The Board Room - Page 4

quote Lazzara

i always thought team guide sub-forum would be a good idea, but i've pretty much changed my mind. i agree with anyone who said it's gonna decrease the activity on my forum.

if anything, make a sticky that lists all the team guides/ discussion. so people don't really have to go to the index anymore.

quote Kesh

I swear it's the most active sub-forum?

quote CatchFire

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quote Kesh

I swear it's the most active sub-forum?

Well, usually it seems to be just lots of threads of 10 posts, with 8 of them being by the author and little feedback coming in, leading to most sotries shutting down after a week or two.

Why not get someone who is actually interested in running the story forum to handle all the things in there, i.e. Story of the Week/Month, and actually keep it up rather than doing it once and then forgetting about it. We need the mods to be interested in the stories and the writers to have a goal for it to remain active. That's why the others fell by the wayside halfway through each year...

quote CatchFire

quote walnuts

That's because most of them are shit.

'Most'. Not all. I think if you go check it out, there are some good starters. Kesh is at it again. I've got some good feedback.

quote Stu

Loads of people do stories at the start of the year, then it dies down as most of them have been done loads of times before and no one is interested in reading all the same players being signed every time.

Make something yourself then, and do it differently. Come up with an idea, something new and interesting and show people how it's done. Check out Kesh's. No one could say it's not original. I'm trying to spice mine up, and it's not really started yet. If you encourage people, they'll want to write. If you give them an incentive to work on a story (i.e. SOTW, SOTM), then you'll get originality.