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He does a lot more than you realize :wink:

Friendly Chat is the first chat community I’ve created solely by myself without help from anyone. It’s not as easy as it looks creating & running a site such as this. (Oi, Herman by the way, why haven’t you signed up yet you big gay !!)

There aren’t adverts all over JC. There’s a couple on the chat page, and one banner at the top. Hardly an ad-farm.

And I now understand why he charges to reserve usernames. I used to think it was out of greed, I really did. But, even I charge for reserving usernames now.

It’s not out of greed, it’s because Chat Forum only lets you have a limited amount of reserved usernames (200 if I remember correctly, Martin?).

Now, I offered free reservations. people would submit the contact form to reserve their username. I would reserve it for them, add their username, password & e-mail to my Access database so I can keep track.. and most of them never see again. And say a year or two down the lines when there’s dozens of requests… it gets a bit of a boring, tedious job adding them all when the users aren’t guaranteed to come back cos it’s free.

That’s why he charges. If someone pays to reserve their name, then they’re much more likely to actually use it, so it’s not so much of a waste of time and space to reserve. I’ve learnt a lot this past 2 months. And I have a lot more to learn yet.

Call me a suck up all you like now; I don’t care, it’s not sucking up.. I just simply now understand why the paid reservations etc work !!!

As for adverts.

Chat Forum software costs £15 a month. Martin has 4, so that’s £60 a month. He has them customized with a wildcard for ChatGuides, the quote I got was £150. So that’s another £600.

Then there’s webhosting bills, link directory fees, premium search engine submission fees

If there were no ads…… how would he pay that?

If there were no ads.. there’d be no Just Chat. Full stop :wink:

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@starr.zoe wrote:

Not too sure if this is right place to post this hehe!

Anyways I’m Zoe, and I’m from West Midlands!
Seems like a nice forum, so i think ill stick around
post more, and HOPEFULLY make some new friends =)

This is me

Hi, Star, welcome to Just Chat. How are you?

Hope you stick around. Beautiful picture, by the way.
Happy posting! o/

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I’ve been working on my site, exercising, giving up drink and stopping munching on codeine like smarties, I’ve still been around on the blog at the bottom.

Not lost interest in this site. I’ll always be loyal here. Just been sorting out my life :D

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lol, that was pretty good. I’m single now, though.

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@king of the south wrote:

u cant say that ,
when i have a daughter myself and one on the way ffs man
wheres ur kids? u aint got any so plz dnt say me personally dnt care about kids
coz u off ona long shot.

I don’t have kids because I’m not married, and I’m in debt right nwo so I would not bring a child into this world whilst in debt.

That would make me a good parent. Once I’ve settled down with someone I love, and once I’m financially stable again, THEN I’ll bring one into the world.

It’s the way I was brought up.

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We already own The British Antarctic Territories, which millions of years ago had forests and was part of the super-continent that included Africa & India.

Under the BRITISH Antarctic Territories is frozen oil and gas.

Sorry, Russia, you evil terrorist communist b*stards – we win! o/

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Anyway, back on topic. There is no debate here. Abortion is not wrong nor is it right.

I don’t agree with abortion, personally. BUT, I agree that each woman has the right to choice. So if she wants to have an abortion – it’s her body, it’s her baby, if she wants to abort then it’s her right to do so; whether we disagree with it or not.

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@lil fek wrote:

Surely you are not suggesting the initial poster is an Internet troll?

He’s not a troll. He doesn’t abuse. He does banter, like I. He’s a good ‘en.

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Pub goers being the key phrase here. They were pissed. Full stop.

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I’ve been vomiting my guts up for the past 3 days. I’ve given up drinking and I don’t take drugs anymore.. I won’t even touch painkillers. I’ve grown out of all that. So that rules out the reasons for vomiting.

But.. I have had burgers.

So… that’s kinda worrying.

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