poto

in an effort to liven up the board a bit, we'll be making some changes and improvements in the coming days here...

any suggestions for things/features you'd like to see here, please post em in this thread...

among the things we'll be considering and/or doing soonish:
-contests
-additional forums here
-support for video embedding from sites like youtube, etc.
-minor rule changes*

*probably going to start requiring a minimum of 1 post a week or 1 post a month to maintain access to the private forums... hopefully, that'll cut down on those who are leeching and aren't making an effort to contribute or aren't even being active posters here...

feedback and creative contest ideas would be much appreciated

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Bofu2U

I'd go with 1 post a month just because there are some periods where I'm away

piratescurvy

I'll bet you some of the people who spend less time posting are the ones implementing ideas and not watching cheesy youtube videos. LOL. :P

I wish I had suggestions. There is a reason I never got into forum building...I'm only good at using forums to spam. :evil:

stma

Once a month is a great idea - any more than that and your going to have a true ghost town as I'm to busy sometimes to play in forums.

Honestly I go to forums when my kids are annoying me and I can't get 'real' work done.

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Dr_DEVIL

Lets go 4 at least one post a month.

poto

thx for the input... 1 post per month minimum it shall be!

anybody got any nifty contest ideas? maybe a googlebowling contest?? I know a few assholes that deserve to be bowled... heh

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matthecool

Poto, congrats on the recent growth of this forum. I understand first hand how hard they are and I have even shut mine down, due to me and a few other bots only posting there.

However I don't think minimum posting should be implemented. Infact I am not a fan of private threads, they simply won't get indexed in the se's, nor shared.

I do however like the idea of the contests lol

but then again my forum failed, just my 0.02

Itchy

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Private fourm ?

Contest = whores

Whores = less and less good information posting

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poto

thx

the whole concept behind the private forums is to build a private knowledge base and keep that stuff out of the SE's, thus allowing it to be shared with our small group of serious people only... giving our peeps get first crack at it... so, even if it does end up on somebody's blog weeks or months later, at least we got an early heads up on it... plus, if you want to say honestly say something that might offend a few delicate ears, you don't have to worry about your comments being indexed...

if the private forums were public and indexable, I'm sure we'd be getting a lot more SE love, but I like things the way they're setup...

don't worry Itchy, I'm not talking about traditional post whoring contests... I mean something more creative that requires a little bit of brain power... something for the private forums perhaps...

one idea I had a while back was to do a google bowling contest... basically, we'd select a list of targets and whoever can bowl the most targets off the list in the shortest time would win cash and nifty prizes!! and maybe some stuff for the runner-ups too - so far there hasn't seemed to be much interest in it tho...

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Apologetik

I'm not in the private forums, so I will not comment on that.

But, Google bowling does sound interesting?

wouz

whats google bowling?

poto

you got some reading to catch up on bro...

you can start here:
Why is Negative SEO Becoming More Common? : Slightly Shady SEO

and you could try doing a search of the board here... think we have a thread or 3 about it...

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poto

comments and critiques of the public forums are welcome too...

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wouz

thanks for the info. Im a total noob at blackhat stuff, learn something new every day!

stma

Changes? We don't need no stinkin changes.

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poto

nothing major... just some minor things...

I do need to get off my ass and update the rules to reflect it tho...

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pussyluver

A post per month? Whew... good thing I dropped by. Yep, still kickin.

Contests don't seem to play like they used to. TCG can't give away iPod-Nano's over at GFY.

bamboo

Somethings i think would be positive

-sigs that change sitewide when they are modified in the cp
-affiliate marketing & ppc section in the private area
-close knit community in the private area
-contest would be cool

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poto

went looking for the options in vb for the sig thing and couldn't find it... but I'm tired, so maybe I just missed it... I'll look for it again later...

the affiliate marketing & ppc forum we can do... I think the reason we didn't include one in the first place is mostly because I'm not very good at PPC stuff, so I couldn't have really contributed anything to it... we can give it a shot tho

we're working the community thing... I think when we get the review sites up and running, that should help a bit more... this board was never meant to be extremely active tho, as most of us are fairly busy working...

a contest is possible too... the 'adult date finder' thing was pretty neat... maybe we can run a similar keyword ranking competition for cash and prizes soonish... I'll have to get with Itto on that...

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poto

speaking of changes... these chinese bot spammers are starting to get on my nerves...

if this keeps up we might just start redirecting all chinese traffic...

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