Anyone still having some success with profile links and forum profile links to moneysite?

I used to rank websites really well with profile links alone, I would create little and often. It worked really well for some time, but now they seem to be not as powerful.

I'm currently scraping lists of forum profile URLs and wondering about the effectiveness?

I like to get as many referring domains in my link profile as possible, I may just drip feed them direct to site.