Searchen.com Forums Now A Paid Service

[yfs1]

For some reason my user name does not exist over there anymore (I joined before Lady78 and I found threads I remember replying to but nothing.

Oh well

PS. I hear you on the amount of activity...Looks like there are only 2 people online, John and Doug

[Zap]

I guess they're out of luck if John and Doug don't pay.

[yfs1]

I found my answer in this thread
http://www.searchen.com/forum/showpo...37&postcount=1

3 - clean out and delete members who are not active.

Thats even madder then the subscription plan...Why would you delete peoples posts and accounts? I don't really care but how would that benefit a forum?

[Zap]

Down at the bottom of the main page, it says "welcome to our newest member _________".

I think it needs to be changed to "Say goodbye to our newest member _________".

[yfs1]

Dominic (who many of you know) wrote an excellent response which was ignored but made some really good points

http://www.searchen.com/forum/showpo...2&postcount=28

There is further talk in that thread of closing up the forum entirely to new members which I further can't understand seeing as how in another post, John stated that the majority of people visiting are coming through Google searches (which would dry up if pages weren't indexed).

I suppose they can make the Google IPs members but then of course you can just spoof them to get around the membership fee.

Very ballsy for a forum which I remember getting a PM in SEOCrap askingme to support it and post a bit.

[Dustin07]

the burden is likely the spam, as mentioned. Sometimes too much of it makes us do looney things.

If they're burnt out on spammers, which I could see, then maybe they are just thinking about shutting 'er down. Although the $1 fee for members sounds great. Spam scripts/software aren't going to automatically pitch $1. And a buck is hardly a burden on new members.

[John Scott]

Judging from the looks of it, I would say the forum can make a come-back.

[Zap]

Agreed.

I have faith in Clasione that he can turn things around. Good Luck!

[forumrating]

as long as they provide good information and trade among the members its worth always.
nice decision by the admin there.