#7: ScriptureForum.Net

Thank you for stopping by! As you can see, this is an exciting page. My goal is to start 52 businesses in the next year! Yes, these will be generally simplistic self-maintaining and hopefully self-evolving websites; but that's just the point! As with most businesses, some will "fail" and most will only make a bit, but some will hit; and that gamble is what wakes some of us up in the morning.

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The downside of discussion boards, especially religious discussion boards, are the trolls.  If I were to say “Mormon” right now, invariably someone who spends time combing the net for an opportunity to hate Mormons would comment on my post within an hour.  There are more of those people than you perhaps realize…  When I had a discussion board on colinandbethany.com, people used to always come onto our board and just write all kinds of unsolicited garbage, just for the freudiant thrills of polluting something someone finds sacred.  We probably got more religious hate speech than pharmaceutical or porn-based spam.  I eventually found one solution, which worked well–instead of having an open “religion” category, I cut and pasted each chapter of the scriptures as its own topic.  The result of this is that the only way to say “so and so people believe such and such” was to say it as a response to the corresponding chapter of that group’s scripture.  There was simply little way to exaggerate from there, and it scared away all the lazy people.  I am resurrecting that idea as this week’s business, ScriptureForum.Net.  I will have to cut and paste close to 2000 chapters of scripture (please volunteer to help), structure it effectively, and find traffic.  The revenue will come from ads along the side.  I know, too many of my businesses are passive ad-models, but I still believe once we hit 52 businesses we’ll be glad it’s that way…  I promise, soon I’ll do an overt sales-based ecommerce business.  Thanks for reading, and please comment below.