blah blah blah Hazza's stoopid
*Sees thread sticky* Hey do we still need to advertise?
Not really anything in mind. Like you said, SEO is just good quality content. Think about your target market, and use a lot of keywords and phrases that people might search for that could lead them to your product. Thread tags help a bit, but I'm not sure if we have those here.
Totse2 had two threads that drew a lot of outside attention. One was the how to make a homemade bomb thread, which I posted here. That one even got us a two-second mention briefly on CNN. The second was the SNB meth article, that blew up with comments and had literally a million page views before it was removed. We saw how that worked out for us.
With the activity we have now, we just need to encourage people to contribute some quality content. You can throw money at Adwords and the like, but none of it will matter without having the content already here. When people monetize blogs and have a big following, they start out talking to themselves a lot. Then they slowly build a following. Then they have exponential growth, and then they monetize. Not saying that's what we want to do here, but it starts with the content.
Rather than adverts, why not set up a PayPal and some of us can chip in for running coats?
Rather than adverts, why not set up a PayPal and some of us can chip in for running coats?
It's kind of a chicken and egg scenario where we want knowledgeable users to write good content but they won't join because there's not a lot of good content to begin with.
I always thought that totse-esque sites should offer some kind of freely available service in addition to hosting a community. Something simple and privacy / free speech related that's useful to the every-day user. A privnote clone, a simple proxy, or even something bitcoin related. Give lots of like-minded people a reason to use the site and they'll discover the community later.
It's kind of a chicken and egg scenario where we want knowledgeable users to write good content but they won't join because there's not a lot of good content to begin with.
I always thought that totse-esque sites should offer some kind of freely available service in addition to hosting a community. Something simple and privacy / free speech related that's useful to the every-day user. A privnote clone, a simple proxy, or even something bitcoin related. Give lots of like-minded people a reason to use the site and they'll discover the community later.
Make stickers and stick them all over in urban/seedy areas
But just post on Reddit, create a Facebook etc
Blogs are in. Some websites I visit (mostly nutrition forums) seem to pull in new people almost exclusively through their blogs discussing things like exercise, green living, fun recipes, etc.
Dunno how to translate and of that into something that works here, though. Maybe everyone interested could submit post in a blog sort of style and Arnox could pick ones he likes every so often to be the main page here. Or something. The topics would be all over the place and there could be lots of different contributors.
Not too sure how people stumble onto blogs in the first place, so who knows if this would even help. Just a thought.
Just replace text files (zoklet library rehash) with blog posts?SpoilerBlogs are in. Some websites I visit (mostly nutrition forums) seem to pull in new people almost exclusively through their blogs discussing things like exercise, green living, fun recipes, etc.
Dunno how to translate and of that into something that works here, though. Maybe everyone interested could submit post in a blog sort of style and Arnox could pick ones he likes every so often to be the main page here. Or something. The topics would be all over the place and there could be lots of different contributors.
Not too sure how people stumble onto blogs in the first place, so who knows if this would even help. Just a thought.
continuation of me harpingReban DaGuru plz.
Arnox.....you might be thinking this is a continuation of me harping on your decision to make Zek a mod, but at the same time if you want to actually start advertising more....wouldn't it make more sense to have stronger respresentatives of what this place is "about"? Meaning, its seems like you are sending a conflicting message to people that will eventually discover this place when your supposed "leaders" are actually the anti-thesis of a lot of the subject matter you are trying to attract people to.
Taken from "what the site is about thread".....
It doesn't matter if you like music, it doesn't matter if you like demolitions, it doesn't matter if you like games, doesn't matter if you like sports or swearing or drugs or even pirating. This forum has what you need.
Now ask yourself if really and sincerely the people you have decided to be "leaders" on here actually believe in or even enjoy a lot of the subject matter you just rattled off above. Because if your staff is constantly preaching a mindset of "guns are bad m'kay"....or "can't we talk in a nicer/more civil manner".....that is directly contrary to people that want to swear, talk about demolitions/weapons etc.
Its like making Mary Poppins as the greeter/receptionist in a brothel as the first contact point when someone walks into the establishment. How many tricks you really gonna turn when the staff itself isn't even eager or encouraging to the product you are selling?
Reban DaGuru plz.
Equanimity is really the only "Mary Poppins" on staff. In fact, I daresay she's the only "Mary Poppins" on this entire forum. Nevertheless, she believes in the right to talk about all those things and I do believe she's stated this numerous times as well.
Equanimity is really the only "Mary Poppins" on staff. In fact, I daresay she's the only "Mary Poppins" on this entire forum. Nevertheless, she believes in the right to talk about all those things and I do believe she's stated this numerous times as well.
Believing in the right to discuss things is a bit empty when said person is constantly dishing out petty moral(term used very loosely considering this is Zek we are talking about) judgements to the other people that ARE interested in those subject matters.
Going back to the Mary Poppins/brothel scenario, sure he may be "doing his job" greeting everyone with a false smile....but if 5 seconds later he is questioning potential clients with ideologies of "does your wife know you are in here"...or..."ya know promiscuous sex leads to AIDS and other STDs"...how many people will actually believe they "fit in" to such an establishment and give it their business?
How do those viewpoints clash with this establishment? You're saying that these viewpoints may drive off some people. Well, you know, if they're driven off simply by the opinions of one person, I don't think we want them here. This site is partly about broadening ones horizons. Gaining new perspectives. She isn't spamming every thread she finds with "OMG be good guise!!!111 ^^ :D"
How do those viewpoints clash with this establishment? You're saying that these viewpoints may drive off some people. Well, you know, if they're driven off simply by the opinions of one person, I don't think we want them here. This site is partly about broadening ones horizons. Gaining new perspectives. She isn't spamming every thread she finds with "OMG be good guise!!!111 ^^ :D"
*sigh*
You still aren't getting the bigger picture here. While discussing the requisites of someone being modded, you make a few grandiose commentaries about "professionalism" and "leadership". But then when someone brings up the specific characteristics of that "leader" and how it very much CAN set a vibe/pulse for the forum you just dismiss it off as "who cares, its just one poster".
Either you really can't understand this concept, or purposely ignoring the obvious....whatever the case I'll stop commenting on your "advertising" issues, because at this point you seem to be so set on digging your heels in you aren't even thinking this all the way through from top to bottom.
Now please, let's get this thread back on track. DaGuru if you want to complain some more please take it to the proper forum. This thread is about advertising the website; it's not about me.
A mission statement may help us out, yes. At least it could provide us some general direction. Very good, DaGuru.
Any suggestions as to what this should be? I'm partial to the whole "expression of varying, sometimes unpopular, opinions" bit.
You still aren't getting the bigger picture here. While discussing the requisites of someone being modded, you make a few grandiose commentaries about "professionalism" and "leadership". But then when someone brings up the specific characteristics of that "leader" and how it very much CAN set a vibe/pulse for the forum you just dismiss it off as "who cares, its just one poster".
A mission statement may help us out, yes. At least it could provide us some general direction. Very good, DaGuru.
Any suggestions as to what this should be? I'm partial to the whole "expression of varying, sometimes unpopular, opinions" bit.
the site has a mission statement the site doesn't have a good representative front in the leadership department AKA the Admin and mods such as yourself again is the point DaGuru brings up you people represent the site and all you do is muddy the message of free speech and not make an environment conducive to discussion
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
A mod deleted my banner and gave me a warning
A mod deleted my banner and gave me a warning
That is fucked up....why and who?
A mod deleted my banner and gave me a warning
That is fucked up....why and who?
(http://i.imgur.com/4lacdfp.png)
Well I recieved this post from an anonymous admin who was too scared to question my reign over them on their real account. the obnoxious and contrived use of faggot smilies leads me to assume it's (emphasis on it) Zek.
zek didn't even delete the post describing the merits of my banner, which was three paragraphs long. it just deleted the banners.
Now please, let's get this thread back on track. DaGuru if you want to complain some more please take it to the proper forum. This thread is about advertising the website; it's not about me.
The only vibe I see equanimity truly giving off is one of kindness and understanding and I didn't know that is a bad precedent.
A mod deleted my banner and gave me a warning
A mod deleted my banner and gave me a warning
That is fucked up....why and who?
(http://i.imgur.com/4lacdfp.png)
Well I recieved this post from an anonymous admin who was too scared to question my reign over them on their real account. the obnoxious and contrived use of faggot smilies leads me to assume it's (emphasis on it) Zek.
zek didn't even delete the post describing the merits of my banner, which was three paragraphs long. it just deleted the banners. rendering the post into reference-less nonsense that is three paragraphs long
do tranny IQs get measured against a different mean like the small quantitative difference in male and females that isn't compared to one another, meaning different scoring curves for each gender. i cant imagine something that is neither a man or woman but simply a "thing" to possibly have more than three standard deviations above the mean to be equivalent to a human IQ of 145 but more likely hovering into negative numbers.
You guys do know it is mathematically possible to have an IQ that is a negative number? that never happens because the person would need to be negative 6.3 sigma (it's actually 6.6666666... but i didnt want you to think i'm making a biblical illusion) which would be like a 1 in 90 billion rarity. this may one day occur in future generations, but it definitely has never occurred for stupid people, because so many children are born still to this day unable to live outside of a group home, or are stillborn. there is a floor effect for human intelligence that is already apparent and there may be ceiling effects (before we evolve into our next species....well we're all constantly evolving, but it may go to the point where it would be physically impossible to be any more intelligent because of the taxation on your bodily energy preserves it does. i think someone did the math and hypothesized the 1 in 90 billion brain would literally have to be the size of the moon to operate at that level. but anyway, you could have an IQ of -150 if so many humans weren't brain dead already
See, they bitch about how we don't contribute, then they pull shit like this when we do. Fuck it, I will shitpost into the sunset up in this motherfucker.
what's your opinion on this logo?
You still aren't getting the bigger picture here. While discussing the requisites of someone being modded, you make a few grandiose commentaries about "professionalism" and "leadership". But then when someone brings up the specific characteristics of that "leader" and how it very much CAN set a vibe/pulse for the forum you just dismiss it off as "who cares, its just one poster".
The only vibe I see equanimity truly giving off is one of kindness and understanding and I didn't know that is a bad precedent.
I don't know why equanimity deleted the final logo splooge posted though.
Sorry for deleting your final banner, splooge. Was trying to clean up the thread quickly before my class started and I removed one picture too many.
See, they bitch about how we don't contribute, then they pull shit like this when we do. Fuck it, I will shitpost into the sunset up in this motherfucker.
I looked at the deleted posts. Apparently splooge felt like he couldn't express his opinion without over 8 consecutive posts in a row.
I don't know why equanimity deleted the final logo splooge posted though. Here it is again for anyone who wants to see.
(http://i.imgur.com/GF87GjB.png)
So Arnox where's the sperg out about this mod having deleted posts that you had on edify
Nothing was deleted. I moved them to NIMF so you can view now.
This thread is about advertising the website. Please make a new thread or PM me, and I will be happy to explain in detail why I made the decision I did. No more posting about it here. We're trying to get something important done for the website here.
So Arnox where's the sperg out about this mod having deleted posts that you had on edify
That was before we had a system for soft deleting. Back then, all we could do was hard delete. So naturally we tried to avoid doing that as much as possible.
*sigh*
You still aren't getting the bigger picture here.
"provoking"
"Lead by example"Such a successful salesman.
no guy getting owned by horse dick
no guy getting owned by horse dick
That was taken out unless it was posted again.
Was it?
Random post inspired by this: "I'm currently a member of six different "active" forums.."
This community isn't a thing like totse was, it's the space between a bunch of other things. There are other, larger, more successful communities that specialize in nearly every one of the subforums here. We should be linking those places together.
I was thinking more along the lines of pillaging content instead of users. Interdisciplinary innovation and what not.
But how? We have no shared motivations/goals/enemies.
Oh wait none of you were even members on totse.com so how would you know anything about it :facepalm:
Fucking clueless "leadership" on this site. You have no original ideas or even half decent ideas for how to generate traffic :facepalm:
How about advertising good threads like totse.com did? Oh wait none of you were even members on totse.com so how would you know anything about it :facepalm:
Daguru and spectre are right, yet again. The staff have no direction, no unification, and equanmity is doing nothing but ruining the site's image. Arnox is ruining the site's image as well.
Is this forum going to be about free speech or about marypoppins.jpg bullshit? We have a global moderator posting stupid jpgs in a "serious thread" in a "serious subforum" of the site. Model behavior right there.
Zek is ruining the site with his bullshit everywhere. Yet arnox won't address this. The few people who are trying to generate content get their threads filled with shit as a reward. How about put good threads on the front page.
How about fixing the site's description?
This is what the site looks like on google today:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9974381/2014/sanct23.png)
another point: STOP CALLING ZEK SHE.
Hahaha i like the whole part about research chimpanzees
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9974381/2014/sanct23.png)
:oface:
PUSHUPS!!
Anyway, we're working on it. Calm down. One thing at a time.
Fucking clueless "leadership" on this site. You have no original ideas or even half decent ideas for how to generate traffic :facepalm:
How about advertising good threads like totse.com did? Oh wait none of you were even members on totse.com so how would you know anything about it :facepalm:
Daguru and spectre are right, yet again. The staff have no direction, no unification, and equanmity is doing nothing but ruining the site's image. Arnox is ruining the site's image as well.
Is this forum going to be about free speech or about marypoppins.jpg bullshit? We have a global moderator posting stupid jpgs in a "serious thread" in a "serious subforum" of the site. Model behavior right there.
Zek is ruining the site with his bullshit everywhere. Yet arnox won't address this. The few people who are trying to generate content get their threads filled with shit as a reward. How about put good threads on the front page.
How about fixing the site's description?
This is what the site looks like on google today:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9974381/2014/sanct23.png)
another point: STOP CALLING ZEK SHE.
:oface:
PUSHUPS!!
Anyway, we're working on it. Calm down. One thing at a time.
Sites slow as shit in this thread you say advertising is number one priority someone brings up legitimate points and you dismiss it with calm down and one thing at a time fucking hilarious this is exactly why there are so few users hereI agree with this. EVERY TIME I try to do something helpful for the site I get the same treatment from staff, in particular from Arnox. I mean holy shit I made a salsa thread when there were 3 people here and he couldn't resist insulting me then. Still going on.
Also notice that RED RING. That's from negative ratings on web of trust, a firefox app that has over 100 million downloads. That hurts traffic.
Also notice that RED RING. That's from negative ratings on web of trust, a firefox app that has over 100 million downloads. That hurts traffic.
I was wondering about that - assumed it was flagged as malicious, but I didn't get any errors when I searched it