Are webmaster boards dying out?

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Panky

Boards who offered the points system saw a decline when they removed value for the points. More than one board stopped offering stores and misc incentives in exchange for points. The point whores moved on.

Many people have left the industry or spend less time in the industry when they sought employment offline and/or began to focus more of their attention in the online mainstream world due to adult income taking a dip or they had a hard time breaking into the online porn world, got frustrated, and left.

Some people have jobs and careers in the real world and those real world jobs and careers might be eating into their online time now more than ever.

Some people on webmaster boards were never serious and few of these people ever will be. They found something that interested them, treated it like a hobby, and spent a lot of time just goofing around on the boards. Some of these people may have grown tired, bored and moved on. Others might have experienced a dip in non-adult income and had to leave to focus on that so they can later return and indulge in their porn hobby.


Some people are feeling the financial crunch for one reason or another. One might see less activity due to more people working towards staying in the black or keep from digging themselves deeper into the red.

The dynamic of a persons home board or favorite boards may have changed and they no longer enjoy posting there as much as they once did in the past.

One board is seeing a growth spurt and increased activity because they played the game well. They saw a board or two having some drama, members getting pissed off, so they went and exploited the weakness, drawing attention to their own board in the process. Boards are ultimately a business. They can be as cut throat as one affiliate program trying to outdo another.

Some boards declined or died completely because of their own internal issues. All the behind the scenes BS that occurs from time to time. Sometimes conflicts can't be resolved or eventually the internal politics boils over to the public side of a board, potentially causing issues.

Some people make their money and then walk away. They use the online world to build bank accounts and residual income. When they reached their goals, they invest that money into something else and entertain other interests.

This is a most interesting post. I've never posted on a board because I was hoping to get paid for it, and I've never got dime from any board for posting (although one board did send me a gift last year).

I think such boards bring out the worse in posters.

Besides, I'm not desperate to the point where I need to make an extra $40 a month for posting on a board.