I do not know how long these service offerings have been around. I just ran into one a few weeks back for the first time. It was intereting to think as a service offering, and some of the prices seem cheap enough to entice you in.
Seeding posts into a forum does help encourage participation, but I wonder how a regular new visitor toa community feels about MaryXXX coming in, making 20 or 50 posts over a few days then disappearing.
I know the general forum rules such as don't start a new forum topic unless you have 15 or 25 posts for the category and if it goes stale over a few months, collapse the category. But thats about all the forum rules I know of.
Has this been debated here before, or is there a general feeling about their value?
Seeding posts into a forum does help encourage participation, but I wonder how a regular new visitor toa community feels about MaryXXX coming in, making 20 or 50 posts over a few days then disappearing.
I know the general forum rules such as don't start a new forum topic unless you have 15 or 25 posts for the category and if it goes stale over a few months, collapse the category. But thats about all the forum rules I know of.
Has this been debated here before, or is there a general feeling about their value?