While the rule did the trick and made forums unusually busy on a relatively small site, I was getting sooo many rants and nasty messages, like "stupid site", "stupid rules", "why do you force members to post on forums", etc... That was tough, tbh.
We do have a credit system here (inactive now), meaning that members must do something active (like post in forums, post video, participate in groups, etc... in order to earn credits and unlock features like PM, gifts, who viewed my profile, etc..) I am not planning to activate it, as I just cannot to go through all that abuse and nasty messages again. Sorry!!!
with friends like me who needs enemas...
its not just here really, I have noticed this "problem" over the years in many other places...
even in games that have real good mail and chat systems.. everyone wants to know if you have teamspeak or raidcall .
no I don't wanna listen to you munching Cheetos and listen to your mom yelling at you to take out the trash..
another thing I get a lot is the TLDR.... too long didn't read.....
maybe you don't read very well and a whole paragraph is a hassle...
its called practice makes perfect.. a problem with the millennials...
I blame the smartphone fad, and a lazy education system that don't allow failure.
that's what i'm talkin abou.. shelving. totally mind blowing he stuff you can put on shelves.. cans, jars, boxes of generic stuff....
yah I know some say "you see one shelf you see them all".. but really now.
are all shelves that much alike. are we to resort to also demarginalize the defenseless shelf..
we should all change our twitter icons to wood.. or some other suitable shelving material
remember #AllShelvesMatter
And not all forums are slow. I am very active on another forum and have been for about 3 years. But we all have diabetes in common and we are all very much a "family". Maybe that is the problem here. There is not enough in common among the members to keep it going.
greetings
A fun time, and a busy time, but like a marriage keeping it all together takes work... not just from Marisa and the rest of the team, but from everybody that jumps in and splashes around, but people get tired and/or distracted, and if I don't stop here I will never get this reply posted (Yoko was too ladylike to fall asleep, but Shannon would often sit on the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz key) as my typing is two fingered... one at a time though!
But we cannot expect the same 30 people to drag forums forward forever, they get tired, they need to move on with their lives... So, these people are gone - and forums are dead. Very simple!