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As you all know by now it is always our aim to improve the forums and one of the steps I am taking to this aim is to get the moderating team into the mix a bit more helping out and generating a bit of traffic for the relevant sections.
So shortly you should notice a quick shuffle up of moderators and 1 moderator per section (some may continue to have 2 if needed).
Some examples of our aim here is to allow users the chance to help the site along, and take a more active role in the running of the site.
I will need some more volunteers however (1 or 2 new ones). So what I'm going to do is ask people to apply if they want to help me out as part of the forums moderating team. If you want to apply please visit APPLY NOW
Any questions ask away, and if you are very interested in helping, my contact can be used under my name as always :D
So shortly you should notice a quick shuffle up of moderators and 1 moderator per section (some may continue to have 2 if needed).
Some examples of our aim here is to allow users the chance to help the site along, and take a more active role in the running of the site.
I will need some more volunteers however (1 or 2 new ones). So what I'm going to do is ask people to apply if they want to help me out as part of the forums moderating team. If you want to apply please visit APPLY NOW
Any questions ask away, and if you are very interested in helping, my contact can be used under my name as always :D
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Haha not come up with anything else you lot? :D
Oh, I didnt realise supporting a football team with no history was required. :(
Application failed. Because you are Garin, no other reason ;)
Plus that's my job!
Plus that's my job!
True, but the last digging up of ground happened last month (ish). Its barely had time to settle again.
Anyway, I'd like to apply for the position of forum layabout. I feel my experience of never starting threads, rarely adding anything constructive and all round general apathy makes me ideally suited for the role.
Anyway, I'd like to apply for the position of forum layabout. I feel my experience of never starting threads, rarely adding anything constructive and all round general apathy makes me ideally suited for the role.
Garin wrote:
> EDIT: On reflection, neither the time or the place for such
> discussions. Its old ground thats been covered before, no need
> to do so again.
On reflection you are probably correct, but old ground must be revisited to see if it can be rejuvinated.
> EDIT: On reflection, neither the time or the place for such
> discussions. Its old ground thats been covered before, no need
> to do so again.
On reflection you are probably correct, but old ground must be revisited to see if it can be rejuvinated.
EDIT: On reflection, neither the time or the place for such discussions. Its old ground thats been covered before, no need to do so again.
It's the hardest thing for a website to do. Bringing in new visitors, whilst at the same time keeping the visitors visiting. There is no doubt that the forum atmosphere is great, with many helpful and friendly members, so in my opinion, that part is taken care of, although as some have said, perhaps focusing on a section will be alot easier. It is a balancing act. So, initially, i think the best idea is to get more people visiting, hopefully enough of them will be able to find the forums and will enjoy the community and keep coming back. How we get more people to visit the site i don't know, perhaps if members can advertise in anyway they can, through their own youtube videos, through telling friends, posting statuses on facebook, traffic will slowly increase, and i think eventually, we'll see alot more new faces around the forums.
Garin wrote:
> Well the contention of some is that attracting traffic is a
> pointless exercise unless you first give yourself the best
> opportunity of keeping those people as users who you can
> eventually try to convert to paying customers.
So before traffic increases (somehow) - Freeola entices the present forum members to what??? Pay for the privilege? Forgive me if I'm assuming too much here, but aren't the majority of existing forum members already subscribers to some type of Freeola service?
> Well the contention of some is that attracting traffic is a
> pointless exercise unless you first give yourself the best
> opportunity of keeping those people as users who you can
> eventually try to convert to paying customers.
So before traffic increases (somehow) - Freeola entices the present forum members to what??? Pay for the privilege? Forgive me if I'm assuming too much here, but aren't the majority of existing forum members already subscribers to some type of Freeola service?
Dragonlance wrote:
> Time I think for a 'moderator' to step in...ha ha. Instead of
> 'picking' fault with the existing set up, shouldn't we be helping
> to increase traffic to the forum ... forgive me if I'm wrong in
> this assumption, but that is how I read Warhunt and his recent
> request.
Well the contention of some is that attracting traffic is a pointless exercise unless you first give yourself the best opportunity of keeping those people as users who you can eventually try to convert to paying customers.
> Time I think for a 'moderator' to step in...ha ha. Instead of
> 'picking' fault with the existing set up, shouldn't we be helping
> to increase traffic to the forum ... forgive me if I'm wrong in
> this assumption, but that is how I read Warhunt and his recent
> request.
Well the contention of some is that attracting traffic is a pointless exercise unless you first give yourself the best opportunity of keeping those people as users who you can eventually try to convert to paying customers.
Garin wrote:
> Warhunt wrote:
> And enough about that topic for the moment, I'm doing what I
> can
> guys. Gotta try and focus on the things that can change.
>
> As Sonic Chris said in his inspiring pep talk to a new reviewer,
> "try abit harder". :P
>
> And what can change then?
Time I think for a 'moderator' to step in...ha ha. Instead of 'picking' fault with the existing set up, shouldn't we be helping to increase traffic to the forum ... forgive me if I'm wrong in this assumption, but that is how I read Warhunt and his recent request.
If my assumtion is correct, how do moderators and users increase traffic to a forum? ... word of mouth is one way, but very limited; advertise ... but where?; incentives to join ... not advisable; to be honest I wish someone would explain how you persuade someone to join a forum. For example, I joined a 'hackers' forum a few years ago - why, because I was interested in discussing and sharing code with others. I paid a small 'donation' and all was well for a few years. However things changed and suddenly a 'monthly' subscription was required. My membership lapsed:-)
I join forums because of a like-minded interest with others, no matter what the subject matter is. The difficult matter in hand here is to increase traffic to a forum with many areas - some are more supported that others.
Logic would suggest, that if you focus on the popular areas and increase traffic, this traffic may eventually spread to those less supported areas.
Of course this again begs the question of how do you do it? It would seem to put an awful onus on 'moderators, to continually produce new and exciting threads to draw in the masses.
Just a rather long thought :-)
> Warhunt wrote:
> And enough about that topic for the moment, I'm doing what I
> can
> guys. Gotta try and focus on the things that can change.
>
> As Sonic Chris said in his inspiring pep talk to a new reviewer,
> "try abit harder". :P
>
> And what can change then?
Time I think for a 'moderator' to step in...ha ha. Instead of 'picking' fault with the existing set up, shouldn't we be helping to increase traffic to the forum ... forgive me if I'm wrong in this assumption, but that is how I read Warhunt and his recent request.
If my assumtion is correct, how do moderators and users increase traffic to a forum? ... word of mouth is one way, but very limited; advertise ... but where?; incentives to join ... not advisable; to be honest I wish someone would explain how you persuade someone to join a forum. For example, I joined a 'hackers' forum a few years ago - why, because I was interested in discussing and sharing code with others. I paid a small 'donation' and all was well for a few years. However things changed and suddenly a 'monthly' subscription was required. My membership lapsed:-)
I join forums because of a like-minded interest with others, no matter what the subject matter is. The difficult matter in hand here is to increase traffic to a forum with many areas - some are more supported that others.
Logic would suggest, that if you focus on the popular areas and increase traffic, this traffic may eventually spread to those less supported areas.
Of course this again begs the question of how do you do it? It would seem to put an awful onus on 'moderators, to continually produce new and exciting threads to draw in the masses.
Just a rather long thought :-)
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