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Andyz
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:56 pm
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Here are posted a lot of articles. I don't think that it's good for the forum, because people do that only for self promotion, and IMO the forum quality suffers from it.
Articles belong to article directories but not in discussion forums. Maybe it's a good idea to make extra Article section in this forum, then it would be not disturbing the other forum sections.
Many articles are being left unattended and no discussion is following. Also some people post lots of articles at once, and nobody wants to read that all.
I often open a thread, and want to find an interesting posting, but see only an article, that I don't want to read. That's annoying.
Also the posters often only come to post that articles in multiple forums and don't participate in a discussion that may follow.
Such behaviour should not be rewarded.
They only abuse the forums as article directories, and disturb the community, but get more looks and traffic.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:35 am
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Thanks for your comments. We've been keeping a close eye on articles posted here. I'm not keen on turning this forum into an article directory which has material which is duplicated in dozens of other places.
I'd be very interested in knowing what other forum members think about this articles on the forum.
One question: How would you decide what is an interesting post and what is an article?
| Andyz wrote: | | They only abuse the forums as article directories, and disturb the community, but get more looks and traffic. |
Hang on! If they're disturbing forum members, would forum members click on the links in the signatures? Probably not. If forum members DO click on the links, then aren't the articles actually interesting to forum users?
I imagine that most forum members quickly spot the people who make flying deposits, and just ignore them.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:05 am
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | One question: How would you decide what is an interesting post and what is an article? |
Yes, that's a valid queston. I have also asked it to myself. In some cases it may be difficult to answer, but often it's obvious.
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | Hang on! If they're disturbing forum members, would forum members click on the links in the signatures? Probably not. If forum members DO click on the links, then aren't the articles actually interesting to forum users? |
OK, that was an assumption of me. Because before you click on a posting link, you don't know if it's a discussion posting or an article. Or it's just curiosity. I was disliking some articles posted in a row and although clicked on one or two to see what some people were answering. Mainly if they were complaining. And in another forum I have got affirmation, that the article posters are spammers and it's annoying.
With signatures it can be similar, but the big difference is, that they are signatures and not postings, and so it is no "bad berries between good berries" that you take in the mouth in accident (opening a thread not knowing that's an article). The forum is about postings and not signatures. They are only topping. We communicate by postings.
So when we open a thread we expect social communication, and find only a promotional monologue. Ok, again my assuption.
Some articles I find also interesting, but they just don't belong here, and diminish the quality of the forum experience, in my eyes.
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