Just to make everyone aware, I have no intentions of shutting this place down again, so don't get that impression from what I'm asking. We're actually getting some new blood in here and people talking about things, so that's good.
What I'm looking for is ideas on how to keep people coming in and actually talking/interacting. We get a fair bit of traffic, just that everybody wants to lurk instead of saying anything.
So...what's the story? Am I boring? Balthazar smell bad?
I guess I could post more but I tend to be more reactive than active, so I'll respond to stuff but I'm not so good at starting discussion topics.
Anyways. Throw me some bones.
Create a women's board? LOL
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I don't know. I think that the emphasis here on actual, you know, knowledge (as opposed to "I heard that...") probably serves to inhibit people from joining the discussion.
Maybe a newbie board would be good? A place where any stupid question or comment would be okay (or at least semi-okay) might help some people grow a pair.
And sad as it is, a women's board might be good for generating discussion. It seems to have worked for T-mag.
I was actually joking about the women's board as I was thinking along the lines of the "private" women's board at EP.
It's funny how much that forum actually killed the board. When Leah changed over the format it logged me out of that forum and I didn't bother logging back in as there is nothing of real interest posted in it. Now that I'm logged out, there is about 1/3 - 1/2 of the posts that there normally is. It's sad as that board was once rocking.
I can sorta kinda understand where Leah was coming from in creating that board. But I agree, once it was up and running, the rest of the forum posting went down very quickly. I don't know if there is enough posting in the women's forum to make up for that, but I kind of doubt it. And it certainly makes it harder for new folks to join.
Anyway, I think that there should probably be some "female only" way to discuss stuff that you guys seem to want to discuss, but a separate private forum isn't it. Maybe some mass email loop or something would work better. In any case, I was thinking about the T-Mag version, not EP's.
(03-21-2010 12:59 PM)char-dawg Wrote: [ -> ]I can sorta kinda understand where Leah was coming from in creating that board. But I agree, once it was up and running, the rest of the forum posting went down very quickly. I don't know if there is enough posting in the women's forum to make up for that, but I kind of doubt it. And it certainly makes it harder for new folks to join.
There is actually quite a bit posted there. At times, I'd estimate almost half the posts on that board are on the women's forum.
And it's true, I didn't know about it for a while and was wondering what people were talking about so you aren't included and it's hard to feel comfortable and start posting in a community when that's the case.
Yeah that kind of private-section isn't on the table for me. I've got the private journals and private chat section which is hidden from Google and non-logged in guests, which is all I'm willing to do on that front. I don't see the point in having the real discussion hidden from sight, because yeah it does exclude newbies and that's not what I'm after.
When I originally set this place up, I had a lot more forums here, including a woman's training issues kind of section - because for better or worse, that's what this is about, people lifting weights and otherwise exercising.
But the traffic just wasn't there, and I didn't want a big ghost-town forum, so I consolidated a lot of things into what's here now. I mean if there's activity for it, I don't mind having something up, but if it's gonna be the same 20-30 people stopping by to read and the same 6 of us posting, I don't see the point.