Is BHW going lame?

[SpinBlade]

There's still a lot of diamonds amongst the coal.

 

[Mrkoco]

@thehighmind you are spot on , I could add more threads I find disgustingly self promotional to your list but what's the need when threads like that pop up every minute, I believe the Mods are overwhelmed as it is!

I propose more severe warnings should be handed out to such offenders to discourage more morons from joining the bandwagon

 

[mickyfu]

There's still a lot of diamonds amongst the coal.

There's also a lot of turds in the sewer.

 

[Mrkoco]

There's still a lot of diamonds amongst the coal.

Fuck that!!

 

[Zwielicht]

"Finally! Started Earning Full-Time Online" - do you know this thread? It's very hot lately. I've read his thread, I said, wow, he must be awesome earning 200-300$/ day, let me add him on skype ( because he said in thread he will help others with his "knowledge" ) and ask him a few questions.
Said and did. I was very disappointed because I only got from him a ref link to an offer, an e-mail submit, which I did for him hoping that he'll share some of the info with me (he didn't say it was an offer, but a link to a private network). I submit my e-mail, gave him probably a few cents and buffff, he never spoke to me again on skype.
My question is: If you make 200$-300$ / day, will you bother for a few cents?

PM me a screenshot of your Skype conversation and I'll issue that joker an infraction.

I saw on a sales thread that some guy was selling an e-book about reskinning games, good for him I said. I read the thread, only good reviews, awesome book, blablabla.
PS. I won't post links for the threads here because if you are a BHW lurker I'm sure you know which threads I'm talking about.
So, as I said only good reviews, saw many users thou with only a few posts reviewing the product which got my attention. Those users joined this forum only to buy the product? Do they buy reviews, do they make fake BHW accounts? Can't asnwer to these questions, but I went further.
I started to contact the users who purchased the product and asked them for an honest opinion and all of those who have replied me back, said that the e-book is not worth buying. Were they lying or not, I cannot say, yet I didn't purchase the e-book.
The question was: Why so many perfect reviews on the sale thread and bad reviews from the buyers?

As stated by @Apricot: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/please-read-spammers-and-fake-reviews.852452/

Please report any marketplace threads you suspect has fake reviews or is being bumped by fake accounts. If you receive a service that does not match the seller's promises, submit this to the shitlist forum so we can deal with it.

I usually stay out of marketplace affairs, but if you have the time, send some screenshots to one of the marketplace moderators and I'm sure they'll look into this further. I'm curious about those accounts contradicting their own reviews.

This one was new to me, with bing ads, so I've spend days only to learn about bing ads, create account, ads, etc., but this doesn't matter, the guy with this thread was prettending to earn 250$ daily as the thread said. Long story short, he opened that thread pretending to earn big, only later to find out that he wants to sell me bing ads accounts.

There are many threads like this, so dear users, don't belive every thread from BHW that you read and ask yourself:

Is this dude trying to sell me something? Do your research!

Again, send me a screenshot of this guy trying to sell to you and I'll issue him an infraction.

I know that this thread might upset a lot of people, but these things happen on BHW, we can't pretend we don't see them.

I'm aware that some members, like this guy, use the journeys and freebies subforums (among others) as a way to promote their shoddy services and affiliate links. I crack down on them when I can, but I can't be everywhere on the forum. The thing is, the majority of members don't even bother reporting these threads in the first place. Unfortunately, I usually end up stumbling upon them days or weeks later, and I bet I still miss a lot of them.

 

[t0mmy]

"Ask not what BHW can do for you.. ask what you can do for BHW!"

"Be the change you want to see in the black hat world"

I could go on all day.. hopefully my point is clear though. Lounge threads like this aren't going to change anything, better to look at solutions than problems.

Solutions - report dumb threads, start sharing some solid stuff of your own.

 

[ju111]

It would be good to have a marker (a thumb down for instance) to mark each post deceiving people by attempting to sell things with a undercover approach.
A bit like Reddit.

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

It would be good to have a marker (a thumb down for instance) to mark each post deceiving people by attempting to sell things with a undercover approach.
A bit like Reddit.

Like Reputation Points? You could Neg Rep somebody and they would lose points, I like this idea, let's do it. Make a thread in the Forum suggestions section.

 

[Bestindabiz]

I really appreciate this thread because everything you've said is the truth I believe the real and honest people who are really making money online are people like you and myself although I may not share my secrets I'm also not trying to con anyone.

 

[Toz]

Fake BST reviews aren't the only problem with BSTs. There are also the fake accounts that are used to bump threads, by requesting samples, requesting review copies, and/or saying they've made a purchase.

 

[ju111]

Like Reputation Points? You could Neg Rep somebody and they would lose points, I like this idea, let's do it. Make a thread in the Forum suggestions section.

Yes but maybe only dedicated to the issue we are talking about, to not penalize beginners or just shitty/uninteresting posts which are not harmless. A button like : "I feel this is a selling post".

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

PM me a screenshot of your Skype conversation and I'll issue that joker an infraction.

As stated by @Apricot: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/please-read-spammers-and-fake-reviews.852452/

I usually stay out of marketplace affairs, but if you have the time, send some screenshots to one of the marketplace moderators and I'm sure they'll look into this further. I'm curious about those accounts contradicting their own reviews.

Again, send me a screenshot of this guy trying to sell to you and I'll issue him an infraction.

I'm aware that some members, like this guy, use the journeys and freebies subforums (among others) as a way to promote their shoddy services and affiliate links. I crack down on them when I can, but I can't be everywhere on the forum. The thing is, the majority of members don't even bother reporting these threads in the first place. Unfortunately, I usually end up stumbling upon them days or weeks later, and I bet I still miss a lot of them.

I have already handled the bing ads guy's deal, issued him an infraction a few days ago but send @Zwielicht the "finally started earning" the skype screenshot.

In the meantime I've closed his thread.

Bing ads guy has some more issues to deal with too that will come to light in the next few days.

 

[Toz]

It would be good to have a marker (a thumb down for instance) to mark each post deceiving people by attempting to sell things with a undercover approach.
A bit like Reddit.

This would be good. It could display near the person's avatar, and with a small link that allows you to click it to uncover a list of that person's neg-repped thread posts, so people can make informed decisions as to whether the person has merit, or is just a fake account or scammer.

 

[airtman]

This thread self

 

[SpinBlade]

There's also a lot of turds in the sewer.

Whatever floats your boat, Pennywise.

 

[umerjutt00]

If you read everything with a grain of salt, you will realize the situation isn't so bad after all. Just like any other forum, there are going to be good and bad members. You just need a good B.S. detector to filter out the bad stuff.

 

[Sherb]

While I completely, 100%, totally agree with what you are saying @thehighmind, I wasn't able to find any useful, contributory threads that you've created in the seven years you've been a member here. That "I'll pay for the first month of your hosting" one from years ago doesn't count, as you were clearly basically selling a free trial. Maybe you can point us to a thread where you shared something of value to help combat "BHW going lame"?

If such thread doesn't exist (besides this current thread, of course, which has been very helpful already), maybe you should become part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

 

[Deleted member 969102]

Shitposts are up, quality threads are down.

Many of the quality users that I remember have moved on to better things. It's now a small number of members keeping the forum alive.

The last time I saw a thread like this, DD replied saying that BHW had never been better and that user visits bla bla were increasing but that's not the point here. Just because a community size is increasing, does not mean that the quality is.

 

[thehighmind]

This thread it's not about me, but thanks for looking into my profile history. At the moment everything I know it's already on this forum, should I post new threads with things that are already here only for a few "thanks"? I don't think so. At the moment I have nothing new to share, I'm working on projects that are very common, quality over quantity, should I open a new thread about this, I will only give ppl a reason to curse me, many of my projects failed and I will post something that ppl should do and learn from my mistakes, yet some of you are right, I didn't do much to make this place cleaner and didn't press the report button as much as I should, but I definitely will. Yes, I'm here for some time, but please note that NOT POSTING it's much better than posting shit just because you are here for some time and try to build reputation and making the mods job hard.

 

[Mrkoco]

This thread it's not about me, but thanks for looking into my profile history. At the moment everything I know it's already on this forum, should I post new threads with things that are already here only for a few "thanks"? I don't think so. At the moment I have nothing new to share, I'm working on projects that are very common, quality over quantity, should I open a new thread about this, I will only give ppl a reason to curse me, many of my projects failed and I will post something that ppl should do and learn from my mistakes, yet some of you are right, I didn't do much to make this place cleaner and didn't press the report button as much as I should, but I definitely will. Yes, I'm here for some time, but please note that NOT POSTING it's much better than posting shit just because you are here for some time and try to build reputation and making the mods job hard.

Word!! +1