Talkfreelance - The little site...

Talkfreelance - The little site that will always stay little.

That should be the title at the top of the page. Talkfreelance, in my opinion has grew no where in the past year. A month or two a go, I would have being cynical and totally blamed the staff (namely Big Zee), called for a reinstatement of Robson and to get rid of Village Idiot.

The sacking of Village Idiot has made me less bitter towards the Talkfreelance staff and I can see properly why this site will never be more then what it is no The reason is the current members, what's wrong with them you may ask? Firstly, they are so unappreciative it's unbelievable someone gives up days to give them an alternative, which he WASN'T getting paid yet we get comments before they even see the style and when they do, most members love it, but no "Surely Jason can't be doing that because no one asked for him, why don't they listen to what members want", quite frankly this person had no idea what people wanted.

Some also feel they are really intelligent, they make comments such as

Originally Posted by Garrett Hyprovision, you kindof put yourself in your own hole. You shouldn't have said anything but maybe it was a mishap by the staff and I am sure it will soon be fixed rather than making us guess and telling us nothing.

LOL! Did you read the thread, he didn't say nothing. He kept it stump, he didn't create the thread, he didn't even reply with any comments that said much, he kept quiet and there was just one member who kept digging away for a response.

Originally Posted by Garett As reading through the whole "Skin" thread, your name was only mentioned once for a nomination, so I assume you are doing something else. Unless they again, go outside of the members choices.

Originally Posted by Garrett Sorry Jason for comming off negative, but if you were to "design" the skin. The majority of the board didn't vote on "you" I have no problem with it, I just see as the staff using that thread as no resource on how there members want a site they visit to look.

Originally Posted by Garrett Why don't you just come out of the closet? You are designing it, it's a no brainer...or for those who don't know I should scream... HYPROVISION IS REDOING TFL!

So he dugg the hole? I think not, it was you.

Although this seems a rant on one guy it's not, he just has given the most recent example. It's basically a large proportion of the site who are very unappreciative, nasty and hypocritical, they're also very unhelpful and think they own the site, they think they're the bee's knees of the net, when in reality you're just big fish on a small site.

http://www.talkfreelance.com/f71-htm...dhtml-css.html
http://www.talkfreelance.com/f86-ppc-networks.html

Look at them type of sections, who helps? Not our almighty ultimate xHTML know it alls in AndrewR and Garrett or our successful entrepreneurs... actually .

We have people with totally over inflated ego's here, we're unhelpful and have little good content. One of the main draws was the friendlessness of this place which has totally go out the window because of MEMBERS.

Big Zee, all I can say is, when you bought this, you had the idea of this being like Sitepoint you should have really looked further into what you was buying, Robson's target audience has always being children and a lot of members are 16-21, the most successful members have a small expertise that they develop into a service which the rest of the community feel is really good when it's not, if people want expert coding they go to somewhere they are experts.

In my opinion, Talkfreelance has NO UNIQUE selling point anymore and that's because of the members not the staff.

TF Sux