We're looking for change. We don't really want to be associated with NSider anymore. We need some ideas. I want all of you to rack what brains you do have and provide some good ideas for change.
Start thinking about these:
-New name
-Direction (do you want this to be a general discussion forum, general gaming, etc.)
If you don't want change, then don't post. Also, if you're a complete moron, don't post.
We could start with editing the board descriptions, and destroying lithium smileys, not like there is a thread in the SIT board though.
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 09:33:01 PM
We could start with editing the board descriptions, and destroying lithium smileys, not like there is a thread in the SIT board though.
Are you talking about these " :)" smileys?
If so, I don't see a need to get rid of them.
I wouldn't care about the robots though.
" What hip new forum are all of you rad kids going to these days?"
" We're all going to Dillanova. It's the best around!"
I like it just the way it is. :(
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 06, 2008, 10:12:35 PM
I like it just the way it is. :(
That kind of attitude exemplifies why we are slowly, but surely, dying. You're left with a core of users, who are clinging to a long gone forum. One can argue about the 25 topics a month being good thing, but realistically, we all want some activity, on top of intelligent discussion. Furthermore, there is absolutely no incentive to stay here....everything we have can be found elsewhere. Quite frankly, if we don't adapt, and come to the realization NSider is no more, we won't even be a footnote in its' history, while changing, taking the leap if you will, could mean NSider is a footnote in our history. Otherwise, you have a lack of commitment (as exemplified by O13, other staff and users, etc.) and an increasingly dead forum. Features aren't the issue now, no number of them (NFES, arcade, etc.) will make a person join us, NS2 owns the NSider world, other places own Nintendo. We are one fish in an ocean, and without major changes soon, we're shark food.
Almost everything changes and eventually dies.
The only thing we really can do is reduce the number of game boards we have now, and just keep the main ones such as Nintendo, Microsoft, etc. Or make some of the game discussion boards child boards, and merge "Legacy" into "Nintendo." Then we add a few more non video game related boards to create different types of discussion.
Quote from: LiveOnTheEdge on September 06, 2008, 10:26:10 PM
Almost everything changes and eventually dies.
The only thing we really can do is reduce the number of game boards we have now, and just keep the main ones such as Nintendo, Microsoft, etc. Or make some of the game discussion boards child boards, and merge "Legacy" into "Nintendo." Then we add a few more non video game related boards to create different types of discussion.
Effectively, it'd need to be a phase out, and even with the boards we have, we need to adapt to something more specific. Ideally, a tech forum with Nintendo users, but we'd still need game discussion. One key to this would be to let the users vote by how they post in the boards.
And at some point down the road you could probably merge Sony, Microsoft, and Third Party together. And you could probably merge Legacy right now.
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 10:28:21 PM
Effectively, it'd need to be a phase out, and even with the boards we have, we need to adapt to something more specific. Ideally, a tech forum with Nintendo users, but we'd still need game discussion. One key to this would be to let the users vote by how they post in the boards.
Yeah of course. It would be too chaotic to do it all at once because we would have to do some major changes and it would probably make most users uncomfortable or alienated.
The focus of the forum is not an issue.
Quotethere is absolutely no incentive to stay here....everything we have can be found elsewhere.
It doesn't matter what you change to focus of the forum to, there will always be some other forum about the same thing, unless we want the forum to be about the psychology and social tendencies of the platypus.
I'm not here enoughto really say anything.
Plus no one tends to like my ideas anyway.
#1: To decide on a name we must decide on a topic.
#2: Our (=D) don't even work. There's no transparency.
#3: We talk about gaming, but we mostly talk about random things on Power On. Slim all the board to a General Gaming board with or without child boards.
#3.5: Or we could just have these 3 boards about gaming:
-Console Gaming
-Handheld Gaming
-PC Gaming
#4: No acronyms please.
#5: ? ? ? ? ?
#6: Profit!...?
Quote from: TheDarkChief on September 06, 2008, 11:11:04 PM
#1: To decide on a name we must decide on a topic.
#2: Our (=D) don't even work. There's no transparency.
#3: We talk about gaming, but we mostly talk about random things on Power On. Slim all the board to a General Gaming board with or without child boards.
#3.5: Or we could just have these 3 boards about gaming:
-Console Gaming
-Handheld Gaming
-PC Gaming
#4: No acronyms please.
#5: ? ? ? ? ?
#6: Profit!...?
No, wouldn't work.
@Mos: Brilliant, let it be that. Or, y'know, we could just have some originality, rather than being a second rate clone.
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 10:23:46 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 06, 2008, 10:12:35 PM
I like it just the way it is. :(
That kind of attitude exemplifies why we are slowly, but surely, dying. You're left with a core of users, who are clinging to a long gone forum. One can argue about the 25 topics a month being good thing, but realistically, we all want some activity, on top of intelligent discussion. Furthermore, there is absolutely no incentive to stay here....everything we have can be found elsewhere. Quite frankly, if we don't adapt, and come to the realization NSider is no more, we won't even be a footnote in its' history, while changing, taking the leap if you will, could mean NSider is a footnote in our history. Otherwise, you have a lack of commitment (as exemplified by O13, other staff and users, etc.) and an increasingly dead forum. Features aren't the issue now, no number of them (NFES, arcade, etc.) will make a person join us, NS2 owns the NSider world, other places own Nintendo. We are one fish in an ocean, and without major changes soon, we're shark food.
Mack is always raining on my parade. :(
YOU RUINED THE FLOATS AND NOW THE KIDS WON'T GET CANDY
Welcome to realization.
let's call it Powerspike
A Nintendo Board and then the current other Nintendo boards could be sub boards.
Then make other changes that relates to non-Nintendorks.
Here's my problem with having an extremely broad gaming forum is that people would think of us like copying NeoGAF. There has to be at least one specific game we think about posting about on a specific forum. Oldsider was focused on Nintendo, and that worked for them. I know several small communities who thrive just by being about one topic, and then having a general discussion board.
Suggestion: Once we get all this naming business done with and have a bit more money, get a TF2 server. There's always hundreds of thousands of players playing. If we play on the server commonly, people are more likely to join.
If they see a server with no people, of course they're not gonna play. If they see a server with 2-6 people, they might want to join. If they see a server with 18+ people, they're probably gonna join. And if people keep coming back, they'll join the forum.
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 04:01:29 AM
Here's my problem with having an extremely broad gaming forum is that people would think of us like copying NeoGAF. There has to be at least one specific game we think about posting about on a specific forum. Oldsider was focused on Nintendo, and that worked for them. I know several small communities who thrive just by being about one topic, and then having a general discussion board.
Suggestion: Once we get all this naming business done with and have a bit more money, get a TF2 server. There's always hundreds of thousands of players playing. If we play on the server commonly, people are more likely to join.
If they see a server with no people, of course they're not gonna play. If they see a server with 2-6 people, they might want to join. If they see a server with 18+ people, they're probably gonna join. And if people keep coming back, they'll join the forum.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. We just need active people to help mod and seed the server. I'm almost always on Steam playing CoD4 or TF2, so I could always help with that.
Nothing. I think this place will die August 2009.
Quote from: JNeedForSpeed2014 on September 07, 2008, 06:22:49 AM
Nothing. I think this place will die August 2009.
God forbid we attempt to do anything to prevent that.
Holy crap! NSF is evolving (cue evolving music)..................................
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 04:01:29 AM
Here's my problem with having an extremely broad gaming forum is that people would think of us like copying NeoGAF. There has to be at least one specific game we think about posting about on a specific forum. Oldsider was focused on Nintendo, and that worked for them. I know several small communities who thrive just by being about one topic, and then having a general discussion board.
Suggestion: Once we get all this naming business done with and have a bit more money, get a TF2 server. There's always hundreds of thousands of players playing. If we play on the server commonly, people are more likely to join.
If they see a server with no people, of course they're not gonna play. If they see a server with 2-6 people, they might want to join. If they see a server with 18+ people, they're probably gonna join. And if people keep coming back, they'll join the forum.
This is an excellent idea.
As necessary as change may be, I don't think this thread will help any. As I've said, find a new direction first then let the rest fall into place. And if you want to find a new direction, find something that either incites passion or is popular among a sample of users much larger than the 100 odd that are active here.
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 10:23:46 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 06, 2008, 10:12:35 PM
I like it just the way it is. :(
That kind of attitude exemplifies why we are slowly, but surely, dying. You're left with a core of users, who are clinging to a long gone forum. One can argue about the 25 topics a month being good thing, but realistically, we all want some activity, on top of intelligent discussion. Furthermore, there is absolutely no incentive to stay here....everything we have can be found elsewhere. Quite frankly, if we don't adapt, and come to the realization NSider is no more, we won't even be a footnote in its' history, while changing, taking the leap if you will, could mean NSider is a footnote in our history. Otherwise, you have a lack of commitment (as exemplified by O13, other staff and users, etc.) and an increasingly dead forum. Features aren't the issue now, no number of them (NFES, arcade, etc.) will make a person join us, NS2 owns the NSider world, other places own Nintendo. We are one fish in an ocean, and without major changes soon, we're shark food.
Your response is nice looking, but pointless, I think.
SH likes it the way it is, because it works. People are satisfied with what we have, as far as I know. Nobody is perfect, and we can't expect to be, nor can we expect explosions of members. I think it's possible to be happy with our little group of people and enjoy talking about what we do. Sometimes it's nicer to just have a tight-knit group of people we like rather than tons of people who we might not (see oldsider).
We're not exactly going into a downward spiral or anything, and I'm very happy with how we operate. Maybe some clutter needs to be reduced in terms of organization, sure, but the layout and structure we have is pretty stable.
I just don't think steroid-esque development and growth is really necessary. New people would be great, and help us out, but for what purpose? We're not dying, we're not failing to fulfill our purpose (which, as far as I'm concerned, is to just foster the people we have now to talk about whatever they want without being yelled at and enjoy the company of other good people, because I have to say for the most part that the community's core is composed of some pretty great people).
Sometimes features don't make a community great, it's the people in it and how they operate. Sometimes it's the little things people do, forum events people host, and just the thought that you can jump into conversations whenever and not get yelled at for voicing your opinion.
If there are problems, I'd like to know exactly what they are. Because I can't see any that are glaringly obvious, and I'm here every day. So if you see one I don't, then you're looking too far into it, as far as I'm concerned. Really.
But I like how we are right now. :P
But if we're going to change, maybe we could focus on the wonderful world of online gaming! We could become a place for online discussion, strategies, tournaments. and a place to just find someone to play with. Plus our normal gaming and general discussion.
We could get a chat just for finding people to play with, too. Like Serebii's Wi-Fi chat.
If we change anything lets just change the name, it's pretty much fine the way it is.
For starters, the boards need name changes/description changes.
Look at Boyah. Look at Sprite Database's boards. What do they have in common? SMF with original message icons and smileys. We also need to fix that spoiler button, it's missing :|
Well...
I see no quick fix in the near future.
Mack makes it sound like we are crashing and burning... but I agree with KG that really there is no way we would be able to boost our activity and member base overnight. We might not ever be able to.
People move on, and the people I assume you want to join us might not exist any more.
Really any kind of change could serve to make us just like everyone else... a forum based on general discussion with little to differentiate us from anyone else.
We sprang from gaming and we should stay that way...
let's call it Outsider
Let's call it Outer Heaven.
Quote from: King_Gamer28 on September 07, 2008, 09:02:23 AM
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 10:23:46 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 06, 2008, 10:12:35 PM
I like it just the way it is. :(
*text*
*words*
Notice how our Core is shrinking? The one thing we do right is have a core group of users...we'll say some odd 30 of them. Now, recently we've lost Totla, Water, TH4, lava, and a number of others, the latter being ridiculously recent. You take that out, and that's a margin of 10 % in a one week period. Sure, it's not always going to happen, and new Core members may be found, but it is still a decrease. On top of that, our new user registration has slowed, partially due to a lack of care from the users, partially due to being an NSider clone.
Look at it, last month our numbers spiked down, and I am aware stats mean poop, but you can't help notice losses of 50% or more. Furthermore, I never said I wanted an explosion of members, I want members that will stay...a vast majority of the users that join leave within a week....so, basically, we're here to foster the growth of a core that will soon be non-existent.
I'm not looking too far into it, I've examined the numbers, and I've had to watch a number of users leave on SI/SO, and it frustrates me. I made it clear, you can say that the 25 topics a month is good, as long as it makes the members happy, but at what cost to the rest we're driving away? The core will inevitably shrink from some odd 30 to a nice even 2. Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to see that happen.
Like Riosan said, I say we get a TF2 server.
More people here play that than WoW.
No ideas for changing the name, though.
Condensing the boards sounds like a great idea. Plus, we need to absorb forums even smaller than us.
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on September 07, 2008, 11:02:52 AM
Like Riosan said, I say we get a TF2 server.
More people here play that than WoW.
No ideas for changing the name, though.
Condensing the boards sounds like a great idea. Plus, we need to absorb forums even smaller than us.
Silver and I've looked into your last thing, the only forums we could "absorb" that would have mutual gains are ones that have all of 4 active users.
I'd say joint partnership or something like that.
I honestly have no ideas for anything else because it all depends on ppl noticing us more than anything
Quote from: mackormoses on September 07, 2008, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: King_Gamer28 on September 07, 2008, 09:02:23 AM
Quote from: mackormoses on September 06, 2008, 10:23:46 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 06, 2008, 10:12:35 PM
I like it just the way it is. :(
*retort*
*counter-retort*
*wat*
Sure, it's shrinking, but it's also rebuilding at the same time with new members. We cannot expect to be a superforum, we only need what we have now and maybe some more members as time goes by. Success is really how well the forum is maintained and if we can at least keep interest level up. I think we're doing a good job there. And we're not a clone by any stretch of the imagination, we're a forum made in response to the closing of NSider that has some of its attributes, I suppose.
The core (that sounds really official, by the way ._.) isn't as small as advertised. We do have a good number of people who hang around here. We can't force people to stay, but, meh. Whatever, I think we're doing just fine, really.
I'm not really trying to argue, just say we're fine as it is now and I don't see any immediate negative changes soon.
Quote from: Nayrman on September 07, 2008, 11:24:20 AM
I'd say joint partnership or something like that.
I honestly have no ideas for anything else because it all depends on ppl noticing us more than anything
I like this idea, but I think the only way an alliance will occur is if some larger forum launches an attack on a smaller forum. Then there would be an interforum outcry condemning the action, and United League of Siders or something would be formed to combat the evil powers that be.
No wait, that didn't happen last time...
Name The core?(similar to it?)
Names for the forum:
-Dillanova
-Dilaska
-Dingland
-Mario Teaches Typing
As far as centering our forum on one topic, I don't see why that's important. Yeah, it gives us appeal to new members, but does it really help us? Centering our forum on a single (or even a few) topic(s) would cut our activity more than it already is. I'm all for switching the boards around a bit and making some stickied threads, but the way I see things, members should shape the forum in the way they already converse, not the other way around.
Quote from: Dill on September 07, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
As far as centering our forum on one topic, I don't see why that's important. Yeah, it gives us appeal to new members, but does it really help us? Centering our forum on a single (or even a few) topic(s) would cut our activity more than it already is. I'm all for switching the boards around a bit and making some stickied threads, but the way I see things, members should shape the forum in the way they already converse, not the other way around.
The problem with this current forum, like many similar to it, is that it easily stagnates from having such a broad possibility. If you're simply a general discussion forum (which this place is basically, just with a heavy Nintendo influence) no one joins, since there's nothing to incite them to join. Everything here can be found elsewhere, usually in a better form. When you focus on one or two topics, discussion is refined down, your community then can form a niche that will attract people to it. No one goes out to look for a general discussion forum. They usually look for a forum catering to a certain interest. Why do you think people joined the original NSider over other forums? It wasn't for the general discussion of Power On. It was to discuss specific Nintendo games and products. Power On was more something that kept people there afterwards (or drove them away, your call). Either way, a forum with a focus stands a far better chance at not only surviving, but it allows for it to have a chance to thrive.
I Think the forums should be basic game discussion, reccent government and world wide events, and a random board (like Power On), we should also see if every member could give at least one INTELLGENT friend and email to join the forums. I believe a suitable name might be "The Auctorita " The Power in Latin.
Great names.
Vsider
Vutsider
Voyah
Voogle
Vahoo
Vaatis Land
Vaatix World
Villanova
Vilaska
Vingland
Vario teaches typing
How about Vaatix Land?
I won't mind the changes as long as you remember the Boys/Girls Puberty board.
Vilaska....
Vaatix World wins.
Doc Gerbil's World?
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
For once I have to 100% agree with Rio
Quote from: Friendly Hostile on September 07, 2008, 12:51:57 PM
Quote from: Dill on September 07, 2008, 12:44:22 PM
As far as centering our forum on one topic, I don't see why that's important. Yeah, it gives us appeal to new members, but does it really help us? Centering our forum on a single (or even a few) topic(s) would cut our activity more than it already is. I'm all for switching the boards around a bit and making some stickied threads, but the way I see things, members should shape the forum in the way they already converse, not the other way around.
The problem with this current forum, like many similar to it, is that it easily stagnates from having such a broad possibility. If you're simply a general discussion forum (which this place is basically, just with a heavy Nintendo influence) no one joins, since there's nothing to incite them to join. Everything here can be found elsewhere, usually in a better form. When you focus on one or two topics, discussion is refined down, your community then can form a niche that will attract people to it. No one goes out to look for a general discussion forum. They usually look for a forum catering to a certain interest. Why do you think people joined the original NSider over other forums? It wasn't for the general discussion of Power On. It was to discuss specific Nintendo games and products. Power On was more something that kept people there afterwards (or drove them away, your call). Either way, a forum with a focus stands a far better chance at not only surviving, but it allows for it to have a chance to thrive.
It's just a matter of whether you want new members being happy and having places to post, or if you want the current members to be as chatty as they are. My point is that if we change the boards around a lot, the members we have now maynot be as active as they already are. But that's just self-experience. When I post on a forum that's just been completely redone, it feels like I'm joining a whole new forum.
Quote from: Dill on September 07, 2008, 06:22:42 PM
or if you want the current members to be as chatty as they are.
This here is where a problem develops. They don't remain as chatty as they are. If you have nothing but a core group on a forum, with little to no new members being added to that core, they eventually run out of steam for discussion. Unless you are able to bring in some new members somewhat regularly, or provide a proper focus for a site, it will eventually stagnate.
I don't see any problem with the activity here, so I don't see the point in these upheavals.
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
Now that I finally understand it, hell yes.
Quote from: Byte on September 08, 2008, 12:12:25 PM
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
Now that I finally understand it, hell yes.
you never heard it before? I knew what it was right away
Quote from: Commissar Torgo on September 08, 2008, 12:13:20 PM
Quote from: Byte on September 08, 2008, 12:12:25 PM
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
Now that I finally understand it, hell yes.
you never heard it before? I knew what it was right away
I miss that show.
They should make new episodes of courage. Seriously.
And Doc. Gerbil's World would be AWESOME for a name.
Quote from: Commissar Torgo on September 08, 2008, 12:13:20 PM
Quote from: Byte on September 08, 2008, 12:12:25 PM
Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
Now that I finally understand it, hell yes.
you never heard it before? I knew what it was right away
I didn't recognize it, then someone told me what it was today, and now I feel stupid ;-;
Ah, I loved that episode....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPUAV-Xeco
Yummy
Yes to Doc Gerbil's World, by the way.
I am watching courage as I type. Man I miss this show. They should bring it back with new episodes.
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Quote from: Riosan on September 07, 2008, 03:02:04 PM
Doc Gerbil's World?
Just for that, I'm uploading the video later.
Quote from: Masterofsword on September 08, 2008, 01:59:19 PM
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I lol'd.
Also lol'd.
Quote from: Masterofsword on September 08, 2008, 01:59:19 PM
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CHANGE
HOPE
CHANGE
UNITY
If certain people at OLF weren't being so ninnyy... >_>
I think you're taking this the wrong way.
Yes, we need activity but what makes you think some forum changes will help that? This is what I think:
1st. Everyone needs to be much more accepting to the few that actually do join. I remember a certain B.A.M. who stayed for a little while, then he and Mack got in a random flame war. Sure his suggestion wasn't a great one, but Mack just started randomly insulting him without backing it up, and did a horrible job of representing the forum. Everyone needs to be more accepting to the new members here, obviously most people here are aginst Obama, so am I but that's not the point. What if someone that did support Obama came and joined and then stuck araound for a while? We would all make fun of him/her and he/she wouldn't want to stay. Come on guys it's not THAT hard to respect people opinions.
2nd. We need to take advertising to 100% priority. If you have an account at another forum, put a link in your signature. It's not very hard. Invite some friends, and like I said if they DO come don't be jerks to them -_-
Now I'm not trying to advertise these sites when I put them here, but here are some good places to try and advertise:
NS2 (lawl)
Techsider
Smash World Forums (http://www.smashboards.com)
Friendcodes.com (http://www.friendcodes.com)
And if you find a gamer that's not a total idiot on a social networking site, you might as well invite them.
3rd. Now we can make some changes to make the forums appeal to a larger crowd, but what's the point in making these changes if they don't know this place exists and/or the members are mean to them?
Just try.
All my friends aren't semi smart except for Byte
Inform me of Doc Gerbil.
Quote from: Marth Xero on September 08, 2008, 06:01:56 PM
I think you're taking this the wrong way.
Yes, we need activity but what makes you think some forum changes will help that? This is what I think:
1st. Everyone needs to be much more accepting to the few that actually do join. I remember a certain B.A.M. who stayed for a little while, then he and Mack got in a random flame war. Sure his suggestion wasn't a great one, but Mack just started randomly insulting him without backing it up, and did a horrible job of representing the forum. Everyone needs to be more accepting to the new members here, obviously most people here are aginst Obama, so am I but that's not the point. What if someone that did support Obama came and joined and then stuck araound for a while? We would all make fun of him/her and he/she wouldn't want to stay. Come on guys it's not THAT hard to respect people opinions.
2nd. We need to take advertising to 100% priority. If you have an account at another forum, put a link in your signature. It's not very hard. Invite some friends, and like I said if they DO come don't be jerks to them -_-
Now I'm not trying to advertise these sites when I put them here, but here are some good places to try and advertise:
NS2 (lawl)
Techsider
Smash World Forums (http://www.smashboards.com)
Friendcodes.com (http://www.friendcodes.com)
And if you find a gamer that's not a total idiot on a social networking site, you might as well invite them.
3rd. Now we can make some changes to make the forums appeal to a larger crowd, but what's the point in making these changes if they don't know this place exists and/or the members are mean to them?
Just try.
BAM is a moron, through and through, I stand by that. He had no understanding of the system once so ever, and continued to egg me on with his ;) even when I kindly and politely asked him to stop. I don't want intercourse ing iidiots in the forum, even if it means activity. I know the system, and I'm not going to let an arrogant little annoyance like BAM tell me how NSFCD should be ran, when I've actually done things around here. Furthermore, your lack of knowledge behind the pms that were sent to me proves that you don't know what happened, so perhaps you wouldn't mind minding your own business, or getting facts straight?
Mack, you're doing it again. Calm blue sea, my friend, calm blue sea...
Quote from: mackormoses on September 07, 2008, 11:06:26 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on September 07, 2008, 11:02:52 AM
Like Riosan said, I say we get a TF2 server.
More people here play that than WoW.
No ideas for changing the name, though.
Condensing the boards sounds like a great idea. Plus, we need to absorb forums even smaller than us.
Silver and I've looked into your last thing, the only forums we could "absorb" that would have mutual gains are ones that have all of 4 active users.
Truth, I tried asking one forum, and the admin called us "forum eaters". :D
Quote from: Masterofsword on September 08, 2008, 01:59:19 PM
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In other words, SK is Obama.
Quote from: Marth Xero on September 08, 2008, 06:01:56 PM
I think you're taking this the wrong way.
Yes, we need activity but what makes you think some forum changes will help that? This is what I think:
1st. Everyone needs to be much more accepting to the few that actually do join. I remember a certain B.A.M. who stayed for a little while, then he and Mack got in a random flame war. Sure his suggestion wasn't a great one, but Mack just started randomly insulting him without backing it up, and did a horrible job of representing the forum. Everyone needs to be more accepting to the new members here, obviously most people here are aginst Obama, so am I but that's not the point. What if someone that did support Obama came and joined and then stuck araound for a while? We would all make fun of him/her and he/she wouldn't want to stay. Come on guys it's not THAT hard to respect people opinions.
2nd. We need to take advertising to 100% priority. If you have an account at another forum, put a link in your signature. It's not very hard. Invite some friends, and like I said if they DO come don't be jerks to them -_-
Now I'm not trying to advertise these sites when I put them here, but here are some good places to try and advertise:
NS2 (lawl)
Techsider
Smash World Forums (http://www.smashboards.com)
Friendcodes.com (http://www.friendcodes.com)
And if you find a gamer that's not a total idiot on a social networking site, you might as well invite them.
3rd. Now we can make some changes to make the forums appeal to a larger crowd, but what's the point in making these changes if they don't know this place exists and/or the members are mean to them?
Just try.
I really would help advertise on Techsider, but...
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Quote from: mackormoses on September 08, 2008, 11:33:53 PM
Quote from: Marth Xero on September 08, 2008, 06:01:56 PM
I think you're taking this the wrong way.
Yes, we need activity but what makes you think some forum changes will help that? This is what I think:
1st. Everyone needs to be much more accepting to the few that actually do join. I remember a certain B.A.M. who stayed for a little while, then he and Mack got in a random flame war. Sure his suggestion wasn't a great one, but Mack just started randomly insulting him without backing it up, and did a horrible job of representing the forum. Everyone needs to be more accepting to the new members here, obviously most people here are aginst Obama, so am I but that's not the point. What if someone that did support Obama came and joined and then stuck araound for a while? We would all make fun of him/her and he/she wouldn't want to stay. Come on guys it's not THAT hard to respect people opinions.
2nd. We need to take advertising to 100% priority. If you have an account at another forum, put a link in your signature. It's not very hard. Invite some friends, and like I said if they DO come don't be jerks to them -_-
Now I'm not trying to advertise these sites when I put them here, but here are some good places to try and advertise:
NS2 (lawl)
Techsider
Smash World Forums (http://www.smashboards.com)
Friendcodes.com (http://www.friendcodes.com)
And if you find a gamer that's not a total idiot on a social networking site, you might as well invite them.
3rd. Now we can make some changes to make the forums appeal to a larger crowd, but what's the point in making these changes if they don't know this place exists and/or the members are mean to them?
Just try.
BAM is a moron, through and through, I stand by that. He had no understanding of the system once so ever, and continued to egg me on with his ;) even when I kindly and politely asked him to stop. I don't want f***ing iidiots in the forum, even if it means activity. I know the system, and I'm not going to let an arrogant little annoyance like BAM tell me how NSFCD should be ran, when I've actually done things around here. Furthermore, your lack of knowledge behind the pms that were sent to me proves that you don't know what happened, so perhaps you wouldn't mind minding your own business, or getting facts straight?
If BAM sent some kind of bad PM, then it's a whole different matter. If it's true, then I'm wrong.
But look, you just did it again. Instead of politely telling me that I didn't have the whole picture you just shove me away.
The point isn't about BAM, it's about representing our forum. Just try to be nicer D=
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on September 09, 2008, 06:44:44 AM
Quote from: mackormoses on September 07, 2008, 11:06:26 AM
Quote from: Tuppyluver1 on September 07, 2008, 11:02:52 AM
Like Riosan said, I say we get a TF2 server.
More people here play that than WoW.
No ideas for changing the name, though.
Condensing the boards sounds like a great idea. Plus, we need to absorb forums even smaller than us.
Silver and I've looked into your last thing, the only forums we could "absorb" that would have mutual gains are ones that have all of 4 active users.
Truth, I tried asking one forum, and the admin called us "forum eaters". :D
Lawl, his loss.
I just noticed that I triple posted. How tacky. >_>
Quote from: Marth Xero on September 09, 2008, 01:48:47 PM
Quote from: mackormoses on September 08, 2008, 11:33:53 PM
Quote from: Marth Xero on September 08, 2008, 06:01:56 PM
I think you're taking this the wrong way.
Yes, we need activity but what makes you think some forum changes will help that? This is what I think:
1st. Everyone needs to be much more accepting to the few that actually do join. I remember a certain B.A.M. who stayed for a little while, then he and Mack got in a random flame war. Sure his suggestion wasn't a great one, but Mack just started randomly insulting him without backing it up, and did a horrible job of representing the forum. Everyone needs to be more accepting to the new members here, obviously most people here are aginst Obama, so am I but that's not the point. What if someone that did support Obama came and joined and then stuck araound for a while? We would all make fun of him/her and he/she wouldn't want to stay. Come on guys it's not THAT hard to respect people opinions.
2nd. We need to take advertising to 100% priority. If you have an account at another forum, put a link in your signature. It's not very hard. Invite some friends, and like I said if they DO come don't be jerks to them -_-
Now I'm not trying to advertise these sites when I put them here, but here are some good places to try and advertise:
NS2 (lawl)
Techsider
Smash World Forums (http://www.smashboards.com)
Friendcodes.com (http://www.friendcodes.com)
And if you find a gamer that's not a total idiot on a social networking site, you might as well invite them.
3rd. Now we can make some changes to make the forums appeal to a larger crowd, but what's the point in making these changes if they don't know this place exists and/or the members are mean to them?
Just try.
BAM is a moron, through and through, I stand by that. He had no understanding of the system once so ever, and continued to egg me on with his ;) even when I kindly and politely asked him to stop. I don't want f***ing iidiots in the forum, even if it means activity. I know the system, and I'm not going to let an arrogant little annoyance like BAM tell me how NSFCD should be ran, when I've actually done things around here. Furthermore, your lack of knowledge behind the pms that were sent to me proves that you don't know what happened, so perhaps you wouldn't mind minding your own business, or getting facts straight?
If BAM sent some kind of bad PM, then it's a whole different matter. If it's true, then I'm wrong.
But look, you just did it again. Instead of politely telling me that I didn't have the whole picture you just shove me away.
The point isn't about BAM, it's about representing our forum. Just try to be nicer D=
Asking you to get the facts straight is more than reasonable, as far as I am concerned. Not knowing what happened (aka ignorance) can cause a lot of issues.
Quote from: NINNIN6 on September 09, 2008, 04:31:36 AM
Mack, you're doing it again. Calm blue sea, my friend, calm blue sea...
Umm...no.
We should all join different forums and advertise in those forums.
Also, if I am Obama, then Silver is George Bush.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland. It's catchy, and fits well in a banner. Besides, at this point, anything is better than FCD (sorry guys, but you came to us, not the other way around).
Quote from: Dill on September 10, 2008, 05:43:50 PM
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland. It's catchy, and fits well in a banner. Besides, at this point, anything is better than FCD (sorry guys, but you came to us, not the other way around).
Vaatiland certainly has a nice ring to it.
And maybe a slogan:
"The only living being to achieve a 99.999999% SUPERKOOL rating besides SUPERKOOL himself."
On a more lighter note, if you could persuade Hugh Laurie to make an appearance on the forum, I'm sure traffic would increase a bit.
Quote from: Dill on September 10, 2008, 05:43:50 PM
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland.
I prefer Doc Gerbil's World.
Quote from: Riosan on September 11, 2008, 02:34:42 PM
Quote from: Dill on September 10, 2008, 05:43:50 PM
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland.
I prefer Doc Gerbil's World.
I second
Quote from: Riosan on September 11, 2008, 02:34:42 PM
Quote from: Dill on September 10, 2008, 05:43:50 PM
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland.
I prefer Doc Gerbil's World.
Anyone who doesn't simply doesn't matter.
Quote from: Moriarty on September 11, 2008, 01:31:48 PM
Quote from: Dill on September 10, 2008, 05:43:50 PM
Personally, I see nothing wrong with changing our name to Vaatiland. It's catchy, and fits well in a banner. Besides, at this point, anything is better than FCD (sorry guys, but you came to us, not the other way around).
Vaatiland certainly has a nice ring to it.
And maybe a slogan:
"The only living being to achieve a 99.999999% SUPERKOOL rating besides SUPERKOOL himself."
On a more lighter note, if you could persuade Hugh Laurie to make an appearance on the forum, I'm sure traffic would increase a bit.
I concur, especially with the last bit.
Hugh Laurie: Well golly ol' Queen, bugger! This Vaatiland is the crumpet's crisp!
Vaatix: aoeu. (this is the Dvorak equivalent of asdf)
Nsider2: Oh no! The LHC had a malfunction, and has personified all 10,000 of our members as a single entity! It's the end for us!
And, of course, as all of FCD (and Hugh Laurie) join hands and watch the sunset emerge from the clouds, this song will begin playing at :55.
EDIT: Well grievances, I got so wrapped up in the moment I didn't post the song. Well, you'll just have to figure it out on your own.
Quote from: Dill on September 11, 2008, 06:28:20 PM
Vaatix: aoeu. (this is the Dvorak equivalent of asdf)
Do you use Dvorak?
I was thinking of switching over to it...sometime...>_>
Quote from: Dill on September 11, 2008, 06:28:20 PM
Hugh Laurie: Well golly ol' Queen, bugger! This Vaatiland is the crumpet's crisp!
Vaatix: aoeu. (this is the Dvorak equivalent of asdf)
Nsider2: Oh no! The LHC had a malfunction, and has personified all 10,000 of our members as a single entity! It's the end for us!
And, of course, as all of FCD (and Hugh Laurie) join hands and watch the sunset emerge from the clouds, this song will begin playing at :55.
The crumpet's crisp! Now that's something, Hugh!
I think you forgot the part where Hugh points his finger at the bears, Vaatix looks at them and together they destroy the entire bear population in a matter of nanoseconds. (This part is right after the Raccoons of Draconian Law betrayed us and right before we join hands).