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NOTE: I'm posting this as a personal opinion, not as a moderator, admin or whatever, if that means anything.
I never answered this question so far. It's hard to answer. As much as I tried to a few times I've never been much of a forum guy, and in recent times (like last year or so), disillusionment was the name of the webmaster game for me. So much spam is actually justified under a neat name of "blackhat". Stuff that violates my own TOS on my sites is advised to people on webmaster forums as if it's perfectly cool. Google worship has swallowed up the entire industry. Quantity has won over quality with crap like article spinners and super-cheap writers that have zero prior knowledge of the topic they write about. Crappy looking ads, with little concern for user experience. There's no soul in that kind of stuff, just an old boring, uninspiring grind.
The more a webmaster forum focuses on these things, the less appealing it is to me. So what is the one thing I'd like to see? Well, a breath of fresh air, fresh unconventional approaches to internet marketing at the core of which is providing real value "from the heart". Link building not through spamming and faking and grinding, but by creating something so compelling that it will "bait" links naturally. Our craft should speak for itself. And if it doesn't, you're doing it "wrong", or I should say, you're not really advancing the web.
I think I saw that little tidbit in the NetBuilders Philosophy somewhere, the goal of actually improving the web. I don't see it happening yet, but I'd like to. I have a feeling though I'm a tiny minority calling for things like this.
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