A special day?

[specuvestor]

Coz a lot of people made money from straco and FCL? And is THE place to be now?

Who own VB? if someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$?

Who own VB ? The admin owns VB.
If someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$ ? The admin, the moderators and ex moderators, and members with postings.
Who would like to buy VB ? I think no one with sound business sense will.
How much will it be sold ? Above 1 million USD.

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If you combine ignorance with greed, you'll get "interesting" results.

SPH is ignorant and greedy (desperate) enough? Got synergy since so many SPH "people" reading this forum

noob question: users include Guests??

Users = Members + Guests. Guests can be human or bots.

That's what I thought Thanks... 300 members were online today is better indication IMHO

[opmi]

Coz a lot of people made money from straco and FCL? And is THE place to be now?

Who own VB? if someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$?

Who own VB ? The admin owns VB.
If someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$ ? The admin, the moderators and ex moderators, and members with postings.
Who would like to buy VB ? I think no one with sound business sense will.
How much will it be sold ? Above 1 million USD.

Really ah...More 1-liners posts coming...hee hee...

Never know whether got people wants to buy or not. Singaporebrideonline owners
made good money from banners and ads.. If all else failed, still got SPH...their track records for buying overpriced online companies is excellent 2 out of 2... on a contrarian basis....haha...

[weijian]

Coz a lot of people made money from straco and FCL? And is THE place to be now?

Who own VB? if someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$?

Who own VB ? The admin owns VB.
If someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$ ? The admin, the moderators and ex moderators, and members with postings.
Who would like to buy VB ? I think no one with sound business sense will.
How much will it be sold ? Above 1 million USD.

Really ah...More 1-liners posts coming...hee hee...

Never know whether got people wants to buy or not. Singaporebrideonline owners
made good money from banners and ads.. If all else failed, still got SPH...their track records for buying overpriced online companies is excellent 2 out of 2... on a contrarian basis....haha...

cyclone has not clarified whether it is (1) equally shared by all with posts, (2) divided according to reputation, (3) divided according to no. of posts..or a complicated formula of (1)/(2)/(3)...

IMHO, i would like to humbly offer VB forum as a potential purchase target for all the various local brokerages. Besides releasing brokerage reports, they can also stealthily do their stock promotion through social media like forums for a start.

[CityFarmer]

Dear All,

I noticed that the VB has achieved a record today, with max 1131 users online, and with more than 800 users online up-to-minute now.

So far the forum accessibility remains normal, and I assume it is just an abnormal day, but in order.

Cyclone, any idea on the sudden rise of users online? Any buddies observe any other abnormalities?

Thank

Regard
Moderator

noob question: users include Guests??

Yes, you are right.

[wsreader]

2. As you all may notice, some ads are not available. Those ads are suspended by Google.
A forummer has posted a thread on "Advertise Here" section which has violated Google Adsense Policy. I have deleted the thread and appealed to Google Adsense. Not sure what the result is.

No beer content, No Access to streaming cable or satellite television in the policy, etc, etc.

Can consider is there a need to list down Adsense Policy, something like the Posting Guidelines?

I do not post at "Advertise Here" section but I do not want a forummer to post offending post (intentional or unintentional) which cut off our Ads income and affect the financial viability of this forum.

Just guessing, maybe someone tip off Adsense on the offending thread (which has since been deleted) or Adsense has bots to check (which explain the high number of online users?)

[CityFarmer]

The accessibility of VB seems normal, during the peak. I reckon the peak might be triggered by the "Google Adsense Policy" which had done a scan on our VB threads, with bots

Anyway, false alarm. My apologies.

Yes, today is a special day.

1. The most users online at one time was 1,131 on Today at 10:43 AM.
I think those are not real humans, it must be bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot
There's also a possibility of DDOS (Distributed DOS) attack.

The malicious bots are of the following types:
a. Spambots that harvest email addresses from contact or guestbook pages
b. Downloader programs that suck bandwidth by downloading entire web sites
c. Web site scrapers that grab the content of web sites and re-use it without permission on automatically generated doorway pages
d. Viruses and worms
e. DDoS attacks
f. Botnets / zombie computers; etc.

2. As you all may notice, some ads are not available. Those ads are suspended by Google.
A forummer has posted a thread on "Advertise Here" section which has violated Google Adsense Policy. I have deleted the thread and appealed to Google Adsense. Not sure what the result is.

No beer content, No Access to streaming cable or satellite television in the policy, etc, etc.

[Jon-san]

Coz a lot of people made money from straco and FCL? And is THE place to be now?

Who own VB? if someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$?

Who own VB ? The admin owns VB.
If someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$ ? The admin, the moderators and ex moderators, and members with postings.
Who would like to buy VB ? I think no one with sound business sense will.
How much will it be sold ? Above 1 million USD.

Good investment!

[egghead]

I see many ads are gone now. How much is the $ loss due to this violation?

[cyclone]

I see many ads are gone now. How much is the $ loss due to this violation?

Not much, but enough to pay monthly hosting fee, fee for programmers to add more functionalities and debugging occasionally, etc, etc. VB will keep going.

I just feel 'BUAY KUM GUAN' if they really disable the adsense account. I have strived to comply with the 'adsense program guidelines'.
The violation was done by a new member who abused the thread on "Advertise Here" to promote his website. I have deleted the thread upon receiving the email from Google Adsense Team.

Adsense Program Policies :
https://support.google.com/adsense/answe...mab9y5bg90

This is the email I get :

Hello,

This message is to alert you that one of your websites is not currently in compliance with our AdSense program policies and as a result, ad serving has been disabled to your website.

Issue ID#: 28130733

Ad serving has been disabled to: valuebuddies.com

Example page where violation occurred: http://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-5517-post-90964.html

Action required: Check all other remaining sites in your account for compliance.

Current account status: Active

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[brattzz]

Coz a lot of people made money from straco and FCL? And is THE place to be now?

Who own VB? if someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$?

Who own VB ? The admin owns VB.
If someone offers to buy VB, who get the $$$ ? The admin, the moderators and ex moderators, and members with postings.
Who would like to buy VB ? I think no one with sound business sense will.
How much will it be sold ? Above 1 million USD.

Good investment!

har??!! 1 milo USD??!! that's way way way under-value!!

we are ipo-ing at USD$100 BILLION minimum!!!