Status of da forums
Posted: August 19th, 2015, 5:23 pm
I got the old original vBulletin posts converted to phpBB, but then had trouble trying to merge just a tiny phpBB database with this one. Tiny as in just a few members, posts, PMs, and threads, just to see if I could get two small databases merged, since if I can't even get a tiny database added to this one, I definitely wouldn't ever be able to merge a massively huge database with this one and have no problems!! So I was then just going to switch over to the old vBulletin database, and it turned out spammers had found those forums, and I then discovered another problem. You can delete the threads, but the forums then looked like the threads were still there, the forums still had the thread titles and links to the threads!!! So I just gave up with the merging idea!!!!
Since even summer does nothing to generate activity, the only idea I got left for trying to resurrect the forums from the grave, is social networks. I got
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRock/
set-up with 14,600 followers, and got one group board with 7,100 pins added so far. Next I'll see if I can get content posted here in the form of posts, and post links to them on Pinterest. Lists do *very* well on Pinterest.
One other idea was having a posting contest, with the first four posters to get 1,000 or maybe just 500 posts, made in the video game category, getting $50 each. Though since no ones even posting during the summer, obviously the only reason any one would then post, if they did, would be posting for money, and once they made the posts, would probably just high-tale it out of here!!! If I *ever* do the contest, it'll be when I'm generating traffic from social networks, so I can also have a bunch of new members from the social networks here working on winning the cash.
If any one has any traffic generating suggestions, or social network ideas, especially for Pinterest or Facebook, post away.
If any one is in any Pinterest group boards that accept Video Game pins, follow
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRock/
and send an invite to videogames@vgchat.com! If you want an invite to post at
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRoc ... deo-games/
post here with a link to your profile.
My idea for Facebook is creating a Facebook page, but about the only way to get fans to it is doing advertising, unless I can get good traffic here and add Facebook buttons to the forums. Advertising definitely won't happen when the forums look like a graveyard, but might happen if I get it set-up so Pinterest sends enough traffic to make the forums look active, so I'm not paying to get Facebook fans, just to send them to a dead forum!!!! (That was one reason for trying to merge the old vBulletin posts, so it wouldn't look like a dead forum!!!!)
Since even summer does nothing to generate activity, the only idea I got left for trying to resurrect the forums from the grave, is social networks. I got
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRock/
set-up with 14,600 followers, and got one group board with 7,100 pins added so far. Next I'll see if I can get content posted here in the form of posts, and post links to them on Pinterest. Lists do *very* well on Pinterest.
One other idea was having a posting contest, with the first four posters to get 1,000 or maybe just 500 posts, made in the video game category, getting $50 each. Though since no ones even posting during the summer, obviously the only reason any one would then post, if they did, would be posting for money, and once they made the posts, would probably just high-tale it out of here!!! If I *ever* do the contest, it'll be when I'm generating traffic from social networks, so I can also have a bunch of new members from the social networks here working on winning the cash.
If any one has any traffic generating suggestions, or social network ideas, especially for Pinterest or Facebook, post away.
If any one is in any Pinterest group boards that accept Video Game pins, follow
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRock/
and send an invite to videogames@vgchat.com! If you want an invite to post at
https://www.pinterest.com/VideoGamesRoc ... deo-games/
post here with a link to your profile.
My idea for Facebook is creating a Facebook page, but about the only way to get fans to it is doing advertising, unless I can get good traffic here and add Facebook buttons to the forums. Advertising definitely won't happen when the forums look like a graveyard, but might happen if I get it set-up so Pinterest sends enough traffic to make the forums look active, so I'm not paying to get Facebook fans, just to send them to a dead forum!!!! (That was one reason for trying to merge the old vBulletin posts, so it wouldn't look like a dead forum!!!!)