Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week? I feel like once a year is plenty.

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Re: BBS Ads
By: BlaZ to All on Thu May 29 2025 04:55 pm

Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week? I feel like once a year is plenty.

Ads get burried. bbses come and go dude. they can be here one day and gone the next. i dont care as long as someone isn't posting every single fucking day. People have done that in the past.

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BlaZ wrote to All <=-

Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week? I feel like once a year is plenty.

Hard to say, but I think that's excessive. There are some that post
EVERY SINGLE DAY. Once a year is not enough. I've settled on 3x/month,
but everybody's got their own opinion.



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MRO wrote to BlaZ <=-

Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week? I feel like once a year is plenty.

Ads get burried. bbses come and go dude. they can be here one day and gone the next. i dont care as long as someone isn't posting every
single fucking day. People have done that in the past.

There are still some people posting every day. I guess not here in
DoveNet, but certainly in some other FTNs. That's too often, IMHO.

It's kinda like the old Aesop's Fable about "The Boy That Cried Wolf". Eventually nobody listened any more and ignored him.



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Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week? feel like once a year is plenty.

No multiple times per week probably gains you nothing. Posting once a week
or twice a month is probably just as good. People who post them every day usually get on people's nerves.


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There are still some people posting every day. I guess not here in
DoveNet, but certainly in some other FTNs. That's too often, IMHO.

On FIDO they sure do. I suspect some of them don't know how to set up
their autopost routine to any other frequency.


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Re: BBS Ads
By: BlaZ to All on Thu May 29 2025 04:55 pm

Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week feel like once a year is plenty.

I asked the same thing :)

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Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

There are still some people posting every day. I guess not here in
DoveNet, but certainly in some other FTNs. That's too often, IMHO.

On FIDO they sure do. I suspect some of them don't know how to set up their autopost routine to any other frequency.

It's seen on several other networks, too. Agreed that it's a lack of knowledge in many cases, and done intentionally in some cases. It
actually causes me to not even want to bother calling (as I mentioned in
a recent post - the "Boy Who Cried Wolf' syndrome).

Also common with "autopilot" sysops who don't even know what's going on
with their systems, and don't even check anything for weeks/months at a
time. Aaarrgggghhhh.



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phigan wrote to BlaZ <=-

Is there a return on investment posting BBS ads like multiple times per week feel like once a year is plenty.

I asked the same thing :)

Well, please don't bother sharing the answer(s) you got. :-/




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