Agreed. I've just started my own forum not long ago and it is difficult to get things going. If someone visits they will see a fairly empty forum and leave without posting anything thinking they will check back later when it has more users. You need to attract users to get posts and you need posts to attract users. Very catch-22.I don't want to just throw a stolen/skimmed story up and Digg it like every freaking blog spammer on the 'net. I've been putting my website at the end of my Digg comments in the hopes of attracting some users. I feel pretty sleazy even doing that though.So if anyone wants to visit and actually *post* while you are there then I only have one thing to say: Thank You.www.dissentnet.com
windreaverSep 18, 2007
Agreed. I've just started my own forum not long ago and it is difficult to get things going. If someone visits they will see a fairly empty forum and leave without posting anything thinking they will check back later when it has more users. You need to attract users to get posts and you need posts to attract users. Very catch-22.I don't want to just throw a stolen/skimmed story up and Digg it like every freaking blog spammer on the 'net. I've been putting my website at the end of my Digg comments in the hopes of attracting some users. I feel pretty sleazy even doing that though.So if anyone wants to visit and actually *post* while you are there then I only have one thing to say: Thank You.www.dissentnet.com
whatifindSep 19, 2007
Just wanted to say: Thank you.
gen2Sep 23, 2009
Very good article, thank you :)