Re: The Beginning Of The End Of This Forum?
Posted: 14 Sep 2011, 21:13
Hi All,
I’ve been watching this forum for a long time and been a member for a little while.
I didn’t post an introduction thread at the time of signing up because the same old stuff gets posted by a little few saying hello and welcome just going through the motions (no offence intended but that’s what really happens) and the rest just look to see if there’s a new threat in town where they are (again no offence intended but that’s what really happens).
Now in this thread I will give you my expert advice as a person who has run forums for over 10 years on the net and also still runs online shops along with current retail outlets in this genre and others.
First off! It costs money to run a forum and that mounts up if the forum becomes popular which is then compounded with costs as it grows with popularity, unless the forum is run or owned by a very well off person or brand name Company then at some point it has to be funded from an outside source which normally means a sole sponsorship or advertisements which is now the case of here.
I’ve been looking at loads of the threads and posts in this forum over the last few weeks where the owner has dropped very big hints that it’s costing him money to keep it going after going down the donation route which were enough in the early days but has now come to a point where he has had to go down the advertisements route.
What I’ve witnessed is people moaning about where the ad’s have been placed and the size of them along with the colour and design? Well to all the people that moaned! Do you contact the owner of every site you visit where you don’t like what they have on their sites? (I don’t think so).
It’s very easy to criticise something when you have not had to work on it or know how it works, even more so when it costs you nothing.
If you think I’m talking bull then I challenge you to find a well-known forum where they don’t have ad’s, sponsorship or have big backers.
There is also something I don’t think the majority of the long term members have noticed since the ad’s/sponsorship started is that BMS have removed the link to the forum from their site because they don’t have an ad on here which for whatever reason but was a place I found this forum from.
The discounts offered by the site sponsors who have limited time offers just go to show they just want to kill off competitors because they never knew this site was around and not offer better long time deals that would help them with blank sales.
I’ve been watching this forum for a long time and been a member for a little while.
I didn’t post an introduction thread at the time of signing up because the same old stuff gets posted by a little few saying hello and welcome just going through the motions (no offence intended but that’s what really happens) and the rest just look to see if there’s a new threat in town where they are (again no offence intended but that’s what really happens).
Now in this thread I will give you my expert advice as a person who has run forums for over 10 years on the net and also still runs online shops along with current retail outlets in this genre and others.
First off! It costs money to run a forum and that mounts up if the forum becomes popular which is then compounded with costs as it grows with popularity, unless the forum is run or owned by a very well off person or brand name Company then at some point it has to be funded from an outside source which normally means a sole sponsorship or advertisements which is now the case of here.
I’ve been looking at loads of the threads and posts in this forum over the last few weeks where the owner has dropped very big hints that it’s costing him money to keep it going after going down the donation route which were enough in the early days but has now come to a point where he has had to go down the advertisements route.
What I’ve witnessed is people moaning about where the ad’s have been placed and the size of them along with the colour and design? Well to all the people that moaned! Do you contact the owner of every site you visit where you don’t like what they have on their sites? (I don’t think so).
It’s very easy to criticise something when you have not had to work on it or know how it works, even more so when it costs you nothing.
If you think I’m talking bull then I challenge you to find a well-known forum where they don’t have ad’s, sponsorship or have big backers.
There is also something I don’t think the majority of the long term members have noticed since the ad’s/sponsorship started is that BMS have removed the link to the forum from their site because they don’t have an ad on here which for whatever reason but was a place I found this forum from.
The discounts offered by the site sponsors who have limited time offers just go to show they just want to kill off competitors because they never knew this site was around and not offer better long time deals that would help them with blank sales.
)