Why I am writing this article.
I was participating on a fairly well known forum today and another member started berating one person for being an opportunity seeker then started in on freeloaders. This made me a little angry at first but did make me think about it quite a bit more. I then realized that this particular forum would not exist if it were not for opportunity seekers and freeloaders. After i started making a list of reasons why this forum would not exist if it were not for opportunity seekers or freeloaders I came to the conclusion that I did not know of any forums that this did not apply to. Therefore I decided that this would be an ezine article instead of a reply in the forum.
Opportunity seekers:
People Looking for the opportunity to sell.
1) Every person that is a member of a forum with a signature link is an opportunity seeker. They are hoping that someone will notice their signature and click on their link giving them the opportunity to make a sale. This is especially true for those that have the largest, longest, most colorful signature links available on the forum i was on at the time since they sell the right to make linkable signatures.
2) There are opportunity seekers that post on forums looking for the opportunity to drop a link to their website in a post.
People Looking for an Opportunity to Buy a Product.
1) This particular forum has a sub forum for people to sell their internet marketing information, programs, widgets, ebooks, plugins and whatever else they can think of to sell. Most forums I have been on have a classifieds section and sell advertising on the forum making the forum itself an opportunity seeker. This attracts people looking for the opportunity to buy something.
People looking for an opportunity to share knowledge.
1) Those that give out free knowledge are the smallest percent of the people who visit forums. Take a look at the posting rate on any forum. In my experience the number of visitors, lurkers and question askers dwarf the number of people actually handing out advice and information. With that being said on some forums the only reason some of these members have such high post rates giving the illusion that they are giving knowledge freely is because every time they make a post to answer a question they have the opportunity to make a sale.
2) The people who are on a forum seeking the opportunity to learn. Isn't that the reason that most people go to a forum in the first place? They have a question and what better place to find a free answer than a forum on that topic? If not for these people looking for an opportunity to get their question answered most forums would have no reason to exist leaving the other types of opportunity seekers out in the cold.
Freeloaders
What would a freeloader on a forum be? Someone looking for something for nothing would be the obvious answer. One would think these would be guests and lurking members that never make a post or people who freely take information without giving any back. My answer is since the majority of most forums i have seen are made up of these types of people then the stats for most forums would not be high enough to gain advertising revenues therefore the forum would die a slow death. Very few forums are run as a labor of love.
My Conclusion is that no forums would exist if it were not for opportunity seekers and freeloaders of one sort or another. What do you think?
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