My Brother is a subscription member there... He tends to forward me all of the decent threads to look at (Most of which are about link building)... I guess that if you can afford to do it, the 8 or 9 good threads a year are worth the investment.
I was about to make the step to enter the paid area. Just as our site was starting to make serious money (a lot of which I credit to time spent there, although I'm sure this forum would do the trick also) they mysteriously lost my login information effectively banning me from the site. I still think it had something to do with a few comments I made about google in the preceding week. Maybe GoogleGuy twisted Brett's arm..
After reading that thread, it's even more clear why no one with any respect for themselves or the web environment should join. What a sick, twisted, egomaniacal mind it must take to enforce rules in that manner and ban people in that fashion. I'm nauseated just thinking about it. I hope that people who consider spending the money will come here first and read your story Shawn - hopefully in the next few years the forum will dissipate into the ether. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of things when URLs are not allowed to be posted. I think all of us would agree that 25-50% of the value we get from these forums is finding resources like seroundtable, threadwatch, mcdar, digitalpoint tools, etc. and that by restricting the posting of these items, you hurt the traffic of information - the goal of webmaster/seo forums.
well I think the most silly thing about the place is that they just make you jump through loops- sure, you can't give a url, but you can say "sticky me [pm me] for the url." there is some interesting info there though. I read it a lot, but I don't post much there.
Thanks for the info everyone! ... I agree more information on other forums, there's only 2 I frequent now and thats DP and Aardvarkbusiness.net I won't be paying for WMW now
I wouldn't say they're completely useless. it really depends on what you want to do. if you're interested in AMing, there's a lot that you can learn from lurking around there. yes, the censors are annoying, but at least you don't have to ignore every other post and assume it's not valid because you see a tracking url dropped in it
Once again ensuring that this forum is the best out there. I am a paying subscriber there under a different handle and not worth the money. I have been back there about 4 times since I registered here. Shawn keeps it 'real'. You can talk to him, he will show you how to mod your XBox (check your messages Shawn) and will communicate in a humourous manner towards the riff raff we get here. Someday this forum will shut down that forum. Forums should be about helping people, not restricting them in what they can and cannot say.
Your best post ever NC, but I resent the riff raff comment, you could at least PM me if you want to call me names
You know what they say Minstrel, one bad apple spoils the whole bunch Yeah, I never really read that thread that they used to ban Shawn, but I will take their word for it. He is banned from my future forums
Thanks Foxy, please private mail your comments to me, I do not want you to ruin my reputation As far as NC is concerned: he is now on my shit list
brett tabke is both a brigand and a liar. very difficult to unsubscribe once you've done so. tries to charge you for non-existent transaction charges. bans you from posting on that subject or any other. obscene ad hominem attacks and threats in private emails. the works. www.threadwatch.org/node/134 for slightly more details.
I thought a brigand was a large sea-going vessel of some sort... No wait... that's a fridgeridaire... or a frigate... or something like that... As you were...
With thousands of great free webmaster forums who in the hell would pay those guys to post there, it just does not make sense when so many forums are fighting for members. Plus we have Kalina and SE here, so why pay when you have two great kids like that, well we have Shawn too
Thanks Minstrel, that's all I need, more devils in my life, hell I want to get the one's dwelling in me cast out one day But thanks for this one, I will add him to the cast of characters within.