It seems like I’ve offended quite a few people with my list of reasons why Digital Point Sucks. So I’m opening an invitation to everyone who wishes to discuss my blog article more in-depth, exactly four months later.
Even as I’m writing this, I can’t believe there’s people that STILL don’t get it. And it’s somewhat shocking to a degree that I have to come up with a whole other blog post to describe it to them.
News Flash = It’s filed under SATIRE
I’m writing this blog post to explain to those that think I was absolutely serious in every single point I make and to open up the floor for those who want to ask me something about why I wrote the list. And I’m writing this because it would seem as though some people don’t even bother to read the comments anymore (Hint: check comment 26 over there).
Here are the rules for this Debate:
- No Insults. This is a serious discussion.
- Replies with comments like “Your blog Sux, DP RULEZ!!!!” and “You know nuthin bout SEO” will be removed!
- If you can’t tell the difference between one of the “Serious” Points and one of the “Silly” Points, don’t comment. I don’t need idiots filling up my question slots.
- No Duplicate Comments, read through the others first if you do not want to have your response deleted.
- So make sure to read everything, the list, the list’s comments, this post, and this post’s comments (even the DP threads, if you wish, although they don’t pertain to this discussion specifically), before commenting.
This is the type of comment I will gladly respond to:
Greetings.
It seems to me that you are most-likely a banned member at Digital Point Forums, thus the reason for the hate blog post. Perhaps you can edit your blog post and tell everyone your user-name and why exactly you were banned from DP?
I actually took the time to read through your entire list of “the cons of Digital Point Forums” and there are only a few that seem accurate. Maybe you decided to list the cons because you didn’t have the time to experience the good aspects of Digital Point Forums before you were banned?
Firstly, I am not necessarily here to defend Digital Point, but I am here to voice out my opinion towards your blog post.
Digital Point Forums, in my opinion, doesn’t have enough moderators and administrators - you’re right about that and I’ll agree with you; however, for having such a limited amount of forum staff members, they do a superb job moderating the forums and maintaining such a large forum in a decent timely manner.
There are a few horrible points which I would like to address to you that you tried to make. For the majority of your list, you repeated yourself or just made horrible points.
Digital Point’s server is slow sometimes because it is so popular. Everyone knows that big forums like Digital Point Forums, powered by vBulletin, is an easy target for hackers and DDoS attacks - on top of that, there is a lot of people constantly visiting the site, straining even their “leet” powerful server.
I don’t see why you complain about people claiming themselves as “SEO Experts” - people who have experienced some good techniques with SEO have the right to share it with others, and that’s what a forum is all about: teaching, learning, and discussing with each other. There’s always something new to learn about SEO, and there’s always some new method or strategy that *can* work for you, so it’s definitely worth reading on what some self-proclaimed “SEO Gurus” there have to say.
The final thing I would like to point out is regarding the content of Digital Point Forums. The forums were originally intended for discussion regarding Digital Point’s webmaster tools and have now evolved into a massive discussion forum for webmasters. Digital Point simply created the categories and forums for discussion within vBulletin’s forum system; under no circumstance do they promote or endorse any content published onto their forum that does not regard an official product/webmaster tool of Digital Point.
Members are accountable for what they post - that includes a tactic for search engine optimization including blackhat techniques and generally offensive/hateful posts. Digital Point does not endorse or recognize member posts as an expressive opinion of the company; members represent themselves through their posts, just like on any other forum. Grant it, because of the low number of forum staff, it may take a while for a reported offensive post to be deleted, but it will still be done. The forum is so large right now that it is difficult for all the forum staff to view every single post made - that’s why vBulletin has the nice “report post” feature.
Digital Point Forums is one of, if not the largest webmaster forums on the Internet. The forums contain a lot of valuable information that is useful for webmasters, and serves its intended purpose well as a webmaster discussion forum.
Even I have got infractions and have been banned before. There’s usually a reason why members get infractions and banned…if not always. Perhaps your blog post was created out of mere jealousy of a live success? You tell me.
Justice seems like a nice guy, and was very polite about it. He had much to say and didn’t lash out or get into a rage or anything like that.
So if you have anything you want to ask, either about my reasons why I wrote about it, or the blog post itself, you can ask here.
On a final note, alternatively, if you’re feeling really brave, you can ask about everything over at ihelpyou, more specifically about DP here, and increase your knowledge base extensively.
(removed = this is for USEFUL discussion)
I don’t understand why it take so long to moderate and approved my account. I sign up in Mid April, confirm my email address at the same day and there is a response saying I am in the queue for moderation before I can start posting.
Till today, I still cannot post in DP forum. This is the first time I join a forum that take some long to approve my account. It seems like there is something wrong in the pipeline, but, I can’t find how I can talk to any moderator as I cannot post.
It’s really. Suck.
Hey Asia’h
If I were you, I wouldn’t worry too much about whether your account was approved or not. There’s many more (and better) webmaster forums out there.
Although from the technical side of things, I don’t know why they wouldn’t approve your account. It’s not like you have duplicate accounts or anything, as you said it was your first time, odd indeed.
Hi,
I took the time to read you previous blog fully, in fact even twice (only because i wanted to smile again).
In my opinion you either fell asleep while writing the blog or thought 100 was enough, either way, the extensive list in my opinion is spot on.
For the record i am an active DP member, a very active one - but not for much longer, i wont leave thou until im even forceably banned or reach the 10 pointless fractions. I give it 2 weeks
DP in my opinion has a serious lack of respect towards its posters, and by DP i mean the staff. Just take a look through the Suggestions & Feedback to get my drift, often arrogant and rude replies to genuine questions often resulting in infractions and bad rep for placing them in the first place pmsl. Oh did i mention they then close the thread immediatley, almost like slamming the door in your face.
Im not sure which number in your list its was, but the entry reffering to shawn (the board owner) not active on DP, i thought i would have a look, and o…m…g… 6 weeks and not a single post. Thats bad in my opinion, the owner not even catching up with his fellow members.
DP is full crap as you rightfully say, although flaming is not publicly allowed, it is allowed through the rep system, and again imo, far worse.
I commend you for writing the blog, this and the other, unfortunatley it was not long enough
only a matter of time before people move on….. ohhhhh they already are 
How’s it goin’ DB?
Funny to know you don’t feel 100 was enough
(It only took me about two or three hours to write the list and placing all the links, etc. Like I said at the end, I was tired, and it was around 3 in the morning).
I’ve read through some of those suggestion threads recently too. A friend of mine from Webmaster-Talk, Phil (Cheshire_Cat) recently posted a few questions over there asking about DP’s reputation around the web, and they immediately closed both threads down, saying he wasn’t contribute anything of value (I know, that’s crazy).
While I can’t vouch for what goes on behind the public scenes (via PM’s or the rep system, as I’ve never personally posted there), hearing all the stories from some WT friends of mine, other regular members such as yourself, and just reading what some have said about the rep system over there.
And concerning what you said about Shaun, (it was point number 78) that’s exactly what I was referring to too, only making five or ten posts a year in his own forum seems to imply that he either has NO free time at all to post there, or he just doesn’t care about what goes on there very much anymore.
Thanks for commenting and hopefully the rest of DP will change their minds (and attitudes) someday.
(removed = this post is for those who wish to discuss my article, NOT for link dropping to an Anti-DigitalPoint website)
My husband and I were active members of DP…Then my husband was banned, for multiple accounts. So, I signed up for my own account and not too long after I was banned. I contacted one of the admins (mcfox) and he told me that the ban was the appropriate action *rolls eyes*. I never had more than 1 account and I never done anything wrong at all…but yet I get nailed. But how many other people do you see breaking the rules huh and yet one that doesnt break any rules, gets banned. When you mention it openly in DP, you get members being very rude etc but what they dont understand is that they wouldnt be too happy if they had a bunch of rep, itrader and posts and they do most of their business on DP and if they got banned they would be upset as well….They see it just one sided and think that we are just cry babies.
Another thing that is just so senseless is the Suggestion/Feedback area in which they don’t change anything that anyone requests and you see so many closed threads that are unanswered or a mod was a complete A$$ about it.
DP is full of scammers and the mods/admins dont care about you as a member, they just care that their forum is popular and they think no one will try to compete!
That’s DP for you.
I completely agree about the suggestions and feedback section too. I don’t even know why people bother to create threads in that section, the mods just close them if they don’t like them anyway.
Like I make in a few of my points, there’s no accountability over there, nor are quality posts and threads at the top of their priority list. Yet at the same time so many people flock their as if it’s the holy grail of internet marketing or something; it just baffles me.
DP does suck, but I still like it. However, I get pissed off when I get an email saying ” You have received an infraction “. It’s from posting and either updating a thread or something else useful, however they penalize me for ” bumping ” and ” post has no value “. It’s like they are penalizing you from posting on the forum, when you aren’t doing anything wrong. I was banned for 30 days over this and was about not to go back, but I did (for now at least).
DP are sooooooooooo ANNOYING. They banned me for reporting a scammer!
I’m locked out of Digital Point for changing my e-mail address in the user control panel.
Apparently there are warnings everywhere not to do this which I’ve missed for over a year.
I was later told by a mod that changing your e-mail address in Digital Point puts your account into a moderation queue that the moderators can’t see.
The queue can only be seen by an administrator and there are 3 for the entire forum. One admin doesn’t accept PMs, another doesn’t reply to them and the other one hasn’t been online in months.
I like the way I’ve been put into a “moderation” queue that “moderators” can’t see.
To be honest here, I’m not so sure why you guys are so concerned with either being “locked out” or “banned” from DP or whatnot.
While their infractions may not be fair, the mods may be fascist, you’ll get scammed, etc., it really shouldn’t make a difference here. There’s significantly better forums out there in my opinion, take these two for example:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums/
I’d recommend checking out these types of alternatives to DP.
I made a topic over on DP saying “DIGITAL POINT BANS EVERYONE!” The reason i did this was because i was sick of tham baning everyone for bull shit reasons or for nothing!
In the topic i tould people to wach how thay will ban me for just makeing this topic!
And gas what happens..
First I get a “infraction’ for not posting in the right Forum ArE YoU KiDeInG mE? my topic was under “General chat”
Than they remove the topic so people cant see what thay are going to do next.
i got BAND! This is what thay said…
“You have been banned for the following reason:
Asked to be banned by retarded mods one too many times.”
I naver askd to be banned ONES! LOL WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!
Dgital pont BANS you for NO REASON AS I PROVED IT!!
Its ok though they will keep BANING there reputacion away!
I will no longer use digital point.
And i recommend you all do the same. Unless you want headaches from the CORRUPT ADMINS. Than by all means sign up to Digital point:)
Hey, I searched for your thread title over there and couldn’t find it. While what you describe sounds typical of DP, it’d still be nice to know exactly what happened and where.
Is there any truth to the rumour that Crazy_Rob and other moderators and members there are being investigated by the IRS due to the fact they don’t declare earnings, there seems to be a growing number of rumours going on!!!
Sorry Curious One, I have absolutely no idea.
Recently I went along to the DP forum to check my messages, logged in and confronted with
Banned:
Stop Spinning Dupe Accounts
Lifted: NEVER
What I would like to get off my chest is, I have never had a dupe account and I know they can check the IP from which the posts have been posted. So I have lost my right to post on the forum now and also the right to complain as they seems to be nobody answering any feedback, admin, web,aster posts to the main website.
I believe 100% it was the crazy rob guy who banned me but what really gets my goat is that I cannot even ask them to prove it, like it or lump it your banned, go away.
If they are any DP mods on here or anywhere please check my account Aubenrey and prove to me it was a DUPE, I know you cannot because it was not. Or will you use the old we cannot over rule another mods actions.
Time to move on me thinks and look at the more serious forums out there.
Just for fun have you seen http://digitalpointless.com another anti DP website.
Thanks
aubenrey
What else do you expect from DP? It’s one of the things that they “just do”. I wouldn’t worry about it.
I’ve seen the link before due to getting referral traffic from them, although I don’t know why they’re trying to look just like DP (except with the “less” in the title), why not stand out a bit more?
And there are no DP mods or Admins here, it’s just me here running everything on this website. Although they might’ve read the list and / or this post, I’m not sure.
Of course nobody will answer your “ranting” because for that they will need an evidence, which they cannot provide because for morons Mods banning is not about us being guilty but about hating people who are smarter than them. Did I just created an oxymoron: DP member / smart?
If it will makes you feel better, you are not alone. I got the same 3 month ban reason as you had and when I came back and asked them for evidence or at least asked them to tell me what is the name of my “alleged” second account, they just ban me for good.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?s=88dd073ddb2381fc3b4c3520049ac83c&t=1622503
IMHO, DP became just another Classified Ads Forum, therefor if you have something for sale, DP is the place to be but other than that, you are lucky they banned you
Digitalpoint is a brilliant example of what money does to people - finding a nice person on that forum is damn near impossible. Even when you offer people help, if it’s not exactly what they’re looking for they will either patronise you or report you.
As long was I wasn’t banned, I told myself that I wouldn’t start complaining about DP but last night that very thing just happened to me. I was banned for having a ‘Duplicate Account’ and yet I’ve only ever had one account on DP: even if they had sent me the username of my duplicate account or offered me some kind of proof I would held my hand up and accepted the ban.
Admins are too busy threatening people with bans, moderators are too busy handing out infractions and the members are too busy worrying about the $2 they lost on the ‘How To Make A $1,000,000,000′ ebook which turned out to be a load of nonsense.
DigitalPoint was once a useful tool but now it’s time to move on.
I would like to re-iterate some of ponts discussed in the post as well as in these comments. IMO the DP forum mods are not well qualified or they think themselves as god in Internet. Now a days there torture has even crossed the limit and any one who is trying to point out getting a ban or infraction. And when you contact them you will never receive a reply.
I am sure in no time Dp is going to sink in the deep shit. And there are many other webmaster forum which are far far better then Dp and they are going to excel. Guys let us come together and form a new community to let teh DP mods and admin show that how exactly a community should be???
DP is great but the mods suck like Rob. They act like 15 years old child. He banned me because of duplicate account but I dont have any, so stupid. When I asked he said we dont want you here. I did nothing at all.
The biggest issue with DP is its ultra-arrogant and super-weirdo staff members. Have a look at this thread and you’ll know why Crazy Rob is hated like crazy by most DP members, except perhaps some “ass lickers.” Yes, its also a spam haven, but if you’re smart enough you’ll know how to avoid being spammed. But I am sure every newbie on that forum goes through a psychological shock when one of those staff members give them an infraction for the silliest of reason, and then posts rude replies and closes their threads when those members make a hue and cry over it.
Also, I cant deny I have learn’t a lot from that forum. I might not yet be a very good webmaster (I’m definitely a bad internet marketer), but I do credit DP for helping me make a side living on the internet.
We banned this guy at DP for a week today but it since its so stupid of a situation I have to mention it.
I can’t say the names of the women involved so I’ll just number them.
There was a lady who we’ll call #1, who was charging what I calculated as like $200 an hour for 500 word article writing because she is a teacher. As this guy went through her topic he could see a lot of girlpower type compliments in there. He saw that she was with a setup team who were bumping the topic and boosting the Digitalpoint Street Credit of this girl. He couldn’t figure out why no one didn’t come out and say “$200, who do you think you are Dr. Suess??.
The topic was about how she owned this site that was like a directory for writers, and of course she was admin there.
But then the guy just had to open his mouth, even though he was careful. He boldly but nicely said that he thinks its a little wrong that her price is set like that, and how manipulated the topic was with all of her friends pretending to be interested new people.
After his reply, A girl who we’ll call #2 came out with this nasty post about how he didin’t know anything about writers and he should mind my own business. She was extremely rude and personal with him. He should’ve listened because what he didn’t know is she works for me!
Then 5 minutes later girl #3 made a reply in the topic using her special argument tactics making stupid claims such as “its low for the market for professionals” and all of this talk about quality and stuff. She works for me as well.
Girl #4, #5, and #6 had private messaged him with threats, warnings, and demands to leave. I know this because I see everything
He then replied stern in his opinion in the topic and Girl # 3 kept strongly after him. He also read her personal blog which was about 70 articles in total and roughly 86% of them were articles urging people to stop freelancing written work for cheap, etc. It was stupid.
After his third post he said “I’m going to be leaving now, don’t worry about it”.
Comes a day later me and my mods gave him not 1, not 2, not, 3, but 4 infractions. Some were doubles as well.
None were saying which post or anything(they were “Private”). He got pissed and made a topic in the suggestion area about it.
Of course, it is against the rules to talk about infractions states the rules of DigitalPoint. (reminding him of Fightclub’s 1st rule - You do not talk about fightclub)
In that topic a person said he shouldn’t have made a topic in here, but he held my ground by saying that he’s here for a matter of justice. Before it was locked there was a last post made by Girl #3. She was a moderator at DP and she mouthed something off about him then locked the topic so he couldn’t defend on what she said in public.
Then she erases everything in her friends topic indicating there was a debate in there. She even wipes all of her friends parts of nasty rage at me.
I guess she figures she owned him and got the last laugh.
He then Pmed her saying that he was not big on evil teams with connections in Digitalpoint and told her that he wasn’t afraid of her authority and thought that she is an unsuitable person on a powertrip being all manipulating with her Mafia of Writer chicks.
So I banned him leaving the message of, you need DP more than DP needs you.lol
I traced back a former member who was in a conflict with the same #1 girl writer, and this dude got screwed over bad.
He said that he paid $100 for a writing job and waited a month to see that nothing was being done. He kept pming her, but then a certian moderator (the infamous #3) told him to take a walk or he’ll be banned. He decided to give a negative itrader to the girl #1.
He was banned the next day and the girls negative itrader was wiped clean.
See this is why you don’t mess with me and my forum. We are corrupt. This girl is under the protection of DP staff in whcih is very profitable.
Hello,
Digitalpoint is the worst forum i have ever been on. I go there to advertise my webhosting. The funniest thing in the world is when i post a web hosting special and the move it to the freebies forum because its under 5.00 / month and they say it don’t belong. Now get this crap, a web hosting special post does not belong in the WEB HOSTING SECTION! i am now banned because of to many infractions when i recieved the infractions for posting web hosting in the web hosting section! God that pisses me off!
You should post that you host warez. I just read a post from a guy who says he doesn’t care about laws and claims he’s an offshore host. It seems they are allowing him to promote himself everywhere. I guess it pays to be illegitimate and disreputable at digitalpoint. Sad, sad, sad…
Digital Point Sucks - let me take a stab, shall I? girl #1.. that’s Jhmattern. Most arrogant overpriced fat bitch writer on the planet. Recently quit blogging about PR because she couldn’t actually get any clients (GEE I WONDER WHY!?) LOL
The Digital Point forums are very poorly moderated and the staff there are unprofessional and rude. I made a suggestion on the suggestions forum that the staff should have responsibility for giving infractions by alerting the person who the staff member that infracted them was. That way they could talk about why it happened and avoid any confusion. For my efforts, I myself got an infraction. Then, later, I reported a person who personally insulted me. I got infracted again for “wasting the staffs time”. After inquiring about these infractions in the only place I could, the Feedback forum, I got banned for a month for “being a smartass, bitching too much, and wasting staff’s time.” Using profanity in putting me down seems very unprofessional and rude and I think their staff needs to be properly trained or replaced completely. I offered to buy them free copies of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie but none took me up on my offer. Furthermore, they continually complain about how shorthanded they are with only 20 mods but then when others offer to be mods or suggest they get more they yell that they don’t need any.
Whoever had the above comment, Jhmattern is the person who banned me. She is definitely very bitter about something and I highly doubt she works in PR or else she would know that he has to be more polite to clients. Maybe she doesn’t view the forum posters as clients and after having to fake smile all day long she comes home and takes out her aggression by disciplining forumposters who do not deserve it to make her feel better.
The guys at Digital Pointless (The piss-take of the real DP) have been spending months and months sitting back in their forum digging up dirt on all of them including the jhmattern, now we’ve woken up from our winter hibernation look out for some fireworks.
P.S, Why delete the link reference to any anti DP site? Shame the twats, they deserve it!
The digitalpoint forums have deteriorated into a place to hawk poor quality illegal warez. I’ve found that forum moderators don’t read anything properly and will hand out infractions arbitrarily. Lately I’ve been pelted with scam emails, get rich quick schemes and more from users who for some odd reason aren’t banned. I’ve received infractions when someone reports my post and doesn’t agree with me but the moderator doesn’t care to make a proper judgment before handing them out. It’s actually hilarious - they say they don’t get involved in disputes with other members yet they will hand out infractions if you do. It’s sad how poor the site has become. Fortunately the Internet is a big place and anyone who is halfway mature and serious about success can go elsewhere. I’ve never been banned but decided to dump DigitalPoint since it’s a total waste of time and filled with immaturity.
I hadn’t used my DP account for a couple of months now, so I was surprised when I received a reply to a thread I knew I never posted on. Turned out someone else had accessed my dormant account, and posted a overly-positive report for some product that was being sold.
I’m not entirely sure how the person got access to my DP account - since (I actually coded a popular encryption/security app) I never ever use weak passwords. I suspect either someone had stolen data using malware/cookies, or that a Mod was involved).
Anyway, I logged on to DP, and found two posts made from my account.
I took the following steps:
1) Changed my DP password
2) Posted on the thread, that people should disregard my positive review.
3) Edited the most recent of the fake posts (using strikeout)
4) Reported the other post of mine to the Mods, with an explanation and request to delete it.
The next day I log in to DP to see what’s been done, and what do I find?
1) The fake post with the glowing review has been kept, but my post alerting people to the fake post has been removed!
2) I am now banned permanently for Multiple Accounts.
Huh? Multiple accounts? I never had a multiple account anywhere in my life. Also I suspect this is not a mistake, since my positive review was kept and the later post removed; I fully suspect that atleast one DP Mod is being a bit dishonest here.
The best part is that if you have been incorrectly banned for multiple accounts, how do you let a Mod know? You cant even create a fresh account since now that would be a ToS violation! And e-mail to webmaster/support/whois just bounces.
I agree that DP does suck, although my list of 100 reasons shares only a few entries with your list of 100 reasons.
Unfortunately, most of the startups who have risen up to take over where DP has failed have not lasted long.
DigitalPointSucks.com, for example, now points to a parked page.
Building a community is a long process. DP is currently coasting on the work Shawn did years ago, before he abandoned DP to the current “mods”.
It will be years until another community is able to grow to the point where it can effectively replace DP.
I didn’t write the post to be especially critical of minute details the DP forum shares. Nor do I expect anybody to take each individual point to heart.
I wrote the post as a marketing method to open a bag (or can of worms, as some may wish to call it), which arose much needed awareness to not only newbie webmasters, but also seasoned veterans whom may not see the larger picture. Through this medium I was able to shed a light on a problem whose roots run deep throughout the IM industry itself. And DP could be considered the flagship form of this sort of typical SEO logic (Not that I expect many will agree with me on this immediately, nor do I ask them to…)
BTW though, very nice looking forum. Much better than the (non)creative “oh-I’ll-just-swap-a-few-of-the-default-skin-colors-around” look that DP has going for it.
I signed up to digital point a couple of years ago to sell a site. However I wanted to sell the site quickly and did not have the time for the 2 week waiting period so I left and just sold on Sitepoint. Over a year later when I got back into websites I resigned up for DP. I did not even remember I had my old account. It had no activity and had not been touched in ages. But when I signed up again I was an active member. I had good itrader and was getting a lot of posts. It was then that some ahole on the site accused me of selling warez and reported me despite my reciept and permission to sell what I was selling. His report got the mods attention and when I emailed him asking for him to stop with his false allegations he reported me for dupe accounts. Got me banned. Several of the mods took my side and agreed that I should not be banned. But a few of them insisted that I stay banned so that I did. So because of some asshole member and a stupid rule I get banned for life and they lose an active and helpful member. I am not sure how it makes sense to ban their best members.
For a while I tried making some other accounts. But I was banned for a plethora of reasons. One time I asked a mod if I could close a thread and restart it. I was told yes but when I did so I got banned because another asshole member (who happened to become a mod a couple months later) said I was trying to rip people off by having 2 topics (makes sense right?!?) Since they do not let you dispute bans I could not point out how I had permission.
Then I had an account where I posted a thread in the suggestions forum in which I said they shoud allow banned users to file a dispute because of a lot of accidental or sketchy bans. Ironically another member was a dupe account who commented and somebody called him out on it. The mods are so damn stupid that they thought he was talking about me instead of the other guy so I got banned. However another member was able to get me unbanned for that one. But that still goes to show how damn stupid they are.
I could go on all day long about the stupid bans I have had. And all of the bullshit infractions for nothing at all (including 8 points in one day with not a single rule broken. and for all you fag DP supporters no i was not breaking any rules and that includes their no bumping rules. i pmed a mod arguing the infractions and when I said that I would wait off the points she responded by banning me and under the reason she said something like “this ban will make sure you wait off the points”)
But DP is bad for more then the mods and bs bans. If you go to the politics and religion discussion you will see the most racist and hatred filled posts ever on any site out there. Members like guerilla and grim are some of the biggest asses on the site that are not mod related. Not only are they extreme racists but they argue like little kids. Instead of debating they call you names and ignore your points because they know they are wrong. I once PM’ed the mods about them and how they shoudl be banned by the DP rules and the mods replied defending them and said that their name calling was not directed at me but at my ideas so it was not the same. But I am pretty sure when somebody specifically says “you are a fucking retard” that it is an attack and that qualifies as their automatic ban for personal attacks.
DP administrators and moderators act like they are godlike. For now on, I will probably never return to DP after getting accused of scamming and getting banned for 3 months because the guy didn’t understand me, and continued to flame me after I got banned for no reason. I think all the admins and mods need to get a life because they act like they own the community. The owner already has a life.
Greetings,
I am “NEONRIDER” that posted a handful of posts on DigitalPoint forum in the past. Never offended anyone, no breaking the rules, but today whemn I went there to state the fact about many faults with Amazon Affiliate website I realised I was being logged in yet logged out immuiediately. The only explanation I wAs banned. Not only that. When I tried to register again I kept on getting the following error:
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Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /home/sites/forums.digitalpoint.com/web/register.php on line 385
in /includes/class_dm.php on line 235
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I don’t have to go to DP ever again, just wanted to post this for a record. DP Forums is on my “blacklist” now. And that is a lot.
guys, I think this place is so full of hatred that, even if a bee, who had touched the dp flower comes here, will be burnt to death. And thats pathetic. What you guys exactly want to prove. “Digital Point sucks??” gimme a break. It is by far the best seo forum out there. And one pissed off idiot, all of a sudden after getting banned from a forum comes up and gorges out his anger… its just not done. I’ve been in that forum for quite some time. And I think the overzealous forums, who simply can not stand DP’s success, should restrain themselves from misleading people through such blog posts. I know you will delete my post. I know you cowards simply do not have enough guts to provide a space to a speaker neutrally.. and thats the difference between you and DP. They allows every one a space to share their views. Thats where they stand out. So if you dare to let my post get live, I would feel really great to have rubbed off at least some sporting attitude to you.
I think the reason for the hate is very simple. The moderators there treat many people like garbage. I haven’t seen the amount of hatred towards Digitalpoint against any other forum and there is good reason for it - not anything about jealousy. I don’t even know Shawn. After my experience, I don’t care to know Digitalpoint. Fortunately there are many alternatives that are more productive and I haven’t looked back. Go read http://www.fuckdigitalpoint.com - people are furious because they’ve spent good time there, Fanning got his money from traffic, the moderators made theirs from pushing products and there has been dumping on many honest, smart people.