More Spam or Just Me?

That's the problem, too many people answering every single stupid question to attract attention to themselves and not enough of us reporting it....

As someone who posts 6 times a day everyday for the past 5 years, How many have you reported this week?

LOL you're funny!

I don't think any new features are needed.
Just get the old feature working, moderation.
As Kay mentioned above, if we can see all the junk, why can't the mods?
That includes the daily moronic questions like "How do I earn online"
just about everyday.
Nothing is going to stop all this other than human intervention.
All that is needed are some mods that are awake, can read,
but more important is they actually want to do something about
this constant garbage posted here.
Failing that there really is no hope here.

I've heard about you reaching out to a few senior members. Good luck with that. You (FL) ran off most of them. Hell I'm not a long time member and I see zero value in logging in anymore.
Dan, a few posts above yours you have a guy spamming. More like link dropping, but you didn't even catch that!
First thread in the main forum when I logged in.. spam.

Freelancer needs to decide what direction they want this forum to go. And then, stick to it. You want it to be a place of value again? Tighten up the reigns for a while. You can't possibly lose any money.

I've been around a lot longer than my join date. My wife has been a member for long time as well. Neither one of us come here. It used to be a daily thing. Sad.

First thing, deal with the frustration of valuable members. I'm not referring to join date. Go through and find the members that no longer post here, haven't signed in for a long time. Ask them, and then listen. Really listen.

Hello Dan,

For the better part of four years here I have reported things until I am almost blue in the face ---> at some point your mod team needs to become more knowledgeable and proactive. Instead of waiting on reports they should be actively and diligently patrolling the forum themselves.

The previous forum mods were active forum participants that were knowledgeable in internet marketing and also knowledgeable in forum moderation and administration. To successfully operate a forum with the complexities of a large internet marketing forum --> this is a crucial component for forum health, growth, and decline prevention.

The mods here need to become a part of the fabric of the forum ---> as it stands now, I see little sign of this happening. Until this happens....I believe the quality of the posted forum content will continue to decline. In no way do I intend to offend the current mod staff, it's just the way it is.

As have many others, I've posted my thoughts on this in several threads over the past couple of years...one of the my most recent comments on this subject was made here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/suggesti...##post10660359

Some great comments on this forum's decline have been posted by Mark Singletary and Rod Cortez and several others over the past couple of years as well.... It would behoove the FL team to start heeding the advice given by some of the WF veterans that are (and have been for long time) solid forum participants. I've been a member and a mod of forums since 1996....and I suppose some others that are still left here have even more experience than I do. You should be calling on some of that experience for the greater good of the forum.

If you do start calling on some of that experience (as Mr. Says did), I believe you may be able to stop the flood of shoddy content being posted to these boards. If you stop the flood of shoddy content, then you have a "chance" at winning back a few of the good marketers that have left this joint for greener pastures, and slow down the current ongoing exodus of veteran IMers.

Heck, most of the mods you are using now can't even tell when a basic forum function has been broken and can't identify a lot of the one line sig spam. You really do need some experience on your team that has been dealing with marketers, scammers, trolls and forum administration/moderation.

Never in a million years would I have canned the previous mod team and staffed one of the largest marketing forums on the net with mostly young guys that are greener than grass!

If you need an example of an excellent, experienced, proactive mod/admin....take a quick look here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/suggesti...##post10683920

Good ol' Paul Myers....helping me and others diagnose a forum bug in the middle of the night. Personally, I have busted more than a dozen members dumping pirated goods on this forum. If a regular member like me can be this proactive in my spare time, just imagine what wonders an experienced proactive mod team could do for this place.

The bottom line... You need peeps that both know better and care. Right now, it appears as if you don't have many of those, and that's unfortunate for all almost all parties involved.

Regards,

-don

It seems like every time they fix something or introduce something new, something else breaks. Most recently, members were unable to stay logged in, and it went on for weeks. When that was finally fixed, clicking the link to read the first unread post stopped working. Submitting a post reloads the page at the top, not at the post you just made. Clicking the link that's supposed to go to the last post simply opens the thread at the first post. That's not all, but getting these things fixed would be a start.

Spam is only one reason many quality members have cut back drastically on the time they spend here, or have left entirely. The ongoing dysfunction of the forum software is another. Sooner or later people tire of broken things and move on from them. There are more reasons for the exodus as well, many more.

Interesting. Reaching out in what way?

And, let's hope you're reaching out to the right people, because there are many "senior" members who will bring up ideas that benefit them that been proven to be ill-advised on the whole. Of course, if history proves an indicator of the future, this will be just another "hit and run" staff comment that will soon be forgotten...and nothing changes.