Digital Point forums are going down the drain
That’s right, I’m sorry to say that Digital Point forums are really turning to shit. Lately the place is just becoming a haven for cheap bastards with poorly spoken english to gather and “post”. The place is simply full of people selling and reselling the same shit, most of which they probably don’t even have resale rights to (read about my experiences on this in this link).
But of course, a long term investment isn’t what DP users want. William then wrote another ebook targetting the DP market, and made himself a decent bit of cash. The ebook this time? A few pages about a little method he found that earns a bit of quick cash if you constantly put work into. Now it was a good book and all, but the fact that this sold more copies than his other traffic ebook showed the interests of Digital Point users.
I’m getting more and more pissed off at people on there speaking awful broken english and even trying to scam people. The place has gotten so full of idiots. Ever wondered why you rarely see the major players in internet marketing on there?
Unfortunately for me, it’s so active, even if a lot of those active users are irritating, so it’s a handy place to see webmaster news and make money here and there. Be careful in looking for work on there though, you’ll be on slave labour rates if you plan on writing or designing for money.
Even worse, the moderators on there lately have really lost the plot. Infractions and bans are being handed out for the stupidest things, if they’re breaking a new rule on a technicality or something. Too often lately I’m seeing failure to use common sense on the part of mods.
Recently a very popular poster on there, Samantha, was banned, which was pretty disgraceful since she was always catching scammers and alerting the mods, and generally doing good work for the forum. See her post about the whole thing here. Guys I strongly recommend checking out her site, you’ll be shocked that the mods banned who must have been the hottest girl on the entire forum. Then have a look at the thread where people asked why she’d been banned, which is here. Cleverly she changed around some images she had linked to during her time on DP, and wrote messages to the mods via those, for example, the images below.
You gotta love that bitchiness.
I myself have gotten infractions for silly things in my time, I even posted about one a while back, have a look here for more info in that.
Overall I’m logging onto DP more out of habit than anything else lately. I sincerely hope I find a new place to spend my time and conduct business, but it’ll be hard to find somewhere quite as active.
It also seems like the ways of making money are quite limited. Everyone just seems to do the same things - Proxies, Flipping Sites, Writing an ebook (then flipping the ebook’s site), and of course, blogs. Not that there’s anything wrong with these methods, but I would love to find a unique idea, that could work long term and bring regular passive income rather than just something to make a quick buck.
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December 31st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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January 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I am sure Shawn over at DP would appreciate you hot linking his logo. At least have the courtesy to not steal his bandwidth and host it yourself in the process of bashing the site…
January 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
January 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
And me thinking of joining the forum! Thank God I didn’t do it, don’t want to be a cheap b@$&@&d with bad English!
January 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
You are right about the cheap bastards, people asking for review copies really is shite.
As for Sammy, she broke the rules (more than once) and deserved the ban. As for the hottest girl on DP? Nah no way man.
SBD is right about hot linking that image. You may want to fix.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Hotlinking issue sorted. Thanks for the comment Gavin, had a look at your website, very proud to have ya on here!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I used to always hang out there, but eventually the sheer amont of people selling the same cheap websites, rehsashing previous material etc just drove me away. Now i only use the site occassionally rather the long amount of hours spent trawling the forums there! The overall quality of the posts there has simply gone downhill. IMO the only reason people still go there is the volume of webmasters there, which isn’t a bad thing in itself, but at some point quality will become an issue in the future.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Agreed, DP is going to hell. A group of people [on DP] just set up a new forum which they want to heavily ‘quality control’ and only let in members who speak Fluent English, etc… I put the link in my ‘website’ box, so click my name if you want to check it out - it’s doing nicely so far but we could use more members… Boycott DP!
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 am
Nice comment, fully agree on DP.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Hello my friends
