This deserves its own thread - Making me a ****ing mod.

[CrazyKooK]

and just a heads up, I will be setting aside a night for us to all chat live... I would have already but haven't had the nice slot of time available yet. You can all feel free to PM me though.

 

[CrazyKooK]

and Kolossal I also have to agree that being aware of new members and welcoming them everytime we see them in a new thread is great for keeping new members to become long time members.

I am working this into scheduled notices to new members but a friendly community needs to be at the base of it. I'm glad to say I think the loyal members we have now are great for the job!

 

[ST]

Administrators and staff making an effort to personally and individually greet all new members has worked for me with establishing a report with new users, and user loyalty in the past. Run-on-sentence aside, it's great to do.

I have many programming contacts from previous projects. The idea of forum hosting for clans is very viable. I'm sure we all play games where we could contact clans to get them a free forum that they may be interested in.

Is there multiple threads with this title or something? I feel like something weird is going on? :/

Anyways, private messaging new members is a great touch. I know there are mods that will automatically send a private message to each new user. You may want to look into this, Austin. (Since I don't know your username and am too lazy to scroll up...I'm fairly certain it's something complicated)

I just went through the introductions forum and noticed we missed out on a lot of great potential. I've PM'd some of these members we over looked and replied to some threads. Hopefully we can get some of them back.

 

[CrazyKooK]

yeah, ill prolly change my username since its too complicated for people to pronounce or remember well. And the PMs and notices are rather simple to do, just involves testing for effectiveness. Our bigger problem is getting the visitors to register to begin with so we can then get them to get involved with PMs and more. I have a lot of techniques to get that done but also have got screwed over at work this week so haven't got to implement them.

And yes, there are several similiar threads going at once. We may merge them.

 

[ST]

I think it may be a good idea to stream line the threads. Also, I do see quite a few registrations, but they don't stick around.

 

[KOLOSSAL]

Found an example thread of a clan on these forums claiming they don't have a website yet but are looking into making one. http://www.battleforums.com/forums/recruiting-barracks/31336-looking-clan-join-search-ne-more.html
Could easily make them their own separate forum to conduct operations in. If the clan does well then great, if it dies then forum cleanup is simple and there is a decent likelihood of retaining members due to their interest in the other forums.

 

[ST]

Yes, I actually plugged an advert for clan hosting into my signature on some forums. Hopefully any clan members will associate with the BF community.

 

[CrazyKooK]

I'm down 100% for clan forums within BF. I think we should have a minimum requirement though of having so many people in the clan already or something. I've seen some forums do this and 70%+ of their clan forums have like 3 posts then died. It's work to create the forums so we don't want to waste the effort on 2 people clans. I believe requiring clans to have 7 members with 15+ posts on the forum would make them active in the rest of the forums as well as prove they would stick around and utilize their forums.

Also, offering free webhosting and simple site templates would be a rather simple addition to the site.

What other features could we offer?

 

[jd-inflames]

Man I was such a douche during that time. Apparently I wasn't getting fucked enough.

And I agree, now. I was wrong. Forums are a dying platform. GG, Facebook.

 

[guysensei]

@jd-inflames I have several other gaming and technology forums that are flourishing.