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Originally Posted by sammyboyfor
Depends what you mean by "helping". 
People usually aren't "helpful" unless they stand to gain personally from the "help" they provide.  |
Sorry, what do you mean? I choose to take a different school of thoughts, which is positively, that people are generally good. Should one genuinely willing to offer one's hand to help, they do it with sincerity without expectation. Of course, one can be cynical about it and nobody can defy that individuals entitilement to his/her negative thoughts.
Somehow, I am pretty disappointed here now that my approach to lend a helping hand to her (since she has been a gem and can be voted by samsters who met her) has been rewarded with such scepticism.
Read from the reply, somehow, it seems to give me the direction of thoughts that the forum is also looking to gain from the "help" it provides. "Help" in this case to be defined as accessibilities of samsters to the forum, be it someone sharing or looking for contacts. A success working model will be ebay - it provides the virtual marketplace where buyer and seller can trade in exchange for some gains to ebay from both buyer and seller side. In this case, a fees can be implemented on all members, a charge on all the access to the forum, be it looking for contacts etc.. However, how do we deal for those who contribute? If there isn't any contributors, there will never be subscribers too.