I noticed a quite recent trend here on this forum, one which I totally don't agree with. Admins are moving all topics related to 3rd party apps to a separate forum section named Classifieds(viewforum.php?f=9)
Topics like:
"UNOFFICIAL Vision App for Android (Distance, Speed, etc) v11"
and
"FPV Booster App DOUBLE Vision+ FPV Range"
The rationale behind such action is apparently because authors of those topics are selling and/or asking for donations. And admins here (now all of the sudden) decided to follow that rule so extremely strictly and blindly that with all due respect I must call it stupid!
If you follow the same rationale, then why not move all topics to Classifieds after all DJI is selling a drone to us and we are discussing it, but some money definitely exchanged hands it obviously must be in Classifieds!
Those two topics that have been moved had the highest view counts of all the topics existing here:
"FPV Booster App DOUBLE Vision+ FPV Range" had 89278 views
and
"UNOFFICIAL Vision App for Android (Distance, Speed, etc) v11" had 40006 views
the closest topic on this forum section to those two is:
"How to fix a vibrating / shaking / crazy P2V+ camera gimbal" with only 15211 views
This just shows how extremely popular those topics were. NOBODY here had a problem with those two topics. I'm willing to bet that really no one experienced them as SPAM. Quite on the contrary, it was the most popular subject for discussion here. Yes, one is about a paid app, and on the other one the author placed a PayPal donation link after numerous people practically begged him for it. But that is so irrelevant! Both of these topics contain such vast amount of precious information, discussions and experiences from different people using those apps. And now the admins decided to practically shut down and make all that wealth of data disappear.
Because lets face it, compared to this forum section, almost nobody checks the Classifieds section. That's the section where I would expect to find someone selling a Phantom... and not in depth discussions about great apps that exist for this platform...
For God's sake, I really don't understand this. It's not like 100 topics come up every day from numerous developers. It's so extremely rare and in my opinion is very welcome here, because it adds tremendous value to our products! Who cares if those guys earn few bucks. In fact I hope they do. They deserved it.
Tell me admins, what have you gained with this action?
- You demotivated the developers and therefor you are indirectly also hurting the progress of potentially great stuff for all owners and members here
- Someone visiting this site will never ever be able to find those two topics. Because no one would think to look in Classifieds
- You will create new work for yourself, because now every second day some new guy is going to come here and post a new topic asking "Did you see this app?" and then you will have to get in and refer to the dumped topic in the Classifieds section and lock that new one here.
Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm stupid. So please if there is one person here on this forum that hated to see those two topics here I would love to hear one reasonable explanation, WHY.
Topics like:
"UNOFFICIAL Vision App for Android (Distance, Speed, etc) v11"
and
"FPV Booster App DOUBLE Vision+ FPV Range"
The rationale behind such action is apparently because authors of those topics are selling and/or asking for donations. And admins here (now all of the sudden) decided to follow that rule so extremely strictly and blindly that with all due respect I must call it stupid!
If you follow the same rationale, then why not move all topics to Classifieds after all DJI is selling a drone to us and we are discussing it, but some money definitely exchanged hands it obviously must be in Classifieds!
Those two topics that have been moved had the highest view counts of all the topics existing here:
"FPV Booster App DOUBLE Vision+ FPV Range" had 89278 views
and
"UNOFFICIAL Vision App for Android (Distance, Speed, etc) v11" had 40006 views
the closest topic on this forum section to those two is:
"How to fix a vibrating / shaking / crazy P2V+ camera gimbal" with only 15211 views
This just shows how extremely popular those topics were. NOBODY here had a problem with those two topics. I'm willing to bet that really no one experienced them as SPAM. Quite on the contrary, it was the most popular subject for discussion here. Yes, one is about a paid app, and on the other one the author placed a PayPal donation link after numerous people practically begged him for it. But that is so irrelevant! Both of these topics contain such vast amount of precious information, discussions and experiences from different people using those apps. And now the admins decided to practically shut down and make all that wealth of data disappear.
Because lets face it, compared to this forum section, almost nobody checks the Classifieds section. That's the section where I would expect to find someone selling a Phantom... and not in depth discussions about great apps that exist for this platform...
For God's sake, I really don't understand this. It's not like 100 topics come up every day from numerous developers. It's so extremely rare and in my opinion is very welcome here, because it adds tremendous value to our products! Who cares if those guys earn few bucks. In fact I hope they do. They deserved it.
Tell me admins, what have you gained with this action?
- You demotivated the developers and therefor you are indirectly also hurting the progress of potentially great stuff for all owners and members here
- Someone visiting this site will never ever be able to find those two topics. Because no one would think to look in Classifieds
- You will create new work for yourself, because now every second day some new guy is going to come here and post a new topic asking "Did you see this app?" and then you will have to get in and refer to the dumped topic in the Classifieds section and lock that new one here.
Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm stupid. So please if there is one person here on this forum that hated to see those two topics here I would love to hear one reasonable explanation, WHY.