The Failure of Wickedfire
As a few people know wickedfire is an affiliate marketing forum created in May 2006 by Sitepoint member MookJon. The original selling point of wickedfire was to create a ‘free speech’ community where people can discuss affiliate marketing without all the constraints and rules of traditional forum edicate. For example, you could cuss or flame someone without be given a warning. For the fist few months months following its launch Wickedfire was a pretty cool place to hang out. There were lively discussions about Adsense arbitrage and various other forums of internet monetization.
However, in the past few months the forum has become very cliquish and the posting activity has fallen markedly. Noobs and anyone with an opposing views are usually banned immediately by one of the many mods without even a single warning. A simple question such as “What affiliate programs work best??? will be greeted by flames by Jon’s loyal legion of sycophants and diciples, and the orginal posted will eventually be banned.
In addition, these people have little sense of humor. It is extremely easy to agitate them since most members are unable to differentiate a harmless joke or irony versus a personal attack. ‘Free speech’ certainly exists on wickedfire unless, of course, someone gets offended or insulted. But isn’t the who point of ‘free speech’ to protect UNPOPULAR viewpoints? As a result, trolling wickedfire has become a perverse hobby of mine. In the past nine or so months I have created probably thirty troll aliases. Of all the forums I have visited they are BY FAR the easiest to troll. It is effortless and entertaining provoking these prudes into trite arguments.
As for the future of wickedfire it will continue to smolder until Jon either closes it down to work on another project or enough people get fed up at the hypocrisy and decide the leave the forum. Posting activity has declined markedly in the past four or six months and I expect that trend to continue. Even Jon’s loyal legion of ass kissers can’t save Wickedfire from its inevitable failure.
10 Responses to “The Failure of Wickedfire”
Comment from Wiy
Time September 2, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Stop trolling Wickedfire loser. Get a life. 30 usernames? LOL. I am going to call your mom, ask her to cancel your AOL service and lock you in your room
Comment from Randy J.
Time September 4, 2007 at 11:59 am
That is funny. I agree. Wickedfire ain’t half of what it is played up to be. I made my first post there about a year ago and was promptly flamed into submission for daring to have an opinion that differed from the losers that spend their whole day there. Those clowns can’t be making any bank.
Comment from Jenny Jennison
Time September 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Wickedfire turned into a haven for smartasses a looooong time ago. Now that many (all?) of the forum posts are member-only, I can’t see anybody new wanting to join, and when they get in there, they’ll discover that the useful-info-to-flame ratio is really really bad. Was a member there when they first started but haven’t gone back in months.
Comment from Administrator
Time October 18, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Looks like they now added a paid section. I’m sure Jon will probably make a couple thousand form that; not that he needs more money or anything since he makes plenty.
Comment from darfur
Time November 30, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Wickedfire is a HUGE failure, but its 1000x more successful then you’ll ever be.
Comment from Daniel
Time December 13, 2007 at 6:27 am
Wow, lots of friendly people here.
From what I hear, it sounds like you’re right.
Comment from uraloser
Time December 13, 2007 at 1:35 pm
you’re probably just disgruntled cuz you were one of those noobs lol
good to know you have so much time trolling and not making money LOL
Comment from King
Time February 13, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Wickedfire sucks, they think they are GODS! fuck you JON, talk about free speech ya looser,
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Comment from Wickedfire.com review
Time February 28, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Come on Guys! Wickedfire is a complete joke. Except for some of the valuable information, the forum is a worst place to hang out. Except for a few, almost all of the members are immatures. They show pointless arrogance. Some of the worst people of the forum are JON (administrator), SEO_MIKE (moderator), ebiz ….. . A forum full of worst hypocrites.
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Comment from Wiy
Time September 2, 2007 at 3:48 pm
keep crying slut