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Originally Posted by suesheboy
I am just as guilty as posting random shit, however other than "spam" there are few if not no useful industry tips and partnerships / mentoring being shared here.
In the past, there were way more helpful threads and I believe a lot less scamming of one another.
The board here still has value. Don't want it to go, but I think it kills far more of my time rather than being productive.
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As you say there are still good knowledgeable folks here, but you have to put on blinders if you want it to be a net productive experience. I decided to stay out of any conspiracy, race baiting, Russia vs USA, personal drama, etc threads and the experience is way better since - it basically sifts out all the assholes, mentally ill, & OCD idiots because they rarely participate in actual business threads.
But yeah, most of the webmaster boards are dead. Besides here I still post over at Ynot often - there are maybe just 20 regular posters there but they're all quality longtime folks (well YMMV with Markham) with minimal bullshit.
The industry has simply contracted big-time, no two ways about it. And though economically it's improved from the worst recession tubes-are-killing-us-all days, there's not a lot of new blood coming in, plus more & more slices of the pie (and traffic) are getting gobbled up by the big players. So fewer of us smaller operations who are more likely to post on the boards and actually get some use out of them.