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No one is interested in contributing to this site. We invited several 'expert level' members to have their own forum, provide tips and answer questions and all of them declined. We had a POTM contest every month, until not one single picture was submitted, two months in a row. We had a TOTQ contest, until every single tank that won ended up crashing, or being shut down soon after, only to have the contest be labeled as cursed. We had the resignation of several moderators, which piled more work into the remaining ones. We had massive complaints from paying Vendors about members who were constantly selling frags. We changed the buy and sell rules to favour the Vendors, which then ticked off the members. We lost major Vendors as paying sponsors to free media sites like Facebook. We've got members who don't even know how to upload pictures because they have no idea how to navigate BB sites, are use to instant picture uploads to social media sites, and can't be bothered to learn. We've got hundreds of thousands of pictures lost to Photobucket because of their new 'pay to use' bullshit. We were promised a New Canreef platform that was a hybrid of BB, Facebook and other social media sites, that would be easier to contribute to, and instantly share pics, locations, tags etc, only to have its development completely aborted 2 years ago. We had Alberta's oil field employment nose dive, and we lost a ton of contributing members to that. Most newer members think growing and selling coral is going to make them a ton of money, and are in the hobby for profit (haha fools), they are more than welcome to use here, FB Coral Hoarders and other FB pages to sell stuff.
The buy and sell guidelines were discussed at length when they were written, and we are fine with the location being either in the title, in the thread, or the sellers profile. |
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Thanks for the explanation. Seems like wheelman fits right into this description based on his post history. Sad to see where the hobby has gone. Back to lurker mode. |
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From the guy, that out of the last 12 posts started, 11 were buy and sell Hmmmmm......... Complaining about buy and sell locations Hmmmmm......... Last edited by davej; 04-21-2019 at 07:07 PM. |
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11 sales posts posted over 10 years....Did you even take the time to look at that? Im refering to "We had massive complaints from paying Vendors about members who were constantly selling frags." Pretty much sums up wheelman? Obviously uses canreef as a "vendor" platform without being a vendor. |
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Go and try to find some of the stuff Wheelman and others are offering. Quality vendor offerings are few and far between in my opinion, or so overpriced as to not be an option for myself. It's nice to be able to find quality corals close to home at a reasonable price. And to be honest, how many guys do you think are actually making anything more than funds to plough back into the hobby? |
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Coquitlam bc
I love wheelmans corals except the guy can’t tell yellow from green.
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Wheelman has some beauties! I can nvr get out there with my kids daycare pickup schedule
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I would have agreed with you until recent events that occurred...I’m not so sure he is the one that can’t distinguish between yellow and green any more.
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You guys are having fun, huh?
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