Respectable Manndude,
Q1. If provider is more then 2 year old and you can find company/address details in google then why need to disable whois privacy of domain? (Eg: If whois privacy is disabled due to spamming issue and hijacking issue?)
Q2. 25 Minumum post: Why need to post to many spam post/replies before posting a offer?
Thanks,
Waiting for your reponse.
Good questions.
For starters, private WhoIS on a
business doesn't look very good. Especially when you can get a PO Box for cheap. Not sure what the price or equivalent is over there, but I know here a PO Box address can be had for a few bucks a month, so no need to use your home or office address. The other details such as your email address shown in private whois I'd just make a special inbox for that mail anyway. "
[email protected]" and just check it once a week or so. Really this is debatable, but enforced mainly to prevent pop-up out of nowhere type hosts from running pump and dump operations.
The minimum required posts? That's just to prevent people from coming here, posting an offer, and then leaving. I don't consider the amount to be too high, really. I'm active on a forum for my locale that required 50 posts or more, or to become a site-support ($15 donation) to be able to post in their buy/sell/trade forum. No big deal, just added to the conversation for the next week or two where I could until I could frequent those forums. (Even though I later did become a site-supporter anyhow, just feels good to support sites/projects you benefit from). In short, don't 'spam' the site. If you make responses like, "Yes I agree, me too" that's not adding to the conversation.
vpsBoard is a small but growing community, the rules requiring a minimum of 25 posts to make an offer thread, and seven days + 5 additional posts to create another offer thread is so providers who come here to solicit their business give back to the community by
hopefully being helpful, responding to things with insight, and generally to just prevent those who make the minimum post count and just return week after week to post an offer and leave. Besides, posting on the forum is also good for your business as you can show off your knowledge and by showcasing just how helpful you can be. That looks good. A visitor browsing the site who may be interested in hosting is more likely to go with someone he sees that has been helpful in the community than someone just offering some cheap VPS. That's how I used to choose providers back in my WHT days. "Oh wow, this guy has answered my questions in a couple threads and really seems to know his stuff" = new customer.
