Getting the Forum Going Again

 
 
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Hadley, I have noticed that the forum has really died down lately. There are only a handful of users who post regularly. I think you should do another contest or something else like that to get the forums going again.

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haye321 - Nov 16, 2006 07:49pm

Hadley, I have noticed that the forum has really died down lately. There are only a handful of users who post regularly. I think you should do another contest or something else like that to get the forums going again.

If you didn’t notice the first contest didn’t really work.

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I would expect people will be more active when there is more to talk about; when Leopard comes out perhaps. Most of the news recently has been about Zune.

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damn zune....
by the way, i got my wisdom teeth removed and i look like a hamster due to edema.

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Frozonecold - Nov 27, 2006 10:52pm
haye321 - Nov 16, 2006 07:49pm

Hadley, I have noticed that the forum has really died down lately. There are only a handful of users who post regularly. I think you should do another contest or something else like that to get the forums going again.

If you didn’t notice the first contest didn’t really work.

I joined in the middle of the first contest so i was not a heavy user at the time. However what I did notice seemed to make me think that the contest did get the forums going.
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yeah it really did, back then. now’s kind of dead, i remember, there used to be lots of post per day.

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Thank you, someone other then me remembers that.

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haye321 - Nov 29, 2006 04:41pm

Thank you, someone other then me remembers that.

I remembered it, BUT their where only many posts during the contest, after the contest ended so did the forums. I don’t think that was the goal.

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I realize that. What Hadley needs to do is have a contest of some kind that is constantly running but the prize is cheap and wanted by users.

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haye321 - Dec 01, 2006 05:02pm

I realize that. What Hadley needs to do is have a contest of some kind that is constantly running but the prize is cheap and wanted by users.

what could the prize be then?

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Something small and relatively cheap. For example, an iTunes gift card, iPod cases, laptop cases, iKlear cleaning kits. Things that are cheap but everyone still wants.

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What other thing could Hadley do to get the forums going on again, besides another contest?

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It’s a good question, and one I would love help answering! A forum is a community by its very definition. We have tons of great comments on our stories but so far it hasn’t transferred too much to the forums...any ideas out there?

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I think that the idea I posted earlier in this thread would be great.

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Hi gang. Fusing the Forums w/the article comments would add some fuel to the fire for me. I’m more of a forum poster than an article poster.

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What do you mean by fuse the forum posts and the article comments???