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2.) Web users have over the past 10 years slowly transitioned away from enthusiasts towards casual consumers and continue to do so. Not every casual consumer wants to spend hours participating in a forum helping to build up its content. If the content isn't already there they F-off somewhere else till they find what they want. This makes getting a forum off the ground quite a challenging enviornment these days. Gone are the days of "make the site and they will come".

Its more then just difficult, its almost close to impossible getting a forum off the
ground if you are in a niche that is already saturated. My forum has been up for at
least 6+ months, and I have spent a ton of money on advertising, article marketing,
paid posters, vb, vbseo, other paid mods....and when i look back, the only posts
that I really have are from the paid posters and that is about it....then I ask myself,
well, why would they want to come to my forum when they can go to forums that
have 1million+ posts...hell I would...so I am really in a catch 22....

then I have to ask
myself is this really worth it...for money? hell no...one of the first members that I did get
,maybe about 2 months ago, he has been the only regular member to my forum, until
the other day he starts insulting me, and telling me that my forum will never go anywhere...
ok, I think this dude is one of charlie sheen friends, maybe he is on drugs/crack/cola....
and I am pretty sure he only comes to my forum because he knows that I may buy some
of his themes/coding/graphics, etc...its funny how people will come around when you are
buying, but when the money dries up, opps, "I gotta be someplace else now...."

nobody really contributes anything to the forum. They have no problems creating self-serving
posts with 5 links within a very short post, then they complain when I remove them....
its like "Why are you removing my spam dude...."

What was I thinking....