- Location
- healdsburg, CA
Been hearing about trouble with members on this web site getting banned and it got me to thinking.
I remember the ISA web site diss. board and how it was real popular but all of a sudden many members got fed up with the administrators and after a while everyone just left, now the web site seems like an abandoned neighborhood sorta like some of the areas I saw in Detroit, nothing going on but alot of trouble.
I believe these web sites are a great way for folks to get together and break the isolation that we as working folks exist in. After all the only way to get new information is trade magazines, workshops, conventions and study at home courses/CEU's.
But with these web sites now folks can talk to each other from different parts of the country and right away get feedback. Really great way to get educated and increase awarness of what is new/bad/great or even what situations are to be avoided.
Each of these web sites seem to come into favor/fashion for awhile and because of some reason fall out of fashion and pretty much die out.
Sorta like a good restaurant, gets great reviews but then the management changes or something and then no one goes there anymore.
The cost of buying/running these web sites is so small (+/- $100.00 per year) that it has to be a labor of love on the part of the Admin. or the sponsers are forking over cash to the Admin.
I think an exception to this may be the ISA web site where they are providing a service as part of the whole package of being the ISA
So if these web sites really are just some folks putting up a web site and hoping it will be a hit, then they (the admin.) Need to be responsive to the folks who visit. The majority of the folks who visit, not a select group of the inner circle.
Should the Admin dictate random "suspensions" and such like the only result is going to be an end to the web site through a derth of folks who frequent it.
Frans
I remember the ISA web site diss. board and how it was real popular but all of a sudden many members got fed up with the administrators and after a while everyone just left, now the web site seems like an abandoned neighborhood sorta like some of the areas I saw in Detroit, nothing going on but alot of trouble.
I believe these web sites are a great way for folks to get together and break the isolation that we as working folks exist in. After all the only way to get new information is trade magazines, workshops, conventions and study at home courses/CEU's.
But with these web sites now folks can talk to each other from different parts of the country and right away get feedback. Really great way to get educated and increase awarness of what is new/bad/great or even what situations are to be avoided.
Each of these web sites seem to come into favor/fashion for awhile and because of some reason fall out of fashion and pretty much die out.
Sorta like a good restaurant, gets great reviews but then the management changes or something and then no one goes there anymore.
The cost of buying/running these web sites is so small (+/- $100.00 per year) that it has to be a labor of love on the part of the Admin. or the sponsers are forking over cash to the Admin.
I think an exception to this may be the ISA web site where they are providing a service as part of the whole package of being the ISA
So if these web sites really are just some folks putting up a web site and hoping it will be a hit, then they (the admin.) Need to be responsive to the folks who visit. The majority of the folks who visit, not a select group of the inner circle.
Should the Admin dictate random "suspensions" and such like the only result is going to be an end to the web site through a derth of folks who frequent it.
Frans
