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[Perpetuated]

Discuss.

We had no such thread, I thought that we needed one. Enjoy.

EDIT: Clearly, the thread changed topic.

[Zephyric]

I think we do have an abortion thread...

[Perpetuated]

Searched, couldn't find it.

Or missed it.

[♥i-love-you♥]

I'm pretty sure we do.

Why did you decide we needed one?

[Perpetuated]

'cos controversy -> activity and this place is fucking dead.

[♥i-love-you♥]

The only place that has the slightest bit of activity now is the games section and the occasional newb posting for relationship/emo advice in the music section.

and on topic: It's unfair on the child to bring it up if you are not ready and can't cope.

[Perpetuated]

Oh fuck the topic: any ideas on drumming up some activity?

[♥i-love-you♥]

Nope. I've been trying to think of some, but have come up with nothing that'd work. Perhaps taking down EC/EP/EB?

[Perpetuated]

(that one had crossed my mind)

Other ideas I had were redesigning the forum (can't, I don't have FTP access), moving elsewhere (doable, I have a VPS doing very little right now), me buying LE from Nuk (tried, no response from his email).

Otherwise, no idea.

[♥i-love-you♥]

Yeahh, it's pretty much an impossible task contacting nuk. Have you tried every address you can find for him?

We may have to make it appeal more to "emos" to get more people. If the not-so-regulars then stop flaming them with the same shit, some might stay, and some might be cool.

Seriously lacking ideas. Get the oldies back?

Edit: Where're you renting the VPS from?

[Perpetuated]

(moving this to site suggestions etc)

I've tried Nuk on the email from all of his WHOISes.

I don't think Lady or George would come back, to be honest. Other than that, I don't really know who the 'oldies' are. It's just a shame that most new threads here are awful, aha.

[♥i-love-you♥]

Most people that used to come here have left. It's completely different from when I joined. There were also a million newbs here then. The site used to get used a lot more before the psot limit on PMs etc. They didn't use the forums much, if at all, but we had users.

Really annoying that we can't contact nuk. He may appear in a year when the time comes to renew the domain name.

[Perpetuated]

No idea what we can do, to be honest. But when EC/EB do better than we do, it's worrying.

[♥i-love-you♥]

We used to be doing so well, then it went flop. I'd suggest competitions, but we tried photographic ones a couple of times before and nobody cared, and it wouldn't bring any new users to the site.

Ok, I should probably get some sleep. Everyone, suggest how we can get ew members and how we can keep others coming back. Or if you live near nuk, go tell him to check his email.

[artificial]

Make a facebook group for LE and invite people at random? More advertising? Search engine optimisation?
Making changes to the forums isn't going to bring in significantly more people.
I do think you guys have too many sections. The last post in the Television section, for example, was 10 days ago; the fourth most recent post was the 9th of May. This makes a forum seem really empty, and nobody wants to be a member at an empty forum. Get one general off-topic section; merge meaningful discussion, relaxation corner, humour, television, film, literature, video games and technology. They're honestly not getting enough activity to warrant a section, or even a subsection, they'd only be necessary on an absolutely huge forum.
I like the WarZone idea, but include rants and raves within that.
Make news and suggestions a subforum of help and FAQ. And damn it, make fewer music sections and cut the elitist crap. I'm sure many people are terrified to post in the music section lest they get a genre wrong. Have, at most, an 'Emo' section, 'related genres', music slander and a general music section. Having 11 music subforums on a forum this size is ridiculous, as is having 32 sections overall.

EC's appeal is its simplicity and accessibility, EB's is its stereotypical 'emoness', very customisable profiles and general attitude- the forum itself appeals to teenagers, with genuinely funny "forgot your password?" texts, etc.
Where does LE fit in? It has 200 new posts in a day, on a good day, in around 20 threads, divided over 30 sections, that's 6 or 7 posts in each section, some get more, most get less. There's a "lol flaming 12 year old newbies is cool" attitude, and the 10 or so established members gang up to push new members away. Its focus on emotive hardcore is a selling point, but there just aren't many people interested in the genre. That and LE doesn't really have anything special or unique to attract people- it uses the same forum software as EC, and EC is much more user-friendly, with stickies on every topic, a clear sense of activity, and sections which make it obvious exactly where to post.


Emo forums across the board have been declining over the last year though, with the trend losing popularity.

[Perpetuated]

Apparently, Nuk has plans. I am personally intrigued by this.

This place is SEO'd to the hilt. Otherwise, totally agree with you.

[Perpetuated]

They're now subsections of other sections now, or removed in order to increase activity in each one.

[SaffronJava]

I suppose artifical's idea of making a Facebook group for LE is a pretty good idea, but I just think the "emo" part of this forum is dead. To be fair, it has become a website for just general loves such as music, anime, books & general discussion. I think we'd make much more progress in gaining members if the forum just became something different rather than just being aimed at "emos", & then we get a bunch of 13 year olds that we don't want here.

I suggest a new domain name, advertising on Facebook & affiliating with other websites.

[Perpetuated]

I have a VPS not doing anything except being 'theslutfinder.co.uk.' If people are up for it?

[DaisyChain]

artificial, on Jun 18 2010, 08:08 AM, said:

Make a facebook group for LE and invite people at random? More advertising? Search engine optimisation?
Making changes to the forums isn't going to bring in significantly more people.
I do think you guys have too many sections. The last post in the Television section, for example, was 10 days ago; the fourth most recent post was the 9th of May. This makes a forum seem really empty, and nobody wants to be a member at an empty forum. Get one general off-topic section; merge meaningful discussion, relaxation corner, humour, television, film, literature, video games and technology. They're honestly not getting enough activity to warrant a section, or even a subsection, they'd only be necessary on an absolutely huge forum.
I like the WarZone idea, but include rants and raves within that.
Make news and suggestions a subforum of help and FAQ. And damn it, make fewer music sections and cut the elitist crap. I'm sure many people are terrified to post in the music section lest they get a genre wrong. Have, at most, an 'Emo' section, 'related genres', music slander and a general music section. Having 11 music subforums on a forum this size is ridiculous, as is having 32 sections overall.

EC's appeal is its simplicity and accessibility, EB's is its stereotypical 'emoness', very customisable profiles and general attitude- the forum itself appeals to teenagers, with genuinely funny "forgot your password?" texts, etc.
Where does LE fit in? It has 200 new posts in a day, on a good day, in around 20 threads, divided over 30 sections, that's 6 or 7 posts in each section, some get more, most get less. There's a "lol flaming 12 year old newbies is cool" attitude, and the 10 or so established members gang up to push new members away. Its focus on emotive hardcore is a selling point, but there just aren't many people interested in the genre. That and LE doesn't really have anything special or unique to attract people- it uses the same forum software as EC, and EC is much more user-friendly, with stickies on every topic, a clear sense of activity, and sections which make it obvious exactly where to post.


Emo forums across the board have been declining over the last year though, with the trend losing popularity.

Don't do the facebook thing :/

There are too many sections and sub-sections, It's quite confusing :S

I'm a member on EC and EB, I much prefer EC, it's much simpler and we have a tonnes of info in the stickies

Yeah, emo is dying but most of our regular members weren't emo in the first place