SEO Forum Moderators

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I'm starting this thread to let everyone know that MikeFriedman, PearsonBrown & myself (Yukon) along with most volunteer site wide moderators have been removed as forum moderators.

Personally I rarely check the News forum, I mostly hang out here on the SEO forum so I figured a few others might do the same & not see the thread on the subject.

I just wanted to say thanks to MikeFriedman, it's been a pleasure working with you. I didn't really have a chance to work with PearsonBrown but I'll say thanks to the moderating you did before Mike & I became mods, I know you had your hands full modding alone.
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  • The good news is that you all have a lot more time to live and work on your business. I do appreciate the time you all have spent as its a job that i would never have taken on. Good luck with whatever you decide to do with the additional time.
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    • I can't even imagine what it's like to mod this forum.

      Crazy, would be one way that comes to mind.

      Paul
  • Thanks for your help guys...

    Now I can start spamming

    J/K
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  • It's pretty evident at this point that they:

    A) Really don't care about the community.
    B) Have no idea how digital marketers and SEOs operate.

    If they wanted DigitalPoint, they should have just bought it instead of clumsily creating a duplicate over a 2-3 year period.

    Well, at least I still have a VB license when this finally hits that point of no return...

    Thanks for your time and effort Mike and Yukon. Pearson, I never knew you but thank you as well... it's a hellish task to be a moderator at times.
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    • I'm going to disagree with that point my man. Nothing wrong with wanting their own people to run the forums. To be honest a mod here and there (not referring to Mike, yukon or Pearson)clearly were not on the same team looking and comparing back to previous ownership. I would have shown the door to some myself. Allen sold out. he was not pushed or voted out. Freelance has gotten too much heat just for buying a forum that obviously was for sale and exercising their ownership rights..

      VB SUCKS. IPB FOREVER !!
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  • As a member I would like to take the opportunity to thank you Yukon and also Mike Friedman for having done a sterling job moderating this section of the forum.
    The unseen effort you all put in is most appreciated.
    Special thanks to PearsonBrown who has been a mod here since I joined the WF and probably long before.

    and being fair minded, having read the thread Yukon posted.
    I would like to add that was an unprofessional way to terminate your modships.

    Common courtesy costs nothing.

    Thanks again for your hard work guys.
  • As can I. I just don't agree that the approach taken was the best route considering the natural of discussion and the characters the industry typically draws to it and beyond that, I feel it displays ignorance of the various elements at play.

    I feel that if they were concerned about keeping the community stable, they wouldn't completely destabilize it at the top - particularly by making a mockery out of any of the good moderators that weren't nipping at Alaister. It's careless and looks like a spoiled brat that is going home and taking his ball with him - to me at least.
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    • I think what soppy old GoY is trying to say here, is that he loves you guys and what you do around here. Won't be long before they ban me so,

      Let me go read this thread.
    • well this kind of illustrates my point. Alaister said he did email mods. Perhaps it wasn't with enough lead time or I don't know maybe he didn't. However theres a whole set that are not going to give any benefit of the doubt to new ownership whether they know he didn't or not.

      That gets tiring plus sorry but all the forum posters claiming freelancer doesn't know IM, they don't have the experience etc etc. Why is it they had the money to buy WF and the forum posters didn't? Government grant? or because hey they must have done something right in running freelancer to be successful enough to buy it.

      haters going to hate and Lol If goylancer bought WF them suckers would be outta here faster than your products are ready to go after a romantic date.
  • Thank you guys.... I''m sure you did a great job as mods!

    I have read a number of threads in some other sections here and to me the forum furniture seem to think they have part ownership here with their little cliques.

    On a side note: I had an issue with a service provider here and everything was resolved in a few minutes by Alaister and what is more surprising is that I never even reported the issue. I think in-house will be more impartial when exercising the rules of the forum and from my earlier experience.... much more decisive as well!

    Just my opinion, of course!

    Ash
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    • Don't get me started. There is a whole clique here not just of mods who thought they did and are just ticked no end because the clique no longer has sway.
    • Every forum of any size develops cliques, it's inevitable. If one or more is broken up, one or more will develop to take their place.


      Whoever is the public face of a place this large and diverse is going to take some heat. That goes with the territory. Paul took it for years, and took a lot worse than Alaister has seen; but now Alaister is the man, so he will be the target.
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  • I suppose what I'm trying to illustrate here is that if goylancer bought them, it would be because goylancer cut his teeth in internet/affiliate marketing, seo, etc - not by providing a marketplace for freelancers. There's a distinct difference in expertise and familiarity there as it applies to the forum's membership that I don't think has ever really been taken into account by them.

    None the less, it's not really worth debating any further because it is what it is.

    Now I've got some pumping to do if you don't mind... and you know what kind of pumping I mean...
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    • Bleh not buying it. Goylancer would buy anything they thought would make them a good chunk of change and sorry its not a totally separate expertise. If anything creating an online platform and launching it and making it successful demonstrates a far greater level of expertise in internet marketing than affiliate marketing.

      Now If only you had someone to share it with
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  • The good news is that you all have a lot more time to live and work on your business. I do appreciate the time you all have spent as its a job that i would never have taken on. Good luck with whatever you decide to do with the additional time.
  • Spamming is never tolerated by any search engines so that is good concept for moderators are all time working with discussion sites for spam check.
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    SEO Forum Moderators

    I'm starting this thread to let everyone know that MikeFriedman, PearsonBrown & myself (Yukon) along with most volunteer site wide moderators have been removed as forum moderators. Personally I rarely check the News forum, I mostly hang out here on the SEO forum so I figured a few others might do the same & not see the thread on the subject.