RO stands for?

Look, I have been here since the begining. When the costs got out of control, it was decided to allow people to donate to help support the site. Les didn't feel quite right about a pure donation, so he made NBR (and some other things I can't remember) part of the bargain. Bottom line, it is an RO's choice if they want to make a monetary donation. They do not have to and should not be critzied for their decision.

As for advertising, it was always considered a bad idea. One reason was we tend to critique quite a lot. Could you image in Bayliner was a paid advertiser? What happens if someone critisizes an advertiser? Without advertiser, open debate was encouraged. Now that things have changed for Les, I commented that he should reconsider allowing advertising on the site. He could have made a ton of money with President Obama campaign ads. :)
 
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Originally posted by Les Hall

As noted, RO does stand for Registered Offender. It started about 11 years ago when the site was open to everyone to post anonymously without requiring registration. We were getting a lot of spam as well as just plain nasty posts with no way to boot the offenders off the site. The majority on the forum at that time voted to require registration. Recognizing that we'd probably still offend each other at one time or another, I thought Registered Offender would be an accurate way to describe participants.

Incidentally, while I'd love to pay $6.95 a month for site hosting, our bandwidth required a dedicated server along with SQL server access. Total runs $375 a month.

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Thanks for clearing up the "Ro" issue. Speaking for my self I had to hear it from you! :-) No disrespect to anyone.
Also think it is nobody business what you pay for hosting services etc... Good for you if you if this is profitable, I hope you make $18 per anchor. What a great idea you came up with creating this site. Good for you, keep it up!!!
 
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Originally posted by Gregory S

Mike, if you want to make it political, pay your 20$ and post it in NBR, If you don't , let me suggest you keep your political jabs to yourself.

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You must have missed the other political jab I responed to. Paying $20 for the anchor should not allow others to make political comments in this section. Or are there differnet rules?

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I suggest you go back and read all of the threads. The only mention of political party affiliation has been by the non-NBR persons. Yourself included. I re-read every thread and did not find the mention of democrat once. The closest thing I could find was Mike's mention of the Obamaphone.

Still waiting to see what your reason for not "donating" is.
 
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Originally posted by Audrey II

I would assume this is a joke and there is a real explanation/answer.

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So apparently it wasn't a joke at all.

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I thought it was a joke because I'm was joking when I said "Registered Offender" was what it stood for. I never dreamed that it was actually true.

Now that this is cleared up I vote for this thread to end so everyone can stop with the jabs! I'm sorry I dug this thread out of the archives and had I found Les's post I would never have questioned this in the first place. For this I'm sorry and hope people are not so upset that they will drop their anchors in the future.

While I don't agree with the hard sell tactics I do agree that Les has been maintaining this site and keeping it going regardless if it was helping fuel his business in the past it clearly wasn't feeding enough business to make it worth while to keep the business open. At this point the site remains up and I'm happy to help support it. The amount of info/help I have gotten here has been priceless!
 
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