What's your Biggest complaint about WA?

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Although WA is Awesome, It isn't perfect and no site is!

What is your biggest complaint about WA?

Mine would have to be the rules that are broken and how rules are enforced sometimes and not enforced sometimes.

I would love for the rules to be somehow posted more obviously and also enforced the same for everyone.

I realize that new members may break rules unknowingly but I also see many rules broken by Ambassadors and others who have been here at WA for long enough to know better and that sets a bad example for others.

I, myself have been guilty of breaking the rules many times and am not claiming to be innocent :)

What is your biggest complaint about WA, Share with us below and maybe we can help create changes!

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Greeting Tony,

Great question, I guess the most obvious complaint would be the same as most members have voiced. Rules need to given to new members so they will know what they are. I haven't broken any yet, (that I know of). If the information is given when you join it would help tremendously. Just my two-cents-worth.

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My biggest complaint is the amount of fraudsters operating on this platform and getting away with it. Passing training off as their own and making money from it. I understand that training is important and appreciate the efforts of most members but to take a piece of PLR and make out you put it together is in my opinion out of order. Why not just post the link to the PLR and take the praise for the pointer.

JUST SAYING

Guess I better pay close attention!

An observation I would throw in is that WA, having a huge membership base, uses "Chat" as its primary source for problem solving.

Many members try to log into chat and pose a problem that many times is not seen by a competent member that can truly address the problem the person is having..

Then there is the newbie that is eager to engage and be a part of the system will give out the wrong solution.

Often times the chat is so clogged that I see people putting their question in over and over without a response at all.

A simple solution would be to add a "Forum"....not replace chat at all but a system like a well built structure that had multiple categories for common problems would help immensely.

It is a stationery format and the questions posed would be there until a competent person is able to respond.

I would also encourage WA to get the help from many members that spend a lot of time on Chat and are knowledgeable, these people could be volunteer "monitors" to keep things safe and sane.

There is always the "Ask a Question" feature, which I have found useful. Chat can be great if you're anxious for an answer NOW! but I find that the Ask a Question gets more and better responses.

Its not so much a complaint as an observation about myself. I can't possibly read and respond to all the posts I receive. So some I don't open as I look at the title. I feel bad about this because I am following the author of the post and not acknowledging the work put into the post.

Yes. I used to take a certain amount of pride in responding to EVERYTHING that I received (follows, questions, whatever), but it has become impossible. I now get what used to be several week's worth of emails daily, so I've had to filter stuff out.

Tony I totally agree, the rules need to be enforced equally.

I became tired of opening, reading and giving an obligatory "thank you" to posts repeating motivational quotes I have heard and quoted myself since day one of my entrepreneurial journey just to maintain or achieve a better ranking.

Likewise I find it a waist of my time to try to come up with something to write about that will get engagement when creating content for the growth of my website is the real reason I'm here.

I am truly baffled by the ranking system as a whole. There are people in the higher rankings who I seldom if ever see posting anything. How does this work?




Kyle mentioned that I had broken a rule by giving feedback on a blog. He said feedback is only to be given in comments using the site feedback link. Is this really I rule? In my reply to Kyle, I told him I respectfully disagreed with this policy. I welcome your feedback on this matter.

If you visited a website that you found when you were searching for something on Google would you leave feedback on the website? Or would you leave a comment relevant to the post?

Is this a trick question? My answer is yes to both.

My complaint... drama! I guess it happens but really... The rules are simple, common sense and it seems very petty that we are concerned with folks who should know better not following them. If you slip up, someone can kindly remind you, oops by the way and go on with life. Lets try to have at least one "drama free zone". I have enough in my life that isn't!!
...This is me hoppin' off the soap box..

I agree that rules need to be made more obvious. Like, extremely obvious. I personally went several months before even hearing about certain rules. And yes, I see ambassadors breaking rules, too, which leads to more confusion. After all, new people will look at someone in the Top 10 and think "hey, he's doing this thing, so I should probably do it too..."

You're right about the inconsistent enforcement of rules. Seems like new people are quick to get singled out. The other thing that concerns me is the emphasis placed on ranking and number of followers.

I've seen some high ranking members give bad advice and have junky sites. Most people mean well but a new person could easily think high rank = knowledge.

People seem unclear on what ranking actually means. I have people asking me questions and/ or following me because they see I'm in the top 200. I don't have that rank because I am so knowledgeable, or an expert on anything; my rank comes from me having been active here and engaging people. That's it.

When people ask me for advice, I direct them to other people whom I know to be in a better position to answer them. Rank is just a number. Sure, it's great to have a Top 200 badge,and I feel it does confer a certain amount of prestige, but I am certainly not the guy to seek out when you need help with your site....

This ^. I noted rank was meaningless within a couple of days. I understand that a lot of folks get a lot of pleasure out of the 'social' side of WA, the live chat and blogging replies etc., but you can see a lot of regurgitation of stock advice written as if it comes from experience rather than a popular affiliate marketing or SEO blog. Some of these folks kind of get more wrapped up in the "status" of their longevity on WA and number of followers, more than any actual success at this endeavour. You get that on every forum though, so hardly surprising or unique to WA.

In that vein, I stumbled into an article by an ambassador on a technical subject I'm expert in in my professional life (not strictly affiliate marketing but applicable) and the advice was superficial, amateur meanderings at best, complete tosh at worst. Which made me think, if you're going to play all round guru and BS your 'expertise' on this subject, then what else are you flannelling on?

But caveat emptor and all that *shrugs*.

Yeah I've seen some stuff from WA 'experts' that is vacuous fluff too. And copious amounts of memes. Why???????

I understand why a positive community atmosphere is encouraged. Other forums can descend into flame wars and never ending grudges, and no one wants that sort of nonsense clogging the place up, but there's almost a "Stepford Wives" feel to the activity feed at times!

Okay, it's good to encourage new members and everyone's at different levels, but I rail against the "cult" of the worthless blog post just to sing the praises of certain members (and owners!) and receive the kudos of displaying the "correct" attitude. Not because I think the people receiving kind words are necessarily undeserving or disingenuous, just I get uneasy when that sort of blind, herd/mob good-party-member adulation is displayed. I'm not saying I want to see a lot more whining and negativity, but some folks need to reign back on the hero worship.

Sure, give kudos to a good piece of training or article, but no need to just randomly assert your allegiance in the activity feed - smacks too much of waving your little red book in the air in your state supplied overalls for me.

But overall, I like WA. It's home to all sorts.

Exactly.

I know from my own perspective that positivity is a brilliant, motivator, but if you post a three word blog post, with a picture and some pretty words on it, is that really worthy of praise? This is not facebook, where some people are seemingly unable to think for themselves.
This is a learning community to enable everyone to help everyone else to learn and grow as internet affiliate marketers.

I am here to do just that and not to be part of a positivity cult lol.


I LOVE WA, I really do, but I am with you on the gushing posts too.

Mat

ridesisapis, I guess I haven't been following too well, because I haven't seen that personally. which is probably a good thing.

I agree that you will probably encounter the same or similar messages again and again in people's blogs (someone else mentioned this, too), but I think it's valid because while you might be following 20 people all spouting the same message, someone else who could benefit from hearing/ reading it might only be following one. Also, the messages that I see repeated often deal with things like motivation and staying positive which, in my opinion, help to make WA the supportive atmosphere that it is.

Many of us are surrounded by negativity on a daily basis, so having WA be unrelentingly positive can be just what someone needs to keep going.

There is also the fact that for many people, making a declaration ("Anything is possible!" "Conceive, Believe, Achieve!") helps to put THEM in the right frame of mind, so I have no issue with that. It can help you to visualise your goals and to achieve them. Why would anyone be against that?

We can always skip posts that don't appeal to us.

Being a baby boomer (born 1952) and having grown up using the telephone long before there ever was an internet - I would have to say that no phone support is my biggest pet peeve.

Even though the response to online support tickets is reputedly very good, I have been reluctant to even attempt some things with my website simply because there isn't a human voice to walk me through certain tasks.

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