score for best voted teacher :rolleyes:

[jamesd116]

To All Music Lovers here is a link to my site anyone is welcome to visit.
If you like music come on and listen you can sign up its totally free with benefits that visitors do not get.
If you are an artist come on and create your free account.

http://www.4spotlight.com

[Webbie]

I have goofed around on some other sites...this is the first actaully jumping in to it a bit more... WordPress, it seems pretty flexible, just need to learn all the tricks...

http://www.nosparetime.net

[yourcribsite.com]

Check out this blue host hosted blog about briney spears www.brittanysblog.com

[omgwf]

we have a site for a game we play with friends

http://www.wf-gaming.net/

[jbladeus]

We were finally able to launch our new logo design service (http://www.logodesignnext.com/) which provides corporate identity solutions to small to mid-sized organizations.

[MBZcustoms]

I started my first site recently. The link is in my sig.

[wildlifedriver]

http://www.MyAfrica-site.com

We chat about what we see on some live africa web cams

Here is One of what I have seen, plenty pictures/movies from members :)

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/wildlifedriver/wmplayer2007-11-2416-31-08-93.jpg

[mikelouw]

^^^ Makes me feel homesick! I'm in Ireland now but was born and bred in that part of the world.

[abhi76]

Hi Friend,
I want to design like your main page of the site www.dongthapcomputer.com
And in the main page (in those 4 columns) I want to add content with links and images with updating daily
First, please tell me where to add these rows and columns
Second, If I can add them, will it be able to do is as I said above.

Thanks in advance

[Korr]

I'm loving Wordpress... really the simplest CMS I've used so far. I write a lot and my "organization" style is chaotic, so a bunch of wordpress sites on the various topics I'm interested in helps me keep track of my research and links of websites I find useful. BlueHost and Wordpress make the website building thing easy.

WebsiteBuilding (http://websitebuilding.biz)
Free College (http://freecollegeblog.com)
Gluten-Free on a Budget (http://glutenblog.com)

And in keeping with that topic there's the newer:
Gluten Wiki (http://glutenwiki.com)

[Antuans]

my site is.

www.clansirwarriors.com

is online gaming.

[saul]

This is my first site, used to be hosted at Comcast but outgrew it and had to move here. Love Bluehost.

http://www.spencerswebpage.com

This is a site we are working on currently, It is in the very beginning and has not been posted anywhere yet, but is a place for folks to submit their story so folks looking for this type of information can get it all in one place.

http://www.facesofsarcoma.com

[Early Out]

Saul, glad to see you over here! Just slumming? ;)

(We're both refugees from the Comcast forums.)

[saul]

Hey EO,

yeah, slumming is my middle name.:cool:

Had the site here since June 07, but had a problem with a submission form on the new faces... page and discovered the forums here when needing help, and got incredible help almost immediately. Hopefully someday I will learn enough and be able to return the favor and help some other folks in here.

[eddiemoth]

I have run two sites on Blue Host www.angkorthom.us and http://www.rchelicoptertown.com/forum/index.php I went from Microsoft and then Yahoo. So far I am OK with Blue Host.

[Crazy-Software]

Well I haven't seen any Candy Wrapping sites listed.....

So here is mine :)

http://www.crazy-software.com

Thanks for looking

[MBZcustoms]

It is great to be able to check out other ppl's sites!

[saul]

It is great to be able to check out other ppl's sites!


Nice work on the helmet and the bodies.

[MBZcustoms]

Nice work on the helmet and the bodies.

Hey, Thanks. I'm updating it with new stuff all the time.

[tempted]

tempted.ca ... work in progress.

[Jan R.]

Anyone interested in Parrots? Well, my website consists of the "Pionus Parrot"... take a look and yes I've been with Blue Host for a bit over 2 years now. :)

http://www.pionusparrot.com

[sev7en]

Hi to everyone and... nice to meet you from Italy :p


Soon you will get on your hands (and eyes) a now portal called Maccopoli all powered by Bluehost!


Soon (I guess so that now!) LOL



Cheers,

[DannyTMurphy]

I took the name www.HoneyNatch.com and turned it into a media forum for everyone, just a SFW place for people to share media. It's grown alot over the past 4 months, and this month I'm looking at close to 17000 page views. This is my first attempt at a site and it's going great.

Also thank you bluehost for the easy SMF Forum install. Makes my life easier everyday.

Since my first site mentioned above, I've been working on www.SheepFire.com, which is turning out to be my best work of art.

[tyler_bishop]

http://uslw.net Site for the Trainz Group I develope for.

[djohnson]

I have developed a weather web site called Cincy Weather for Cincinnati, Ohio. I create the weather forecasts too.

www.cincyweather.net

[wildlifedriver]

Anyone interested in Parrots? Well, my website consists of the "Pionus Parrot"... take a look and yes I've been with Blue Host for a bit over 2 years now. :)

http://www.pionusparrot.com

I have parrots visit my yard every day and love it .


http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/wildlifedriver/next/IMG_0508.jpg

I love watching them every day also animals at africa mY site www.myafrica-site.com (http://www.myafrica-site.com)

[Noble Chick]

Our move to Bluehost servers went flawlessly...
and right away we all noticed our site loads much faster...:D

Now we are wondering is there any Card Fanatics at Bluehost ???

We Host Sit n Play Prize tournament leagues at Two online sites

Hardwood/Silvercreek which requires a Lifetime membership

and VU Games/Hoyle which is a Free online game site

Come, sit n play its as easy as that, for a online Fun game of cards :D

Be sure to mention Bluehost

www.noblespaders.com

NC

[adz]

This is my games website I just moved to Bluehost, very impressed with the hosting, although I have found my site to be slightly slower, but that may be because Im in the UK so its probably faster for people a bit closer to the servers!

http://www.beanwebb.com

[Linda]

Visit my site. I've only been on line since August but Blue Host has answered all my questions.

[mapguy]

Vacation Rentals Portal: http://vacationcentric.com

[bobalania]

http://www.bobalania.com

[Vale_IT_Services]

OK, just joined with BH so far so good.

Here is my temp site whilst i build a full one.

http://www.valeitservices.com
http://www.valeitservices.co.uk

All criticism welcome.

Regards

Rob

[SilentlyScreaming]

My main blog can be found here (http://chrismerriman.com).
There is also it's little brother here (http://test.chrismerriman.com); though this is mainly used for testing out plugins, themes etc. before committing changes to the big blog.
I'll also post my other BH-hosted sites another day, but as there are 15 or so, I'll wait until you've visited my 'normal' site, don't want to wear people's fingers out ;)

[jansportw]

May as well join the fun and suggest you check out our site.

[TheeMahn]

I recently move 2 of my sites to bluehost 3 more will be moved as well, if you have a heavily viewed website bluehost's service is with out a doubt impeccable.

I am the creator of Ultimate Edition (http://ultimateedition.info/Ultimate_Edition_1.7/#screenshots) a linux distro based on Ubuntu Linux. <-- this site is not hosted through bluehost yet (already paid for the month, will be next month), however if you download it that site is hosted through bluehost I have seen up to 3/4 of a TB used in 1 day and has not gone down once. The software repository is also hosted through a separate bluehost account.

Check it out

EDIT: I will let all know that Bluehost could not handle the traffic even with 2 separate accounts on seperate IP's, but did indeed send out Terabytes of info in the week or 2 that I utilized their service and earn kudos for that. They were good about it and fully refunded my money, they are a great company. I have big traffic problems, something shared hosting can not handle (even times 5). Do not take my review as bad bluehost is great, tell them to add dedicated hosting ;)

TheeMahn

[HVG]

Hi people, Im pretty new to Bluehost, but I´m soon moving my website here. All I have now available are the LV Studios Forums (http://lvstudios.net/forum/) I would like if you guys take a look, and join us. I know most of you guys have forums already in your own websites, but think about it, you could meet more people and help others build a community and even enlarge your own. So please take a look at my website :D

See you all!!
www.lvstudios.net/forum/ ;)

[durodsmu]

Well, after some severe learning curves, I fianlly got a half decent website going:o . I used Web Easy Professional 7 and it was fairly user friendly for a newbie like me. I can see where the WYSIWYG is a little limited in what you can do, but for a beginner like me it's a huge blessing:rolleyes: . See what you think if you have a minute and give me any comments and/or suggestions you might have. Thanks :) .

Duane
http://durodsmusic.com

[Radiant2]

My new site is under construction but the blog is up :P

Here's the splash page and blog:

http://www.radiantspark.com
http://www.radiantspark.com/blog

they'll be done soon enough.

[7egend]

I like your blog layout Radiant2, and can't wait to see the rest of your site.

My site is for one of the businesses I run. which is;

http://www.estimatingsolutions.net

please if you have any suggestions, or see any mistakes on the site if you look at it tell me, and criticism is highly welcomed. I'm not a great website designer, but I have a lot of time invest in this layout and the html coding and such, and i want it to be perfect it, so bash it if you have something to bash it about so i can make it better.

Thanks.

[Radiant2]

I like the site layout you have, it's pretty clean. The only suggestion I'd have is to incorporate some web 2.0 goodness into it. I like to make my sites clean by gradients and rounded corners and ALOT of CSS :P

My layouts tend to look like this:
http://www.bubblesnaps.com/ ( this site is not mine this is just an example)

It's fairly easy to do with photoshop and if you want help in learning photoshop:
www.good-tutorials.com is probably the best site I've learned from.

[7egend]

yea i know how to do a little CSS and I am deccent at photoshop, Maya is more my Forte when it comes to graphic design. But I am more of a die hard old school person if you can tell...tables tables tables...and BAM 2 iframes :)

but I've been looking into CSS a little more for the entire design, not jst styling the links and fonts of a regular HTML page. Infact I have been tweaking a layout using CSS and xhtml for about a month now, I'll have to upload it and show it to you to see what you think about it.

But it uses the now trendy gradiants, and <div></div> tags that are becomming popular among website designers.

Plus the great thing about it is the content is easily crawled by google and other bots, which websites show better relevance when searching for things. So i can see why so many people are trying to convert over to it.

But it will be hard to break the habit of building tables from scratch for menus and setting an iframe in the middle for content so you only have to edit content frames instead of making changes to every page of the site when you update a single link in your navigation.

Thanks for your comment on my site though, greatly appreciated.

[googknow]

Hi
I am new customer here , my site City24mart.com (http://City24mart.com) for Vietnamese people only, but I have plan to build another site to sell good made from vietnam for international customer. How do you think?

[7egend]

Why don't you just combine the two sites into one and have the vietnamese goods for international customers instead of having one site of vietnamese goods for vietnamese, and another site for vietnamese goods for international customers. Seems like no matter what your target audience would be the same, plus you are splitting your customer base in half by having 2 sites, where you can have one and have your full customer base, which would cut down on updating times, which inturn saves you money, cause your time is money.

As for the site, i don't like being mean or anything, but it seems somewhat bland, and the hotlinking the picture from another site "the hot girl" I wouldn't suggest doing that, the person who owns the picture could rename it and you would end up with a dead picture on your front page which makes it look like you do not maintain your site. Which could hurt business.

All in all you have a good site though, you have a target audience with a specific interest. Hope you make a lot of money :)

[soundboy]

http://www.indytronic.com/ is the site of my record label.

I have been hosting it on Bluehost since 2005. I use Mambo/Joomla for the CMS.

We use it for selling CD's, Downloads, Streaming Audio, Forum and more.

[MoNSt3r]

http://www.sizzledcore.com is my technology blog :)

It's on Bluehost since July 2005, and I've very happy to be here.

[MoNSt3r]

http://www.kreeminals.com/images/xmuv4v3tm1qmngjwptr.jpg

Finally, after months of research, I'm finally done with my list of some of the most amazing projects in Dubai.

Check it out: http://www.sizzledcore.com/2008/03/26/24-amazing-future-projects-of-dubai/

Enjoy! :)

[anthonysfilmreview]

I've joined BlueHost this past February so that I could put up a personal amateur movie review web site: Anthony's Film Review (http://www.anthonysfilmreview.com). :)

[googknow]

Why don't you just combine the two sites into one and have the vietnamese goods for international customers instead of having one site of vietnamese goods for vietnamese, and another site for vietnamese goods for international customers. Seems like no matter what your target audience would be the same, plus you are splitting your customer base in half by having 2 sites, where you can have one and have your full customer base, which would cut down on updating times, which inturn saves you money, cause your time is money.

As for the site, i don't like being mean or anything, but it seems somewhat bland, and the hotlinking the picture from another site "the hot girl" I wouldn't suggest doing that, the person who owns the picture could rename it and you would end up with a dead picture on your front page which makes it look like you do not maintain your site. Which could hurt business.

All in all you have a good site though, you have a target audience with a specific interest. Hope you make a lot of money :)

Thanks 7egend for your comment, my site is still in design phase , so that reason you see only some demo products and pictures.
And I want to split 2 sites because of many different things such as payment methods and delivery methods b/w local and international customer, example with local customers , they usually accept only COD payment or bank transfer method or some special method which maybe make confuse for international customers.
Anyway , I am actually new in this market ( E-Commerce ) , so I always appreciate all people comments and eager to learn from your experience .
Thanks a lot.

[kegski]

Just wanted to post the link to my blog.

It's still fledgling, but I'm quite proud of it. I'm learning so much simply from modifying the wordpress theme!

Accidental Mommies (http://www.accidentalmommies.com)

Thanks for looking!

[dcg]

My first Bluehost website built in Joomla.

The MIT-Portugal Program is a large-scale international collaboration involving MIT and government, academia, and industry in Portugal to develop education and research programs related to engineering systems.

http://www.mitportugal.org

[cedward453]

I just installed 1 on 1 domain and the other on another domain as tests and for learning each. I am guessing that they are "scripts" based... Will the spiders follow...?

Thanks in advance for any input.
Ed

http://cholesterolssilverbullet.com/
http://www.online-photo-albums.com/

[diveteam]

Here is my first BH site www.travelshorts.com it is a wordpress travel journal site.

Mark

[goldensea80]

My website is http://cuoi.hoibi.net
Uhm, yeah it's a jokes website in Vietnamese but I am going to release an English version soon

[Internet Marketing Badger]

One of my Bluehost hosted sites is an Internet marketing blog where I rant a lot about all things Internet related:

http://www.internetmarketingbadger.com

Unfortunately it's a WordPress blog and I just saw in another thread that Bluehost won't be offering support for Fantastico up ahead - so how am I going to keep my blog secure now? Hosting providers need to understand that not everybody is a programmer type. A lot of us are writers or marketers or designers who have to push our way through a huge amount of technical information just to start launching basic sites, and Fantastico made installing WordPress blogs extremely simple.

They're encouraging people to install using SimpleScripts instead, which I'm sure will be fine for new blogs - but what about those of us who have older blogs and need continual support for the latest WordPress updates due to ongoing security issues with each version of WordPress?

Bums me out! :)

Jennifer

[Early Out]

... but what about those of us who have older blogs and need continual support for the latest WordPress updates due to ongoing security issues with each version of WordPress?Well, you're certainly not going to get the latest WordPress updates from Fantastico! That's why BH is ditching Fantastico - Fantastico is always a few versions behind on everything.

[Internet Marketing Badger]

Hi Early Out,

So the solution is to leave users who have older blogs installed with Fantastico completely high and dry? From what I understand it isn't that simple to switch over to a manual or SimpleScripts installation once your blog has been set up using Fantastico. Fantastico might be a few months behind with updates, but it does seem to get there eventually. For us Fantastico users that's better than nothing! :) Because it seems like if you completely phase out Fantastico you're going to have thousands of users who have installed WPress with Fantastico and from then on - if I understand this correctly - they will never be able to update to a newer version unless they do so manually or reinstall using SimpleScripts. Is that correct?

I'm just speaking for the many, many bloggers like me who aren't talented with manual installs and have hosted our sites at Bluehost solely for your Fantastico install being available for WordPress blogs.

If you check out the Internet marketing forums, there are TONS of us.

So I'm just asking if we'll be given any help or support in the future for dealing with our blogs and keeping them secure? I would think that this would interest Bluehost because don't you want sites hosted here to remain secure?

Believe me, I like Bluehost, but I'm concerned about this whole Fantastico issue and the ease of migration to updating my blogs using something else. You need to let your current users know about your plans to phase out Fantastico, too - because I for one have brought you some new hosting signups as an affiliate solely because people were looking for good hosting that also had the Fantastico install for WordPress blogs - and they're not going to be happy.

Jennifer

[Early Out]

For openers, this is a user-to-user forum, not a BH support site. The moderators here are not affiliated with BH in any way. So, we can't answer for what BH has done, or is going to do.

It's my understanding that BH will be providing a migration path to go from Fantastico to SimpleScripts. There are some threads on here that describe how to do it yourself, and it's just not a big deal. But even if they don't provide an automated migration script, installing WordPress is simple enough that you really shouldn't need any hand-holding to do it manually.

[Korr]

Yeah I've managed to upgrade my 2.3 Fantastico installs to 2.5 with the manual upload/upgrade.

Its not terribly difficult, just make a backup and follow the directions from wordpress.org. It is tedious, but that just reminded me how nice it was to have an auto-install to begin with.

[serendipityrose]

It took me awhile to get it all together but I've finally *launched* my site into the cyber world. While it is done I know that there will always be MORE work to do to it. I welcome any suggestions!

If you are intersted in writing an article about alternative learning please see the FAQ section for more info.

Rose
:)

[AviAtriX]

Hello all .. this is my site :) http://zetox.net

[anthonysfilmreview]

AviAtriX, your site looks neat. Hope you get plenty of visitors. :)

[BearState]

I just added a PHPBB3 forum to my site for all sorts of artists to confer, hobnob and hold exchanges.

Originally intended to be a purely advertising site, I am revamping it to cater to the Art Community, Artists of all kinds, Art Aficianados and folks who just want to take a look.

My main site link is in my Sig ...

Here's a direct path to the BB ...

http://avenuesplus.com/xphpbb3/index.php

Brian

Enjoy the forum.

[jenny4]

BearState, can you tell me PHPBB3 is better or vbulletin?

[Early Out]

PHPBB3 is free, vBulletin costs money. vBulletin tends to consume more resources (more CPU), so it can be a problem on a BH account.

[colum]

This is my site:
http://thelostworld.us

[brand]

Blog that is regularly updated with different inspirational stories ideas to help you to stay focus and motivated in life.

www.inspirational-board.com

[charlesgan]

PHPBB3 is free, vBulletin costs money. vBulletin tends to consume more resources (more CPU), so it can be a problem on a BH account.

.. but i love vbulletin so much. After using it, i refuse to get back to phpbb or smf.

thinking to get the vbseo pack.. costly too. not sure its effective in seo or not. any comment?

[newUser88111]

It sounds to me like BH may be getting in over their heads with support tickets over so called "simple matters" and by starting this forum they are hoping users can help other users with these problems and relieve some of the load.

I like the idea but I believe this isn't going to happen without the completely pointless talk around the water cooler. That's how relationships built, and trust is established. People need time to be established and it saddens me that the completely pointless crap is not welcome here.

Also, by just recently opening the forum community, they should want to foster open discussion and customer involvement regarding the forum itself. That way it quickly molds itself around the personality of its users. Giving the early community members that sense of involvment which creates the bond.

Dave

Heres my theory what you said: The whole problem is due to the nature of threaded messageboards themselves. You see, someone has most likely already answered someones question, however, it is buried in some link 75 pages deep. As a result, everything is asked over and over again, which makes the admins & moderaters Jaded, and you start seeing all of those "READ THIS BEFORE POSTING" messages. This makes the support tickets grow, and pretty soon you are in the website equivalent of the DMV!!

which is why I agree with you that water-cooler talk is very much needed, because only there are people not afraid to "be a Newbie".

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Heres my theory what you said:.....You're responding to a two-and-a-half-year-old post by a banned user. :rolleyes:

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