Proxy Analysis on a bigger scale with very interesting results, good, bad and fantastic

badhabitsdestroyer said:

Please ignore such things. There are more than enough of those who deeply admire your contributions here.
Don't set yourself up against the whole forum. It will do no good for both you and those who cherish your posts.
Of course there are b*tt load of bot posts here and low-effort, but there is still gold hidden underneath. A lot of valuable potential relationships, especially among high-stake mods and admins. Which you won't reach by choosing being negative and noticing foolish remarks to your side.
I offered you above the path that might yield a reputation bump for you (maybe relationship, as every new marketplace proxy selling post will start having your footprint of quality assurance). You got real skill, now you gotta obtain soft skills to become invincible.
I wish you the best, friend.

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Alright, thank you for the ....words. Was a bad , bad day yesterday. And it is about to be equally bad today, it seems.

I have had 3 clients agitate me too much , by paying too little, too late or not at all, all while pushing for deadlines and be fast pretty despicable. They will pay one way or antoher, in these cases, another, more expensive one.

The moderator above is NOT forgiven as far I am concerned, I will not to people who think mod status gives them any sort of privileges to snark upon people, they are here protecting monetary interests like the vip status fees which I have paid and received exactly zero business from as everyone here suspects everyone else to sell some snake oil and after paying that, (do not tell me about good business relationships springing up from here, please, I am not an idiot)I at least do not want some fking moderator of all things to come here and contaminate the thread, I got a warning yesterday for replying with just lol somehwere for "post inflation" as if I GAF about post number, yet this "moderator" can come here and trample on my as you have said technically valuable topic? His job was to come here to make sure I do not drop the proxy provider name and he brought alone another one of the wolve pack, and then contributes here with a one line comment of snark, the other mod at least pointed out , nah he didnt point out shit, actually. So if that first mod could for once come down from that high horse for once, man up and apologize, fine, but I am not just gonna "take that" , if that is what you think constitutes soft skills, then f these "skills"

My point was, show me the proxy sellers who actually have an idea what to test for, and how in the hell did the mods and approval team approve a proxy service, what was tested? Did they test with my infrastructure? Let me tell you, chances are, they did not test nothing technical at all and that they would struggle to answer any one technical question.

You're complaining about BHW moderation and cheap clients while forgetting this forum's entire business model relies on the same snake oil ecosystem you're criticizing—move upmarket or move on, because raging about $50 VIP fees isn't changing anything. Real proxy analysis at scale requires enterprise clients who actually pay for your expertise, not forum drama that just wastes time you could spend scaling your infrastructure.

maintaining a forum like this is tough work. there is a reason why this is one of the only ones available to us. very strict controls are needed to police a viable forum. otherwise everyone will spam posts and it all breaks down. i have also received a few warnings and i try to read and stick by the rules as much as possible. sometimes they get too strict. the other side of the story if they are not strict enough is a destroyed forum

liyong601c said:

You're complaining about BHW moderation and cheap clients while forgetting this forum's entire business model relies on the same snake oil ecosystem you're criticizing—move upmarket or move on, because raging about $50 VIP fees isn't changing anything. Real proxy analysis at scale requires enterprise clients who actually pay for your expertise, not forum drama that just wastes time you could spend scaling your infrastructure.

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Well, yeah I have come around to be more aligned with that view by now.

However, you appear to be knowing whats under the hood and selling proxies, I see BD in your sig, a company which has done such massive self exposures in the past that even took a brand name change(even today, their static isp ranges , asn and subnet are by far the best know to google and CF, congrats on that), and since you know it takes at very least a bot to reasonably asses proxies, things the mods do not have access to and do not how to test or use, the procedure of approving sellers should perhaps be outsourced to someone who can quickly check the product listing and the product quality.

Charging 150 is fine, use some of that and give it to someone with deeper expertise, it would make the place a....better place.

It is mostly 2, 3 sections which need more scrutnity, the rest is actually fine.