I have said this before but I will say this again..I believe a discussion
forum like Mopo and any other forum should be about sharing ideas, thoughts
and comments about what we have in common, a love of the poster industry
(sounds nice and warm doesn't it).It is hard to make money from it but we
stick at it mainly because we love the hobby so much, often we have long
suffering partners in the back ground who either want to divorce us / have
done so or have taken up 'Candy Crush'.
The forum should not be about subtle jibes at each other or any sort of
bragging in any sort of form, people just get tired of hearing that and the
atmosphere just becomes "dead" and it does the messenger no favours. At the
end of the day , it does not matter if you are the gorilla in the room or
the smallest dealer, the product you sell with the service you provide
speaks volumes. The last posting that I thought really lived up to the
spirit of what I thought a discussion board should be like was when everyone
chipped in and commented about what a poster website could and should be
like if you were to build one. This topic even then went into sub topic's
that many continued to comment on i.e. Freight issues a topic that we all
have to deal with as well. Sure it is good to let everyone know what you
have for sale, but what about providing advice. I think if you did a survey
on how many public posts were done in that spirit you would find not a lot.
Maybe we are all to guarded and don't want to give too much away - fair
enough. But I believe currently we should try to post in a less bragging /
jibing fashion and a more helpful commentary fashion when asked to or maybe
we should be game and start asking.
If anybody has any thoughts I'm keen to hear.
Regards
Ben
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