A preface: This is a long winded rant, mostly just me bitching about things that don’t matter.. read on at your on leisure.
I’m a long time member of warriorforum.com, I won’t even bother linking it because it’s almost not even worth visiting anymore.
Over the past couple of years, however, I’ve noticed a significant trend (we’ll call it a downward spiral) in the quality of members there. Maybe I’m just being judgemental, or maybe there is actually something to it.
Long ago, the warrior forum was one of the only places to go to get QUALITY information about internet marketing, specifically information marketing.
The contributers were people that actually had something to contribute, and the newbies sat back and learned. They asked questions when they had them, and let people with experience answer them. It was an amazing learning atmosphere and I got a whole lot out of it.
Back then, it wasn’t odd to see the likes of Frank Kern, John Reese, Kevin Riley, Willie Crawford and a number of other “well-known’s” chime in to offer some help. (For those not in this industry, these guys are some of the guru’s)
Fast forward to the present day. The warrior forum has become nothing more than an article directory. It offers nothing in the way of new ideas. In fact, there aren’t even new perspectives on OLD ideas, only rehashed shit that you can find re-written six different ways within the first four pages.
Couple that with the horrible influx of new wave, get rich quick info-marketers that are just looking to up their post count high enough to sell an ebook in the WSO forum about a topic that they likely know nothing about and you can see why I’m less than enthused to go back there.
Allen Says is the owner of the forum, and it’s quite apparent that he’s noticed this trend as well. There’s not much he can really do about it though, so he’s opted to make it a paid forum for the most part. There is still a free section, but to do anything worth doing on that forum, you have to pay the toll; a smart move on his part I think.
Problem with that is, I’m not sure I want to chalk up the cash to pay for a forum if I’m only going to get bullshit rehashed crap in the members area…
I hate to see a resource like this come crashing down (from a benefit standpoint, it’s obviously not going anywhere financially) and I now understand why none of the big names post there anymore…
It’s become a complete and utter waste of time.
