Most of you guys have no idea how quality this forum was 4 years ago. I understand where he is coming from completely.
I'm glad some of you can see what I'm meaning. I'll stress again I'm not trying to mock DP. It is clearly a success regardless of my original post. There's a few comments here along the lines of "it's inevitable that a big forum will result in a decrease in quality". I don't actually believe that's true. Take somewhere like the Cre8asite Forums, for example. The quality is very high on there, and I put that down to good management and moderation. Granted, it's nothing like as popular as here, but it's still pretty busy. Perhaps a fairer comparison is somewhere like Sitepoint. That place is busier still (than Cre8asite) but I don't think it's compromised on quality to the same extent as here. Here I just get the feeling that everyone is posting just for the hell of it, in the vain hope that their sig gets seen and they get a few visitors on the back of that. They go for quantity rather than quality, posting as many short messages as they can in a short space of time. They just want to be seen as much as possible in the crowd, and get click throughs. I'm sure there's a lot of that going on.
That pretty much started a couple of years ago, Aaron, and the way I look at it, it's too late to ever turn back to how things once were.
I think you are probably right there. To effectively 'police' this place now so it became a home for what I would call real business (ie. without the rubbish) would be a very difficult task indeed. There's been too much water under the bridge. Still... credit to DP. It - as an entity in itself - is clearly a business success.
Yes you are right i joined this forum in Feb 10th 2007 and my friend arpit referred me to this forum , but before joining it he told me some great tips like don't post anything without reason . Don't repeat and create same content and respect everyone . If you found spamming even once they will kick you out no warning will be given to spammers .But now we can see many new users join this forum for just promoting and spamming only .
all you guys complaining can go to sitepoint, they are all 'serious' and cynical over there. you can also never sell anything there as they are all experts..This forum is the best for webmasters
There were less discussions, but whenever someone posted, it was a post with real input, real information, great references to the topics and such. In other words, this was where the advanced people hung out, the ones who now run seobook, seomoz, shoemoney and such. It was a whole different crowd here. Now it's nothing like that. Real SEO information is hard to find, not much useful stuff anymore.
I see no problem at all with a free market economy and am happy with low prices. It means i have a choice. However some of the retarded threads should be deleted at birth, and i agree that the PM me for more info crap should be erased too. I think if we had some active moderators cleaning up the crap the site would improve.
I'd like to back up my original post with some current 'evidence': a link to 5 forums that have 1 million members... for 1.99USD people selling software that encourages spam on a big scale, and wastes a lot of forum admin time... for $20... ugh! someone selling PR0 links... wtf?
Sometimes that is all you need to say though. What do you need? Its hard to say PM me with more than two words.
On this fantastic forum, i always try to gain knowledge from it's experienced members and pick those bits of skills and knoledge that suits my requirements......DP is great and it rocks
Yes, it's true. So many new members which ask a stuppid question, How can i earn online. Their dodn't want to read ton of same questions that had already been posted at DP. I still like dp, but I never look on any job more here. I just get some useful information here, that help me to make money online.
I don't suppose there's any word from DP on this...? Is there anything that can be done to re-instate a greater emphasis on quality? I like it here but I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing there was less of the 'rubbish'...