I have reached out to get some help from professional journalist who can help me with content development for both this forum and my website.
How would a journalist help this forum attract move visitors? We're not journalists here engaged in journalism, we're just regular people using a webforum to shitpost. There are a couple of malicious members downvoting anyone who tries to effort post to discourage them from posting more. I bet they would downvote that journalist too if he showed up here.I have reached out to get some help from professional journalist who can help me with content development for both this forum and my website.
Admittedly a reporter would not fit in here. But it would work on my WordPress website in terms of content. Suppose I had my website as a repository for content as well as building up Onionfarms.net. If I drew a substantial amount of traffic there, would it trickle down to here?How would a journalist help this forum attract move visitors? We're not journalists here engaged in journalism, we're just regular people using a webforum to shitpost. There are a couple of malicious members downvoting anyone who tries to effort post to discourage them from posting more. I bet they would downvote that journalist too if he showed up here.
The consensus is that it is not for the best here: I think it is better if I do it with my website and the other Onionfarms forum (Onionfarms.net) rather than this.When I joined KF it had about as many members as Onion Farms has now. Not all of the growth spurts since then have been for the better.
While I think trying to force growth is a terrible idea, you definitely shouldn't do it before you have a clear vision for OF - and at the moment your vision seems to change on a weekly basis.