Does ww block hot posts to free users?

Are hot posts moved out of reach?

[funandgames]

If a hot topic is on the pay forums, are all posts about it blocked or moved from the free forums, so that only paid users get to see them?

[troels nybo nielsen]

Good question. I tend to believe that the answer is no. When paying members bring forth really hot topics they will tend to do it in the Supporters Forum. Wouldn't you? I would. And other paying members will tend to keep discussing them there and not bringing them forward "outside". And when those discussions eventually get started here paying members will tend not to take part in them unless something really interesting is written. It's all quite natural.

But of course it is possible that moderators actively keep hot topics away from "outside" in the first few hours. I just tend not to believe it. It may happen now and then that some paying members talk about non-paying members in an insinuating way, but I have never been able to spot any kind of evidence that admins regard us as inferior.

[engine]

>blocked or moved from the free forums

No, that's not the case. If it starts in the "free forums" (as you put it) it stays there. If it starts in the Supporters area, it stays there, too.

[DaveAtIFG]

Discussions about truly significant topics usually start on both the public and the private side.

[ThomasB]

Discussions about truly significant topics usually start on both the public and the private side.

On the private site sooner most of the times I'd guess, or at least in higher quality.

[blaze]

When Google went IPO, the IPO thread in the public / free forums was kept out of the "recent posts".

These sorts of things hurt WebmasterWorld, they don't help.

[Brett_Tabke]

We try to keep the "newsie" posts on the outside because that is of interest to everyone. However, we discuss more of the ramifications of that news in the supporters forums.

>free forums was kept out of the "recent posts".

This entire category, Foo, commercial exchange, all the private forums, and several of the public forums do not show on the active list.

That is our decision at this time.

Right now, on my "last 24" screen, there are 310active threads with over 3k msgs, 210 sticky mails, and probably 500 emails.

Some how, some of that has to get toned down a bit.

In the case of the ipo forum, we also had the top #1 listed site for "google ipo" and over 1000 unique variations on that kw sector. The day the ipo was announced, there were over 100k referrals from Google to the IPO forum in 24 hours of the launch. The high point in mid afternoon, there was a 20min stretch when the AP story hit, where over 27,000 referrals flooded in. Now, does it make sense why that was taken off the active list?