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I wonder whether the co-worker that set up a tech forums site gave up? As of a week or so ago, only two non-spammers had posted, and it isn't reachable from here today.
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@sikkdays Yes, I agree, and that was a question I expressed to my co-worker. How was he going to attract people to use his forum versus the #corpocentric sites they already gravitate to?
In my mind, having to get your information onto $BIG_SITE is a return to the old-media model of yesteryear. People watched the big three TV networks, read one of their local two main newspapers and the TIME weekly newsmagazine, so pretty much everything they knew had to pass through a gatekeeper. Then came the Internet's popularity, and the most interesting information came from outside of the media guardians, from people close to the actual creators.
I really want to find a way to break the hold that these centralized sites have on our friends and family, so they'll be freed from the control of said groups.