VS/DML sabotage

[EvilSteve]

Good one Pak!

[gnostic203]

Personally, I wouldn't have found this place without the posts over on the old site (thanks NateDog).  However seeing how sucky the old site is and how familiar this place is I say screw them and let them die their own death.  Karmatic retribution is a beeyoch and they will probably have plenty of it.  Me?  I'll keep my plate clean.

[B.Rock]

" Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"

-- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

And what rough post, its hour come round at last
Slouches toward the dml to be born?

[SacDuc]

So um . . . let's be straight, the DML is now a revenue center. It only fails is if it fails to bring in advertising dollars. The only ways you as a consumer can limit the revenue this website brings in are:

1) DO NOT VISIT THE SITE. Hits are what the people selling the ad space point to when they are trying to convince a company to give them money.

2) Contact the companies who advertise on the DML and let them know that, as long as they continue to be part of the force that destroyed a part of the moto community you enjoyed, you will not purchase product from their company. Its called a boycott and it doesn't work if companies are not made aware.

Perhaps you could say something like, oh, I don't know:

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To the Sales Department -

I am a motorcycle enthusiast and I own a [insert your bike(s)]. Recently, a part of the online motorcycle community I enjoyed was turned from a resource for motorcyclists into a profit center for a corporation. Because of this I am no longer willing to support companies who continue advertise on the website www.ducatimonster.org and I can no longer in good conscience recommend your company to my fellow riders as I believe the actions taken at www.ducatimonster.org are a detriment to the motorcycling community as a whole. Should your support of www.ducatimonster.org cease I will consider your company when deciding where to purchase motorcycle related products in the future.

Thank you for your time.

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If companies receive enough emails like this may may start spending their advertising dollars elsewhere. And you could send it to the companies who advertise on the DML such as, oh say:

sales@motowheels.com
info@denniskirk.com
rick@hotbodiesracing.com
sales@tobefast.com
sales@d2moto.com
mailto:info@cliffscyclerevolution.com
sales@speedymoto.com


Some folks make it harder to send them negative feed back:

http://www.desmoworks.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us
http://www.lubedealer.com/gviv/contact.aspx
http://www.motorcycle.com/forum/sendmessage.php
http://www.superbiketoystore.com/sport/shop.php/contact-us/i_2.html
http://www.braketech.com/contact_us.php

I clicked the links so you wouldn't have to. Copy and paste is your friend.   wt:

However, you should only do this if you actually mean it. For example, I would never tell motowheels that I wouldn't buy from them for advertising on the DML. They have give me good service in the past and I think Martin is a nice guy. And I didn't even include cacyclewerks on that list because I (and everyone I know) have received nothing less than great service and Chris is a huge asset to the CA moto community. But I certainly won't try any company I'm not familiar with. Have I mentioned I love the consumer side of the free market economy? 

[Scottish]

OK so who is Doc Simmons?  ;:| Talk about ambushed!!! That was the nastiest link I've ever seen!!!!  wt:

[aaronb]

anybody need a hogan's heros avatar?    ;:|

[DJ]

+11ty billion

Same here. I'm over it and have a new home now.

I have renamed all the locations on my personal site though so the How-To links that I submitted will no longer work (and if they change their links to get to the info....)

[Ducatiloo]

I don't think they care.   It's not like the owners ride, so content is no big deal, just statistics to sell ad space.

Their new Mods might care, but that doesn't bother the owners one bit.

It's on autopilot.

+1 but the "ADMIN" still won't tell us what kind of bike he rides...... HEY I GOT A POINT! ;:|

[Rameses]

OK so who is Doc Simmons?  ;:| Talk about ambushed!!! That was the nastiest link I've ever seen!!!!  wt:

The best part is that the admin there doesn't realize that changing the text on the link doesn't change the url that's associated with it.

[Scooter Montgomery]

OK so who is Doc Simmons?  ;:| Talk about ambushed!!! That was the nastiest link I've ever seen!!!!  wt:

That was nasty. I think I threw up a little.

[Mad Duc]

And what rough post, its hour come round at last
Slouches toward the dml to be born?

That's actually a really good adaptation. Kudos.

[Duck-Stew]

or

just move on

no reason to go back to a sinking ship to plant more charges

it is over

it is dead

and we are here

let that anger and frustration go

IMHO...  We won already because we got our new playground and they ended up with a withering url & old memories/posts.

Let it go folks.... No need to 'Nixon' the thing...it's dead.

[factorPlayer]

Not everyone can walk away so easily.  The urge is strong.

[B.Rock]

That's actually a really good adaptation. Kudos.

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.