Hello everyone, today i'm going to go into a semi-long rant about why i'm really starting to hate forum-based promotion sites. I will be using some sites as example, such as ForumPromotion.net and ForumAdvertiser.com. The points in this reading are strictly my thoughts and should not be held against either site. You don't have to agree with my thoughts on any of this, the choice to read and comment on it is yours :great:
Look around this post, look to the left, you'll see my avatar. That's because you're on a forum, an Internet based method of sharing information between people. To be more exact, this forum is set up with the single purpose of assisting other sites on the web to grow and develop. Sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? If it's such a great idea, why don't we all just go and make one? There are of course, reasons why every forum-based promotion site will fail at some point or another.
1) Competition. This is what brings the downfall of a site even as big as Forum Promotion is. It is the sole heart of the downfall, it causes other things to happen and at some point the board will just die. Often the competition between new boards is so tough, yours never takes off. Other times, a "war" between two larger forums causes both to suffer, let's look into the latter.
Forum Promotion vs Forum Advertiser
I wasn't around when it first started I guess, but even today I can see it's an on-living battle even with the admins of both sites trying to stop it. With promotion forums, you have too many staff, too many people who think they have some "power" over others just because they have a colored name. These people are often very very irresponsible, and act like children (which granted, some still are). It's not the admin's fault if his staff fight, there isn't much he can do. Heck FP has 3 admins yet they can't do a darn thing about it. It just happens. I don't know how far the fighting has gone between these two forums, but it's rumored there were even DDoS attacks awhile back (clearly neither side were smart enough to just plain out hack each other). Fact of the matter is, the flame is still there between the two sites, it could restart at anytime.
Let's say for a minute that the "war" does start back up and FP crashes and burns into the ground due to some botnet taking down the hosting server and their account being disabled completely. Then what happens to FA? For awhile there would be spam attacks and such, but in the long run, they will find new, stronger competition. That's the key you see, competition does two things, it keeps balance between the worlds, yet it is also your ultimate downfall. Sucks eh?
So to all you admins out there considering starting a promotion forum, just keep in the back of your mind that one day your site will fall to another, it's just competition.
Look around this post, look to the left, you'll see my avatar. That's because you're on a forum, an Internet based method of sharing information between people. To be more exact, this forum is set up with the single purpose of assisting other sites on the web to grow and develop. Sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? If it's such a great idea, why don't we all just go and make one? There are of course, reasons why every forum-based promotion site will fail at some point or another.
1) Competition. This is what brings the downfall of a site even as big as Forum Promotion is. It is the sole heart of the downfall, it causes other things to happen and at some point the board will just die. Often the competition between new boards is so tough, yours never takes off. Other times, a "war" between two larger forums causes both to suffer, let's look into the latter.
Forum Promotion vs Forum Advertiser
I wasn't around when it first started I guess, but even today I can see it's an on-living battle even with the admins of both sites trying to stop it. With promotion forums, you have too many staff, too many people who think they have some "power" over others just because they have a colored name. These people are often very very irresponsible, and act like children (which granted, some still are). It's not the admin's fault if his staff fight, there isn't much he can do. Heck FP has 3 admins yet they can't do a darn thing about it. It just happens. I don't know how far the fighting has gone between these two forums, but it's rumored there were even DDoS attacks awhile back (clearly neither side were smart enough to just plain out hack each other). Fact of the matter is, the flame is still there between the two sites, it could restart at anytime.
Let's say for a minute that the "war" does start back up and FP crashes and burns into the ground due to some botnet taking down the hosting server and their account being disabled completely. Then what happens to FA? For awhile there would be spam attacks and such, but in the long run, they will find new, stronger competition. That's the key you see, competition does two things, it keeps balance between the worlds, yet it is also your ultimate downfall. Sucks eh?
So to all you admins out there considering starting a promotion forum, just keep in the back of your mind that one day your site will fall to another, it's just competition.
