Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. In Konqueror, when I hover over any answer, JavaScript is used to blur it so it is unreadable. In a more recent browser, I imagine the answers are completely hidden on page load. Exports Exchange, I raise my glass to your eventual extinction. Keep up the great work!
nico5038 said,
April 21, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Well worded Jason. I’ve published a blog on the decline of EE (http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000342184b,00.htm) and seing them going down lately even more.
The site has been ruined in first instance by owners spilling 5Mb without income going bankrupt and now it’s ruined by the new owners that are only interested in $$’s.
I’ve been suspended last December because I was concerned about the expert quality and the administrators didn’t took any action when another “expert” was calling me names.
I guess they’re one of the only sites having a “suspended-experts” site :-)
Cheers.
Nic;o)
nyx said,
May 23, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I couldn’t agree more.
I wish the “experts” would just stick to posting actual solutions rather than random and often unrelated suggestions. Some seem to have only racked up points by posting the most irritating suggestion of all; “install the latest service pack…” or another favorite “update your graphics driver”. After more useless prattle, sometimes a real solution is posted.
Bill Jonston said,
January 3, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Has anyone else found their business practices questionable? I signed up for a trial subscription, along with a 6 month followup. Not finding anything useful there, I canceled the plan on the day that the trial period ended. The company indicated that I canceled one day after the trial ended, and would be liable for the membership fee. When I asked them for the company president’s name, they gave me the run around, and refused to provide the info. I’m now disputing the charge with my credit card.
Has anyone else found any ethical problems with the way that they do business? How about any Better Business Bureau problems, or complaints with the Attorney General?
Bill
john said,
February 6, 2008 at 1:06 pm
expert sex change…
let them use the domain for what it was intended
John Goodhue said,
February 27, 2008 at 12:10 am
Bill, I cancelled on the last day of the trial and now they will not refund the $99.95 charge. They say I cancelled after the free trial, eventhough the email says the trial ended on 2/22/08. I cancelled on the 22nd. They said it really ended in the 21st. This company is going to fail.