Post by Idle Thoughts on Jan 24, 2009 20:41:29 GMT -5
Now, I'm not going to do it anytime soon (like in the next month or so)..but here's something I've been thinking about for awhile.
As a few of you know, I actually run another message board..one much nicer than this one. It's a VBulletin board, which, as some of you know, is the same kind of board the SDMB is.
It's located here: www.norom.com/forums/index.php?
I'm the head admin there (but not owner). My name on there are the characters ~~~.
Currently the board is populated by a few leftovers from another board I used to go to (name of WABTY--stands for We Are Better Than You). They had all flocked to Norom when the original WABTY shut down.
Only now (and for the last year or so), it's been sort of dead. So I've been tossing the thoughts around in my mind to maybe move this board over there. For one, I know that the owner wouldn't mind. I've known Shernon (the owner--also has the name Bad Boy) for over 8 years and have worked with him on various online things. He's also rarely on there anyway..I'm the one who runs Norom.
For two, it's a MUCH better board. Better features, better database, better everything.
There are some disadvantages to this, however. For one, like I said, there are a base of about 10 or 12 regulars who still post. By regulars I mean people who post MAYBE once a day (if that). However these people are very elitist and they are often rude to newcomers. I was thinking that if we ever moved over there that we could just ignore them and perhaps they'd continue in their slow decline of not posting hardly at all.
One GOOD thing about this, though, is that we may get fresh meat. I've run a Psychopath game there or three before and they also seem to like the game. One member there (name of Lipeu) is also in the Facebook group (her name is Tess Pepper).
Here is an a game of Psychopath I've hosted there:
www.norom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14653
But the biggest one (and most popular) was the second game:
www.norom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14667
So anyway, my point is,...someday perhaps we could move over there? Or maybe not. I don't mind staying here. It's nice too. Plus we're used to it.
But 1. Someone recently alerted me to the fact that ANOTHER proboards ending in the number 106 is blacklisted by a certain program they used and that makes MY boards get a danger signal too (anyone else ever experience this?).
And 2. The boards are basically there and NOT BEING USED. And why let a whole board just go to waste with MAYBE four or five posts happening a day (because that's all there is right now, currently)?
What's everyone else think?
As a few of you know, I actually run another message board..one much nicer than this one. It's a VBulletin board, which, as some of you know, is the same kind of board the SDMB is.
It's located here: www.norom.com/forums/index.php?
I'm the head admin there (but not owner). My name on there are the characters ~~~.
Currently the board is populated by a few leftovers from another board I used to go to (name of WABTY--stands for We Are Better Than You). They had all flocked to Norom when the original WABTY shut down.
Only now (and for the last year or so), it's been sort of dead. So I've been tossing the thoughts around in my mind to maybe move this board over there. For one, I know that the owner wouldn't mind. I've known Shernon (the owner--also has the name Bad Boy) for over 8 years and have worked with him on various online things. He's also rarely on there anyway..I'm the one who runs Norom.
For two, it's a MUCH better board. Better features, better database, better everything.
There are some disadvantages to this, however. For one, like I said, there are a base of about 10 or 12 regulars who still post. By regulars I mean people who post MAYBE once a day (if that). However these people are very elitist and they are often rude to newcomers. I was thinking that if we ever moved over there that we could just ignore them and perhaps they'd continue in their slow decline of not posting hardly at all.
One GOOD thing about this, though, is that we may get fresh meat. I've run a Psychopath game there or three before and they also seem to like the game. One member there (name of Lipeu) is also in the Facebook group (her name is Tess Pepper).
Here is an a game of Psychopath I've hosted there:
www.norom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14653
But the biggest one (and most popular) was the second game:
www.norom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14667
So anyway, my point is,...someday perhaps we could move over there? Or maybe not. I don't mind staying here. It's nice too. Plus we're used to it.
But 1. Someone recently alerted me to the fact that ANOTHER proboards ending in the number 106 is blacklisted by a certain program they used and that makes MY boards get a danger signal too (anyone else ever experience this?).
And 2. The boards are basically there and NOT BEING USED. And why let a whole board just go to waste with MAYBE four or five posts happening a day (because that's all there is right now, currently)?
What's everyone else think?