These days there are too many webmasters forums online. But none of them is trying to be a great one. The biggies like WMW, DP, V7N are becoming more and more useless day by day. Some are not being moderated well while others are being left by people for other reasons.

WMW has those bizarre rules which I really hate. DP is becoming useless as the Shawn is no more there and all those crazy group of moderators are not doing any good. Too many newbies and scammers at DP are making it useless. V7n on the other hand is now no more being visited by members and looks abandoned.

There are many others as well, but none of them is trying to be a serious and good one.

“This is the perfect time for a new webmaster community to engage with a hungry market.” - says Will Spencer, one of the well known name in the online industry who has launched his new webmaster forum http://www.netbuilders.org.

In his words:

Our strategy is to focus on our community. This means not only more transparent and open moderation, but also more open and transparent forum management in general. We have threads to announce and discuss major decisions regarding the forum. We listen to our community members because we are all community members – we all live here.

This strategy also means providing enhanced services to our community members, such as free content and templates. A webmaster community is made up of people who want to succeed. People visit webmaster forums because they believe the forums can help them to succeed. The current crop of webmaster forums on the Internet has failed to meet that expectation.

That strategy also means that we don’t have rules to prevent people from mentioning their own sites. This is a forum for webmasters – we are all marketers. Entrepreneurs are excited about their current projects. Our community members should be free to talk about the things which excite them.

I know Will Spencer from long. I also know that he manages some very good and big websites. He has extensive experience in this field. I am sure he will be able to manage http://www.netbuilders.org quite well.

Currently the forums is quite new. As of now it has only 86 members (including me). If Will can bring in some good big names (members) into the forum and can make them active, I am sure it can make big. People like me are actually looking for a new place to hang around.