[mythtv-users] New forum to discuss MythTV

[Trey Thompson]

On 6/6/07, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:16 -0400, William Munson wrote:
> >
> > Why in the world would I want to use a new forum when there is nothing
> > wrong with the one we have now? Could it be that you are trying to make
> > a profit? Maybe harvest our email addresses and spam? At the very least,
> > its not going to have the experts you find here. I for one will not even
> > point my browser to it.
>
> Yeah.  There is another forum I (very reluctantly) read in which the
> forum "owner" will squash any efforts to try to create alternative
> methods of discussion.
>
> I pondered for a moment why he would do this.  What did he care?  And
> then I saw all the flashing advertising crap surrounding the actual
> forum on his site.  Of course he justifies his advertising rates by
> siloing people into his forum and killing efforts to take discussions
> elsewhere.
>
> Just one more reason I hate forums, as if I needed any more of them.


Hehe, yeah, I tried this months ago, and found that this is definitely the
preferred environment for the people who really contribute, and that works
for me!

I love how the first thing you see when you go to that forum is a Google Ad
for SnapStream.
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