The State of The Board Business today

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Originally posted by pushpills@Apr 4 2004, 07:34 AM
I will toss my 2 cents in.


As far as boards go, this one will stay with its usual happenings, but gfy and weasel's board will deffinately be changing.

Gfy I think will *eventually* impose stricter sigwhoring rules and attempt to cut out uselessness that's been driving people away (or at least quality people) for the last six months especially.

weasel's board is brads version of a pump and dump stock scam. There's a reason his sponsors must commit to 3 months worth of advertising upfront.

Within 6 months, advertisers will start backing off his board, and it'll start to dry up. When I play weasel's board poker once in a while, I've never heard of 94% of the people, they are all sigwhores or highschool dopers who accidently broke their dvd player and must find a way to get another one without actually working.

As far as netpond, I regretably didn't post there much back in the day and don't do so currently, I cannot spend too much time on boards. I can't really say for sure how they will do in the future.


Speaking of the future, what NEW board COULD be the future? I think there could be a healthy mix of bullshit and business, which gfy once was and still is but the ratios are getting a bit nuts.

So something new would be a board, invite only, where people make important posts but are not shunned by the occasional "would you hit it" thread. Only 2 lines of text in the sigs would also be useful.

Some of my thoughts.


As for me, I will stick around here, and will post on gfy on a decent basis. I think you will see more of the brad style pump and dump boards to come.

this observation is very accurate, in my opinion. Told ya, you are getting there
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