Has This Forum Turned To Shit?

I continue to see more and more members banned on DP, mostly in the areas where you can sell stuff.....

I receive retarded spam in my Private Messages asking me to Digg some random article......

I believe this forum has turned to shit and am pretty much abandoning it. The only sites for sale are garbage (warez and proxy sites), everybody's selling an e-book of some sort and it seems everyone's looking for the easy way to make a buck here.

It seems DP has hit that point where too many people know about it and has become saturated with dumb shits.....

-boxer126

 

There's usually a reason there. Most people that come here to sell their crap will spam threads just to get the minimum post count (which is what they typically get banned for - it just takes the mods a few days sometimes to play catchup).

If you've only received 1, consider yourself lucky. I get about 10-15/week on average. It seems to be the more active you are, the most spam you'll get.

DP has basically hit a plateau and hasn't really headed in a new direction for some time. Yes a lot of dumbshits are joining and causing mayhem, but there's still some good things showing up.

I do agree that the BST forum is packed with alot of proxy sites - but what do you expect? Several months ago people were flooding this forum (and alot of other webmaster forums) about how much cash they made on proxy networks, so everybody jumped on board. Now that bubble has burst (if there ever really was any profit to be made there), and people are just trying to offload their junk.

There is occasionally a good domain/site for sale, but not often. Which does suck, but that's life.

I agree that too many people know about it. Which is part of the reason why a lot of private webmaster forums have spawned over the past year - you can only get in by invitation-only, which means you have to know people and they have to be willing to say good things about you. Find a few of those if you want something more focused, but DP does have it's charm

 

That's exactly what I've done. This forum sucks in comparison. Later. I will probably never see you again.

-boxer126

 

Well the board is too big for it's own good, and people start posting too much in one forum.

They need to sit down, add some more mods and do some quality control. Get rid of all the idiots who can't speak properly (no english) and start to improve the quality.

They should re do the skin, make it more web 2.0 and get this train back on the tracks.

 

The problem with that is it could be considered discrimination of one form or another, and the second problem is how do you determine what is an acceptable english skill level? Do we suddenly force everybody here to take the TOEFL exam? lol

 

Now, most People are banned from DP.?

 

If people knew how to read... they would not be getting banned from the BST portion of this forum. Its that simple.

 

One bad fish makes old pond bad. Would it be better if DP goes paid membership forum?
I wonder

 

Eeek the dreaded paid membership... PLEASE NO.

 

All of them get banned for "PM me interested Posts"

 

If you really wanna know how it has become shit then ask people who have shat on it

 

It's their own fault for not reading the forum rules properly...

Thus, they got what they're deserved.

 

thats the most traffic area so mods want to make BST section run cleanly

just forward to a mod

simple dont buy it

mods are working on it. but they are not bots also

btw this topic may be created so many times you know that

 

WOW, u gave cool solutions

 

because this topic seems to be hot and very familiar
either in suggestion section or in general chat

 

I agree.

I don't post much anymore, only really visit to check PMs or see if any contests I am in have been updated

 

I think some of the funny PMs are hilarious, Asking for $10 dollars or to get a person rich overnight. I am not a mod but it seems lot of people get banned and I am not sure why. I know some of the bans are justified but others are not. No worries here though. I don't think people should be able to run a con and try to fraud people out of money. I just keep posting and having fun.