Has anyone ever tried one of those pay for posts services targeted towards forum owners?

I think overall it is risky, the post quality will be poor, it will encourage pointless posting, quantity rather than quality. You can encourage people by awarding a prize for good post instead pay for post.

Perhaps it is a good method for those who are first starting up a new forum and need to make it look active?

Still I think it is not good in long run, those who are starting up it first are going to be dependent on that company to make it live and real with thousand posts, overall I think it will loss the inner beauty and will require every time a cosmetic surgery.

I had started a domain thing on my forum "free domain for certain referals and posts" .

and then the crap Credit Card started giving probs then I couldn`t register domains

Huh??

I'm bumping this thread because it still is a really hot topic and I'm interested in getting some more feedback on it. Do you think it would work on popular sites who just want to stir up more traffic? Is spam a big problem? I could see people getting a kick out of being paid to promote their own sites and services in other forums!

Well if i was requiring the service i will ask for references from other customers and see if i am able to read the posts they have posted on previous forums. I think it is a good idea to kick start a forum community. But i will try and get as many new subscribers aspossible while i am paying for the posts since the forum will look more active with new posts daily since you dont want to be a member of a forum where the last post was done 2 weeks ago.

Yes, definitely. I think that the #1 question a potential new member asks himself or herself when deciding to register on a forum is: "will what I have to say be heard?" and "will it be heard by the masses?"

HI,

I think it is a dumb idea. Nothing like a bunch of mercinaries on the website. Nopers.

Christian