Kyle
08-04-2004, 03:26 PM
It seems that forum popularity is good for the owner (profits), and can be bad for the dedicated following. This primarily refers to webmaster forums, as webmasters have signatures with links in them. Because of the links members get from forums, they become "post monkeys". The result is a forum flooded with garbage posts that have NO point.
The best example I can give is when someone asks a question.. I'd say questions are the most common thread starters. You may get 5 people that post replies that have absolutely no intention of truly answering the question.. furthermore may know nothing about the topic at hand... and may not have even read the question properly... so even if they do attempt to answer the question, it may make absolutely no sense. Are there exceptions? Of course there are we are all human. There is a % of these crap posts that are due to human error. Simply, a good member posting a reply that is incorrect because the member truly and accidently misread the question. However, many people can tell which members are obsessed wtih posting for links and which members aren't.
One arguement may be: well these post monkeys are positive for forums. They help grow the forum. They are active, and very helpful to the growth of the community. Yes this CAN be true.. but not here. Websitepublisher.net is truly awesome. The articles are to the point, and not excessive. They are well organized, and the site is not LOADED with advertising as many other top webmaster reference sites. The site is run by a very experienced webmaster who offers objective advice, and isn't vague in the help offered. This site will never fail. If for some reason traffic started to drop significantly, and was in a major slump, not growing, etc. I would definitely send all the pagerank I could, personally recommending websitepublisher on every one of my sites as a source for why my sites are succeeding. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way about websitepublisher, and its success.
I apologize for this long rant, but someone needs to address it. It may piss people off, but if you get angry at this post... please look at yourself. Maybe you post a little too much for the sake of links. You can get angry at me, but please don't take it too personally. It's a general statement about the community, and ways we can improve to be different than the other massive webmaster forums out there.
The best example I can give is when someone asks a question.. I'd say questions are the most common thread starters. You may get 5 people that post replies that have absolutely no intention of truly answering the question.. furthermore may know nothing about the topic at hand... and may not have even read the question properly... so even if they do attempt to answer the question, it may make absolutely no sense. Are there exceptions? Of course there are we are all human. There is a % of these crap posts that are due to human error. Simply, a good member posting a reply that is incorrect because the member truly and accidently misread the question. However, many people can tell which members are obsessed wtih posting for links and which members aren't.
One arguement may be: well these post monkeys are positive for forums. They help grow the forum. They are active, and very helpful to the growth of the community. Yes this CAN be true.. but not here. Websitepublisher.net is truly awesome. The articles are to the point, and not excessive. They are well organized, and the site is not LOADED with advertising as many other top webmaster reference sites. The site is run by a very experienced webmaster who offers objective advice, and isn't vague in the help offered. This site will never fail. If for some reason traffic started to drop significantly, and was in a major slump, not growing, etc. I would definitely send all the pagerank I could, personally recommending websitepublisher on every one of my sites as a source for why my sites are succeeding. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way about websitepublisher, and its success.
I apologize for this long rant, but someone needs to address it. It may piss people off, but if you get angry at this post... please look at yourself. Maybe you post a little too much for the sake of links. You can get angry at me, but please don't take it too personally. It's a general statement about the community, and ways we can improve to be different than the other massive webmaster forums out there.