DottyFen
Expert Trainer
...Or Lt. Surge's Raichu.
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Post by DottyFen on Jul 14, 2013 9:18:39 GMT -6
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this forum is practically dead nowadays.
Hardly anyone (myself included) seems to be able to bring themselves to post anything anymore. Hell, even major contributors like Cabinet and SJ haven't said anything since February, and only the X/Y and Funny Picture threads are getting any traffic at all. I mean, E3 has been and gone and yet the second-most recently updated thread in Gaming Discussion is my bloody Nuzlocke thread from back in January.
It's absurd.
All I'm saying is this: can we just take a moment to talk about this issue, instead of dancing around it like we have been for over a year?
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Post by daveshn on Jul 14, 2013 11:17:31 GMT -6
No one's dancing. The mods were talking about this problem long before things got this bad. The problem is that we can make all the new threads we want and try everything we can, but Recon needs to make more comics again.
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Post by masterman on Jul 14, 2013 20:19:55 GMT -6
Yeah I haven't had much to say unfortunately. I've also been concerned with this forum's activity, we need a lot more... everything. EDIT: About time we talked about this.
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Post by daveshn on Jul 15, 2013 11:06:08 GMT -6
If anyone has any suggestions, let 'em rip. Recon and Rick are going to be staying with me for a week or so, so I'll make sure we have his attention.
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DottyFen
Expert Trainer
...Or Lt. Surge's Raichu.
Posts: 631
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Post by DottyFen on Jul 15, 2013 15:03:28 GMT -6
No one's dancing. The mods were talking about this problem long before things got this bad. Mm, I do remember a concerted effort a while back, which resulted in stuff like the DrawThis! thread (which was actually two years ago now, wow) and that actually worked for a couple of weeks before petering out. Your point about the comics is true; no new members will really come if there's no activity (especially with an actual Pokémon X game dominating Google searches) so... the focus of any effort on our part would be to get the old community backup and running, I think? I don't know. As far as ideas go, (it's a bit too simple to work really, but) maybe just talking a bunch would be enough to bring a few people back. Heck, I know that I'm enjoying this talk already, just because it's something. Ummm... the X/Y thread... should really be generating some more discussion. I'm very guilty of not posting there enough, so I'll be updating the OP and rounding up all the information that's been revealed recently into a coherent post in the near future. Then I'll see about actually discussing it all properly and hope it goes from there. Going back to the Draw This! thing; a weekly activity like that could work for a bit, even if it was just us three losers doing it. Aaaaand that's all I've got for now. Feel free to shoot any of those ideas down, in case they just flat out won't make a difference. I'm probably blowing this out of proportion a bit, but I really don't want this forum to die. EDIT: Good grief, I talk too much. :v
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Post by chaoman45 on Jul 15, 2013 21:33:14 GMT -6
Forums have many purposes. For this one, comic discussion is the primary reason for its existence. Unless more can be done to address the update issue, then there's no forum. Judging by what Recon has indicated, I think he's burned out by making the comic, to be honest. This comic is over 10 years old. It's amazing that he's made an update this year at all, considering many forums or comics don't take off in their first.
I assure you this has not gone unnoticed, though it just wasn't addressed to other members. Dave, what made the forum come back to life when it died in the past? I think I recall a drought of activity in 2007 somehow alleviating itself.
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Post by daveshn on Jul 15, 2013 22:49:42 GMT -6
This forum's had it's bad times before and what brought it back was one of two things, one I'm happy to admit, the other, I'm not.
The one I'm happy to admit is that a particular topic, would suddenly spark conversation. It wasn't always the one you'd think would do it. Some random game that got halfway decent reviews and may or may not had any special gimmick to it. A thread about a TV show or movie that was kinda cool. Other times it was fan fiction and fan art. I remember Banov really got people involved in the fan fic section when he let us create characters for it and actually followed through with putting those characters in important roles. We also had RP threads every now and then.
The reason I'm not happy to admit is flame wars. Banov and mjc and myself got in HUGE arguments and insult battles back in the day and everyone wanted to throw in their two cents into the topics.
2007 in particular...
I finished up Banov's fic there was DP news, and I remember a few art threads. However, you're going to have to be more specific about when the dry spell was so I can look through the archives.
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Post by chaoman45 on Jul 16, 2013 5:47:13 GMT -6
Beginning of 2007, shortly after mjc left, I think.
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Post by masterman on Jul 16, 2013 7:38:45 GMT -6
I wasn't around long enough to know what brought this forum out of the activity droughts in the past unfortunately but we could do more fanfics, fan art even do more LP's for the sake of trying to bring this place back from this activity drought.
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Post by daveshn on Jul 18, 2013 8:07:22 GMT -6
Sounds like a plan. I hate to pass the buck, but I have full-day schedules. Who can do fics/art/lp's?
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Post by masterman on Jul 18, 2013 12:55:25 GMT -6
Who can do fics/art/lp's? I've been trying to work on a Leafgreen LP for awhile now and I can draw. (Just not very good. :B)
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Post by lukaskirkby on Jul 18, 2013 16:14:45 GMT -6
I think it's not the fact that the comic's dead, it's the fact that it's just hanging on the edge of a cliff. If Recon maybe made 10 pages just to definitively end the comic, I'd be happy. Then perhaps we should look at broadening what this forum's about. It would be a shame to see it die.
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Post by masterman on Jul 21, 2013 16:38:25 GMT -6
I can have Chapter 1 of my Let's Play up in the next three days.
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Post by daveshn on Jul 22, 2013 12:48:51 GMT -6
Looking forward to it, Master. What's the LP of?
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Post by Gooman on Jul 23, 2013 0:14:42 GMT -6
I'm open to the idea of writing a fanfic (and certainly open to open character enrollment)... but I'd have to take a major step back from another forum I'm actively RPing in to do so, but then, I've been kind of getting burnt out over there, so maybe it'd be for the better... idunno, I'll see how things play out.
And, just putting this idea out there, perhaps bring back the Spam Lounge? Just a place for us to go and chat about anything that strikes our fancy. Just get some good old conversations going again. There's a reason the first one hit 900 pages--it was a bastion of activity, and even if it did take away from other threads at the time, there's hardly any 'other threads' right now for it to detract from.
Edit: And Dave, I think Masterman said it's a Leafgreen LP.
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