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 Topic: How to get more members?
Posted: March 23 2014 at 20:59 |
My apologizes (maybe?) but i don't have a long winded paragraph to complement my reasoning for asking this question.
Simple as this:
How could we try to get more active, consistent members on this forum? This forum is inhabited by the same 15 members with a newbie posting either their introduction thread or a rogue posting from a random newbie from the past once or twice.
Is it a problem with the look of the forum and main site to interest people in coming back? The subject were devoted to? The members? The topics?
How could we try to make this forum more appealing for others to come and stay. A fresh batch of lovely members are desperately needed imo.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Finnforest
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Posted: March 23 2014 at 21:09 |
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True...though there are usually a couple hundred "active users" on the forum....so maybe people like to read stuff but don't like to "sign up" for stuff?
But yeah, I know what you mean.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: March 23 2014 at 23:49 |
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There's nothing anyone can do. A forum is a forum. People come and people go, and some stay. Some feel like a part of a family, some see one too many trolls. Some people feel like at home and can come and go as they please, and some just see a host of Genesis and Yes polls. Like there's a way to change that. Let things happen naturally.
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 23 2014 at 23:56 |
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It would be nice to see more than just a few new active Forum posters,
maybe we scare them off with our know-it-all attitude and petty
bickering. Nah.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:06 |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:22 |
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There's currently 163 active users online out of 50,000 members worldwide on PA which is a lot of active users at any one time compared to sister sites JMA (22 active users out of 2,024 members) and MMA (19 active users out of 2,460 members) Although the percentage of members who visit the forums is higher on both MMA and JMA I just wonder how many dormant accounts we have on PA? (there must be thousands) plus I'd hazard most members of JMA and MMA are also members of PA so there's significant duplication involved. Just an observation, not neccesarily a criticism, but as PA is much older than its sister sites, does anyone feel that the focus on the PA forums has maybe shifted over time from music discussions to general discussions? if so, does this perhaps put potential new members off?
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:23 |
On my visits to frequent record fairs and discussions with the prog vendors there, it bums me out no end that virtually all of them stare blankly when I ask if they've heard of the Prog Archives website. Most of them have no idea what it is.
Amongst the bands and artists themselves we have no problem with exposure, but the mere mortals lol....that's another story. 
I'll keep spreading the good word all the same though... 
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:33 |
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^ ^ I've noticed a slight movement toward general discussion, which both
does and does not bother me. Whether it puts new posters off is
very hard to say. One might posit that too little general conv
would attract too few average people/music fans. Apparently the
top ten active forums focus on art, gaming, social, martial arts,
entertainment and paintball. Which either means those forums
happen to have a lot of chatty members or those topics are very
popular. I tend to suspect the latter. And as we all
know, prog can never compete with paintball.
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cstack3
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:36 |
I keep coming back to hear PresDoug talk about Triumvirat!
Seriously, it is a rather small circle, but I quite enjoy the comradery. Also, the knowledge of music in general, and prog music in particular, is absolutely top-shelf in this crowd....I come back so often because I learn a great deal.
Now, to get more members...I don't know, recruit more babes?
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infocat
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:38 |
 cstack3 wrote:
I keep coming back to hear PresDoug talk about Triumvirat! Seriously, it is a rather small circle, but I quite enjoy the comradery. Also, the knowledge of music in general, and prog music in particular, is absolutely top-shelf in this crowd....I come back so often because I learn a great deal. Now, to get more members...I don't know, recruit more babes? |
Isn't Kati/Sonia enough? 
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Belief is not Truth.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 00:52 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
Just an observation, not neccesarily a criticism, but as PA is much older than its sister sites, does anyone feel that the focus on the PA forums has maybe shifted over time from music discussions to general discussions? if so, does this perhaps put potential new members off? |
I really doubt it. The freedom to talk about (almost) anything and everything only adds a dimension to our forum.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:16 |
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I've never considered this a problem if I'm honest.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:25 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
ExittheLemming wrote:
Just an observation, not neccesarily a criticism,
but as PA is much older than its sister sites, does anyone feel that the
focus on the PA forums has maybe shifted over time from music
discussions to general discussions? if so, does this perhaps put
potential new members off? |
I really doubt it. The freedom to talk
about (almost) anything and everything only adds a dimension to our
forum. |
Yes, there is that perspective of course but I can see >540,000 posts in General Discussions alone while Prog Music Lounge plus Prog Bands, Artists and Genre Appreciation combined don't even add to that figure. Having said that, Just For Fun has nearly a million posts  Have we simply run out of things to say about the music we profess to love?
Edited by ExittheLemming - March 24 2014 at 01:26
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:50 |
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^ Not as long as we keep listening to it.
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:52 |
I don't think I've even looked at the `Just For Fun' section in almost a year!!
Too busy in just the music discussion areas! 
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cstack3
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 01:58 |
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What's a "Just for Fun" section?
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:02 |
cstack3 wrote:
What's a "Just for Fun" section? |
You know the 'Reader's Wives' section in a porn mag? 
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irrelevant
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:06 |
It's because some innocent new forum lurkers often happen to open a thread where Svetonio has got in there and posted so many youtube embeds that they're stuck on a page that they can't get out of for eternity.
Edited by irrelevant - March 24 2014 at 02:08
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chopper
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:20 |
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We should get loyalty points for each post, then when you've built enough points you can exchange them for PA goodies - pens, baseball caps, signed photos of Dean etc.
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tamijo
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:45 |
chopper wrote:
We should get loyalty points for each post, then when you've built enough points you can exchange them for PA goodies - pens, baseball caps, signed photos of Dean etc. |
"signed photos of Dean" puuu-ha, that part saved my azz, thought you were serious for a second or two
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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