anonymous wrote: I saw a post somewhere in here that said I moderated the www section. This may have been true years ago, but I pretty much gave up last year. I’ve logged on like 5 times over the past 6 months. Why you ask? Because of gems like this:
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/1464p1.html (look at date and last reply)
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/2653p1.html check out the dates
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/3130p1.html
i literally deleted a hundred or more two-word gibberish posts at the end of the threads yesterday. I dunno WTF is wrong with those people. The biggest hobby of the trolls seems to be threadomancing stuff from 4 or 5 years ago. I just gave up. I’m not sure if it’s drama from the lounge that spills over, or a disgruntled user who didn’t get his question answered or something. It’s really frustrating because it’s IP addresses from all over the world, and they never say why they do this stuff. It just wastes your time mopping up (98% of what I do) vs. answering intelligent questions and trying to help.
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/424p1.html
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/69787p1.html
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/5555p1.html Look at the last few replies
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/16052p1.html last reply + dates
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/3207p1.html second post
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/3108p1.html
spammers are also overtaking the site.
in http://www.moviecodec.com/forum4p1.html most posts are answered by people that say use “product xyz”, ironically most are commercial and you have to pay (a lot ironically are some of the products sponsored by the site). I haven’t taken a stance on this because Bjarne never gave clear guidelines (if i had it my way they’d have been gone ages ago).
http://www.moviecodec.com/forum13p1.html
I used to move all the “spam-looking” posts to the “guides” section in the hope of mopping them all up one day in one sitting. I’m still confused as to how Bjarne sees them. On one hand they promote products eerily similar to the ones that sponsor the site, on the other the posters are annoying and not really helping people with questions. Their technical knowledge is minimal (they’re salespeople, the annoying kind), and all they know how to do is their sales pitch. If the program breaks down I doubt they’d be of much help. Ironically most have female english names (as if females in the west were really video encoding enthusiasts). I would speculate most are from china though.
I also said this years back, but it probably went unnoticed. I think the www section is crumbling under its own weight. There’s too many pointless posts, more clueless posts, and trolling. There’s way too many threads with the same unanswered questions (spanning hundreds of posts) that keep growing (movie maker codec, quicktime codecs for winavi, cd images etc...). They generate the bulk of the traffic (because of the way google channels hits onto this site) and are useless as they provide no answer to people that seek them (it’s not a service to people if they have to sift through hundreds of posts without ever finding an answer). And did I mention they keep growing and getting bumped?
Anyway I thought the site should start from scratch, or at least become archived (like keep only good posts, which would be less that 5% of what’s there right now). I think too much attachment to the site makes it a nuisance and a time waster rather than help for answer seekers.
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