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sonofsam · 05-24-2020, 03:14 PM

The thing is that this place isn't really used for business anymore. People who have been here a long time use it as a social network, a brain dump and political forum.

Why do you think sponsors don't skin the site anymore? It doesn't lead to money generating affiliates.

I'm sure there will be people who will say "I do a ton of business here! I have made tons of money in the background because of gfy!" but they are the tiny minority. The fact is the majority of people here are not making money, and just come here to reconnect with people in the industry or banter with their cyber friends.. maybe it's a nostalgic thing.

It's going to keep on dying and real webmasters will continue to migrate to more business oriented forums and still stop by here time to time to see this site dying.

Take a look at the main forum every day. It's spammed by currentlysober making the exact same "joke" every day talking about poo. If this site wasn't bleeding members he would have been removed or told to stop, but they cant afford to lose any more members.. and the added number of "daily posts" inflated by idiots like him help sucker what little advertisers they have left by making the site appear more active than it is. Do you think they tell advertisers they have "x number of business ports a day" or "x number of posts a day" ?

05-24-2020, 03:14 PM
sonofsam Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 18,638	The thing is that this place isn't really used for business anymore. People who have been here a long time use it as a social network, a brain dump and political forum. Why do you think sponsors don't skin the site anymore? It doesn't lead to money generating affiliates. I'm sure there will be people who will say "I do a ton of business here! I have made tons of money in the background because of gfy!" but they are the tiny minority. The fact is the majority of people here are not making money, and just come here to reconnect with people in the industry or banter with their cyber friends.. maybe it's a nostalgic thing. It's going to keep on dying and real webmasters will continue to migrate to more business oriented forums and still stop by here time to time to see this site dying. Take a look at the main forum every day. It's spammed by currentlysober making the exact same "joke" every day talking about poo. If this site wasn't bleeding members he would have been removed or told to stop, but they cant afford to lose any more members.. and the added number of "daily posts" inflated by idiots like him help sucker what little advertisers they have left by making the site appear more active than it is. Do you think they tell advertisers they have "x number of business ports a day" or "x number of posts a day" ? __________________ I like turtles.