"Did not understand the extent that many in the US Landscape industry exploit and get rich over using foreign labor instead of going through the challenge of employing Americans. When I posted data showing how this practice is bad for America.. They censored me ! These large Landscape companies employ foreign labor and undercut small companies ability to compete. Apparently the Special interest groups that are paid for by these large companies have direct influence over Lawn Site and silence any one who attempts to tell the truth on how these practices have a negative effect for America and it's workers."

"I've been a marketing professional for 20+ years. I own multiple businesses including a real estate company, part owner of a restaurant, an auto detail business, and my main business of building website, business marketing videos, and helping businesses daily get ranked on various search engines. I consider myself a marketing specialist and love helping business owners succeed. I stumbled across the Lawnsite website while looking to buy a site called Everythinggreen.com for a client of mine. It redirected me to Lawnsite. When I arrived it looked like an interesting site with various businesses from landscape, arborist, to other similar businesses. I saw all kinds of topics on this site and decided to register. One of the first topics that showed up was from that morning. It was from a customer asking about how important it was to be ranked on page 1 of Google as opposed to farther down the list. I felt like this was a topic I could offer some free advice with so I went and was one of 3 responses to this customer. I immediately was "replied to" or messaged by another member named Tonygreek. I thought it was a genuine person on the forum who liked my answer and he asked me for more information on the post I had made. Me, being the type of person I am to give advice to anyone asking, responded and said thanks for messaging me and please give me a call. It was 9pm at night in California and I was at dinner with my family. I didn't want to explain all that he was asking about while I was out and even told my wife, hey someone just messaged me from this forum I posted on. Well, it turned out that this man was someone who has made many contributions to the site. Like 3000+ posts. I sincerely thought this man was asking me to explain the benefits of my suggestion to the original post. This turned into me being completely harassed, attacked, made fun of, stalked by 2 "senior members" of the site. They googled my cell number, which I gave out of courtesy to answer some quick questions for someone I thought genuinely needed it, then they ran a background report on me. Started telling me who I was and talked about my personal facebook posts, brought up that I was a DJ, and various other personal information about me that I didn't offer nor had anything to do with my post. I never once mentioned to anyone in any post that I was a marketing specialist until I was attacked and tried to be discredited. It was a horrible experience being PUBLICALLY INSULTED AND HARASSED on a not so open forum by members of this site. At one point a moderator had to message me?! About my responses. I explained that I had answered a Customers question, like all other people do on a forum, and that I was being attacked by his senior members. It was all publically happening on this thread. Luckily I've made copies of those thread and the complete disrespect and abuse I've encountered. To be honest, it's put me in a fearful state of mind that these people would stalk my personal information and that this site allowed them to badger me. The tone was almost as if it was funny. I asked for an apology after being visibly and publically attacked and then was attacked again by another moderator. These people running this site act like a gang. I strongly urge anyone looking for a real open forum to ask for help from professionals to use another site and service. I will be sending all copies of the transcript to my attorney and will consistently spread the word about this companies policies. I have all exchanges of this thread if anyone would like to review to determine if I had said anything offensive or against any of the sites policies. My screen name is PeterG if anyone wants to look me up and see what I've posted. Completely insulted and appalled by Lawnsite.com !! If there is anything legal I can pursue against this site, they will be hearing from my attorneys. "