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Originally Posted by Bagi Zoltán
It is simple, I like the attitude reflected by your post above.  |
Zoli, it's really encouraging that this forum care for attitude, here i have something to say.
I could have sponsored the contest or I have investors who can spend money on these type of contests. But all depends how they got the deal, every one is looking for ROI and that helps them to invest
time and money. But development these days as well as attitude of new admin raises many questions in my mind.
About kabonfootprint contest: it's the sole decision of the organizing body to continue or not, no one has right to say anything. Their may be some reason behind the scene that forces a contest to close down without any notice. i did put forward my trust towards Temi and crew in my blog the day temi announced sale of forums and new admin took over the things. I also posted few options Temi may consider to continue to the contest.
The mistake is, members are not aware of sale or this sale may be postponed for one month so that kabonfootprint contest will be over. Updating every bit of information in time helps to generate more trust rather than having few annoyed members.
What I am more depressed is the attitude adopted towards the participants and the forum members. The new admin has it's own views towards using nofollow tags and feels dofollow is only good for spammers, where as if you analyze deeply, you will find only 20% people does spam a forum where as 80% are seriously interested in discussion. Putting them at par with spammers hurts a lot.
The last thing is attitude, if this is one reason cited above to impose nofollow tags, i disagree,
but if he has another solid reason and feels his members are not spammers, we would go for even no links in forum as we are here to discuss and
love UKWW more than any other forum. it's attitude that matters most!
Secondly, few comments are really itching.
A commentator says people do few posts and leave the forum once they got the link where as reality is different,
if people find interesting discussions they will participate in forums.
People are busy and most of them comes to forum on free time or if they need something, and one has to care for them. Remember most people are here for fun and a bit of brainstorming, I haven't seen any one who did few posts and run away.
Their might be a reason they don't find any interesting discussion to join on. All reasons should be properly analyzed before blaming any one.
In fact I feel forum admins and mod must think from the member's point of view and implement some innovative strategies to bring them back to forum, instead of branding them as spammers.
I do understand the pain one had running and maintaining the forum, i did owned a small forum with 1100 members back 2003 and I have to close the same as i don't have enough time to manage it, even moderators got the job and they find it difficult to manage and we have decided to close it. We did receive lots of mails and we did sent tons of regret letters citing the reasons on why we have close down the site.
zoli my last say is a homework is needed before organizing a contest and should be launched only after careful analysis of it's pros and cons.
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