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[etechsupport]

I was looking for a place to discuss few things about successful business forums but never found any forum which had any such section. Forum University seems to be best place for me to start this.

As per the topic I would like to raise a question. why do forums which are started to help people or certain section of business look after interest of their own business only once they become successful. Those who pay get some posts giving out good reveiws and those who dont pay are questioned after each post.

You pay for deleting a bad review about your business and someone else pays to have a bad review for your business. WINNER is the one who pays more.

If there's someone posting a good review out of his own will you see 10 different people asking questions like "what domain do you have with them ?", "why are you posting over here if you are happy with them ?", "This seems to be a self advertisement"

If forums are started to make $$$'s then why are they advertised as Transparent discussion forum ?

I dont have any specific forum in my mind as this has been my observation with certain forums.

Google became better than Yahoo and MSN coz of its 100% transparency in general listing. I would say that business gets better success when it runs in the interest of consumers.

[Jan]

I am not sure I understand what you are getting at here. Are you suggesting some forums allow reviews if they know the person giving the review was paid to post it?

[etechsupport]

I am completely against of paid postings. Most of the forums do this and that is what I want to bring to notice of forum managers who are part of Forum University.

We inform our customers when something goes wrong against them in different forums and the reply we get from them is that they managed to get the posts deleted. many review posts are fraud and some sort of offline verification has to be there for people who go through the wrong channel.

Many people use Proxies or VPN's to achieve their goals and some sort of phone verification or Identity proof has to be verified by the forums who earn good amount from the forum and such forums can always afford to have verification to maintain transparency and trust.

Allowing people to signup with a email address only and messup business of others is not fair. There has to be something more to it.

[lpstong]

Yes to some people Paid Posting is not a healthy start to their forum. But such services do provide some help. Depending on what the poster says.

I do agree that much of it is spam or unrelated to the topic at hand. And therefore deleting posts begin. Some of them are in there for free advertising for their own self interest as well. You know self promotion.

I know many forum owners will set rules for new posters. And they should adhere to them. For one rule, I know some new users can't have sigs until they have proven themselves with enough quality posts. I feel that is a great rule to abide by.

Indeed it is hard to maintain a forum if one is new to it. Or lack in the knowledge in programming/coding of forums to avoid such disasters as hacking or spammy/unwanted type posters.

As far as the 1st post you made Jamie about web reviews that are getting deleted. I am kinda of lost in this issue.

If I had a forum that had a website review. I would not delete posts that were of quality work. Such review of sites, shouldnt come in the form of "great site" or "change the colors", "sweet" - you know statements of this sort.

All reviews should be given atleast a paragraph or more. Forum owners want your time and consideration. So give them a proper - quality - substance type post. Like, Is the topic of the forum related to the domain?, Do the colors mesh? Topics and discussion, Are there to many or to few? Are you the forum owner active in your community? Is the web design overpowering or pleasing to work with?

I just never heard of people paying more to get their forums more reviewed than others. Or to have other websites deleted to avoid being reviewed. I think this is what you are saying maybe.

I just see alot of topics you are trying to cover in your post in this section.

[Jan]

etechsupport, can you give us an idea of what you mean?

By that I mean an example.

[etechsupport]

I've sent a PM with example.

[Jan]

Given your example in PM, that is standard procedure, if it looks suspicious, people will jump in. But I am still not seeing your "paid posting" problem. Still :confused:.