The GT Self Improvement Thread

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Whatever drove Aladuf and company away? I can't remember. Was it just that we hated his friend Renwood?

Flunkie only left because he was a d-bag.

Aladuf just kind of grew tired I would imagine, and really this forum just didn't keep pace with him.

I mean on a personal level, I'm not really sure why I care for this forum, but I do or wouldn't be so active here. I also try different ways to recruit people, some of it works, some of it falls on its face, what can you do?

I do think that we have a problem with open discussion/dialog here though. I mean often we have threads where people just kind of post independently of the discussion around the thread, which is fine, but it doesn't usually foster much further discussion. Not that everything here needs to turn into an argument or a debate, you can have discussions that are more grounded.

As for standing out, we really can't do anything to stand out, video game websites are a dime a dozen these days, and that's why the main page never took off, I'd like to try the whole alternate reporting that I suggested in the other thread, but again we need members who are willing to do the work.

I think what we need to do, to stand-out, is really just make this the best place we can as current members. Make new people feel welcomed without smothering them. We can hope to keep the members that we do have now happy, and maybe find a handful of people to enter our little community.

We could be wary of others attitudes, not everyone is big on cursing and stuff, so maybe label threads if has foul language, I don't know.

[Typhoid]

Personally, I'm a fan of our current staff.


I don't really have a problem with the size of the forum. We've all been here for so long that it's just like a group of friends that talk about shit, rather than a bunch of random people on the internet posting memes and talking down to eachother.


As for getting new people, I just don't think we have anything to draw anyone in.
I do think - if we do it - the GT 'cover page' with satirical reviews and whatnot wouldn't be a bad thing. We could keep GT how it is in the forum sense, but just add an Onion-esque take on video games and the industry. No other site is really doing that.

[KillerGremlin]

Small communities like this die at the hands of site expenses and members growing up and getting on with life.

My take on expanding and bringing in new members is you need to offer something, be it reviews, videos, or free swag. None of that can be accomplished with just a forum alone, so that means branching out and making a front page.

Otherwise the forum will continue to operate as is - like a small community, an enhanced version of IRC or AIM - as long as people are willing to keep up with server costs.


Alternatively, we could offer porn. Porn brings in traffic.