Forum Suggestions : How can we energize this place?

[Deleted]

If anyone has sensible ideas for threads or discussion subjects, feel free to post your suggestions here...

[JohnP]

Pete, I do appreciate moderation of a forum is not easy. When you took this on you were handed somewhat of a poison chalice and sadly Ali doesn't seem to have much interest these days. As I said rather than try and inspire discussions and posts at the moment it would be useful to determine who if anyone has the will to try and re-inspire this forum. Perhaps give it a few days to see who registers any interest here. Christmas and the new year are busy times for many people so maybe making a decision by new year is a bit ambitious. It is going to be a case of playing it by ear but I think it is worth a last chance.

[bisdu]

Christmas is certainly a time when people have less time to come on forums like this, so letting it run until after the new year would seem sensible. However I'm not sure while it is in the doldrums we will actually attract new people. Just thinking out loud, but would it make any sense to email members who have contributed in , let's say the last 12 months, and invite them to check back in... there are a few names that I really miss. Perhaps if we could reunite a few past members it will encourage new members to take an interest.

[Deleted]

That's a really good idea Bis....I take it there's one I needn't bother emailing...

[bisdu]

I'm saying nothing

[annon99]

Well this initiative didn't come to anything. I applaud the initiative but think nothing of previous members currying favour with each other. Perhaps that's why the initiative didn't come to anything?

Never one to be short of ideas I have some 'sensible' suggestions to make. These are made in the light of the fact that there are now so few members that there's something new, and refreshing about the place....

1.  Those current members who have partners should get their partners to post too, for, say, a month, at the rate of once a week, minimum.  This is to get the new post tally up, and so keep the forum vibrant to potential new members.

We all know that 'If it's new, It'll do" and viewers will keep viewing, however mediocre the post.

Those who would retort that their partners will not post, even after being asked politely, for just a month, have a far bigger relationship problem than the forum, for which they get my sympathy, and make me glad I'm still single....

In the same spirit I will cajole some of my drinking chums to do the same as your partners.  Some of them are raving intellectuals and will refuse to post in the ' What are you cooking for tea tonight? thread.  That's ok, perhaps some of your partners will, each to their own.  We are nothing if not tolerant and inclusive. 

2.  Ali used to go on raiding parties to other forums and plug this forum to a few hand-picked posters - that's how I ended up on here - you have only Ali to blame...  Being more selective than Ali ever was those of you who visit other forums could plug this one (Ali used to send emails).  Please don't hesitate to big-up the forum as 'The New Dawn', 'Your Dreams Come True'  etc, etc.  No-one ever got anywhere by pussy-footing about.

[annon99]

You've got to see the funny (and ironic) side of this thread....

Posters have now left, presumably because they don't have the energy to energize this place, or rather would prefer others to energize it, cos they, er, don't have the energy themselves.....

Not trying is for losers. And the unenergetic. Once an unenergetic, always a loser...