- Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:52 pm
#14754
Yeah, What JBE said!
I was gonna bring that up with khalil but havent had the opportunity yet. But Yes, that was a huge bit of VW! Our Board traffic on the free side was large for two reasons.
First, the traffic often flowed to and from the boards to the contri. Suggestions, fan bases... Threads that continued past the initial contri contained links to some really good contri, all gathered and promoted free by board members. Our free boards served as a springboard to RC/HC/FB memeberships which improves the bottom line.
Secondly, and of greater importance, the sense of community in the free boards brought many of us to the level of comfort to post contri, and others to comment. With the exception, a notable one, of the political boards, the free forums were polite and positive places. Surprising in the wealth of topics and interesting tidbits of info. Iris's contri on mythology and the associated thread was a classic case in point. Iris is hot, horney and seriously naughty. She is also cultured and intelligent, funny too!
Yawl seriously want to walk away from that cool part of the site? Key word: Free.
Doesn't cost a thing to grow content like that, ask some of us to help do it.
Before I forget, Please tell us the Forum archives are NOT lost forever? That would seriously suck.
People spending hours browsing the threads is a huge part of what improved VW's numbers, as web witless as I am, I know we had a uniquely popular site without equal. I for one would love to help bring it back.
One thing that would help tomorrow would be to move the Forums listing on the home page ABOVE the fold where it can be easily seen.
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"I would like a lifetime spent,
With an irrational and suspicious goddess,
Some short tempered jealousy on the side...
And a bottle of wine that tastes like you...
... and a glass that's never empty...."