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veteran said:
......and all the while B&B gets more and more Oz noobs everyday.
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Fact is GSL on B&B is getting less posts per day than right here, so I don't know why any australians are joining B&B.
Plenty of people here that have been around and are more straight up, than what's on B&B.
I wouldn't hesitate to point people here to TSD or TOS, but the only decent thing about B&B is GSL and that's as dead as...
 
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Some good blokes on GSL, but yeah it's cooled right off for activity.

Like I posted on OCAU and WP, the single thread thing is hard to keep up and GSL is set up a bit like that. Both WP and OCAU are just hanging on for the odd post.

I'm not convinced there isn't room or interest for an Aus based forum. It's just a matter of getting people here. I'm letting some of those BB noobs know we're here.
 
Well we both had a spray on WP, mark took it well and I admire him for it, westie took it badly though. So I'm going to ease up criticizing B&B to get people here.
Going too hard to try get existing Wet shaving forum/thread readers here may not deliver results.
You get away with a fair bit more than most, so that's that's general advice to everyone else :)

RM doesn't show his head unless just silently moving threads these days, so we're bit stagnant right now.
 
I've been moving house and spending most of my weekends driving unfortunately. Finally this week I have the internet on at my new Sydney digs, and am trying to get my life organised to a point where I can spend more time on P&C.

As mentioned before, it is all about content. We need you guys to write threads that can be indexed by google and push us up the ranks.

The Buy/Sell will be up soon, this is a priority now.
 
Good to see you back online Monsta. Sounds like you racked up a lot of k's.
 
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Gents -

Just a few lines to introduce myself, to offer you some encouragement - as it seems there are some doomsayers here :)

About me: I'm a moderator on one of your analogues (forumwise) in the UK (I'll not say Pommieland on the basis that I'm in Scotland... you think you have it bad with them, try living next door...). I'll not name it unless of course I get the demand from one of your moderators, I'm sure more than a couple of you have the Google-fu to find it anyway :cheesy: (This isn't a membership drive on our part but any/all of you are more than welcome anyway)

It was started in July 2009 (so we're about 18 months ahead of you guys on the curve) - took close to 6 months to get to 200 users (now we have close on 1000). Took a while to get going but the nucleus of the site came about from the UK social group on B&B - where we were getting frustrated with the functionality as much as anything (plus the US-centric norms of fine to tote shooters, but not fine to refer to someone as "liberal") and their inherent inability to spell "colour" :cool:

At the start when we were nowhere at all in the Google/Bing/Yahoo rankings for searches, I believe some covert ops went on when a new user from the UK or Ireland registered on one of the US biggies - a PM would be sent to the user alerting them to a site in their language, shopping on their high street for products they could actually acquire (without punitive shipping from the US - if the sellers could be bothered to sell overseas)... now as we've generated content that's crawled by G/B/Y we've got more and more visitors and registrants arriving that way.

Already I can see a couple of familiar names here from the other forums I've dabbled in recently - so you're starting to get there at least - keep going lads, you'll get there in the end and the journey will have been worth it!

G'luck

Jason
 
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Gents -

Just a few lines to introduce myself, to offer you some encouragement - as it seems there are some doomsayers here :)
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Thanks mate - that's mostly PJ, he's been a grumpy bastard ever since that big Lotto win; supermodels are very tiring.

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Took a while to get going but the nucleus of the site came about from the UK social group on B&B - where we were getting frustrated with the functionality as much as anything (plus the US-centric norms of fine to tote shooters, but not fine to refer to someone as "liberal") and their inherent inability to spell "colour" :cool:
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They've never looked up Aluminium in the dictionary either. The forelock tugging to the military members is pretty nauseating too. I liked the comment from one groveller that he was proud another B&B member was prepared to lay down his life for freedom. Just a wild stab here, but I'm guessing he was pretty much trying to avoid that happening.

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At the start when we were nowhere at all in the Google/Bing/Yahoo rankings for searches, I believe some covert ops went on when a new user from the UK or Ireland registered on one of the US biggies - a PM would be sent to the user alerting them to a site in their language, shopping on their high street for products they could actually acquire (without punitive shipping from the US - if the sellers could be bothered to sell overseas)... now as we've generated content that's crawled by G/B/Y we've got more and more visitors and registrants arriving that way.
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It's a good point, and while the Internet is limitless, Australia is a small market to begin with, and the niches of that market even smaller. Our total population is still a bit shy of the average immigrant family crammed into a 2 bed terrace in Bradford.

Thanks for the perspective Jason. Tell your friends - there's always room for cross pollination, especially when the cricket rolls around, and Celtic was here in Perth just this week. It's ok though, we didn't run out of beer...

I've been on one of the UK forums - not sure if it's yours, but I can see there's a healthy vibe of being able to take the piss a bit. The yanks have always struggled with that. Ah, the sweet shadenfreude of xenophobia...
 
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Tell your friends - there's always room for cross pollination, especially when the cricket rolls around, and Celtic was here in Perth just this week. It's ok though, we didn't run out of beer...
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Funny - I did, but he was instantly banned by your ban-o-tron anti-spam :weird: maybe it needs turning down a smidge.
 
The early days of any forum must surely be hard, keeping the momentum going with only a handful of members. I hope that the example of rasagetraditionnel (French form) may give you hope. I joined there in February of this year, at which stage they had about 70 members. The forum was started in June 2010. However, they now have 153 members. I think it's a case of reaching sufficient numbers for things to get on a roll, then it all takes on a life of its own.
 
We don't allow Yahoo email addresses, or anything from .ru or .cn domains. It instantly cuts the spam down by 70%. Spam-o-Matic catches the rest.

Drubbing already has moderation rights, and I will be looking for a few more soon. I will then turn down the anger level on the anti-spam measures and see what happens.
 
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We don't allow Yahoo email addresses, or anything from .ru or .cn domains. It instantly cuts the spam down by 70%. Spam-o-Matic catches the rest.
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Drubbing already had moderation rights, and I will be looking for a few more soon. I will then turn down the anger level on the anti-spam measures and see what happens.
 
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Stranger still; my email is a Yahoo address, and it seems to have let me sneak in.
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yahoo.co.uk addresses are specifically allowed. I was referring to yahoo.com addresses.

The reason for this is that the Yahoo.com addresses security features are broken and have been for a long time. Yahoo.co.uk is much stronger and harder for robot registrations.
 
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