Yes, I deleted all the topics & replies, because the forum & website were going in wrong direction and I was getting way too many complaints to handle this myself.
Now since it's a fresh start, i'd like to lay down few rules
1. DO NOT SHARE/REQUEST/ASK COMMERCIAL FONTS
2. Respect other people on the forum
3. Use common sense!
That's all for now.
P.S. if you do not follow the rules, your account might get blocked! simple.
But we guyzz ... mostly agreed on sharing in a specified manner like chainlink in hidden word,not sharing link openly and etc.
that will also not acceptable now ???? (asking) :/
SixSquare said:OMG .. bad news. Ur reason also acceptable.
But we guyzz ... mostly agreed on sharing in a specified manner like chainlink in hidden word,not sharing link openly and etc.
that will also not acceptable now ???? (asking) :/
Ahh, nah not allowed anything as such .. sorry :(
Richellelee87 said:Wow....to think this is all because of BUYFONTSORDIETRYING!
Nop, it's not because of him or her or whatever, it was getting way over too much to handle.. BFOD was just cherry on the cake i guess.
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I confess I rarely low free fonts here, because of this inconvenience.
tks
audiopimp said:Just out of interest what does the MQ ' + button mean? I can't seem to find its meaning any where.
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I think is for "message quoted"
Why is there a FONT REQUEST option in the pull down menu of the Post New Topic?
This is contradictory to this posting/rules.
Michelle
Good point. Just like any other file sharing site/forum... it's meant for this purpose. It banks on others' creations in exchange for massive traffic, which translates to significant revenue from the ads you see on this site to the owner (jag). Of course, since hes making money off of the site, for him it goes beyond internet naughtiness to serious potential legal issues. So as a technicality, he has to define those rules.
It's like setting up a gun store in a war zone and saying the guns are only to be used for home safety... the owner knows what he is doing
Jay said:@mv118,
Good point. Just like any other file sharing site/forum... it's meant for this purpose. It banks on others' creations in exchange for massive traffic, which translates to significant revenue from the ads you see on this site to the owner (jag). Of course, since hes making money off of the site, for him it goes beyond internet naughtiness to serious potential legal issues. So as a technicality, he has to define those rules.
It's like setting up a gun store in a war zone and saying the guns are only to be used for home safety... the owner knows what he is doing
Well, just to clarify here.. its not like any other file sharing / forum for performing illegal activities, else I wouldn't have deleted everything.
The reason for not monitoring the website personally myself is it doesn't generate enough cash to pay the bills, so I have to work in real world which leaves me very little time to monitor this forum for illegal sharing of fonts.
Still it doesn't mean that commercial fonts will be shared.
I have 10, and the members that also show points it's 10 point as well...
Other members that have been here longer than me, no points??
What is this all about????? It's driving me NUTS!
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mv118 said:I have a question regarding, why some ppl have points and not others???
I have 10, and the members that also show points it's 10 point as well...
Other members that have been here longer than me, no points??
What is this all about????? It's driving me NUTS!
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Points have been disabled for everyone. The forum had this feature of people earning points by doing various activities. but we are not using that function.
Things will never be the same.
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Thanks to those of of the past will helped build the forum back in day. Gliff, rusc, fontsforme, CountryMouse and the many others whose names over the years I forgot.
Xubuntu (formerly known as Freefonts 2008 -2010)
Nor, may I add, are you here regularly active, or post the rules to newbies or oldbies unaware of the rules to their share request post.
A Little History:
In 2008 the forum was active with posts but no one was sharing links to fonts except Gliff ,myself (Freefonts) and two others. At that time some foundries contacted Jag about font sharing on his forum and he deleted some posts. Thus I started doing what some others did before me: only post links to fonts to those who emailed me. Which worked for a year or so. Then I got burned out , left the site for awhile and others starting sharing links again in forum instead of through email.
I came back as Xubuntu and have been posting links since 2010 as well as CountryMouse. With so many people posting links there is no need for me keep the forum running,it runs well by itself. After all fonts101 is not my site I'm just an regular user like everyone else.
As for trolls that's the price you pay for having a forum to easily obtain fonts you would have normally would have to pay for. fonts101 is not private forum and easily accessible to anyone. With all the font sharing occurring in forum over the past 4 years I'm surprised it has lasted this long! Believe me, thanks to this forum over the years it is far easier to obtain fonts then it was when I started building my collection in 2008.
btw, Gliff, rusc,fontsforme have not been in forum since the site changed in 2010, when in response to all the font sharing Jag required everyone to create an user account and log in to post in forum. Before 2010 anyone could post in forum,using any name,no log in required.
how the forum used to look:
http://thumbnails.domaintools.com/screenshots-com/2012-10-25T15:15:30.000Z/_l3dq7xvv7KyaSMnFMwWQdWJPck=/fonts101.com/fullsize/59745c4a94c6d7e14ba0c86d1d9c4f81/1211934070.jpg
A Little History:
In 2008 the forum was active with posts but no one was sharing links to fonts except Gliff ,myself (Freefonts) and two others. At that time some foundries contacted Jag about font sharing on his forum and he deleted some posts. Thus I started doing what some others did before me: only post links to fonts to those who emailed me. Which worked for a year or so. Then I got burned out , left the site for awhile and others starting sharing links again in forum instead of through email.
I came back as Xubuntu and have been posting links since 2010 as well as CountryMouse. With so many people posting links there is no need for me keep the forum running,it runs well by itself. After all fonts101 is not my site I'm just an regular user like everyone else.
As for trolls that's the price you pay for having a forum to easily obtain fonts you would have normally would have to pay for. fonts101 is not private forum and easily accessible to anyone. With all the font sharing occurring in forum over the past 4 years I'm surprised it has lasted this long! Believe me, thanks to this forum over the years it is far easier to obtain fonts then it was when I started building my collection in 2008.
btw, Gliff, rusc,fontsforme have not been in forum since the site changed in 2010, when in response to all the font sharing Jag required everyone to create an user account and log in to post in forum. Before 2010 anyone could post in forum,using any name,no log in required.
how the forum used to look:
http://thumbnails.domaintools.com/screenshots-com/2012-10-25T15:15:30.000Z/_l3dq7xvv7KyaSMnFMwWQdWJPck=/fonts101.com/fullsize/59745c4a94c6d7e14ba0c86d1d9c4f81/1211934070.jpg
but irrelevant of how it used to be, It used to be dif. when I joined; this is now
You're a PERFECT candidate who needs an update, read the rules!
http://www.fonts101.com/c/forum/topic/10084/Help__Support/YOU_MUST_READ_THESE_RULES_BEFORE_POSTING
p.s. you've been a member 2 yrs exact. that means you've been a member of the forum as of Oct. 2010. In that case I'm gonna start telling stories from 2000... Even the site Admins Registration date don't go that far into 2008, the earliest are March 2010, it's in public display.
