I’m going to treat this like a serious question since it’s in Game Discussions

Basically you need to convince people that the flamebate community adds something to the rest of the gaming experience. I venture that the vast majority of people come and pwn forums and only really check flamebate and the wiki when they are stuck and need help.

Further I would venture a guess that most of the people in flamebate already have a Bulletin Board they already visit for most of their other interests.

In order to grow Flamebate you need to either expand the focus or really make using it more interesting for the casual forumwarz fan.

Bigguyinblack Posted:

There are thousands of players who have never posted in the Flamebate and they can’t all be alts.

How can we encourage the wallflowers to participate?

Trust me man, we’d be much better off with most people not participating. In fact i think a more important question is, how do we encourage certain people to leave flamebate and never return?

While it may not be Flamebate-specific, klan SRSLY is trying to get more people actively involved in the RP-side of things (because we’re fabulous persongy fabulous persons, yes, we know) via contests for BPs. *shrug* I don’t know if it’ll have any long-term benefit, though, particularly since in order to want to RP you’ve probably already RP’d somewhere else and may still RP there still.

I don’t feel we should encourage people. If they find it and like it, they’ll stay and use it.

We don’t need everyone posting here. It’s a pretty low-brow forum as it is; if more people come in there will be more idiots and less good posters.

littlefran Posted:

This.

More people posting implies on more idiots and more spammers. If people are smart enough to go and search stuff on Flamebate, they’ll stay here and make Forumwarz grow as a community.

I don’t believe people who comes to Flamebate only seeking tips ever have the intention of staying here and posting more. Otherwise, they would simply post more. It’s not rocket science.

As someone who has just started playing the game I think this is wrong.

I’ve participated in many forums and still do but at first glance I find this one quite confusing.

Because people are quite often posting in character in some areas and then not in others it seems hard to find where those lines are drawn. Now when you know the forums and it’s members I’m sure it’s easy to know peoples characters and when they are joking/role playing or being serious. But as a new arrival you have none of that knowledge and the whole place feels very inaccessible.

I’ve looked around a little for the last couple of days and not really found anywhere I felt I could step in.

The reasons I posted here are from what I can tell this is a serious non flame area, so I could make a serious point, and also I have come into the forums as I would like to seek advice but I certainly would remain on the forums after if I felt comfortable so I felt the post I’m replying to was wrong.

Now I’m not sure you can solve this problem of confusion as it is the nature of your forums, you like to let people role play their characters, but I do see it as a problem to encouraging people to step in and join.

Except perhaps for the idiot type posters people have discussed as they will just step in and start trolling and flaming people as thats what they really want to do anyway.

So you may well attract new people, but it’s probably not the type you really want to create a good set of forums. They might be discouraged by the confusing nature of what is allowed in different areas.

Onli-Wan Cahone Posted:

As someone who has just started playing the game I think this is wrong.

I’ve participated in many forums and still do but at first glance I find this one quite confusing.

Because people are quite often posting in character in some areas and then not in others it seems hard to find where those lines are drawn. Now when you know the forums and it’s members I’m sure it’s easy to know peoples characters and when they are joking/role playing or being serious. But as a new arrival you have none of that knowledge and the whole place feels very inaccessible.

I’ve looked around a little for the last couple of days and not really found anywhere I felt I could step in.

The reasons I posted here are from what I can tell this is a serious non flame area, so I could make a serious point, and also I have come into the forums as I would like to seek advice but I certainly would remain on the forums after if I felt comfortable so I felt the post I’m replying to was wrong.

Now I’m not sure you can solve this problem of confusion as it is the nature of your forums, you like to let people role play their characters, but I do see it as a problem to encouraging people to step in and join.

Except perhaps for the idiot type posters people have discussed as they will just step in and start trolling and flaming people as thats what they really want to do anyway.

So you may well attract new people, but it’s probably not the type you really want to create a good set of forums. They might be discouraged by the confusing nature of what is allowed in different areas.

I don’t understand. Role playing goes in role-playing forums, and not outside role-playing forums. How is this confusing? As for not finding a place to step in, the only explanation i can see is you’re a huge woman's genitals who’s afraid to post on the internet (correct me if I’m wrong here). Random new people make threads all the time, this place isn’t nearly as cloistered as you apparently think it is. All in all, you seem like the kind of person who takes the internet way too seriously, so in the end it’s probably best that you don’t post here.

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Onli-Wan Cahone Posted:

Now you see you know absolutely nothing about me. All you’ve seen is me come in and offer some opinions on why your forums might not be popular. Your response as you don’t agree, or are too simple to see an alternate point of view, is to attack that person.

Do you still wonder why perhaps you don’t get as many quality posters here as you’d like? Why it’s a bit low brow?

jesus christ. if making the forums more popular would attract more people like you, thank god they’re not. You really consider yourself a quality poster, don’t you? More posters like you would completely suck the humor dry from these forums.

Onli-Wan Cahone Posted:

Now you see you know absolutely nothing about me. All you’ve seen is me come in and offer some opinions on why your forums might not be popular. Your response as you don’t agree, or are too simple to see an alternate point of view, is to attack that person.

Do you still wonder why perhaps you don’t get as many quality posters here as you’d like? Why it’s a bit low brow?

I don’t know why you would need to know anything about anyone really. As for new posters, when in Rome….

This place isn’t even the slightest bit serious at all, and if you take yourself serious and the such then you probably won’t enjoy it very much to be honest. It’s low brow because it is supposed to be low brow.

see u on the formums

BirdofPrey Posted:

jesus christ. if making the forums more popular would attract more people like you, thank god they’re not. You really consider yourself a quality poster, don’t you? More posters like you would completely suck the humor dry from these forums.

Again, talking about things you know nothing about.

You’ve made a decision on me after reading two posts.

I could quite comfortably flame you. Would that make you happier? Would that be a quality post? Would that inject your brand of humour?

What kind of person am I then that you object to? Given the facts you actually have on me I can only bumume you dislike people capable of forming coherent sentences and articulating a point of view that differs to your own.

You accuse me of taking the internet far too seriously when you are the one reacting to my posts. Perhaps you’d like to think about that a little. I say a little as I’m trying to keep it within your ability range. Log in to see images!