there is already something in that. as i remember, i would purchase 4x PRO Counter (120 Dollar) but some answers are after one week still open. yesterday i was getting close to purchase them, but i saw that again one of the mainpages was banned. by this policy i can not buy anything. that would be as if i buy the cat in the sack. i think Jeremy is clever enough and not banned tagged comment pages, which people are not owned or operated, because than the people can not get tons of the regional flags. but one of the next bans will be a hard one and the howling of the people will be much louder. i have time and see which policy brings the future. in my case a purchase of PRO is only acceptable with the change of the policy by FC. otherwise the flagcounter is unusable now. it is a shame but true.

hard but fair would be to block all comment pages (not owned or not operated) for visits in flagcounter.

Last edited by Alexander (May 15, 2012 10:16 am)

At this point i think i have to make a few impartial comments........

quote:   If preventing users of our service from making these sort of postings negatively affects you, perhaps our service is not the best choice for you

I think the banning of certain sites affects every flag collector. Do you think it's possible to collect a set of flags without visiting these sort of sites?  The answer is a very simple no it isnt. And neither is it possible to collect certain flags without the use of a proxy/vpn, which the mention of is now also outlawed. A bit like dangling a carrot in front of the donkey, when you will never let him eat it.

Im sure there are better ways to police this situation, without totally taking away peoples chances to do what they are here for....which is obviously to collect flags.

If my comments and/or questioning of this upsets anyone i'm sorry about that, i'm trying to make constructive comments. And while the banning of certain sites doesn't affect me, i know it does a lot of people, but it also must be said that these people need to be a little bit more sensible about what they are doing. Nobody needs to post 15 counters on a page.....and Nobody needs to post 3 of their own counters either, one is sufficient to get the flag you need....so why be greedy, and want 3 ?   

................back to website building, have a nice day   

Jeremy, i'm not saying thats right ....but apart from 1 person i think all of those counters are their own......as i said before why post 2/3 i have no idea....1 is sufficient to get the flag you need. I'm merely suggesting you take a different approach to the way this is dealt with thats all, im not here to argue with anyone, i'm simply putting my point over.

And with respect to the comment regarding the majority of users are using the service to track visitors to their sites.....................well i don't........i have different trackers for that, i use the counter purely to collect flags, and i'll stick my neck out here, and say i'd guess a lot if not the majority are the same. Otherwise, why come on here in the first place to request flags?  They obviously want a flag for their collection, not another statistic..... This whole concept may have started out as a web tracker, but i think i can safely say it's evolved in a big way......its not about the visitors anymore.....people want the flags.

These comment postings are already disallowed per our terms, as they are not a site owned or operated by the user.  Further, the link to our site has been stripped from the code, also not allowed per our terms.

I do not understand the outrage here.  If you only find our service useful if we allow violations of the terms upon which it is offered, I will say it again: perhaps our service is not the best choice for you.

Pages like the one I linked to above only make our service look bad.  If we do not take action, other sites might.

We are absolutely listening to our customers.  They are contacting us telling us that their counter is loading too slowly and we are finding that in many cases, this is due to either invisible counters (free users) or 20+ counters posted on a high traffic page that does not belong to the users posting it to them. We do have a business to operate here.  I believe we offer a good deal.  You can have a free counter in exchange for our logo, and a link to our site, or you can pay us for it.  A page with 20+ counters on it and not a single link back to our site does not in any way benefit us, it only adds to the load on our servers and increases our bandwidth usage and the cost to provide this service.  We have every right to address abuse of our service.

The terms are the legal agreement upon which our service is offered. We do not want customers who do not comply with them.