Foundation The Things that can Automatically Kill a Forum: How to prevent them from happening

[Cpvr]

I don't know if you remember a site called Bubblews. The owner was invited on Bloomberg. It was just a paid to post site where users could earn from the views and engagements on their 400 character posts. You get media attention if you are offering something interesting. Sadly, most forum lacks "interesting" element.

I’ve never heard of their forum, but I did find a press release they launched:

Bubblews Officially Launches Its Innovative Social Media Platform for Good

Bubblews, the social network that shares, today launched a new site to its rapidly growing, global user base of over 20 million visitors per month fro

www.businesswire.com

They also got mentioned in CBS news right after the press release:

Social media sites that pay you for posting

Two new social networks offer money for the most popular posts -- but don't quit your day job just yet

www.cbsnews.com

I wasn’t able to find the Bloomberg article you mentioned. Do you know if they were the first paid-to-post forum?

 

[Nomad]

Do you know if they were the first paid-to-post forum?

They were not the first paid to post forum but when they were active they paid a lot. One of the main reasons for their downfall was they were paying a lot and spammers abused their system. I think the first paid to post forum is called Mylot., The site still exist.