No rant, but I'll pontificate....
GFY has evolved into a culture where everything revolves around the quantity of posts. It started with Lens giving away shirts for 1000 posts. More recently Sig Ho'ing is totally out of control. It's just totally obnoxious to see what is likely to be a good thread start and see people just blatently post "sig placement!" messages near the top.
Perhaps more remarkable is that high post counts are held in such high esteem that among the GFY crowd they carry status and a certain amount of celebrity. Reality is anyone who has that much time to spend on the boards, probably isn't spending much time doing actual work or business. Yet sponsors will invite them to their private parties and such due to their "fame" and then wonder why they dont see a lot of ROI or increased business after the show. But I guess there's entertainment value in a class clown kinda way.
The end result is a very high signal to noise ratio that makes the few nuggets that are there pretty much impossible to find.
It would be nice for some of the people over there who are actually looking to do a little business to find their way over. What I would not want to see come over is that post-whore culture.
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