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Post by superbrad on Jun 14, 2015 5:37:24 GMT
Hey all, I created this board quickly the other night just to show that it IS possible to create a new board in the case it needs to be done. Being completely honest, I didn't expect it to take off as much as it already has. The staff at JoviTalk are working on getting the board to a usable state once again, and if they can, we would love to keep on keeping on over there where everything is already established and available. Just have some patience while this awkward transition is taking place, and do NOT forget about JoviTalk just yet. It is trying to be saved. The intention of this new board is currently to be a backup, not a replacement.Thanks for setting up a new board .... Ive been stalking JoviTalk for years and years and loved it , but the ads and popups were sending mad ! It was out of control . Im happy to hang here now a change is as good as a holiday !
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Post by TwinFan on Jun 16, 2015 0:11:24 GMT
Jovitalk has Tapatalk support now, guys
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Post by Kathleen on Jun 18, 2015 16:23:52 GMT
I would like to address some of what was talked about here. Peter has no intention of sharing anything with anybody, he truly feels that he is owed for creating Jovitalk (and DryCounty). He has an irrational hatred for all of us who use AdBlock, actually thinking that we are stealing from him. As far as I'm concerned AdBlock and script blockers are needed to safely navigate the internet - certainly I don't use them to spite Peter - I use them everywhere. However he actually watches who is using the ad blockers and he has threatened to ban any of us that still use them on his site. So those of us that haven't paid and still go there with AdBlock on will be banned eventually. I don't know about all of you but I post on various messageboards and I have never seen the number of ads that I have seen on Jovitalk. I have also never been asked for a penny either. Most of the boards are fan boards run by fans for fans. GreasyLake (Bruce board) has been around forever and I have never seen any advertising there. I, myself, run a small file sharing forum and I have never asked a penny for it. It's hardly expensive and I would have the same internet connection at my house without it. When Seb shut down his file sharing forum - he certainly wasn't going to share his data with me so I started a new board (much like this one). It would have been nice to have the history but my board has been running for 4 years and now we have our own history I'm with Ice here - not a penny of my money goes to Peter. I actually paid him last time he did this and when time for renewal came up I went to pay him again. He had disabled the account so that I couldn't even pay him. I contacted Kev and was told that Peter wasn't doing that anymore. OK - fair enough. But now, he wants money again
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faceman
Gaining Recognition
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Location: Germany
Favorite BJ Album: New Jersey
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Post by faceman on Jun 18, 2015 17:46:36 GMT
Thank you for your post, Kathleen. Interesting to get some background. I registered in 2006 or 2007 but really started to be active over there in the last year. I am very active in a private German fan board so over the years I just read a little bit at JT. There's no way I'm gonna pay for that site! Just for the reason that I won't let anybody press money out of me the way Peter's trying to. I absolutely have no problem if the owners of the private boards I'm on talk with the community and ask kindly for a donation because they can't afford it anymore or don't want to afford it anymore alone. Fair enough, they have every right on the planet to do that. But everybody who comes along and says "either you pay or you get a shitload of ads" can bite me. All those boards I'm on have a great community. It doesn't matter if it's the private German fan board, your file sharing forum or this board here. And if there's any problem we can talk. Because 98 % of the users are intelligent people. But what Peter does won't lead anywhere but to one thing: The closure of DC.
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Nedved
Just Joined
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Location: CANADA
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Post by Nedved on Jun 20, 2015 4:22:09 GMT
Hey I made it over - Jovi Talk member since 2002 - mostly a lurker, with and odd post thrown in here and there. It will be strange not hitting JT everyday, but hey, I'm all for change and look forward to the new board.
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Post by Iceman on Jun 20, 2015 13:32:01 GMT
Peter has no intention of sharing anything with anybody, he truly feels that he is owed for creating Jovitalk (and DryCounty). He has an irrational hatred for all of us who use AdBlock, actually thinking that we are stealing from him. As far as I'm concerned AdBlock and script blockers are needed to safely navigate the internet - certainly I don't use them to spite Peter - I use them everywhere. However he actually watches who is using the ad blockers and he has threatened to ban any of us that still use them on his site. So those of us that haven't paid and still go there with AdBlock on will be banned eventually. This. And that's why I won't support anything to do with giving Peter money. The guy's crazy. He's somehow fixated on the idea that the world owns him for starting JoviTalk. But as long that's the case, I have no illusions of us ever getting the JoviTalk databse. If someone wins the lottery and wants to pay Peter the 2000€, it would be much more intelligent to just use the old site. With updated forum software and such of course. And take a look at the "upgrade" of making Tapatalk work on the old forum (all it takes is a few minutes of simple updates). He's threatning to charge for that, too. Again, a dick move. Ice
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