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Offline PainterJan

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How can we get a Busier forum?
« on: October 28, 2008, 10:59:02 AM »
I really like this site a lot better than some of the other forums I've visited, people are friendly and helpful here, unlike some others I've seen. I wish it was a little more active. Any ideas how we can get more participation here? Contests? A cool T shirt or something? Free Beer?  ;D
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Offline Jake

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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2008, 01:48:19 PM »
We just gotta post MORE!  :)  :D  ;D

That's gotta be the ticket my brutha "JAN" .....errrrr sistah??..... errrrr....

The name thing....I dunno?  ;D  ;D  ;D

POST!!!
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2008, 02:23:49 PM »
This place is good because of the quality, not quantity. A person with a particular issue would do well to use the search feature, because so many things have been talked about before.
 For hanging out and chit chat, I use other forums.
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2008, 02:59:30 PM »
Quote from: BrushJockey on October 28, 2008, 02:23:49 PM
This place is good because of the quality, not quantity. A person with a particular issue would do well to use the search feature, because so many things have been talked about before.
 For hanging out and chit chat, I use other forums.

I use the search feature a lot, but even so it's always nice to get a new perspective from a different person which may not have posted to the original thread. I'm all about quality over quantity!  :D

-Sistah Jan ;)
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2008, 03:37:33 PM »
Quote from: PainterJan on October 28, 2008, 02:59:30 PM
-Sistah Jan ;)

My Sistah!!!

U Rock!!!

(and you have a sence of humor)....

Which means.... U ROCK!!!
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2008, 09:31:45 AM »
Quote from: Jake on October 28, 2008, 03:37:33 PM
Quote from: PainterJan on October 28, 2008, 02:59:30 PM
-Sistah Jan ;)

My Sistah!!!

U Rock!!!

(and you have a sence of humor)....

Which means.... U ROCK!!!


 :) :D ;D
Fangu  (Thank you in Halloween Speak)
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2008, 06:19:58 PM »
In the last ten years I've been a member or moderator at what has to be dozens of forums...Trust me, the smaller the better. I could spend a lot of time explaining my opinion on this, but it boils down to dilution. The bigger the site, the faster your post travels down the topic list and it gets difficult to get dependable responses.

After all these years, I'm a member of just two forums, this the bigger of the two....
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2008, 11:49:16 AM »
I like it just as it is  0)-(0
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2008, 04:41:36 PM »
I like the smaller forums too, I belong to a gardening site that is fairly busy but not overwhelming, it's part of a much bigger website but they have sub-forums, the one I'm on focuses on Florida gardens.

I like the tools and categories this one has and the friendliness of the members, some of the other pro forums pretty much ignore you if you're not one of the old dogs.

I belonged to a dog and cat forum for a while that only had about twenty members but it was busy as could be, good discussions and no trolls.
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2008, 07:04:00 PM »
how 'bout raiding some electrician forums and give em grief over leaving fingerprints all over newly painted walls and trim?

thats sure to get us visitors..  ;)

if that doesn't do it, the plumber forums will be next
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2008, 07:20:25 PM »
Quote from: UUjohn on November 13, 2008, 07:04:00 PM
how 'bout raiding some electrician forums and give em grief over leaving fingerprints all over newly painted walls and trim?

thats sure to get us visitors..  ;)

if that doesn't do it, the plumber forums will be next

Don't get me started on the cable contractors and what they did to my walls......
 :)  :D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2008, 05:28:37 AM »
or the floor,carpet,tile guys, carpenters tend to be a little better.
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2008, 08:13:11 AM »
Conspiracies and stealth raids aside, remember that a lot of forums are cyclical. I was a member of a couple of R/C aircraft forums that would just about go dead every Spring (start of flying season) and after the first cold snap (what they called the beginning of "building season") the place would light up.

We have similar factors here. When guys are busy they don't have time to chit chat, they show up more frequently if work is slow or they are between contracts. Many of us are subject to the seasons as well...Also consider the search function; There is a great wealth of information and answers to questions in our "archives" that many who know how can find without starting threads or even posting to existing ones. In other words we slow our own forum down by doing what we're here to do...Another year or so and Admin can just gather up the threads, bind them in a pretty cover and sell a painters' handbook... ;D ;)
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2008, 01:11:23 PM »
Quote from: the PAINTSMITH on November 14, 2008, 08:13:11 AM
... In other words we slow our own forum down by doing what we're here to do...Another year or so and Admin can just gather up the threads, bind them in a pretty cover and sell a painters' handbook... ;D ;)

I guess that's the difference between a discussion forum and a database....... ;)
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Re: How can we get a Busier forum?
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2008, 02:55:00 PM »
We multitask here Jan...Can't be avoided  ;)...
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