VOIP Tech Chat → Re: No messages on this forum for last 24 hours

Its nice to have an association of folks who know about Voip; to hear the general discussions, to make a comment or to seek help.

Agreed. Perhaps there should be an agreed upon backup should this place ever go down. I'm unaware of a forum quite like one with helpful knowledgeable people (including former telecom engineers, execs and lawyers) and relatively few newbs (like me!).

reddit.com/r/voip seems to be decent, but not being a regular 'redditor' my replies just get deleted by their bot for not having enough undisclosed number of 'karma' ... grumble

Like most of reddit, it seems to me to be unsophisticated and more likely to be trolled. I personally have a hard time browsing through there also because the forum format is unfriendly.

Agree.

It's beyond my understanding, how Reddit became so popular.

Memes, I guess. And very loose moderation.

»www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/co ··· _reboot/

I think it initially had to do with the fluid self-regulating style of the forum. Quality posts got up-voted into more prominence and the drivel got downvoted away. This worked well back when it was new, but now it's all just manipulated by brigading and content manipulators, and anyone with a smartphone can try to "outfunny" the last post.

Anyone ever heard of the Eternal September? The phenomenon very much applies.

»en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ··· eptember

One forum that has remained quite high-quality is HackerNews (»news.ycombinator.com) which actually has some fantastic discussion on various topics (not all tech-related). But there aren't many places that I know of, apart from niche communities that remain clean because of the self-limiting nature of a niche hobby topic.