I'm sorry you didn't receive a reply to your followup question. I apologize. Please understand that the administrators receive hundreds of emails and private messages every month. We try our best to respond to all of them, but sometimes one or two get by us.
Additionally, each week, there are no less than 10 attempts by businesses who post self serving reports about themselves as a way to get free advertising. There is a very fine line between what you posted and what they would have posted about themselves. If we allow one company to do it, then we have to allow every one to do it. Talk of the Villages would be full of nothing but glowing comments about ones own business. Then why would anybody pay for advertising if they can get it for free.
This past week I removed a first time post from a person that said, "...... #### ####### is a great painter, does a wonderful job and loves to paint and her number is ###-####." Guess who posted that!
Keeping track of all of this is like being a chicken catcher at a poultry farm.
But, that's what our job is, making this a great place to visit and learn about The Villages.
We are not out to screw anybody. We want this to be a good forum with good people and good reliable information. We also want it to make a profit so we can continue to pay our bills and subsidize us for the hundreds of hours we put in every month administering it. Just the server alone on which TOTV resides, is over $1,000 a year rent.
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Originally Posted by Indy-Guy
Not long ago I submited a thread in which I recommended a compamy named Idine which is a discount club that offers discounts at resturants all over the country. Several here in The Villages that many of you that dine out regularly would find interesting.
This thread was taken off and an email was sent to me by Tony stating that this was clearly an advertisement. I sent a reply sating that this was a thread was from a person who who had used this service for over 15 years and had found it very money saving and thought that people here would like to take advantage of this savings. I also stated that I had no personal interest in this company and that I would not make a dime of any one that would join Idine. I also asked how I should have presented this thought in a different manor.
I never heard from anyone from TOV.
Below is a copy of what I was sent by TOV>
Good day,
Your post on Indine is clearly a free advertisement for Indine. Therefore, I removed it.
We sell advertising on our forum.
Tony Zona, Administrator
Let this be said that I have enjoyed Talk Of The Villages for over a couple of years and hope to enjoy it for some time and truly beleive it to be a great tool of information of The Villages and will continue to look here for information.
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