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Cotton101's avatar

Anyone here ever been a member of help.com? If so, what did you think of the site?

Asked by Cotton101 (3439points) December 11th, 2009

Obviously, it is a help site that is owned by Cnet. Well, it may have changed owner recently. The first few years it was a very good site, but made lots of changes and many left the site. Just curious if anyone had been on the site or, for that matter, ever heard of the site.

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DancinNymph's avatar

Nuh uh Southern man…guess I’ll have to take a mosey
and check it out
And a big howdy to ya =)

Cotton101's avatar

And howdy to you my friend!

Help.com went down the same road as AB, as once it was a great site, but not now MsD!

DancinNymph's avatar

Sad..huh…still a little lost here…but we shall see

Cotton101's avatar

ahhh..you are smart cookie..will not take long. Funny thing, Nunya and the others have over 200 pts..thank i’ve about 50..loll

ninjaofthenight's avatar

I used to. But they treated me like crap so i gave up.

Cotton101's avatar

good to see you here Ninjao!

pearls's avatar

I have never heard of that site, Cotton.

Cotton101's avatar

Pearls, it once was a great site, but they ruined it! help.com is a very strange site now. Cannot write here about the site.

Dan_DeColumna's avatar

I spent several years on Help.com. :-( I can’t really stand it on there anymore. I go on and try to answer questions from time to time, but the atmosphere is hostile and I’ve stumbled into several unrestrained flame wars. A friend of mine on help.com directed me here, and I’m quite thankful he did.

The site was sold to CBS. They either don’t have the resources to run the site properly or don’t care about the site’s fate. The chat module went down some time ago, old users cannot change their avatar and new users are stuck with generic swirl pattern avatars, new posts that have tags matching your interests are no longer sent to your notifications, with the change of ownership many moderators and some plain members were either given their walking papers or left of their own accord, etc.

In short, it is a mockery of what it use to be.

-Dan

BoBo1946's avatar

@Dan_DeColumna could have said it better myself…ahhh heck, that was a given my friend! loll

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