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xenFocus was another choice, and another candidate, but they've been slow to respond to my request for a custom design.

 

CODForums is growing! 2,700 members and climbing!

It's got tapatalk enabled!

 

I just bought a new skin and installed it to the site yesterday!

Forum Stats:

2,211 Threads
6,147 Posts
2,972 Members

 

CODForums has reached.......

3,000 members!

 

CODForums has reached.......

7,000 Posts!

 

Nice jump in 2.5 months @Carlos
Have you changed up the site much since then, added anything cool?

 

Since November, not really.

This is what it looks like today:

 

header looks good. nice site carlos

 

Thanks!

Here's to leaks of MW4, and beyond!

Oh, and the release of "Revolution" on other consoles (as per the Activision/Microsoft agreement).

 

CODForums has reached....

3,000 threads!

 

congrats!

 

I like the overall look of the site, and the fact you don't force guests to register.

 

Bunch of updates recently: I moved the site/network to a whole new server.

CODForums changed themes several months ago. Ended up being the worst business decision yet. I let a user at xenForo have the keys to my site - while he provides feedback on which skin to use. I try to communicate back and forth with him, and we have two different ideas what to do with the site. Then he starts getting "mad" that his ideas can't be implemented (his wording).

I never trusted this guy, because he always argues with me, always talking shit behind my back and so on forth. Even after the work he did, he continues to talk shit and slander my name in public. So far to the point of launching a like-minded Call of Duty forum to compete against me. He half-assed the work so that I could lose in the end.

It's a lesson that I've learnt to rely on myself for where to go.

Note to self: Don't take "free design work" from people you don't know or don't have a good feeling about.

Anyhow CODForums reached 100,000 visits and unique visitors worldwide.

CODForums had two forum milestones over the last 3 months: 4,000 members, and most recently (8 days after the new year, no less) 4,000 threads.

Next milestone: 10,000 Posts.

CODForums had some downtime on Sunday for some weird reason.

 

Since you have attempted to throw me under the bus here... let's clear up the confusion.

Your site was stagnant, sitting at xF 1.1. Who donated the money to you to upgrade it to 1.2? Who donated a new theme for a base for you to use?

Secondly, you still have your ZeroHour theme (which I never touched), which in everyone's opinion looked outdated and didn't match your niche. You also got a nice free base theme in all of this.

Thirdly, I don't have a COD site, I was asked to skin one for a client, which I did. As I have stated 1000's of times, I was never mad. I simply was not comfortable adding my name to a skin in which you asked me to copy your competitor's ideas. I was not interested in that. You needed something new nad unique, yet you wanted practically a carbon copy made. I was doing the work for free, yes. Was I willing to put the work in to have it look like some other site, absolutely not. I was attempting to be a decent guy for once, and it landed me here. I added more in the multiple years you have owned that domain that you have even attempted to add. Even after all that, I still helped you out.

And one last note, at the end of my edits, you have yet to do anything at all to your site. You still have 2 themes, plus the default, and you have added absolutely nothing. The last time I touched your site was ~ Oct. 10. You can hardly attempt to place anything on me. I have given you plenty of ideas, and if anyone wants to go to your COD thread at xF and see, fine with me. They can also see you saying how such and such can't be done, how no one's ideas but your own are what is best. In the end, I was no longer comfortable doing the ideas you wanted, because they were dated. Nothing more. I prefer being unique, so I made the decision to stop. And it cost you what? $0. You actually gained more from me volunteering.

I have all the PM's between us at CODForums, if you'd like me to share all, I will. Never once did I say I was angry. You need to grow up a tad and quit attempting to spread that rumor.

I wish you the best with your site Carlos, just keep your trap closed about me. Your false information is easily put out here for everyone to see.

 

It's always good to hear from both sides

 

Best part of the reply by Sheldon was this

"I was attempting to be a decent guy for once"


i stopped reading there. LOL

 

I didn't single you out by name, so you didn't need to come and "clear things up." So, you making yourself known - THANK YOU! You made things easier for me!

I thought you said you didn't want it to be known that you're the one who donate. Yeah, I admit it:

Once again, thanks! You just threw yourself under the bus, not once, but twice.

Didn't match my niche. Okay, how is THIS:



Not similar to this:


Now, Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being unique, but right now, the popular thing with Call of Duty sites - is dark. As shown. I felt ZeroHour fit this mold. I would go with this beautiful design....



But that costs money. The owner told me it took him $1000 to get it designed. I loved that skin so much I'd rather leave my site on vB3 AND that skin. But errors ensued.

I'm all for going unique, but I need to go where the big guys have gone. If I don't go "familiar," then I won't grab that person.

Yeah, but you treated it like it's your site. You even bragged about it in your signature... With these snarky smilies -> Like you were out to get me. You did that in spite of my misfourtune. You did that to piss me off. You did that to anger me... I got so mad that day, dude, there's no way I'll let you slide on that one.

You're such a liar, you know that? I don't have the conversation at CODForums anymore, but you did get mad at me for not responding. You did get frustrated when I would try to tell you this is what I want, and this is what I want. I want to be different, yes... but I also want to be as familiar to everyone as possible which is why I hand-picked ZeroHour when I did.

You're lying again. Copying a competitor site? No. Similar. Yes. SIMILAR. Do you understand what similar means? You obviously don't because whatever a friend of mine made for me at CODForums proved you wrong. He didn't make it too similar to that other site you saw. As a matter of fact, he did one better and made it seem like a real medal.

I was excited to implement them because they were both familiar, and different at the same time. That's what I was aiming for. When I saw your (ahem, Mike Edge's) COD forums site... You do 10x better than the guy did. All I was thinking at the time was "WHY DIDN'T YOU [****][****][****][****]ING SHOW ME THAT! I would have jumped at THAT!" YOU showed me a typical Marine badge - when doing custom work, dude. ALWAYS wait until you're finished with a design so a person can see where YOU'RE coming from. I didn't see where you were coming from, until you made it. I got so mad because you poured every single coding knowledge to that skin that it makes me think you did this just to get back at me.

1. I get that you're volunteering.
2. I know now you go above and beyond in volunteering, but when you and I have a past history of fighting with each other, it makes me doubt I will get anything out of this "work" of yours. And congratulations, you proved me right. You proved my sentiment. It wasn't surprising.
3. I haven't done anything because I'M NOT A FRIGGING CODER. DAMNIT.

If you do indeed have access to that PM... Find where you get frustrated. Do it. You will prove my point.

False? Hahahahaha.... ahhh... Good one, troll. Good one. No, I don't need to close my trap. You don't wish any good luck on my site, never have, never will. And this picture proves my theory:



I will share this image every time you want to talk shit. Every time. I don't easily forgive, and I don't easily forget. That shows your true colors, Sheldon. So, hopefully, you don't go into business. Because that image shows just how bitter you are.

 

Carlos, you and I both know you never saw a finished product. So please cease this nonsense. Again, the last time I touched your site was around the 10th, and since then no one else has, including yourself. After that, I still helped you out. I was still willing to give you tips/etc. Yes, I did help you get to 1.2 and a theme because I wanted to help, but once you came here with your attempt at throwing me under the bus, I wanted to clear my name. I TRIED to help you. You wanted to copy another site. Anyone can read my thread and your CODForum thread at XF and see. Simple as that. They can judge after that.

As of November 1st, you were still attempting to get me to work on your site, as seen here:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/need-customization.61294/page-6#post-662679

You continually asked me for my images I had created, and the work I had done in my own time for you to use on your site.

As for the image above, yes, I have no qualms about what I posted. Why you felt the need to come to my profile is beyond me, so my reply was based on that. You took a screenshot that day, as the date shows, when actually it was posted a week ago and magically deleted by someone. I certainly didn't get moderated for it, considering it was you who came to me with that nonsense.

Either way, as I have stated a mind numbing amount of times, best of luck with your site. I'm moving on, I have other things to work on and really don't have the time or desire to deal with this. If I was the worst thing to happen to you, I am okay with that. If I lose 100 sites to work on because of this, I am okay with that.

Carlos, good luck.

 

So much truth flying around today.