Big Deal. Yawn.

Big Deal. Yawn.
All I'm gonna say is .. noone ever made a difference by not being there.
Death ... by shnoo shnoo.
budfox (04-05-2011)
If this was my site the borders would look like Vegas at night.
coopersmith (04-05-2011)
I do bizz with APMEX, they don't bother me. Money is money. If money is money, I'd kick 50 bucks in a N.Y. minute to keep the GIM swimmin. I've made dough reading here. Lots. Plenty. Keep buying yall said at 20. Keep buying yall said at 25. Keep buying yall said at 30. Look at me now. Loaded at 39. So if TPTB/GIM need a few bucks, set up a paypal or credit card payout and grant me a silver star for donating. AND keep the APMEX ads too. It's worth twice the price watching Zed and G-Cubes H/S and a host of others bitchslap the stoopid little moneys that think they know as much as Zeds and Cubes and the rest already forgot 25 years ago. These pages are a collection of stupid lessons learned and good advice followed all under one roof. What's it cost to get good advice? Plenty. What's it cost when you fugg it up? Priceless. This shcnidtt here sells itself. If monkey-dummies wanna split on a point of conflict,
"Well, Bye".
curmudgeonista (04-05-2011), Libertaurum (04-06-2011), Scorpio (04-05-2011), Silver Buck (04-05-2011), Sindgefallen (04-06-2011)
Just take a break Russkie, step back and let the bad vibes go. I'd hate to see you leave for good, always positive and reasonable
I suspect it isn't the banner at all, if what drove me to hiatus is the same as you. PM me if you want to share.
I see that APMEX banner as more a service to members than advertising and I'd recommend them anyday (and have).
You can check into Gim, But you can never leave........
It's better to burn out than fade away...........
Three things Russkie.
1) I like your posts and think it's silly to be leaving a forum because a PM dealer is advertising here.
2) I don't mind the advertising.
3) My favorite video response, and one I personaly made famous, to posters saying they are leaving this place.
Pure capitalism and a free market at work!
Site needs money to run, so signs up an advertiser.
Customer of site has questions, issues, decides to stop visiting site.
Cause and effect. It's a beautiful thing, even if you don't like the outcome on one side or the other (or both).
FWIW, I ran a very large forum myself for years. After pleading with my users for donations and getting promises but very little cash, I ran ads for a while. Some users got pissed off and left. The ads never did make enough to come anywhere close to covering basic hosting costs, so I eventually closed it down -- boy, did everyone come unglued after that! I've never had so much hate mail in my life.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
GIM1:
No Porn
No Ads
No Personal attacks
GIM2:
No Porn
No Ads
No Personal attacks
No Donations
No Ad Free browsing
No Moonbats
No more "crazytalk"
Welcome to Kitco Jr. Gentlemen!
Adios Mofo!
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http://goldismoney2.com/showthread.p...842#post171842
Hey Skyvike...why is this racist sock puppet hijacking my thread honoring the Hero In Japan with obvious impunity to the GIM Rules?
He acts like he owns the place. Oh wait...
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Oz Waver (04-05-2011)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Book (04-05-2011), Canadian-guerilla (04-06-2011), Fanakapan (04-05-2011), Malus (04-05-2011), Oldmansmith (04-05-2011)
Canadian-guerilla (04-06-2011), Malus (04-05-2011)
Interesting ... Goldismoney2 Forum Rules
I guess could be interpreted differently.The basic rules are:
1. No Pornography
2. No Advertising
3. No personal attacks or threats to other site members.
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2. No advertising – This rule is used to avoid the appearance of, or actual influence of content by paid advertisers. The policy of non-influence on content by paid advertisers continues at GIM2 and the no advertising rule applies to the membership at large. Members may not advertise in their posts, avatar, or signatures. SPAM is considered advertising whether it “advertises†a product or an idea. As such, the following are considered advertising and are prohibited on goldismoney2.com.
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The rules are intended to be, primarily, guidance for members and moderators.
P.S. I am o.k. with that banner ad. Just saying.
the thread here is Russkie guys,
not to slam other members, we can keep that out of it can't we?????
Book, Hoarder, and others get attacked all the time, and never report it, they man up and deal with it, but that doesn't mean it is acceptable.Why don't you report it?
Let it go guys, use your ignore if you must.
And Book, Skyvike is not Don Shimoda. You will just have to accept my word on that.
Are we done beating this drum yet?
Russkie was ok, he is just trippin', much as we all have done at times,
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klichko (04-05-2011)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
klichko (04-05-2011)
Geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 10-15 minutes of my life I will never get back. Scorpio is near sainthood in my book. And no, I'm not buttering him up. GIM is a diversion for me. IT IS NOT THE CENTER OF MY LIFE! I've been banned from forums before. Maybe this one some day. Anyway, get a life folks!
I have to admit that I'm immune to ads. If you had asked me last week if GIM has ads, I'd have said, "I dunno." I see Apmex ads everywhere, so if I notice it I'll think its a Google ad. Want an anything goes, no corporate involvement, wingnut forum? Start one. . .
You think Apmex doesn't know that PM stackers are, putting it nicely, a little off center? Everyone will be back to COMEX and JPM conspiracies in 24 hours and off the APMEX conspiracy. What're they gonna do, tempt you to buy PM?
And I notice he's said goodbye at least twice now. Is he done?
Libertaurum (04-06-2011), Nickelless (04-06-2011)
Every "adios" thread strikes me as grown men having pissy little tantrums because they aren't getting what they want, and they are trying to draw attention to themselves.
An APMEX banner on GIM? Who effing cares. No doubt most of you either have used, or continue to use their services.
Irons (04-06-2011)
If a APMEX banner ad here is all it takes to get your nose out of joint, either you lead a very sheltered life or you spend your entire life with your nose permanently out of joint. As for me, the ad is up there on my scale of problems competing with the heartbreak of static cling for 1,984th place on my problem list.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis
In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to derive economic benefit by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by adding value.
No monopoly in the history of mankind has reformed itself from within. It has always taken an external threat – a competitor – to drive internal change.
Libertaurum (04-06-2011), Nickelless (04-06-2011)
Never understood why you would do a goodbye thread. Good grief, just go. I've left other forums and just left. If I had friends there, I PM'd them and told them. That's it.
This reminds me of my little girls first grade class. Similar statements of being treated unfairly, and stating their importance.
Right now I feel like I do when I suddenly realize I've been watching TMZ for the last 10 minutes.
Nickelless (04-06-2011)
This thread is becoming something like the traffic bottleneck going past a wreck--no reason to slow down and look at it, but everyone does.
The difference between Barack Obama and God is that God doesn't think he's Barack Obama!
Yeah, Nickelless
It is time to shut 'er on down, as Russkie may be gone and not here to defend himself any longer,
No need to kick a guy that just has a opinion,
thread closed
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Sindgefallen (04-06-2011)