Re: Curezone Ranked 11,975

CZ is head and shoulders above the rest, IMO, as far as a forum-based site goes. I have looked at other sites that have forums, and I am a member of the yahoo Iodine group. Even though other sites may have good info to share none of them has the dynamic design that CZ does. Threads are very hard to read, there is no "real time" interaction such as CZ has. I also think that Dushan has improved the site tremendously in the time that I've been here. We now have the ability to view a complete thread, or a portion of a long thread without having to click on each post. We can switch to alternate forum view and view the first paragraph or so of each post and decide whether or not we want to open posts to read.

For those of us(them) that are html savvy, we can create posts with pictures, video, links, etc. None of that was available when I joined CZ...

One of the problems I see with CZ at this time, as far as public forums go, is that lack of good moderation. We only need to scroll further down the page here to find evidence of that. TOS are violated repeatedly, within the subject header, and no action has been taken. I do not visit a lot of the public forums regularly, my time is limited, but I do notice that people get away with a lot more than they used to...I think that threads like the one below confuse and intimidate the casual viewer.

I know that there are "global" mods now, but how active are they?

CZ used to have a very tight moderating crew, I recall that there was some criticism of the decision to appoint individual mods for different public forums. I recall reading that that had been tried before and that it did not work out, I don't think that it is working now.

I full well understand that moderating is a thankless job unless one has a vested interest in the subject at hand. So, I have no solution to offer there, I do know that people move on in their lives though and if they have not been active in moderating for a time, perhaps they should relinquish their rights.

I do think though that the lack of tight moderation has made CZ a bit of a free-for-all, and I think that some of the conversations here undermine the credibility of the site.

I also have noticed that there has not been a newsletter in quite some time.
Mercola has quite a successful site(although I beg to differ with a lot of the info he offers:), and the mercola site sends out e-mails on a regular basis.

I know that in the past Dushan has created the newsletters. Perhaps we can get CZ members involved in the creation of newsletters, somehow. and actually mail them out!

I can't imagine what it takes to keep a site like this running(from the technical side). I think that Dushan needs our help with this, there are many excellent writers/thinkers, here at CZ. Perhaps a newsletter article submission forum? If we all contribute, it would certainly save webbie some time weeding through all of the posts.

I think that we have all benefited from CZ(I know that I have), perhaps we can work together to keep it visible.

Newsletter Archive forum:

//www.curezone.org/forums/f.asp?f=83



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