Instead of making me angry, this has certainly given me a good laugh. Yesterday, I started a thread for boddunan users who are active here and have an adsense account to look into the website. It is a simple question and answers website.
But as I see now, the thread is completely removed. Now, this move reinforces the feeling the Boddunan is certainly not a good place to be with.
Previously, I was only upset with the amount it pays to its writers. But now I feel Bodunnan can't even take something as mentioning other site for the benefit of the users.
And again, Maverick or any moderator who removed the thread, did you even bother to check the website. It is not a article writing site. So it was no competition to Boddunan.
And also, that site pays via only adsense a/c which majority of Boddunan users don't have. So they certainly would not have earnt from it.
And also, once you get an authority status there, you can post a link to your related articles in the answer section. That would have been a good backlink source and a huge traffic boost. That site has an very active community.
Anyways, I think Boddunan is certainly fearful. Also, this makes me not want to help anymore.
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Arun,
If you just want to share knowledge you need not promote the website through your referral link, rather a plain link you can use. Sorry but you must abide by the rules.
Need not say all these to senior members like you but it is unfortunate that the senior members are making mistakes again and again causing their accounts blocked. I request you to participate with the healthy discussions.
If you just want to share knowledge you need not promote the website through your referral link, rather a plain link you can use. Sorry but you must abide by the rules.
Need not say all these to senior members like you but it is unfortunate that the senior members are making mistakes again and again causing their accounts blocked. I request you to participate with the healthy discussions.
@Chinmoy - I understand every site's policies must be adhered to, all I am saying is they are not user friendly.
@Maverick - I appreciate that atleast you replied and stated me the cause of deletion. But still does not satisfies me.
On many occasion before, I have shared helpful sites but never inserted my referral tracker as those were article writing sites and I knew those who join can learn ropes on their own. The only reason I put my referral tracker for this particular site is that it is a question answer site and many people answer the same question. And for you to earn from your answer your answer has to be awarded.
So, by joining under my referral tracker I can keep easy tab of them and when they answer a question asked by me, I would prefer to award their answer.
Anyways, the only reason I disagree is you moved the whole thread. If you had problem with referral tracker being used on site, you should have snipped that and left the active link.
Anyways, feeling better than before. And next time I will keep in mind before sharing any site.
@Maverick - I appreciate that atleast you replied and stated me the cause of deletion. But still does not satisfies me.
On many occasion before, I have shared helpful sites but never inserted my referral tracker as those were article writing sites and I knew those who join can learn ropes on their own. The only reason I put my referral tracker for this particular site is that it is a question answer site and many people answer the same question. And for you to earn from your answer your answer has to be awarded.
So, by joining under my referral tracker I can keep easy tab of them and when they answer a question asked by me, I would prefer to award their answer.
Anyways, the only reason I disagree is you moved the whole thread. If you had problem with referral tracker being used on site, you should have snipped that and left the active link.
Anyways, feeling better than before. And next time I will keep in mind before sharing any site.
I too have kept myself away from the discussion forums.It is not very interesting to participate in the forums as the quality is not as observed before.It needs a change.People just post topics for earning more points.I have already posted my opinion here.Just earning points should not be the goal.With in 3 days of time in a week people are able to score more than 1000 points which is extremely unrealistic.Flo dding the forum with unwanted details is not a good sign. :( :(
nagalakshmi.karunanidhi wrote:
[quote]I too have kept myself away from the discussion forums.It is not very interesting to participate in the forums as the quality is not as observed before.It needs a change.People just post topics for earning more points.I have already posted my opinion here.Just earning points should not be the goal.With in 3 days of time in a week people are able to score more than 1000 points which is extremely unrealistic.Flo dding the forum with unwanted details is not a good sign. :( :([/quote]
+1
I agree. Infact many a times real forum posts of help gets moved far too down the list to be noticed.
I faced similar problem in other sites too, but as people knew me very well in that community, they use to mention my nickname in their forum post and I had set up alert for that. SO I could directly go and help!!
[quote]I too have kept myself away from the discussion forums.It is not very interesting to participate in the forums as the quality is not as observed before.It needs a change.People just post topics for earning more points.I have already posted my opinion here.Just earning points should not be the goal.With in 3 days of time in a week people are able to score more than 1000 points which is extremely unrealistic.Flo dding the forum with unwanted details is not a good sign. :( :([/quote]
+1
I agree. Infact many a times real forum posts of help gets moved far too down the list to be noticed.
I faced similar problem in other sites too, but as people knew me very well in that community, they use to mention my nickname in their forum post and I had set up alert for that. SO I could directly go and help!!
We have to abide by rules. If the rules need modification, ask for this but till these are amended or changed, should not deviate. As a country cannot do without law, the site cannot work without rules.
The site is for imparting and sharing views and news. It will be self defeating to convert the forums to chatting site. We get points even by writing congratulation to award winners. I think this practice should go. Almost every day one or the other individual gets award and there are so many congratulatory messages that earn points without any meaningful purpose.
The site is for imparting and sharing views and news. It will be self defeating to convert the forums to chatting site. We get points even by writing congratulation to award winners. I think this practice should go. Almost every day one or the other individual gets award and there are so many congratulatory messages that earn points without any meaningful purpose.
Can we make use of this thread to list out our thoughts and ideas to improvise the forum discussions?.
1.Some topics which is really in demand can be chosen and can be given extra weight age rather than the other posts.
2.As gulshan mentioned congratulatory messages especially for daily forum activator posts,caption writing contest post and group discussion contest posts should be excluded of awarding points.
3.Improving english writing skills is hardly used.Some mentors can really take up this thread and work to improvise it.
4.There should be a change in the categories included.It is good if we include some new categories which people are in real need of.
Please let me know about your views too.
1.Some topics which is really in demand can be chosen and can be given extra weight age rather than the other posts.
2.As gulshan mentioned congratulatory messages especially for daily forum activator posts,caption writing contest post and group discussion contest posts should be excluded of awarding points.
3.Improving english writing skills is hardly used.Some mentors can really take up this thread and work to improvise it.
4.There should be a change in the categories included.It is good if we include some new categories which people are in real need of.
Please let me know about your views too.
I think points should be awarded according to the "weight" of the topic discussed.By weight I mean its importance and relevancy.Simple useless posts like thanks,no comments, no idea and congratulations etc should be pointless.But the algorithm to work it will be too difficult.So I think maximum point limit from forum per day is the best way.
I agree with Nagalakshmi and ABid that some categories and quality post are to be given points...But I dont find That the messages like Congratulation and keep it up ...etc are not having meaning as they boost the spirts of active members..
If you wish best wishes and greet anyone on their birthday it will boost up their day and i dont think it is useless comments. :) Hope all the others agree with me regarding this point.
If you wish best wishes and greet anyone on their birthday it will boost up their day and i dont think it is useless comments. :) Hope all the others agree with me regarding this point.
Looks like we deviated the topic :) . Anyway here are my views:
I do understand the real problem. These days there are many people joining site (good sign or bad?) and are posting responses without knowing/reading rules and regulations. This is causing the unnecessary posts many times.
As you stated, we can always go for a better algorithm like
1. checking content - which can be defeated by posting some other content, hard to implement
2. size of content - users post unncessary characters to defeat this
3. remove points for forum posts - a good option?
Please share your views.
I do understand the real problem. These days there are many people joining site (good sign or bad?) and are posting responses without knowing/reading rules and regulations. This is causing the unnecessary posts many times.
As you stated, we can always go for a better algorithm like
1. checking content - which can be defeated by posting some other content, hard to implement
2. size of content - users post unncessary characters to defeat this
3. remove points for forum posts - a good option?
Please share your views.
I understand that points play important role in making forums active, however implementing such complex system would be technically difficult. And also educating new members would be difficult as well.
We need to see alternatives in this regard. What do you feel about a welcome mail with links to all rules?
We need to see alternatives in this regard. What do you feel about a welcome mail with links to all rules?
I completely agree with Maverick, and I had already suggested about the welcome mail few weeks ago.
Only educating newcomers and even the old members will solve this problem to some extent, though not fully.
The rules and regulations should not only be send to newcomers through welcome mail rather these should be highlighted on homepage for everybody. I am sure even most of the old members don't know about rules and regulations pertaining to this site. I myself don't know most of the things, though I am new here. Most of the time I am searching at Boddunan.updates categories and faq segments, but still I couldn't get all answers to my queries.
Transparency and easy access to rules and regulations will solve the problem to some extent.Besides these other ways should be found to solve such problem. Transparency will only bring goodwill to this site which is the biggest asset then anything else. It will help in the growth of the website.
Why not Maverick or any concern team of Boddunan ask suggestion from the existing members through the forum only, which will go for the betterment of the website.
Please clarify if I have written anything wrong.
Only educating newcomers and even the old members will solve this problem to some extent, though not fully.
The rules and regulations should not only be send to newcomers through welcome mail rather these should be highlighted on homepage for everybody. I am sure even most of the old members don't know about rules and regulations pertaining to this site. I myself don't know most of the things, though I am new here. Most of the time I am searching at Boddunan.updates categories and faq segments, but still I couldn't get all answers to my queries.
Transparency and easy access to rules and regulations will solve the problem to some extent.Besides these other ways should be found to solve such problem. Transparency will only bring goodwill to this site which is the biggest asset then anything else. It will help in the growth of the website.
Why not Maverick or any concern team of Boddunan ask suggestion from the existing members through the forum only, which will go for the betterment of the website.
Please clarify if I have written anything wrong.
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