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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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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