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[Venthos]

As many of you know, I run the unofficial challenger registry. Obviously it's meant for anyone and everyone to utilize and some people visiting it are not from ChallengerTalk. It gets linked to from various other forums and the like. I always check my web statistics logs to see who is linking to me and check it out.

Well, today I noticed a challenger forum linked me that I have never visited but more than once (because it was so ad laden even if you registered. No joke you have to scroll 1 1/2 screens just to get to content). I went to the thread I was linked on and it was one of their forum members who was basically sharing the find of my registry and about 4 "cool, I'll register" replies.

However, by the time I saw the thread the link to the site was blocked out and wordfiltered so that the link was busted and unreadable (read as: http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php)

I was floored. A forum community felt that my registry was detrimental to their users? Sure enough, I looked at their rules and they have an explicit rule that says no one can link ANY site at all ('car registry' was explicitly itemized) unless they pay money. Even car clubs run by members have to follow strict guidelines to link back a huge banner on any page at all they want to link.

Wow...

So I helped them out and blocked their challenger forum and all of their sister site car forums in their entire network from the registry. The block explains the situation and in a not so subtle manner suggests they check out a different forum that doesn't feel a general car registry is a threat to their user base such as ChallengerTalk.com

The funniest thing is that I never posted any links -- it was one of their very own members sharing the find on their own accord. Crazy.

Of all the challenger forums I've visited while first looking into the Challenger, I have to say this continues to prove the most active, helpful, and all around best forum there is.