Feature Premium Membership...

I suggest that there be a unique color for Premium BST listings too, the current Green Text on dark green background does not stand out as it should.

 

Looks okay to me.

probably the best choice with what is available.You don't want to use Turquoise blue & crimson red there.

 

Sorry, I made a typo in the previous post, I meant to say can we have a differnt *text* color which stands out on the dark green background texture?

 

I'm lol'ing at those who are complaining about the price. It's WELL WORTH the price, I bought it monthly to test it out, but since I love it so far, when the due date comes around next month, I will buy it yearly.

 

it's not really valuable for Serious services shawn, for example, it took me 1 and a half year to build my LINK Baiting service thread : http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=926483 , now it doesn't really matter if the thread is highlighted, BOLD, Pink or blue. i didn't get a single project to work on since the sorting system changed, so i recently just closed the thread and started doing business in other webmaster forums. I would certainly buy it if premium threads (threads made by premium members) gets back to the top when someone writes a review of your service in your thread, that's the only feature which can justify 25 dollars per month for me. such feature would be really appreciated.

 

Wow, premium bumping!

I hope that would never be something we would consider. Not only would you piss off every regular member, you'd probably piss off most of the premium members. Mind you, I'd be more than happy to give premium infractions to the premium bumpers.

 

Why not link to the dp thread in your signature?

 

Not at all, IN warriorforum they have paid bumps, and it's working fine for them, there is no point in preventing people from building a Long and Lasting Business in digitalpoint, the warriorforum is growing everyday, Meanwhile digitalpoint lost 10 000 Active members in a few weeks, (the number was 73 000 before the changes IN bst, and now it's 63 000 and falling), plus i was talking about adding a "review" MOD not "bumps", you are a writer you should grasp the difference..

also there is no Need to be aggressive my friend, we are trying to have a constructive discussion HERE, so let's just have a friendly attitude because if you treat your members like s***, there will soon be no members to moderate

I tried that during 2 months and i was answering questions everyday in the SEO, Link Building and Google sections. but i didn't get a single order.

 

alright, that's very good to hear, i was worried for a while, i am kinda addicted to DP even when there is no money involved , now, how about a "review" MOD shawn? or you know, how about any solution (paid or free) which will prevent Legit Services from dying like what happened with me .?

 

Shawn, just out of curiosity what does vBulletin constitute as an "Active Member" ?

 

When you earn the respect, you'll get the respect.

You have a recent history of griping and complaining, and you're having a particularly difficult time letting go of the bumping issue. Constructive discussion is fine, but your passive-aggressive commentary is less than desired.

 

sames goes for you. i will respect what you have to say when you offer me a solution or convince me that you are right instead of telling me to shut up, the fact that i don't agree with something that you said doesn't make us enemies, if i was a Moderator i would defend your right to express your opinion even if i don't necessarily agree with you. i expressed my concerns about only one Issue since a joined DP 3 years ago, that doesn't qualify as "A history of complaining" by any stretch of the English language, now i was just suggesting a "review" mod because i think it would be useful for both the service providers to have more visibility (their threads gets back to the top when someone write a Review) and for the buyers to be able to "FIND" and recognize legit services from bad services and scams.

 

How do you see the relationship between the traffic increase and the changes in BST?

I see that the changes may have done a tweak in spam busting but I see it affected the sales for many sellers in a bigger way. So in order to kill spam you took many good stuff in the way. Threads now have much shorter lifespan. You post a sales thread to get exposure for few hours maximum one day then nothing. You just have to open a new thread and start over.

No one keeps progress with something as before, You can't read a lot about a hot selling product anymore. Hot products used to have +10 pages but not anymore.

Buyers get confidence when they see previous posting their reviews about the product/service. But this is not possible after the changes that have been made.

Every new post in a thread means more interest. You should find another way to eliminate spam. Add more mods if this will help or increase the ban days to make the punishment more powerful.

 

Stretching the English language is more like when someone butchers it when they take creative liberties in their paraphasing, for example, attributing words to someone that they haven't written like: "telling you to shut up", or calling us "enemies". If you're going to quote someone, use their words, not your own.

There's really nothing to separate a legitimate product from a bogus one when you can ask someone for a good review in exchange for a free copy or sample of your product or service. I've banned enough shillers in this forum to recognize members who get their friends to write fake reviews, members who pay others to write positive reviews, and members who create duplicate accounts in order to praise their own "legit" service. And when all that fails, the OP just makes a timely "thank you" post to bump their thread back into the limelight.

A mod review plugin that could instantly bury a bogus product or service would be tens times more useful than one that bumps it up.

 

TikTok, i had the impression that you just wanted me to shut up, but let's not get personal, since you don't like my solution, i want to ask you this question: Not everyone in the BST section is a scammer or spammer right ? there are great Writers, Seo's, coders, designers there too right? my question is : How would you help legit Service providers gain more visibility and exposure for their threads to prevent them from getting burried and completely forgotten? i would love to hear your Solution (it doesn't matter if its free or paid).

 

why not shawn ? the 150 000 members of the warriorforum are loving it, half of them atleast are DP members too , just make it expensive enough for people to not abuse it ?