06-19-2009, 08:01 AM
Goose’s clone refuge DegreeDiscussion.com will soon fade into the past from whence it came. It’s been circling the drain for some time (some would say since the day it was conceived), but now that spammers outnumber stalkers it seems inevitable.
At DegreeInfo.com there are only two types of posters left: those who are too dumb to know that they are posting on a board run by a pedophile-pandering gay boy pornographer, and those who like participating in that sort of thing. Eventually the non-perverts will wise up and move on, leaving Chip and his pervert posse of take-it-in-the-tailpipe teens to discuss enemas with Bruce the malingering union goon cop.
But with the increasing popularity of university level distance learning programs, there are still some good discussion boards out there—actual discussion boards where legit DL programs are discussed in a positive way, not stalker boards where ignorant old farts prey on the newbies.
1. DLTruth.com—For those who enjoy playing safely on the other discussion boards, you can thank DLTruth, which has so vigorously exposed the stalkers, perverts and “RA or no way” clones that the reprobates have been forced to confine themselves to the two relic boards described above.
2. Degreeboard.com—Still the only board that welcomes posts by lurkers, it may be the only board that will tolerate the clone remnants when their last sanctuaries implode.
3. eLearners.com—Individual forums on specific DL programs are one of this site’s better features. Although the occasional old “RA or no way” clone invades to harass the innocent, one of the kinder, gentler discussion forums out there (which can be good or bad depending on your need for confrontation).
4. DegreeNet.com—Originally created by John Klempner himself, before he discovered the world was flat. Would have more credibility if they didn’t always seem to have at least 75 non-members online at any time. Makes you wonder what else they are making up.
5. Online Degree Reviews—Good idea, but abused by some schools (e.g., NCU) who have shills (or more likely, a single shill using different handles) to make rave posts to attempt to counteract the many negative ones. Format kind of limits true “discussion,” but still highly informative for people weighing online programs.
6. Alt.education.distance—The original internet newsgroup where the “mill wars” began many years ago, it’s now overrun with porn and drug adverts (which puts it pretty much on a par with DD). Still useful for researching track records and prior bad conduct by the stalkers, perverts, civil rights violators and other self-appointed “experts” of the Klempner Klone Krew.
At DegreeInfo.com there are only two types of posters left: those who are too dumb to know that they are posting on a board run by a pedophile-pandering gay boy pornographer, and those who like participating in that sort of thing. Eventually the non-perverts will wise up and move on, leaving Chip and his pervert posse of take-it-in-the-tailpipe teens to discuss enemas with Bruce the malingering union goon cop.
But with the increasing popularity of university level distance learning programs, there are still some good discussion boards out there—actual discussion boards where legit DL programs are discussed in a positive way, not stalker boards where ignorant old farts prey on the newbies.
1. DLTruth.com—For those who enjoy playing safely on the other discussion boards, you can thank DLTruth, which has so vigorously exposed the stalkers, perverts and “RA or no way” clones that the reprobates have been forced to confine themselves to the two relic boards described above.
2. Degreeboard.com—Still the only board that welcomes posts by lurkers, it may be the only board that will tolerate the clone remnants when their last sanctuaries implode.
3. eLearners.com—Individual forums on specific DL programs are one of this site’s better features. Although the occasional old “RA or no way” clone invades to harass the innocent, one of the kinder, gentler discussion forums out there (which can be good or bad depending on your need for confrontation).
4. DegreeNet.com—Originally created by John Klempner himself, before he discovered the world was flat. Would have more credibility if they didn’t always seem to have at least 75 non-members online at any time. Makes you wonder what else they are making up.
5. Online Degree Reviews—Good idea, but abused by some schools (e.g., NCU) who have shills (or more likely, a single shill using different handles) to make rave posts to attempt to counteract the many negative ones. Format kind of limits true “discussion,” but still highly informative for people weighing online programs.
6. Alt.education.distance—The original internet newsgroup where the “mill wars” began many years ago, it’s now overrun with porn and drug adverts (which puts it pretty much on a par with DD). Still useful for researching track records and prior bad conduct by the stalkers, perverts, civil rights violators and other self-appointed “experts” of the Klempner Klone Krew.
