fontaines said:

CARramrod958 said:

Fighting_Amish said:

Why don't you just post an offer to where everyone can see without mentioning the mysterious upside board? That way you can get help from everyone without sounding like you're in some kind of secret society. That type of behavior seems like more of a deterrent when it comes to selling more subscriptions. It's just not a good look, IMO. I'm not in the know, but it looks pretty obvious you are referring to ****. SURVEY SAYS!!!!!

With all do respect, I totally disagree. As a subscriber, I appreciate Smitty doing this. If I were not a customer, this would intrigue me to sign up...but that's me.

I can see it both ways....i definitely don't agree with giving paid information for free on the forums however it's not necessarily necessary to reference the upside board on a trade thread either.  Would've been easier to just say "I'm trading guy A for guy B".  The goal of the forums is to invite and encourage subscriptions, and the way to do that is through more people joining the paid information.  I see Amish's point about a "secret society"....we don't think we are but sometimes it comes off as that.  But also, I don't think BLK had any ill intentions by doing this other than promoting the upside board, which honestly i am sure there's hundreds of people who view the forums regularly who have no idea what the upside board is so it's good promotion.  We hit a double edge sword....it's going to happen