Congratulations to Allen for selling the Warrior Forum to Freelancer!!!

I was kind of surprised too. If I'd known that 3.2 was the sweet spot, I might have considered buying it. :/

I'll second that. Give it a chance, it's been one day. lol

I've been here for years and though I don't post often since the changeover to the newer forum... I'm still here like many other people. It's a shame that all those old threads were lost, but it is what it is.

My bet is the forum will only improve as they'll be more people involved with management and growing it.

Posted this in the announcement in the news section, and thought it might be appropriate to post here as well...

I didn't want to comment until I actually had something to base comments on. Just spent some time on the phone with Alaister, and was suitably impressed.

My thoughts on this:

First, Freelancer has the technical staff and experience to scale up and optimize hardware in ways that could reduce or eliminate a lot of the server and database issues that have caused intermittent access problems for a while. That is, by itself, a huge potential benefit.

His experience in dealing with buyers and sellers through Freelancer translates directly to a lot of the challenges of setting policy and moderating in marketplaces like the for sale sections of this forum. It would be very hard to overstate the value of that.

For the folks who were worried about heavy-handed changes... I don't see that. At all. Despite the occasional mentions of his relatively low post count, he "gets" the culture and standards here.

Some things will almost certainly change, and that's appropriate. New owners can make new rules, after all. I don't see anything in the works, though, that's anything but good for the members.

A couple of reminders... The idea of a ratings system for WSOs still faces the same hard problem it always has: Limiting access to only those people who've actually bought the products they're rating. The forum is still not a party to those transactions, so there is currently no way to verify who bought what product.

Without that capability, any ratings system could be too easily gamed.

Also, the notion that the price of listing a WSO has any impact on quality of offerings is not, and never has been, accurate. That's been discussed to death for as long as the forum has charged for WSO listings, and it's been pretty well demonstrated that it's not a factor.

Some things will probably change, and a lot won't. Be patient with both possibilities.


Paul

I'm not sure if they want to implement the escrow either. I just brought it up because they use it at Freelancer and could be of value here.

And if they don't want to create their own affiliate platform, maybe the guys at Warrior+ and JVZoo could add some type of "refund score" for sellers? Maybe something like average time from refund request through their system to the refund being processed, with no open cases more than 24-48 hours old?

It could be as simple as adding a pinned thread explaining that buyers should use Warrior+ and/or JVZOO to request refunds and not do it through Paypal?

As we know, Paypal generally doesn't honor refunds for digital products, but Warrior+ and JVZOO will do much more to process the refund.

huh
Did I give you a warning?