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1. There are not enough people coming to this site. Why not? Last month we had about 450,000 visitors to the SR sites. Why don't more of them stop to chat?
2. There is no red number in brackets (lately white number in brackets). This is a very sad situation. Unfortunately it was muscled off the top bar to make way for "walkthroughs". We surely need to find a little space for it somewhere.
2. There is no red number in brackets (lately white number in brackets). This is a very sad situation. Unfortunately it was muscled off the top bar to make way for "walkthroughs". We surely need to find a little space for it somewhere.
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Just remember stats and colour don't make you a regular, its what you do with it and how you act that makes you a regular.
Sometimes I act like a newbie, sometimes I (try) and act like a notable (fails everytime though :D) and the other 90% of the time I'm just regular me, reading other posts, replying when I have thoughts on the matter and starting topics I feel strongly about or am interestedto discover others views about.
Sometimes I act like a newbie, sometimes I (try) and act like a notable (fails everytime though :D) and the other 90% of the time I'm just regular me, reading other posts, replying when I have thoughts on the matter and starting topics I feel strongly about or am interestedto discover others views about.
ShadowDragon wrote:
> after some nice regulars told me what to do, I was fine
Are you sure? I thought that was physically impossible! :-D
Hee hee heeeee!
> after some nice regulars told me what to do, I was fine
Are you sure? I thought that was physically impossible! :-D
Hee hee heeeee!
I think I understand where most regular posters are coming from now. I can see that, today, SlyWeasel is annoying everyone with pretty poor topics.
I'd like to consider myself as a regular 'cos I come on everyday and try to read every topic and message posted. It's just I haven't posted enough yet to be classed as a regular, through my stats. Also, there's a problem with the stats today. I should be closing in on 100 messages posted, but my stats say considerably less.
I'd like to consider myself as a regular 'cos I come on everyday and try to read every topic and message posted. It's just I haven't posted enough yet to be classed as a regular, through my stats. Also, there's a problem with the stats today. I should be closing in on 100 messages posted, but my stats say considerably less.
As I've said, the only time I don't like the little red number is when I sign in for the first time in couple of days and it says something like, (3478). Agh.
I hope that I don't stereotype newbies but when people such as sexkid2002/3 and zean are around (oh and that ronaldo guy) its hard not to.
Although ShadowDragon has turned out to be quite the good poster
Nice one :D
Although ShadowDragon has turned out to be quite the good poster
Nice one :D
Rosalind wrote:
> The problem is that newbies don't get any respect from most of (not
> all of) the regulars. Fair enough their are a large percentage of
> newbies that do nothing but churn out useless nonsense, but it seems a
> bit unfair that the rest of us get lumped in with them. I think that
> genuine users are being scared off by this.
I know regulars should take each newbie as an individual...
However, given the amount of newbie sludge we have to go through each day, you must see how hard it is not to just get tired of always wading through another set of Conzole Warz posts...
I think whenever newbies come along and post thoughful stuff, people fo stop and take notice, its just that is few and far between... and practice does dictate that pessimism opver newbies is generally a better way to go.
I think, the thing is, when I was a lad... way back when... when you wanted to join a forum, you did the three step plan...
1. Lurk around a while, and read what other people arewriting... get a feel of what the forums about, where the members are comming from.
2. Spend some time replying to posts, it'll introduce you to the forums, help you get known by the people, and you can be sure your discussing things members are interested in talking about...
3. If everyone seems cool, and you want to stick around, start your own topics, you'll know by now where people are comming from... what sort of topics people are after, and people will recognise you enough to take an interest.
I know we should give newbies more of a chance, it just it really does seem most newbies just jump in, make a lot of noise and mess, then get stroppy and leave when they discover that they havnt won for the day.
> The problem is that newbies don't get any respect from most of (not
> all of) the regulars. Fair enough their are a large percentage of
> newbies that do nothing but churn out useless nonsense, but it seems a
> bit unfair that the rest of us get lumped in with them. I think that
> genuine users are being scared off by this.
I know regulars should take each newbie as an individual...
However, given the amount of newbie sludge we have to go through each day, you must see how hard it is not to just get tired of always wading through another set of Conzole Warz posts...
I think whenever newbies come along and post thoughful stuff, people fo stop and take notice, its just that is few and far between... and practice does dictate that pessimism opver newbies is generally a better way to go.
I think, the thing is, when I was a lad... way back when... when you wanted to join a forum, you did the three step plan...
1. Lurk around a while, and read what other people arewriting... get a feel of what the forums about, where the members are comming from.
2. Spend some time replying to posts, it'll introduce you to the forums, help you get known by the people, and you can be sure your discussing things members are interested in talking about...
3. If everyone seems cool, and you want to stick around, start your own topics, you'll know by now where people are comming from... what sort of topics people are after, and people will recognise you enough to take an interest.
I know we should give newbies more of a chance, it just it really does seem most newbies just jump in, make a lot of noise and mess, then get stroppy and leave when they discover that they havnt won for the day.
I probably messed up at first but, after some nice regulars told me what to do, I was fine. Some of the other regulars, and notables, told me to just get lost.
I took on the advice of the nicer posters and I won GAD on my 3rd/4th day of being a member. I hasn't taken me long to figure out what is wanted and what isn't. I'm sure if newbies were tolerated a little more and told what to do, rather than shouted at, things would change.
I took on the advice of the nicer posters and I won GAD on my 3rd/4th day of being a member. I hasn't taken me long to figure out what is wanted and what isn't. I'm sure if newbies were tolerated a little more and told what to do, rather than shouted at, things would change.
Tony wrote:
> 1. There are not enough people coming to this site. Why not? Last
> month we had about 450,000 visitors to the SR sites. Why don't more
> of them stop to chat?
How obvious is it, to the casual browser, that the forums are here?
If I had'nt been an SR member I would'nt know they existed??
And how obvious is GAD? ... Whenever I visit a computer gaming site, they all have some sort of generic forum, GAD must be an enormous incentive to choose this one over the others?
> 1. There are not enough people coming to this site. Why not? Last
> month we had about 450,000 visitors to the SR sites. Why don't more
> of them stop to chat?
How obvious is it, to the casual browser, that the forums are here?
If I had'nt been an SR member I would'nt know they existed??
And how obvious is GAD? ... Whenever I visit a computer gaming site, they all have some sort of generic forum, GAD must be an enormous incentive to choose this one over the others?
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