Quote Originally Posted by Hussyband View Post
Ok, any discussion of route taxis aside. You are making the comparison that a site which makes it's living from advertisers and advertising is promoting a conflict of interest by driving readers to those that advertise? Is there some misapprehension that the board owners do this out of the goodness of their heart, paying what I can only imagine are not cheap hosting fees, administrative costs, and general board upkeep?

I know a membership on the board to chat is free, but I highly doubt running the thing is free. This is not a news outlet where the editors or owners are held to the same ethics or standards as the press (which is kind of laughable nowadays anyway), it's a company someone created as their livelihood.
There is a significant difference between driving the readers to the advertisers and promoting them as the SAFE way to travel by making it sound as if you taking a route taxi will result in you getting robbed.

You're right, there is no expectation of a website owner being required to hold to the same ethics or standards as the press(which I agree is laughable) but when a website owner states that it is unsafe to take route taxis and then promotes drivers who pay him to advertise, it makes me do a double take at what I'm reading.