Cleaning Up the FE Forum

[senior-advisor-indiana]

Ohh...When he said Mike posted something funny, I assumed it was the other Mike.
When did you become funny?

Yesterday. You missed it. Do you have comprehension problems this week?

 

[digfesales105]

I'm sorry but some of things being said about the changes are a bit surprising. Most professionals don't really want to read through or even waste their time with the childish, immature and unprofessional slams.

It's not about being thick skinned or putting ones big boy pants on. It's about being a professional adult. There are plenty of ways to call someone out if you think they are misleading folks on here without being rude and attacking their character.

From what I'm reading, those who miss it are looking for entertainment. If that's the case I believe Maury is still on in the afternoon?

Just in the past 24 hours I've seen a huge improvement and have seen a few new posters so its working. Finally.

 

[Rearden]

They did that about 2 years ago at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Used to you could comment on every article published.

The paper decided to completely limit all comments on all articles, except the Editorial Cartoon that comes out 2 or 3 times a week.

Although the comments section of the CTFP was a hotbed for socialists, I would wager average page viewership and activity is down because of it (if that's what makes an online paper successful).

Selling insurance is really a boring monotinous job for the most part. I do it because I need to make money. I do learn a lot from this forum but I personally don''t have a problem with people being called out for calling someone stupid, or naive or whatever. It tends to livy up the place a little for me anyway.

The Lansing State journal used to let things fly pretty wildly in their daily comment section then out of the blue they censored thing pretty heavily. I was told by a LSJ employee their comments are off by over 80%, which may or may not be true. I wouldn't know because I nolonger go there.

For the most part this is a forum for adults making a living in a field 99.5% of the normal population would not survive in. I suggest if you belong to the forum before you sign in put your big boy pants on and let the show begin.

Over my 32 plus years of selling things I have sat in sales meetings ran my managers that had the foulist mouths one would ever hear. For the most part it didint bother me because I knew they werent aimed at me. If it was aimed at me I made damn sure I corrected what I was screwing up, instead of crying to somebody becaue someone called me out on something.

I like the threads when people disagree on how things should be done becasuse for me it makes thing more fun. And I would be willing to bet they in general are the most watched.

 

[Sam]

There is a big difference between a newspaper or a local publication, and a business to business publication or website. We are not in the business of reporting on local issues or politics, but in the business of encouraging and housing insurance discussions. The goal of this site is to make information accessible to the masses, that used to be unavailable except through private mentor-ship or many years of learning from mistakes. I would happily trade every single pageview that comes from a fight or from a political debate for a bag of rocks any day of the week.

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

A work-related forum I'm on (wordpress related) has a zero tolerance policy - not just for nastiness but anything off topic.

That, however, results in very low levels of replies - maybe 2 to 3 replies max per topic. They are very valuable replies but there's definitely something forum owners have to trade the tighter they make the rules.

 

[senior-advisor-indiana]

A work-related forum I'm on (wordpress related) has a zero tolerance policy - not just for nastiness but anything off topic.

That, however, results in very low levels of replies - maybe 2 to 3 replies max per topic. They are very valuable replies but there's definitely something forum owners have to trade the tighter they make the rules.

Good thing we don't have a requirement to have an insurance license...

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

Good thing we don't have a requirement to have an insurance license...

Will a PHP certification do:-) I'm actually not going to post on insurance-related sub-forums especially when it would come to giving any type of advice. I'll relegate myself to websites/tech/non-insurance forums.

 

[Norwayguy]

I have nothing against helping the forum grow and I do try to help agents when I can.. Spent over an hour on the phone with an agent a couple of days ago. And, since I no longer recruit in any form or fashion, I certainly don't stand to gain financially but I enjoy helping new agents.

However, I don't really care for the direction the forum is taking with the quasi or perhaps actual censorship of even fairly mundane posts. I see the forum heading in the direction of becoming a plain vanilla place where nothing but the exchange of dry facts are allowed which will lend itself to boredom. If I wanted that type of discussion, I would join TGP.

Much more than dry facts are exchanged on TPGs.

 

[VolAgent]

Much more than dry facts are exchanged on TPGs.

I seem to recall it full of insults, mainly from Rick and some of his chosen few.

 

[Norwayguy]

I seem to recall it full of insults, mainly from Rick and some of his chosen few.

I wouldn't call them insults. They can be very pointed posts showing the total lack of facts the average agent gathers and expects to get answers to.