An Example of How DigitalPoint Can Suck

At first, I liked DigitalPoint’s forums a lot as they can be interesting and/or amusing to read. Sometimes the discussions are even very interesting and good to get involved in, although there are obviously (in common with many forums) a lot of junk threads, usually asking the same question as many others before it. However, I then began to notice how the forum administration and moderation is..

They recently introduced rules to stop thread bumping, however this still goes on and even when reporting these threads the moderators don’t seem to do anything about it. It gets a bit tiresome seeing the same old bumped thread at the top of a discussion list.

It’s also a forum now for discussing/selling blackhat techniques, selling warez sites, .edu spamming and scamming people (often getting away with it). The usual response is to “leave negative itrader”. Fair enough, they do not want to involved in monetary disputes, but if they want trade to be conducted on their forum then why do they not implement a proper trading section that helps reduce the chances of a scam occurring (e.g. site verification)? SitePoint has been able to do this, so surely DigitalPoint can too. Sure, there is always a chance a scam can still happen, but a proper trading environment will reduce the risk for everyone.