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What would you like to see done with the political content and countries subforum?

  • Make this a pure lolcow forum & migrate the non-lolcow material to a different forum

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • Emphasize the lolcow content & migrate only the political and countries stuff to a different forum

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Keep the political and countries stuff but deemphasize them and move them to news and events.

    Votes: 11 64.7%

  • Keep the political material & country subforums the way they are

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • Total voters
    17
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Ken's announcements can be found here concerning the onionverse
Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt said:
but you would be surprised who is keeping an eye on us
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This sounds rather ominous, can you talk about this more? Who is keeping an eye on this forum?

Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt said:
I also think the merchandising might help us come out of obscurity.
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What will help you come out of obscurity is not merchandise - IMO there aren't enough people heavily invested in this forum for something like that to generate a profit - but rather stopping the trolls from shitting up threads with off-topic arguments or allowing them to scare away the newbies with unhinged flamewars and downvote brigades. You need to do more to retain the people that are here rather than allowing a small group of trolls to send them packing the moment they show up here.

Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt said:
We are relatively small (just under 4000)
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How many of those are actually regularly active though?
How many of those participate, rather than log in once to have a look around and never logged back in again?
 
The Gays From LA said:
This sounds rather ominous, can you talk about this more? Who is keeping an eye on this forum?


What will help you come out of obscurity is not merchandise - IMO there aren't enough people heavily invested in this forum for something like that to generate a profit - but rather stopping the trolls from shitting up threads with off-topic arguments or allowing them to scare away the newbies with unhinged flamewars and downvote brigades. You need to do more to retain the people that are here rather than allowing a small group of trolls to send them packing the moment they show up here.



How many of those are actually regularly active though?
How many of those participate, rather than log in once to have a look around and never logged back in again?
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@The Gays From LA let me clarify: We get a lot of site referrals from KF (naturally) but we are also getting a lot from Twitter ( checking us in terms of harmful links). We are also getting the attention of Reddit users, 4chan, the metokur forums and now the ED forums. I understand your concerns: No, we are not on any kind of government watch list or anything like that.
 
A couple of diversity stickers that I designed
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Neurodiversity Pride1.jpg
 
I am sorry, I'm not gonna buy stickers from a forum that allows persistent trolls to chase away all the promising newbies with unhinged flamewars from some of the most batshit trolls here and downvoting brigades from all the other trolls whose only purpose of this forum is to chase away newbies by making them feel like they're already getting attacked upon their very first post. You need to do more to retain newbies and make them feel like they can freely post here without getting instantly dog-piled by the trolls. You can think about stickers later.

Do you think it makes me wanna continue posting here when you know these downvote brigades are going on and you are doing nothing to stop them?

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These are three trolls who contribute literally nothing to this forum. The only thing they're doing is shitting up threads with off-topic flamewars and downvote-bombing newbies to chase them away. Do something about that if you want this forum to grow.
 
The Gays From LA said:
You can think about stickers later.
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The subject of stickers is a sore one to Gays, it seems...
The Gays From LA said:
Do you think it makes me wanna continue posting here when you know these downvote brigades are going on and you are doing nothing to stop them?
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Hasn't stopped you so far...
The Gays From LA said:
These are three trolls who contribute literally nothing to this forum.
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They have irked you. That is something.
The Gays From LA said:
The only thing they're doing is shitting up threads with off-topic flamewars and downvote-bombing newbies to chase them away
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Yet... the only person complaining is...
The Gays From LA said:
Do something about that if you want this forum to grow.
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Get a job.
 
i was actually rarely rating his posts at all until i saw him crying about me specifically negrating all his posts so i will just do that it is what he wanted
 
The Gays From LA said:
I am sorry, I'm not gonna buy stickers from a forum that allows persistent trolls to chase away all the promising newbies with unhinged flamewars from some of the most batshit trolls here and downvoting brigades from all the other trolls whose only purpose of this forum is to chase away newbies by making them feel like they're already getting attacked upon their very first post. You need to do more to retain newbies and make them feel like they can freely post here without getting instantly dog-piled by the trolls. You can think about stickers later.

Do you think it makes me wanna continue posting here when you know these downvote brigades are going on and you are doing nothing to stop them?

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These are three trolls who contribute literally nothing to this forwum. The only thing they're doing is shitting up threads with off-topic flamewars and downvote-bombing newbies to chase them away. Do something about that if you want this forum to grow.
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I will talk about this with staff but for the time being simply put these people on ignore. The problem with banning people you find unpleasant is that you end up banning more and more people until you end up just like Null. I have talked about the forum with a friend of mine and basically you are thrown in with a bunch of gremlins. I might consider the option of private forums for our more active members so you can individually tailor the environment.
 
Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt said:
I will talk about this with staff but for the time being simply put these people on ignore. The problem with banning people you find unpleasant is that you end up banning more and more people until you end up just like Null. I have talked about the forum with a friend of mine and basically you are thrown in with a bunch of gremlins. I might consider the option of private forums for our more active members so you can individually tailor the environment.
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he already has everyone he is crying about on ignore he just wants people who dont like his retarded posts punished
 
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