Many were just here for the points. Personally, I find this community, for the most part, very… passive aggressive and there has been this deep underlying desire to knock others down to beat them in points. This really goes to show how toxic many of the users on this forum are. For example, for a shitpost about what phone you have, over 100 replies were received because it seemed like an easy way to farm points and to reach that 20 comment threshold. Really guys? Seriously? I’m a broke ass college student and I’m not that thirsty. Not to sound patronizing, even though I kind of am right now, but some people have stooped to the lowest of lows to get points. I’ve seen fake accounts, like spams, etc. Seriously? Just have a fun discussion. In fact, I can’t even make a post celebrating with others about getting 2,000 points… WHAT? I can’t celebrate, I can’t make Donald Trump jokes, I have to be super positive about how great Anker is, sounds kinda like North Korea, right mate? Anyways, I’m done with my little rant. I’ll stay for a few more days to see if all the thirsty kids leave now that the competition is over. Have a good day.
Now that points week is over, do you think the forum is still going to be active?
It will be interesting to see how the forum will be over time. It will probably go back to product based questions and answers.
I hope it will become a useful resource for Anker customers. There are some good and useful discussions here and some good feedback.
I think this post is about 5 days too late to be perfectly honest…
If you stick around for a bit you will most likely find all the “passive aggressive” people have left. It was fine (apart from being very quiet) before the competition. I’m sure it will go back to being fine.
Well, I think it’ll be active up until people find out the winners. Because I don’t think you can find that out yourself.
I am a moderator of a 5000+ (real people as no competition) forum which is >15 years old.
I’d say this forum is only as good as:
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the need for a forum. Anker products are so simple there isn’t really much need above a basic education in Volts, Amps, Watts and cable types. So an FAQ and ability to new threads back to existing threads to keep the value/thread high. If Anker’s products become more diversified but around a few core markets, then the need for a forum is higher.
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the feedback loop with the design team. If a forum floats up an idea, even a rough or laughable one then another member evolves it, and then it ends up worth doing, then it becomes real, then someone can see they can help and be helped.
As for your venting, its the Internet. I’ve seen a lot worse. You control how you can ignore.
Same, I was a moderator for a gaming forum with 4000+ members of which only 100 or so were active on a daily basis. We held some giveaways of Steam game codes and stuff, got a surge in usere and activity and as soon as it was over the activity just dropped like a rock. Once active users left the forum because of the spam created during the giveaway, and in the end we lost activity rather than gain activity. Pretty sad actually, it had a good 3 year run and then flop. Owner couldn’t pay server bills and just shut it down.
there’s also too many overlapping social media tools. Facebook, Twitter, this forum…
The discount codes - I get them via email so i don’t need to watch a forum for them, so then to make the forum active, Anker would have to stop emailing people.
In the last week I’ve seen a few really useful suggestions (often repeated due to bad forum structure) and if they led to an interactive discussion with the product designers in Anker with Q&A etc then I’d expect we’d sustain an active forum of basically the amateur enthusiast who doesn’t want to go work for Anker but likes to be close to tech.
As to the “bots”, i’ve seen software where the account is created automatically and AI software is running appearing to a real person. Using forums to win prizes is really bad idea as AI takes off. You’d have bots grabbing codes faster than humans and then really annoys people.
Some activity will be limited but I think there will still be enough. In additon, you will still be rewarded for your points, just maybe not in the same ways. I think it is starting to calm down some/a little bit because people were posting a lot before because it was new and they wanted to try it out, also.
I agree that most users were just here for the points. I definitely won’t be as active, as I don’t have the time to put into this forum 24/7, but I plan to stick around.
But I can say this: the contest had to be as fair as possible. Why should you make a thread to celebrate? That just gets you additional points without having a tech discussion! In addition, I’m not sure who was mad at your Donald Trump jokes, but that’s just polities. Someone will always be pissed when you make political jokes.
Overall, I think this is a nice community, I’m just not seeing what you’re saying about “passive aggressive,” but whatever.
most were def here for points
Hard to say. Seems a bit broken up. Seen better forum platforms. Maybe just my lack of using it. Just don’t seem to have time to go through all of the posts.
Maybe… 
I think it’s going to be active just not nearly as active. I am going to try to be active!
I’ll still be here. You know a lot of them will sift away in the wind over the next day or two, and that’s fine. That leaves us, the dedicated ones! The ones that really care, are passionate about anything Anker, and love Donald Trump. 
@sjiang88 Just a friendly bit of advice, cool it a bit (including profanity). I can see where your coming from with the points for posts etc but that is the nature of the beast when prize incentives are offered in exchange for posts / threads to grow a community.
Will the forum remain active now the points week is over? No doubt it will, but with users that are more interested in products / tech talk etc rather than nabbing a SoundCore XL which might end up on eBay for a profit.
In regards to your 2K posts thread, that was locked down due to it tuning into a spam fest which was showing little to no chance of improving.
I anticipate that the forum will still be active, although not as busy and certainly not as many spam-like posts - which is a good thing!
Great question… I think you will see a alot of the traffic drop off in the coming week. Geez… It was like a fish feeding frenzy on here. I think the true Anker fans and tech lovers will stick around. I am proud to say that I am a huge Anker fan and a Poweruser. I have incorporated Anker products into my daily life as I am always on the go. Anker produces quality products and I am always excited to show/talk about their products to people that have never heard of Anker before. I will be around for the long haul.
Why exactly would you come here?
If Anker is not going to discuss product development then given the products are simple, why would you need a forum.
Currently we’re either replying to posts started during the “points makes prices” period of discussing the effect of “points make prices” period.
I keep coming back to the strong correlation between Anker investment in a forum and the forum’s benefits.
Right now I kind of feel the same way. I’m going to continue to participate because I like Anker and their products, but I also would like Anker to reach out to us instead of being a generality.