Here's the deal

[Scream And Fly]

I have had enough of the arguments taking place here. It is bringing this entire site down and I realize I have to take forceful action now because those of you that selfishly placed me into this position give me no choice.

Normal disagreements are fine. But if I see people deliberately starting fights on the forum for the sole purpose of feeding their inner keyboard commando, the banhammer will come down. And I won't give anymore warnings.

End of story.
Greg

[Li'l Toy]

Thanks you. Greg, hadn't you created a political forum or something like that for people to fight in? I don't see it now, and it sure is creeping into the Lounge if not elsewhere.

[CUDA]

As long as cuda is still on this site your above statement is not true.
PERIOD.

HE brings this site down.

So why don't you post more often, all you post about is what you are doing in your garage, nothing else,

with no one posting, no one has any reason to stop by, nothing to read

WHY do you folks care what I post, put me on Ignore

TOO SIMPLE HUH!

But instead you start post, crying IT's HIM, IT's HIM

GROW up little mind,

Contribute

Not Whining

https://www.tiktok.com/@chiefgreensc...767263?lang=en

[CUDA]

https://www.google.com/search?q=that...HCf6sjBgo,st:0

[XstreamVking]

So, you are bragging to us that after 25 yrs of friendship that Greg won't ban you? OK by me, his party. You simply provide too much entertainment to just put you on ignore.

[LakeFever]

Look at the bright side. Anyone who might be a swing voter who reads any of that content is quickly driven further towards conservatives. Can anyone imagine what America would be like if someone like him was in charge of public policy? lol wow

maybe we should encourage the nonsense. There’s a gain from it

[rock]

As long as cuda is still on this site your above statement is not true.
PERIOD.

HE brings this site down.

ignore is a great function

Rock

[LakeFever]

Ignore is only useful for regulars. For new members or some of the lost sheep it’s a lost cause. The fact is the content is public and the man is bragging about being abusive without care to anyone’s feelings or thoughts on it and at the same time waving his knob in Greg’s face bragging that their relationship makes him bulletproof. Making his ridiculous content more important than the entire site. Greg’s needs included in that too.

How much more rope can you give a guy to continue to literally try to sink the ship? And brag about it? Wow. That’s some nerve

[LakeFever]

A conservative?? Ok there daffy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-k5J4...NlYXNvbg%3D%3D

[Scream And Fly]

CUDA is suspended. I do not want to see any commentary about him or any posts he made. This entire issue is dead. Please do not comment or make jokes or memes, or whatever about this. This garbage already cost me one month of Google revenue when they suspended my AdSense account a few days ago precisely because of this. Now I get to pay for that difference. Does this sound funny when I get to pay the price for this? To some people, it seems so. I am not finished either.

[VkingMike]

Lets get back to what makes this site great, boating.

[transomstand]

CUDA is suspended. I do not want to see any commentary about him or any posts he made. This entire issue is dead. Please do not comment or make jokes or memes, or whatever about this. This garbage already cost me one month of Google revenue when they suspended my AdSense account a few days ago precisely because of this. Now I get to pay for that difference. Does this sound funny when I get to pay the price for this? To some people, it seems so. I am not finished either.

Is there anything we can do to help restore the revenue source to the site?

[Scream And Fly]

Is there anything we can do to help restore the revenue source to the site?

The only recourse is to correct the issue and request an audit of the site, but as for having my AdSense status for this month reversed after the suspension, no chance. I have to eat the cost. Google doesn't play around, and I can't find fault with that. In order to maintain and AdSense account, the site that the banners are delivered to must adhere to certain standards, which are really common sense, such as no X-rated content, no hate speech, etc. Google's advertisers don't want to be represented by any website that has explicit content.

S&F has been suspended at two other times for the very same violations, which were caused by the same people. Google 'crawls' its AdSense partner sites, which means they have automated 'bots' that review the site and its contents to make sure it is adhering to their policies for content. If they find offensive material, they move very quick. This is the third suspension on the site, brought upon by most of the same damn people. And because of that, there is a very real risk that Google may terminate my account.

I suppose this is funny to some people. It costs a lot of money each month to maintain the site - data lines, T3 connection lease, and the maintenance for the physical server itself, which we own. I am not talking about a just few hundred dollars per month. It is in the thousands. This site requires three T3 data lines. That is the equivalent to the average data use of a 5-story business's office building needs. The Google AdSense banners pay for most of that. I have tried to explain this publicly here, so people understand that when they post garbage here, it is me that pays the price.

I better stop here. I am in a very rare mood, and I just might give myself a violation if I keep going on here. I used to think maybe the people that cause this trouble simply did not understand how serious this is, but now I think some people purposely do it just to make the site suffer.

Most important is my gratitude for you, our Supporting Vendors, and everybody that supports this site. I never take your support for granted and it is precisely what keeps me working to make this site the best it can be. I consider myself so fortunate to have so many great friends. That's what matters.

On a much more positive note, the completely revamped S&F site will be launching this winter. I think you will all really like it. It will be a huge upgrade. My development admin is a truly gifted person, and I am very lucky to have him as our server and development admin. He has been with S&F for many years now and most of the work that went into the upcoming new S&F site is his work.

Below is a screenshot from another violation we received. That's essentially what I see when I go to my AdSense account.

[Instigator]

You keep mentioning “people” that are the fault/reason for your issues but what most of us see and think is, it is a “person” who has been allowed to stir **** for yrs on this site and allowed to get away w/it when none of us would.

What are we missing Greg?

I ck you site every morning and click “new posts” and 50% - 70% is cooter, and of those, 95% of his posts are attacking Trump.

What is he, 12?

And I see he is “suspended” not “banned” so….

Im sure I’m missing a rational here but I have no clue what it is……

Id vote for “banning” him and the political page.

Were all sick of politics anyhow.

Cant p/u the paper, turn on your phone, the TV, radio etc.

None of us come here for political news, especially from an idiot.

We come here to learn about making a 2.5 turn more R’s, an OMC….same, learn about the new 4 strokes etc.

For drama, I turn on the TV.

Live u brother.

[Greg G]

Looks like CUDA has gone by-by .............but for how long?