Originally Posted by JRayers 
It is those little guys who are traditionally the ones that you would find on a place like TalkFreelance and instead of freelancing they are turning to running their own websites and blogs to make their 'pocket money'.
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The problem is that Digitalpoint and Sitepoint have us beaten in terms of a crap (aka budget) marketplace. If we try to do the exact same thing as them it
will fail. Cheap workers also generally fall into two categories
1. Kids
2. Offshore outsourcers
Kids are, for the most part, very immature and outsourcers never actually take part in the community (I find them akin to leeches in this respect). This means that if we try to grow the marketplace as it is it will bring near nothing to the community. SP and DP are examples of this, their communities are as bad as their marketplaces.
I too am not completely convinced that a freelancer forum has a market. Most serious freelancers and web developers I know stay away from the web because of it's current state. They are often connected in user groups or other physical networks that cater to their specific section of the industry.
It seems like such a quagmire.
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