10-06-2008, 12:08 AM
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The other thread with the same name seems to have an error on the last page and can't be viewed. here is the post I made that does not show. If the mods can make the old thread work again then you can delete this re-post of my post. Thanks Quote: Quote:
Originally Posted by MrKielington  Alright,
As much as I don't agree with Jolteon's methods I'd appreciate it if we focused on the question presented "How can we increase traffic here" and not a bash on him thread. I've looked at pushing postfusion a lot harder and that's something I know we need to work on. Lets get some more creative juice flowing here... | OK I am going to chime in finally after reading all the other posts. This is not directed at Eric, who I have become friendly with over the months, or any one person or mod in particular. I have been a big participant here in the past and a multiple time "supporter" with donations.
1) You ARE NOT moderating/admin the site. Period. There are little to NO new posts from the admins or mods on the site. Want to motivate people, YOU should be leading the forum, posting new informational threads of stuff you find around the net, etc. I do it constantly on my forums. I look for relevant info that will help my members or they will be interested in and I start threads with info. On this site it seems no one is running the ship. I NEVER or rarely see anything initiated by the staff anymore.
1.a) Make someone a "new member mod" who sends IM's to new members (not the canned auto one), directs them, helps them get involved. Not the normal hello posts in the introduction threads, but even more help to get them involved.
- Many people still join here, but it seems beyond their introduction post they participate rarely.
2) You should have blitzed the internet about Post Fusion a year ago when the site was first purchased. PF is COMPLETELY unique and there is not another site out there offering an automated exchange system like the one Larry and Ryan built here and you now have. I USED to be a huge participant in it, but now it has run down to a crawl. That is YOUR FAULT as the owners of the site. If you had promoted it correctly and driven hundreds of new users to the system the REST of the AF forums would have benefited also from increased posting on the overall site.
At the current time I do not care about PF like some others have stated BUT it could have been another element of the site that DROVE lots of posts and participation on
3) Who is out promoting this site? Which one of you is posting on other forums with links to this site, etc etc etc. Is advertising money being spent to promote the forum in any manner at all?
4) You should have banned the members who were constantly criticizing everything LONG AGO. Completely non productive and negative for the site overall. Their constant negativity is so boring and so disruptive that I personally know 2-3 people who don't come back here anymore because of that. They just got tired of wading through the crap to get to what this site used to be - A GREAT RESOURCE AND HELP FOR WEBMASTERS. Basically it seems that you let the site be run by the inmates.
5) Unless you want to do a truly huge money contest that you actually PROMOTE all over the net (blogs, other sites, paid advertising, etc) and it attracts thousands of new participants, I see no point in doing more contests. Most of the regulars never cared about that anyway. That being said I do not see any value at this point to running a contest with thousands of dollars in prizes on this site. There is no one to participate That money could be used better to advertise the site elsewhere.
Finally - this site is still ranked around 60,000 by Alexa and while it was once higher I believe it still has a PR3 ranking. I don't know how much Eric paid Ryan and those guys for this site, but I am sure it was enough that it makes no sense at all for it to be neglected like it has for months and months and months. You are almost starting again from scratch at this point because you have lost all the old posting members.
Once you have an ACTUAL plan in place to get this place rolling again I would contact the 7630 members in the database with a humble, honest, and positive campaign to get them back. You have over 7000 emails in the database here and I have never received ANYTHING from this site. Not a newsletter like the other big webmaster forums do, or anything.
My fingers hurt and I have said what I wanted to. It makes me UPSET that this site has died. It used to be one of my favorite places and one that I read MULTIPLE times a day. Now I rarely come 2 times a week. Sad.
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