Registration Has Now Been Temporarily Closed

[Arnox]

Not because of flooding but because apparently, all we're getting right now is people registering alt accounts.

Yeah, no more. Until I start actually advertising, it will remain closed. We haven't gotten any new members here since a month ago at least. It may be lifted sooner but I don't know. We'll see.

EDIT: If anyone however wants to recommend someone for registration, I will be happy to do that. Simply put in a request here and I will PM you for further details and questions.

[Umbrella Corp]

Considering the alt accounts are haters who constantly diss the staff, closing registration and thus stifling further growth of the community is a better outcome than they could have possibly imagined.

[Arnox]

Considering the alt accounts are haters who constantly diss the staff, closing registration and thus stifling further growth of the community is a better outcome than they could have possibly imagined.

There has been no growth of the community and their won't be until we actually start showing up on Google's radar and/or advertising. It will be a while before the former happens and the latter is being worked on.

[Umbrella Corp]

Good point.  We don't even show up on google yet?  didn't know that.

[Arnox]

Good point.  We don't even show up on google yet?

Nope. Type in totse or free speech forum or whatever and we don't even show up on the second page. You have to directly search for the site i.e. intosanctuary for anything to pop up.

[kroz]

can my gf cranberries from zoklet get an account? she wants one.

and to be honest the one thing I don't like about this site is so many zoklet people trying to be rogue spears.

[equanimity]

I think it would be best to keep registration open.  Makes staff work a little harder to find and ban alts, and I know ML had a big day combating flooding, but it is a possibility that someone would find us and want to register.  If we want to grow we should do all we can to allow that to happen.

Would be another thing if we were having people spam cp daily, but that wasn't happening.  To be honest, I'd rather have some banned people posting (until we catch them) than stifle our growth even a little bit.

[baby raper]

can my gf cranberries from zoklet get an account? she wants one.

and to be honest the one thing I don't like about this site is so many zoklet people trying to be rogue spears.

wat is rouge spear.

[Arnox]

I think it would be best to keep registration open.  Makes staff work a little harder to find and ban alts, and I know ML had a big day combating flooding, but it is a possibility that someone would find us and want to register.  If we want to grow we should do all we can to allow that to happen.

Would be another thing if we were having people spam cp daily, but that wasn't happening.  To be honest, I'd rather have some banned people posting (until we catch them) than stifle our growth even a little bit.

Well, I may just set it to admin approval and have a minimum waiting time of 3 days to a week unless someone on here recommends the new user. It would be a big pain for any actual new users, sure, but we're not getting any new users at all right now.

[Umbrella Corp]

The only new members we probs getting are old zoklet members being refered here by other members.

[Idiosyncrasy]

Have you signed up for Google Webmaster Tools?  That would give you the best picture of any keywords or outside links that are leading people here, and it's free.

We're on Google.  I first tried "site:intosanctuary.com" with 16,700 results, so we're obviously indexed.  Then I tried "old school new school fool school" and we're the sixth result on the first page.  The reason why?  Because it's something unique to this site.  If we want to be indexed for anything proper, then the content has to be here first.  Yeah there is a bunch of drivel, but there's even more drivel about the drivel, and less unique content that would bring someone here.

"Totse" or "free speech forum" will probably not yield much because we're not optimized for those terms.  A home landing page would help with that.  So would just using those terms in our regular threads, besides the "we don't have free speech anymore" garbage.  It doesn't look like we can create thread tags, which would help.  Not sure about any other site metatags.

Advertising is one thing, having something to advertise is another.

[kroz]

can my gf cranberries from zoklet get an account? she wants one.

and to be honest the one thing I don't like about this site is so many zoklet people trying to be rogue spears.

wat is rouge spear.

never played rainbow six bitch?

[Σ]

I think it would be best to keep registration open.  Makes staff work a little harder to find and ban alts, and I know ML had a big day combating flooding, but it is a possibility that someone would find us and want to register.  If we want to grow we should do all we can to allow that to happen.

Would be another thing if we were having people spam cp daily, but that wasn't happening.  To be honest, I'd rather have some banned people posting (until we catch them) than stifle our growth even a little bit.

I think it would be best to keep registration open.  Makes staff work a little harder to find and ban alts, and I know ML had a big day combating flooding, but it is a possibility that someone would find us and want to register.  If we want to grow we should do all we can to allow that to happen.

Would be another thing if we were having people spam cp daily, but that wasn't happening.  To be honest, I'd rather have some banned people posting (until we catch them) than stifle our growth even a little bit.

Well, I may just set it to admin approval and have a minimum waiting time of 3 days to a week unless someone on here recommends the new user. It would be a big pain for any actual new users, sure, but we're not getting any new users at all right now.

Have you signed up for Google Webmaster Tools?  That would give you the best picture of any keywords or outside links that are leading people here, and it's free.

We're on Google.  I first tried "site:intosanctuary.com" with 16,700 results, so we're obviously indexed.  Then I tried "old school new school fool school" and we're the sixth result on the first page.  The reason why?  Because it's something unique to this site.  If we want to be indexed for anything proper, then the content has to be here first.  Yeah there is a bunch of drivel, but there's even more drivel about the drivel, and less unique content that would bring someone here.

"Totse" or "free speech forum" will probably not yield much because we're not optimized for those terms.  A home landing page would help with that.  So would just using those terms in our regular threads, besides the "we don't have free speech anymore" garbage.  It doesn't look like we can create thread tags, which would help.  Not sure about any other site metatags.

Advertising is one thing, having something to advertise is another.

Arnox this is your problem. The above quote convo is something that should take place excluseively in a moderator only forum before any decision has been made. When I see equinamity pop into this thread and tell you that she thinks it would be better to keep it open that completely undermines the op because it shows that the Admin didnt discuss this with the mods and it seems weak of the administration to not hold a consistent view. It may sound fascist but i feel that on a forum the moderators should take Admins word as god unless the admin is legitimately making terrible decisions.

What you guys need to do is this:
1. Have your own board for the mods to discuss site policy and whatnot.
2. The administration and moderation team stays consistent when posting about site policy. (essentially if you question arnox's decision talk about it privately not out here in the open)
3. Work closely with idio to get this google search stuff going. He seems to know a fair bit about it.

But I do agree. These fucking alts are getting annoying.

[equanimity]

Arnox's word is god here.  I don't think I could undermine him even if I wanted to.  We do have a mod and admin forum, but I personally prefer talking about most things out where the public can view it.  My opinions should hold no more sway than any other member's here, and your input is valued too.  It's best to let everyone share their thoughts and ideas openly imo.  Even if we disagree we're all friends.

A unified administration/mod team is a good thing, but I don't think we're so divided as to cause any serious problems here.  At the end of the day this is just a website where we share our thoughts and opinions about various things, and have fun doing so.  It's nothing to stress over, however things may turn out.

[MoaningLisa]

content breeds content.

on &t2 we got A LOT of traffic from the meff threads...I wasn't a fan of them, but the concept of people going to google, looking something up, and finding guides posted on this site and then registering here is how we get quality members.

on the topic of registration closed, I think anyone who would be using an alt already has 10  in waiting...but this will probably help.