05-03-2013, 10:09 PM
I think the main forum is doing just fine, and adding organization would ruin that. So like everyone else, please don't change that.
I don't really have a problem with the political side. i do go there and I do read some of the posts and occasionally post there. I do think subjectively the quality of the trolling has gone down over the past 6 months, so maybe this is in response to that. I don't really think there is any solution, other than community policing.
Thanks for hosting the forum. I do think we would rip OWC for problems just like we would have and always ripped into anyone and everyone else, in pursuit of the best mac related deals. So having it here enhances your credibility as a seller, and does encourage folks to buy from you. So you are getting some value.
To me the collapse of DM was primarily about their desire to compete with Fat Wallet. DM may or may not have been first, or at least the first best computer deal related site. But I tend to think a lot of the changes that destroyed the forum was motivate by their desire to continue to make money off the deal related side (which used to be great). So the censorship related to posting links to other sites, including FW and appleswitch and probably others, led to the implosion.
I don't really have a problem with the political side. i do go there and I do read some of the posts and occasionally post there. I do think subjectively the quality of the trolling has gone down over the past 6 months, so maybe this is in response to that. I don't really think there is any solution, other than community policing.
Thanks for hosting the forum. I do think we would rip OWC for problems just like we would have and always ripped into anyone and everyone else, in pursuit of the best mac related deals. So having it here enhances your credibility as a seller, and does encourage folks to buy from you. So you are getting some value.
To me the collapse of DM was primarily about their desire to compete with Fat Wallet. DM may or may not have been first, or at least the first best computer deal related site. But I tend to think a lot of the changes that destroyed the forum was motivate by their desire to continue to make money off the deal related side (which used to be great). So the censorship related to posting links to other sites, including FW and appleswitch and probably others, led to the implosion.