Indeed it is true I hadn't thought about it that way and you are right I actually spoke with SR in length about this The info was helpful and I had alot of praise from alot of users in regards to this anyways to give you a break down of Welcome Wagon in the time that it ran it determined there were on average 437 new user registrations a day or roughly 19 new users a hour :) of those users 34% of them actually read the message within 20 min 67 within 24 hours and 73% within 72 hours with the remaining going unread of those users in the duration of running 32,342 Users were sent private messages of those 73% of the 32,342 users only 19% replied to the message of those 19% of users whom replied 98% of them were positive and asked for help or just wanted to thank me 2 % were already users i suspect and were just lik omg wtf ect ect of those 73% of users in comparison to my personal sales only about 1% give or take were customers and based of some other stats only about 6% of the users who were sent pm's were return visitors Now this may be confusing for some of you but all this information is very freely available to *ANY* user im not some mystical magical person or anything and I had implementations in the script that slowed the script down so it was about as fast as the average user on silk road so that it didn't bog the site what so ever Now with that said the vendors that were on that list were more or less filler I only has 2 requests from other vendors to be put on the list on of which was declined because he didn't meet my criteria of a reputable vendor and the other wasn't until today the vendors that were included on the list were vendors that were in the SILC chat now if more of the vendors would communicate in the SILC chat they would have the opportunity and Lastly All respect intended dave I am kinda a dick but i have respect for SR Quote...not to mention you not listing any other DECENT/REPUTABLE vendors for whatever reason you want be it: ignorance, forgetfulness or because the vendor has pissed you off in the past. Plus vendors trying to get on this list will have to bug/appease you.The vendors listed were those whom were in the silc chat at the time of the bot creation are were simply by chance and met my criteria QuoteJust makes you sound like a dick, New members should rather be encouraged to use the forums + use feedback systems to make up their own mind, plus a lot of "legit" vendors can turn scammers, so if your pumping reccomendations to someone and they fuck over a customer for whatever reason (finalise early/out of escrow) that's blood on your hands...I am a dick what can i say and they were encouraged to goto the forums did you read the message ?? like at all ? It is very very very clear and oriented into directing new users NOT to finalize early or out of escrow there is not blood on my hand and with that also said the message also states that MP->BTC conversion is dangerous but convenient and to protect your interests to do several small transactions over a period of time then to do one large one Also SR didn't STEP IN all i would have to do is press enter and it would be running again SR just simply requested that i shut it down To quote some resent conversations with SR (which are edited to remove a bit of sensitive data)Quote from: warweedWhen welcome wagon was created by the way we had this quote in mind"Regardless of your motivations, you are a revolutionary. Your actions are bringing satisfaction to those that have been oppressed for far too long. Take pride in what you do and stand tall. "Anyways we hope you are not mad Quote from: SRNot mad at all, I applaud your initiative. I'll take some notes from your message and include them in the standard message that new members receive. Quote from: SR*********************************************removed security related convo*********************************************please discontinue the welcome wagon automated messages. It's a good idea, but I've received messages from the competitors of the people you recommend in it and they are going to start spamming new members if you don't stop, so to avoid 10 messages showing up for new users we need all automated messaging to stop.Anyways that's just a snippet it wasn't because SR was mad it was because a bunch of whiny little cry baby vendors didn't just *ASK* to be on the list thats all it would have taken honestly instead they had to cry and threaten and cry a bit more QuoteUntil further notice Welcome Wagon should be suspended. If anyone receives a message from it after today please message SR Support.Peace,DigitalAlchAnd digital arch rather then going to take this to SR why didn't YOU approach ME about this thats what i find so hilarious NO ONE approached me with there concerns lol it's actually really funny because i mean I have had about 30 people offer me alot of money for the script i won't say how much but it was substantial enough but you could tell it was mainly for malicious intent yet funny how no one else is running bots on SR so think of that next time I have both SR's best interest and my best interest's in mind and that is clearly proven by the bots statistics to have worked you simply can no argue with the numbers and if i get a digitally signed message by both SR and the forum admin I will gladly make the bot open source so others can build other stuff around the same idea :)anyways that's my rant for tonight -warweedOh yeah feel free to make fun of my one long sentence at this point should you feel it necessaryI preffer not to make it open source but the choice is ultimately up to the big guys the know the power it holds :)