OK, so I've been advertising my new site. A few people have advertised on mine but I've had to delete their ads because their codes screwed up - and we have written in capital letters in the ad forum's description that we are not IF so you have to use standard bbcode.

What did one site do when I went to point it out as our reason for deleting them? Call me names, shout at me and delete my posts from their cbox. Yeah. If I was as immature as them I would give everyone their link as well as telling what they'd done. Why can't people every just say, "Yes, we messed up. We'll repost or you can just leave it"? Why does it all have to be name-calling?

Anyone else got any similar stories? I'm just fed up with how many sites are idiots like that. It's like... hello? You are the ones who didn't read! How is that my fault?

EDIT: Still had their window open and their cbox is automatic, they're still at it...

I'm too nice when it comes to sorting ads. I have next to nothing to do with no-one having actually posted an accepted profile so I just spend a couple of minutes fixing their code. I don't expect other admins to do it (but it is a pain when I post the wrong one because I don't know if they're IF powered or not...) But it is annoying. Once I had to fix three, all from the same admin.

I don't think they should react like that, it's rather rude. You were just trying to be polite after all. Anyway, if they spam their own cbox with shouting that's only hurting them, right?

It is annoying when codes in adverts don't work right for whatever reason and even more so when it's a simple error that could have been caught if the advert's poster paid attention to what he/she was doing.

I've never bothered telling people that their advert has been deleted unless it's part of an affiliation request. If it's a UBBC error within the advert, I've just edited the post to fix it and added a note at the bottom to say what I'd done and why. Just seemed easier to me to fix the problem than to just delete an advert.

I'd forgotten to close the page... they're now posting as me in their cbox, talking about "myself" being stupid. But not in such nice words. Really very immature.

Still, their site is the one breaking IF TOS by being NC-17... wouldn't it be a shame if someone reported them? (smile)

They're impersonating you. lol, they just look stupid if they do that.

Unless they have NC-17 topics, I don't think IF will do anything about it. Saying they're NC-17 isn't the same as having NC-17 topics. Regardless, I suppose you could *shrug*.

Hmm. if people post crappy coding on my board because they failed to check (not that I have a non-IF board, but I have had) then I just leave it. It's their problem, because people who see stuffed up coding are less likely to click the link, so it's skin off their nose, not mine.

I delete ads without warning. I did so for an EZboard site because they didn't allow guest posting and at a site called Bitter Days because my computer just will not load the site. But since I haven't posted mine there, it's not being unfair. Although the Bitter Days site keeps reposting the ad.