I just wanted to take a moment and remind myself (and the other users here, and perhaps encourage some of the lurkers) how much I appreciate the GWW community.
I've been spending time on a couple of boards in addition to GWW recently, but the signal-to-noise ratio and the complete lack of interest in maintaining a professional environment at another well-known gay board has made me realize how much more useful this community is as far as actually getting business done.
As someone pointed out to me yesterday, he made the same post here and at the other board. Here, he immediately got PMs and people interested in doing business with him. At the other board (which recently has had more threads), he got nada. I've noticed the same thing several times, but it never really "clicked" with me.
Perhaps I'm late to the party, but I've realized that GWW is *the* community for serious gay webmasters interested in fostering strong business relationships, helping each other, doing business, and being successful. The other board, owing solely to the lack of competent moderation and an apparent lack of interest in securing appropriate moderators by the owner, is unfortunately degenerating into a drama fest of noise with very little useful information. And that's fine, I think we all need places to blow off steam; I was just under the misconception that it was a place to get business done, which is totally my bad.
I hope that those of us who have used both boards will continue to use and grow this board and this community for business-related exchange of information, and I am appreciative of the tone of the community here. I encourage everyone using this board to continue to post your business and community-building threads here so that we can all continue to grow our respective businesses and deepen the communications and business relationships we have with others.
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