I don’t know that it is a case of “letting the place go” though, regarding the trolls, or just not being prepared to deal with it and never having had to in the past, not knowing how.

I’ve operated a number of forums in the past, some adult related and one thing I learned early, you either allow total freedom within boundaries and instantly and totally squash anything outside or your forum gets squashed itself.

By the way, Adam is alive and well, or at least someone with his name is. He’s been spotted.

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013978.html

TBH the best thing about the place was conversing with guys like yourselves. I told many people that it was a great learning resource - some fantastic information on the group.

The noise and the trolling is becoming rather unbearable however
Just a shame that G has decided to let the place go.

As far as starting my own group, not sure about that. Forums are tough to get going, and I don’t have much of a personal following to bring to the game. I was just thinking about setting up a blog format, possibly just highlighting some of the better discussions brought up in GWH, but with much less noise.

Authors would be pre-approved and have the ability to start new topics, they would also own the adsense impressions on their own topic. In the comments the pre-approved authors would be shown differently (like mine are highlighted here), comments are preapproved and moderated as well. There will be no pissing matches or unsubstantiated claims allowed. Maybe pass people on to reconsiderationrequest.com where JohnMu has me thinking about doing some interesting stuff with.

Then again, perhaps a forum is a good thing, but I want revenue sharing involved, the people writing the most should receive some sort of compensation for their efforts. Maybe ads to services they provide or sites they are promoting as well?

Then someone would report me as a link seller!

Krauts are plain silly, hmm … most of them If they don’t understand things either they rant that the system is broke or they live in faith and fear of an assumed system. What they never do online is thinking before posting or applying common sense. When Jesus came to Germany he looked around, whined bitterly and shouted “Oh Vater, schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel!”.

I’m still confident that Google will change that, so I don’t leave the GG completely. When you start your own Googlehelp forum please preserve my user name

Sorry, not much help, I know… Seriously, I don’t know where else. I like the low noise of cre8asite and the very high level of conversation. With more people helping out, I’m sure more people would be asking :).