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📝Reviews => X10 Web Site Reviews => Old X10 web sites => Topic started by: Jsnlong on January 17, 2009, 01:11:49 PM
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So lets start a POLL... Since X10 has shown a interest in the Forum again and are looking for suggestions!!
We can find out how many of the users want a change or not.
BE TRUTHFULL.
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I like half naked women (and domotic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation)'s) as much as any man.... but there is a time and place (PLEASE) for everything. The time for these ad's was when I was 14... and the place was a magazine. The ad's with the women here.. are in bad taste.
There was a time (not that long ago) I was proud of my involvement with X10, and the forum. I've been compelled to re-think things since the big"slut format-conversion". I changed my custom Avatar (which was my own image) to get some more anonymity here. And now when I show off my setup to visitors... I refer to it as "Smarhome technology". I have X10 instructional (and entertainment) Youtube videos. The earliest I posted back in Aug 11th, 2006 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANlRiyh8Eo) and won an X10 contest with. I wonder... if I should have those posted where I sometimes also post family videos.
The current X10 Web Site has left me feeling betrayed and embarrassed. What keeps me coming back... is a belief that X10 will do the right thing and UN-do this half-naked format.
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A few links to other post on here about the same problem. I'm sure I missed a couple but wife says I need to spend time with her..... something about her birthday :' rofl
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=17126.0
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=17056.0
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=13908.0
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=16685.0
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=17152.0
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Just remember, things can always get worse. At least they don't have half naked women AND the shamwow guy.
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X10 is shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun.
They really need to start figuring out why their factory QA/QC is going down the tubes. Instead they surf for trollup pictures and play their violin.
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Actually, I think their QA manager (software) must have taken over the hardware side... about the same time as the CM15A RF antenna was designed.... and this is coming from a QA manager (software).
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I have been thinking about the fact that the ads are in poor taste. Auto manufacturers use to do this to advertise poorly designed automobiles. Is there any correlation? I have macros that won't even activate a simple light, yet they feel confortable degrading the perception of their product with these ads. I was under the impression that companies had learned their lesson years ago.
I am female and, while I understand why they do it, I find it makes their site look tawdry and rinky-dink.
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......... while I understand why they do it, I find it makes their site look tawdry and rinky-dink.
Your ahead of me as far as understanding why they have chosen this new format. But I do agree about what it does to the perception of X10.
Since the introduction of half-naked ads... about [a rough guess] one out of every 14 posts have been complaints about the new ads. So I can pretty much assure you that the new format doesn't set well with the forum membership. I can absolutely assure you... the ads couldn't be further from what I believe X10 could or SHOULD be.
Everyday I come to the forum to help out with what posts I can. Everyday I am forced to reconsider how being a part of the forum reflects on me. I have no authority (or desire) to apologise for anyone other than myself.... and at this point I am not sure... if I have done anything wrong. But I do realize that at some point... I will ether have to except I am a part of this... or I will need to disassociate myself from it. I've been hoping X10 will just drop the ads.
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Since the introduction of half-naked ads... about [a rough guess] one out of every 14 posts have been complaints about the new ads. So I can pretty much assure you that the new format doesn't set well with the forum membership. I can absolutely assure you... the ads couldn't be further from what I believe X10 could or SHOULD be.
Everyday I come to the forum to help out with what posts I can. Everyday I am forced to reconsider how being a part of the forum reflects on me. I have no authority (or desire) to apologise for anyone other than myself.... and at this point I am not sure... if I have done anything wrong. But I do realize that at some point... I will ether have to except I am a part of this... or I will need to disassociate myself from it. I've been hoping X10 will just drop the ads.
Dave
FWIW
I don't think being a forum contributor and sage has any connection to the X10 porno site. Admittedly X10 maintains the forum but we, the users, are independant of that. I understand what you are saying and I feel the same, but I really don't feel a connection to X10's lurid tastes. I view it like; riding a city bus does not mean I agree with or condone the placard ads.
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I don't think being a forum contributor and sage has any connection to the X10 porno site. Admittedly X10 maintains the forum but we, the users, are independant of that. I understand what you are saying and I feel the same, but I really don't feel a connection to X10's lurid tastes. I view it like; riding a city bus does not mean I agree with or condone the placard ads.
Oh I agree! Like I said: "at this point I am not sure... if I have done anything wrong."
But as a responsible mature adult... I realize the "I wasn't the one " or "it wasn't me " excuse just doesn't cut it. Seeing a bad thing happen, doesn't make me at fault. Standing by and watching bad things happen... is wrong.
For now... complaining here... and contacting X10 by email, and phone (and/or letter) is enough that I can hold my head up.
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Yup, understand and agree.
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Got a email about 1am today... "X10 greatest deal ever" THe pictures were alittle better!!!
I mean they still used woman but they were clothed and not covering their nipples :)% Getting better or just using old ads??
It even had a add about a RF ranger extender and I thought they stopped selling those?
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I myself find it hard to refer people to the web site, because of the Half Naked Women... There have been several people at work interested in the X10 stuff, but I kind of blow them off. They need to focus more on the product and not the Eye Candy!
:' Not to mention all the Tongue Lashings I get from the wife.............
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I think we are beating a >*<. Personally, I don't care ... they (X10) have made their decision. And unless they ask us ... they probably don't care what we think.
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Your right Don n .....but that's a horse I will beat over and over cause I do believe someone there is looking at this forum and maybe they might figure it out but if not at least I feel I have done all I can do to tell them they should change it.
Its wrong in more ways then I can count and I myself haven't bought anything from that site since they started the naked ad stuff. I mean for real grow up and just sell automation stuff.
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You mean to tell me that there is "half naked women on their web site?" Every time I see a half naked woman, a picture of an x10 camera POPS in my head! Oh crap, they did it! They BRAINWASHED me! Humor aside though, Everybody and their brother seems to think that sex or related material sells their product. I happen to disagree.
What sells their product is; Quality, cost, and support. And listening to the thousands of users of their product to help make the product AND service better!
Just my 2 cents. rofl
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Gee, just checked the X10 Site and no "half naked woman" is there. What X10 site are you all looking at?
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Maybe he means the girl in the bikini laying on the floor on their homepage... www.x10.com (http://www.x10.com)
or perhaps the one in the bikini, or the one laying in bed in the lingerie here:
http://www.x10.com/promotions/xx11a_ed_6cams_black_friday.html (http://www.x10.com/promotions/xx11a_ed_6cams_black_friday.html)
I'm not sure which one he was referring to originally, but the web site has gotten much better in the year or so I have been frequenting it...
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...... the web site has gotten much better in the year or so I have been frequenting it...
Yes it has!!!
At one point... the eye-candy pickers... had headed the wrong direction (IMHO) with X10's image. But we should give credit where and when it is due. X10's Web Site now looks professionally all-grown-up.
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It's funny that buck's link takes me to one x10 home page and the link at the bottom of the chat takes you to another. I wonder if X10 is trying to placate the forum members.
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There use to be a link at the bottom of the new style web page to get you to the original X10 page.
My guess is one link is the restyled one and the other is the older original style one. ;D
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It's funny that buck's link takes me to one x10 home page and the link at the bottom of the chat takes you to another. I wonder if X10 is trying to placate the forum members.
Interesting...
There is a www.x10.com/homepage.htm and a www.x10.com/home2.html although upon a cursory look, it doesn't appear to be a different page. ???
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This one looks like the older one I know and had a bookmark for.
It use to be on the bottom of the newer style web page but maybe gone now. ;D
This one gets you the young lady pushing the "Sign Up For The Newsletter" speech. :'
http://www.x10.com/homepage1.htm
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This one gets you the young lady pushing the "Sign Up For The Newsletter" speech. :'
http://www.x10.com/homepage1.htm
When the "art" makes sense... well then... what can you say. I mean if the model is topless... but the ad says "We can't top this"... well that just makes sense. rofl
But seriously... it was easy to forget just how sleazy X10 had got with the eye-candy. I am very happy with the new look.
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This one looks like the older one I know and had a bookmark for.
It use to be on the bottom of the newer style web page but maybe gone now. ;D
This one gets you the young lady pushing the "Sign Up For The Newsletter" speech. :'
http://www.x10.com/homepage1.htm
I hadn't seen that homepage before... I guess I am just a NUBuck... ;D
Yeah, it's as sleazy as I remember, though... B:(