Improving the Forum

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Improving the Forum

Sounded like a confession to me.

No, not at all go ahead & search for me on there LOL
you won't find me

[gegev]

Re: Improving the Forum

Federate is the only attractive soul of this website, as a moderator.
This site needs more soul involvement to be alive.

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Improving the Forum

I am pretty sure the admin's come on but they put themselves offline & check up on the site

[ara87]

Re: Improving the Forum

The mods are going to come because at the current rate the site is being used you really only need one mod to come and check on things every once in while.

I've said before, and I'll say it again. This forum died b/c the chat died. The chat provided a place for users to get to know each other and actually end up caring about what other users said, enough so that they went and answered each others threads. Sure it had it's trolls and there were some squabbles but there were always some moderators to keep it civil enough. Some of you seem to think that users left this site b/c of some of the fights that happened in the chat, but aren't really thinking clearly about it and blame a few small trivial events for the death of the site, which is a very deluded thought.

What really was the cause of the death of the chat, and thus the forums was that for at least 3-4 months before the chat was finally removed, it suffered severe technical glitches and was not accessible except for a few hours every day and only during the hours which almost no one was on the site. It was during this period that many of the regular users came less and less, and the removal of the chat sealed the deal.

Of course even if the chat had never gone awry, many users would still eventually leave, b/c eventually people become to busy with jobs or college, etc. However it would serve in keeping the current users around, as well as making sure new users stay anchored as well.

Otherwise perhaps the mods and whoever owns the domain should just take all the good information they have and create an informational website about Armenia and close this one down, b/c keeping it open for the few posts every month isn't worth it

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Improving the Forum

Ara87 I have said this also
the old form of the forum was excellent, it always had at least 20 people in there & you could put pictures & put music on your profile & get AC points

Now like you said, it's dead

[Siggie]

Re: Improving the Forum

Oooor maybe the mods are doing stuff that you don't notice or can't see? :-/

[Mos]

Re: Improving the Forum

This forum has taken an unfortunate downturn in activity. How can we boost usage? Can we "refresh" the forum? New layout, delete old threads, get new mods, revitalise the forum!

I really care about this forum!

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Improving the Forum

This forum has taken an unfortunate downturn in activity. How can we boost usage? Can we "refresh" the forum? New layout, delete old threads, get new mods, revitalise the forum!

I really care about this forum!

I'm sure you can always pm Nimda or Siggie with your suggestions

[Federate]

Re: Improving the Forum

Forums in general are suffering because of social media alternatives such as FB where you can find forum-type posts/discussions as well as much more all under one website. With the exception of our NK military balance thread where it's very active, activity is down for us too. I don't know of any short-term solutions but maybe we can refer people to join this forum and post? New members bring in new interesting viewpoints often.

And please be nice to them and not chase them out because of disagreements

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Improving the Forum

Federate is the only attractive soul of this website, as a moderator.
This site needs more soul involvement to be alive.

The above faulty English has accidentally said far more than if the words had conveyed what the poster intended (I'm assuming gegev wanted to say "Federate is the only person active as a moderator on this website, the site needs more people to be vibrant").

There are damned few "attractive souls" on this website, and too many souless bigots who have never had an original thought in their life but are expert at copypasting. Until there are many more people with "souls" here, bringing individuality and original content, this website will remain half-dead.