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by meetingthrower 1326 days ago
I once had a forum on the back of a digital product (plans to build something.) It was really cool as people would post build logs, community helped everyone, lots of pics, etc. It was fun. And the business was/is a side hustle where I spend about 2 hours a month but make enough to send my kid to college.

But some trolls and people who REALLY cared about non-important parts of the product (to me) started posting a LOT. So I killed it off over needing to maintain it and deal with the 1/100 rude person. Just too much work and stress. The real value was maybe SEO at the time, but since Google sank all forums, probably doesn't matter that much.

So I'm curious to see the answers here!