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Serving The Scuba Community Since 2004

Aug 29, 2008

Scubaprof, Diverspress, SiegHeilDiver and the rest
Steve Martin rates it: Community rates it:
164 of 338 readers found this review helpful.

Back in black - no association to the troops attempted.

Now, to get started in a nice way, everybody tries to get himself online lately - sensible or just in stupid ways....

First of all excuse my Headline! But no, don't!!!!
I got on your nerves a week ago about websites trying to "screw" people about origins, associations etc. ....

....I even got more intrigued over the last week. :) It is just amazing how some people create sites / networks of meaningless websites - and "dick" people around about it!

So enjoy yourself at all this sites! I guess you're just another pawn in the "CLICK MY SITE AND MAKE ME RICH" game for the people selling you on it.

Check YOUR! online activities, don't go along with scams / and scum. Use your judgement and BRAIN to avoid Rip Offs as they are common (regretably) even in our community and business.

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Posted by cavegirl on May 22, 2007 - 01:27 AM
My score:

Yes it was a issue waiting to come up. Many good websites exist and enough websites just start the "backpacking" on them, bluntly copy them, ripping them off for click, cash and and crap schemes.
I agree with Steve's post, even if i don't agree with the title and the fact that you need to follow some other posts here to understand it.
If you "create, advertise and market" divers / dive professional websites, do so in a honest way. If you're "in for the bucks", i think that's cool, just don't try to sell it different. It just don't sit well with people if / when they notice. I don't think anything is wrong with a commercial approach to professional divers interests - make it clear from starters and you have no problem! Maybe i am stupid and naive here, but it is my view at it.
I sell you ME, i tell you MY views, i don't sell out my life because you pay me for some work, i don't believe in one single training agency (yet) and i don't believe in people trying to sell me their life as the "next big thing". I love what i do, i don't need to tell you why ;). I participate on some websites, because i agree with the goals and ideas. I am disgusted to find out that even our microscopic scuba community is a cut-throat business of "wannabe idiots", decent "commercial" sites, scum posing as decent/idealistic scuba web projects etc..

Is it really so difficult to have a handful of people talk with each other (instead of running semi identical websites) and create/build one website or a "web" (like many many, as "The Web" used to suggest when people talked about the internet as "The Web")

So i don't care about the DPI, Scubaprof, Diverspress, SiegHeilDiver, NeverDivedYet, ClickWithoutGettingWet etc. etc. sh*t.
YOU GUYS START TO DO SOMETHING TO BENEFIT THE DIVERS AND STOP JERKING AROUND ABOUT EACH OTHER!