eBay Discussion Board Change Stirring Controversy

3 responses to “eBay Discussion Board Change Stirring Controversy”

1. 

   Atillo

   March 25, 2009

   This debate is not unique to ebay. For example Atomic magazine has forums (http://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/) where the overwhelming majority of posts are in “The Green Room”, the general forum where almost none of the discussion has anything to do with the magazine, or the subjects that the magazine covers. I believe there was a push from Haymarket management a while ago to delete that forum, presumably for the same cost cutting reasons as ebay. It would be interesting to see if Lifehacker could get the editor, David Hollingworth, to comment on how they convinced Haymarket that the community was valuable to the magazine.

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2. 

   Henrietta

   March 26, 2009

   eBay whether in Australia or anywhere else does not care about community development. Nothing will change an announced policy except direct orders from an entity more powerful than they are, ie ACCC or the RBA and if they think they can get away with threats and bullying there they will give it a try.

   The new forums will be moderated by bots which will produce some ‘interesting’ results. They are clunky and hard to search for threads which is the whole purpose, think of it as crowd control.

   Eventually I believe all the acres of white space will be filled with paid advertising like the rest of eBay. What we think of as eBay, the sales venue, is only a moderately profitable content generator to attract the wildly profitable advertisement business so far as management is concerned.

   They no longer have any interest in sellers with less volume that Gold PowerSeller (small sellers) they want the big commercial sellers who get special deals.

   So sad but too bad.

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   PLAYPEBRERM

   October 2, 2009

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