Changes

[Smashin]

I won't mind the changes as long as you remember the Boys/Girls Puberty board.

[L10]

Vilaska....

[Kilroy]

Vaatix World wins.

[Riosan]

Doc Gerbil's World?

[Friendly Hostile]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Oh god, yes.

[Qsmash]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Any ideas for a slogan?

[Friendly Hostile]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Any ideas for a slogan?

It's Doc Gerbil's World.

[L10]

Doc Gerbil's World?

For once I have to 100% agree with Rio

[Dill]

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.

[Kaz]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Any ideas for a slogan?

It's Doc Gerbil's World.

this is the best idea nsf has ever concocted

[Syncopathic]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Awesome idea.

[Friendly Hostile]

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.

[Nayrman]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Any ideas for a slogan?

It's Doc Gerbil's World.

this is the best idea nsf has ever concocted

That would be freaking hilarious if we did that XD

[Friendly Hostile]

Doc Gerbil's World?

Any ideas for a slogan?

It's Doc Gerbil's World.

this is the best idea nsf has ever concocted

We can have a market and use lint for currency.

[Zovistograt]

I don't see any problem with the activity here, so I don't see the point in these upheavals.