Maybe in meta or off-topic?
I know the main gist of this thread is cryptotalk, but since it'd be great to talk about the differences between that failure of a forum and this one, I'd prefer to keep it in Meta where it'll be seen and commented on.
In all honesty, I'd never heard of that platform. I guess it was popular before my time.
Was that forum supposed to compete with bitcointalk?
There was never a snowball's chance in hell that shitshow of a forum was going to compete with bitcointalk; it was just a vehicle for Yobit to promote their newest scams, which at the time consisted of the Investbox and whatever else they had going.
There was someone a few years ago who was going to, or actually did, create a forum where the main feature was that people were going to be paid to post. There was a thread about it and I made a few comments predicting its failure and why it would fail, etc. I'd have to go back way far in my post history to find that, but it's there somewhere. Anyway, guess what? It turned out to be an unsustainable business model and it failed.
If you come here and say "Hey guys, c'mon over to our forum and we'll pay you to post!", the only people who are going to sign up are the ones who are so incompetent at writing that they can't get accepted into anything other than a lousy altcoin bounty, if that. As I said, it's like scraping the disgusting crust off the bottom of the fish tank that is bitcointalk and having that be your core membership. It's a given that the results ain't gonna be pretty.