by SushiForLife » 28 Apr 2017, 15:44
Mini rant:
Lately one of the best paying and promoted forums in TFW announced that it's going offline indefinitely due to the amounting costs. If you go online, it's the religious one that appears in bold. It'll still be open until mid May if you want to post things.
3 days ago the same forum owner changed the post limit from 5 to unlimited...and compared to last year when I started on it, it seems the most vibrant it's ever been the last two weeks, with extensive conversations and frequent new topics.
In his final post he complained that there were too many "cultist" users (despite the fact that he gave the option, both in post as well as in the registering options to be a member from different denominations or religion altogether), that the forum wasn't taking the course he intended (whatever course that was), and that no one replied or will reply to his farewell email (which in the case of many members fell on the spam filter).
I'm not sure what he was expecting from monetizing a forum that apparently has zero adds or revenue of its own, but some of these problems could have been solved by placing more rules to his forum's description on TFW and banning a few people for good measure.
(Edit) Point: I think misunderstanding what you can and can't do with your forum, has been a deciding factor for forums on content mills failling...
Mini rant:
Lately one of the best paying and promoted forums in TFW announced that it's going offline indefinitely due to the amounting costs. If you go online, it's the religious one that appears in bold. It'll still be open until mid May if you want to post things.
3 days ago the same forum owner changed the post limit from 5 to unlimited...and compared to last year when I started on it, it seems the most vibrant it's ever been the last two weeks, with extensive conversations and frequent new topics.
In his final post he complained that there were too many "cultist" users (despite the fact that he gave the option, both in post as well as in the registering options to be a member from different denominations or religion altogether), that the forum wasn't taking the course he intended (whatever course that was), and that no one replied or will reply to his farewell email (which in the case of many members fell on the spam filter).
I'm not sure what he was expecting from monetizing a forum that apparently has zero adds or revenue of its own, but some of these problems could have been solved by placing more rules to his forum's description on TFW and banning a few people for good measure.
(Edit) Point: I think misunderstanding what you can and can't do with your forum, has been a deciding factor for forums on content mills failling...