Comments on: Making Money Online Without a Job: This is Where to Start

By: E.Umana

E.Umana — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:58:36 +0000

The post link you gave is food for thought, however I don’t if I would agree with everything he advises especially on community sites.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:18:43 +0000

That’s always the problem: getting things established to a level at which it gains momentum and can (to some extent) sustain itself. Community websites are some of the more difficult things to successfully establish and sustain. Forums and the like can be hard to get off the ground. But he’s right: once you’ve got some people who are a part of the community it snowballs from there.

By: Wally

Wally — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:27:02 +0000

That was a really good post you linked to. I particularly enjoyed analysis and rough numbers he gave out for community building. Although it seems obvious in hindsight, I’ve always wondered roughly how many core/active users I’d need to allow a site to be self-sustaining.

His proposal of 200 core users seems to be about right. Now the problem is how do I go about getting that 200 users.

By: shawn

shawn — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:32:20 +0000

…and MOST people have the problem of not enough comments - so that’s why it’s not necessarily a “bad” thing when people post a comment with less than pure motives. It can make your blog look like some action is happening and people are actually reading it. And that will bring in more commenters, possibly. All in all, it’s not that big of a deal when it happens and certain people shouldn’t get bent outta shape.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:04:40 +0000

This is a real dilemma. Seems to me that spam is in the eye of the, er, blog-holder. (Unless of course you’re talking real, undeniable robot-created spam…)

I would say that every commenter has some degree of self-interest (just as every blogger does).

I’d say, if it’s not outright trolling and the commenter has something thoughtful to say, I’d welcome it. (At the moment my problem is lack of comments, not excess of them, BTW!)