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Post by jack on Nov 21, 2007 0:12:51 GMT -5
Forums used to be judged by quility not quintity. Now it is bad. I mean I was a well known guest a forum that had a admin her real life friend and someone else that were active. The site grew and became a great site. Because people saw how much fun and how kind and good these people were. But now it is you have to have lots of members and a good skin. It used to be that you could have a bad skin and not very much html coding and lots of boards that were not needed but what counted was the members and the staff members. What counted was that they were good. Now you need to have the best to have a good site. I mean my old site that died in the end due to me not knowing how to use proboards well. Well that site had 12 active members and it got those due to seeing me and the co admin being active and kind. Now sites are all about being the top and getting rid of competition I hate it.
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Post by Gratis Swiftarrow on Nov 21, 2007 4:52:52 GMT -5
Not quite sure what you are trying to say there BS. You seem to contradict yourself a bit. The things with people is that if the go to a site it needs to be pleasing to the eye and not look like all the other sites around or they will not spend their time there. A long time ago when there were fewer people who could make their own sites this was not as much of a problem but now there are so many sites with the same ideas that you have to have something to attract members. Competition is fun it makes us try harder to succeed. No competition is a bad thing, But i agree you do not need loads of members to have a good site as long as the members that you do have are active.
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Post by jack on Nov 21, 2007 16:54:13 GMT -5
The thing is now people do not care about members. I mean it is all about the site. I was part of a site and it had less then ten active members and it was tons of html coding and all that stuff. There were never any jokes or anything. It used to be jokes and friends mattered on sites now it is skins and html coding. If your site is not filled with html coding it now is considered shit.
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Post by jack on Nov 22, 2007 23:49:19 GMT -5
bump
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Post by Exia on Nov 23, 2007 14:16:34 GMT -5
I haven't really seen any such examples, but I guess I haven't been on many message boards.
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Post by Aalai on Nov 23, 2007 15:06:41 GMT -5
Blue, if something looks good people will join it. If it looks horrid they won't, bad skins, and such make the site look NOOBish, and usually people do not want to join such a site.
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Post by jack on Nov 24, 2007 2:42:40 GMT -5
That is what I hate. It used to be who you were now it is if your site has the best graphics. I mean your site has a limit of boards now. I saw a site that was trashed and spamed because it had 21 boards. I have seen sites with 30 boards that are very active.
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Post by Exia on Nov 24, 2007 19:14:06 GMT -5
What do you mean limit? On this site? Others? What?
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Post by jack on Nov 24, 2007 19:23:34 GMT -5
All sites. If a site has more then 25 or 20 boards it varries it is considered shit.
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Post by Aalai on Nov 24, 2007 20:02:52 GMT -5
Well thats simply to many boards, and through the endthe board itslf looks inactive. Even here most of the posts are centered in one to two areas, I culd delete a few boards and no one would notice.
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Post by jack on Nov 24, 2007 21:12:22 GMT -5
This site has more then 20 boards. Count them yourself.
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Post by Aalai on Nov 24, 2007 21:16:51 GMT -5
Yes, most of them are suboards though, with suboards everything just looks much neater.
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Post by jack on Nov 24, 2007 21:26:10 GMT -5
Yes that is what I mean. Even with subbaords.
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Post by Exia on Nov 24, 2007 21:49:50 GMT -5
Weird. This site looks pretty active to me. Not too many members at one time, but plenty of posts scattered throughout the day.
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Post by jack on Nov 24, 2007 21:52:16 GMT -5
I know. If you put this site out there it would be trashed. I have seen sites die. Never advertise your site too much other wise a site killer will get it.
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