This site?

[Four Seasons]

1 hour ago, grampy said:

Nice to see you still haven't changed either mayor.

Always ready when a tool wants to pull the string. 

[Doc]

We all are so ready to blame other people for our loss of activity here, when in reality, we simply have a participation problem. We have over 9,000 members here and the actual number of participants is a tiny, tiny, tiny, percentage of that. Nobody wants to log into a site that is likely to only have only a couple of new topics and always posted by the same people. That's not a knock against those here that do post (thank Heavens for those members), it is a knock against those who don't. I know that it is the same with almost any forum. It is always difficult to get the bashful members to post anything, but it sure would be great is some of the silent majority here would speak up and post something. And then when they do, we have to encourage them by not trying to bash their efforts.

I know this is a hard time for hunting related topics. It is almost a dormant time of the year for hunting issues, but there still are a lot of issues and outdoor activity subjects that could be posted and discussed.

How do we get people to participate? Anyone got any ideas?

[silent death]

On 6/8/2023 at 2:20 PM, Doc said:

We all are so ready to blame other people for our loss of activity here, when in reality, we simply have a participation problem. We have over 9,000 members here and the actual number of participants is a tiny, tiny, tiny, percentage of that. Nobody wants to log into a site that is likely to only have only a couple of new topics and always posted by the same people. That's not a knock against those here that do post (thank Heavens for those members), it is a knock against those who don't. I know that it is the same with almost any forum. It is always difficult to get the bashful members to post anything, but it sure would be great is some of the silent majority here would speak up and post something. And then when they do, we have to encourage them by not trying to bash their efforts.

I know this is a hard time for hunting related topics. It is almost a dormant time of the year for hunting issues, but there still are a lot of issues and outdoor activity subjects that could be posted and discussed.

How do we get people to participate? Anyone got any ideas?

Without the site owner participating it's hard to grow the site ...one way to help the site stay alive is to create new sub forums  to get the lurkers to join the site and that itself would create new content ..

 

 

[fasteddie]

I don't think more sub forums are the answer . We need Members to to respond to posts that are already made . We need full participation . Members with 200 , 300 etc. posts have started to come alive a bit . 

[GreeneHunter]

14 hours ago, fasteddie said:

I don't think more sub forums are the answer . We need Members to to respond to posts that are already made . We need full participation . Members with 200 , 300 etc. posts have started to come alive a bit . 

Exactly (how's that ? LOL)