A way to attract more meat onto the Forum

One of the reasons I see why the RomUlation Forum community is "closely knit" is because there are actually few fresh meat actively participating.

Usually when new people go to the forum, they do one of three things:

1 Make an introduction, which is by the rules' standards are mediocre 'cause a lot of them are 1 liners, which are against the rules

2 Ask for ROMs

3 Ask for emulation or game guide related assistance

To make people get a little interested, I've even posted topics like discussing fashion or which saection/s in the forum are interesting, but sad to say most of the people who post are regulars, no fresh meat

So I was thinking, why not add something to the download section, like a message that reads, "Now that you've got your Download why not go visit the forum & share your comments" followed by a direct link to the main page of the forum, just like what you did with voting.

I know I may sound like I want to pressure people into going to the forum, but how else can we get the forum community to blossom?

Do we have to have another ESA disaster for the record of most people to ever visit the site to be topped??

 

Stop referring to new members as "meat" Makes me hungry.

That would be a pretty good idea, something like that would be awesome. Also, maybe some other links to other things as well? Such as the Trading Station and have a comment "has user uploads such as PSP ISOs " etc. That would bring some people in. Also maybe the cough*nds movies*cough thread.

 

how about free porn to new membersLOL : Ha Ha

 

why dont we have a incentives ??? just like :

"free (whatever amount of) points per 3000 gazilion or something posts"...

...that would attract most users...
and put it before selecting in what download section yo

 

well it would be a bad...totally bad start for that,but on a long run it will build up interests to the members on posting in the forum...but hey everything starts from the worst...

and thats when the moderators starts to enter the scene...

 

Maybe some sort of competition could be held within the forum where the rewards are points for their account, perhaps something really subjective like "what's the funniest related scenario you've ever had" and whoever the admin thinks has the funniest story would get points? Although I could see how this could possibly turn into a lot of work, but if it's something based on personal experiences it could get them to open up and possibly a little more comfortable here.

 

Maybe if we give more competition than ever, it will pull the attentions of all the members + (leechers) in the forum...

 

Most respectable "fresh meat" would know how to find it for themselves
Anyways, it's a good idea to draw in some new members; but let's make sure we don't attract the wrong kind. Let's keep the recruitment subtle but effective.

 

Exactly. The forums that give points for posting have so much spam around the forums... it's crazy.

 

yeah members posting for points duh!!! its so gay

 

why not make a "post first before you download policy" ?

 

Because most people would come in and say hello, then never post again anyways. We already have enough people who do that when its not required.

It also falls under that "it would encourage spam" category as well.

 

but then if they see how friendly the forum is then they might be encouraged to post as well

 

Alternatively, they could post something along the lines of "Which retard came up with the idea that you had to post once in order to use the downloads section?" or such classics like "Hi, I make this topic sence I had 2 post something 2 get 2 teh RUMs."

Another thing to consider is the fact that we have roughly 200,000 members and a huge majority of them never posted once. I can't say I'd be too fond of having to clean up the mess from what's more than likely going to be people saying "posted this so I could download stuff"

While it might get some people, its ultimately not worth the garbage we'd likely get out of it as well IMO.

 

lol ;D

 

Alas reitard has now been officially coined, lol! ;D