what do you do to inspire activity?
POST CREATED Oct 29, 2014 5:23:18 GMT -8
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Post by tsundere shark on Oct 29, 2014 5:23:18 GMT -8
so everything is going great since i started res. tons of people, community is great for the most part (only had issues with one person and after we warned them they were okay), plot running smoothly, etc./idk not here to brag. but it seems like some people just never post ic. they'll post in a thread if someone bugs them to and that's it. or they'll post once a month to save their character. and i'm just like "why are you here?". as far as i know it isn't a matter of losing muse (don't people generally leave when that happens?), or them being busy irl bc they have time to sit in the cbox for hours. they just... idk i don't understand it.
or they come back and it's "i'm sorry i was gone my whole family died i was too distraught to even post an absence thread". mysteriously, this always happens right after i send a mass pm about something (lol?). bonus points when i see them on another site a few days before. like if you don't like it here, you don't have to stay. i hate to lose people but i'm not going to tell people to do things they don't wanna do. does everyone really have to lie about it? either tell us you're gone, or stop coming back every 2 months and making us approve a character that you disappear after making.
so like i need to stop ranting lol. but yeah, i'm sure most everyone has these sorts of problems on their sites. i've only ever joined 2 sites that aren't mine so i'm not too familiar with how other admins do their thing. how do you inspire activity? i just make sure there's always an ic/ooc event and i push it hard. we're constantly world-building, too (we've got a lot of info threads, but honestly you only need to read general info to start anyway - read lore if your thread concerns a certain thing). i think the big draw will be next month when we have a new skin and introduce dragons/guilds bc that's what'll make it ft. but we were doing amazing way before that. and we still drop at least 40 ads per day. so i'm just going to constitute the slowdown to us not being a shiny new site anymore. but yeah... what do you peeps do different?
/honestly has always wanted to see a big thread filled with wtf people do with their sites
or they come back and it's "i'm sorry i was gone my whole family died i was too distraught to even post an absence thread". mysteriously, this always happens right after i send a mass pm about something (lol?). bonus points when i see them on another site a few days before. like if you don't like it here, you don't have to stay. i hate to lose people but i'm not going to tell people to do things they don't wanna do. does everyone really have to lie about it? either tell us you're gone, or stop coming back every 2 months and making us approve a character that you disappear after making.
so like i need to stop ranting lol. but yeah, i'm sure most everyone has these sorts of problems on their sites. i've only ever joined 2 sites that aren't mine so i'm not too familiar with how other admins do their thing. how do you inspire activity? i just make sure there's always an ic/ooc event and i push it hard. we're constantly world-building, too (we've got a lot of info threads, but honestly you only need to read general info to start anyway - read lore if your thread concerns a certain thing). i think the big draw will be next month when we have a new skin and introduce dragons/guilds bc that's what'll make it ft. but we were doing amazing way before that. and we still drop at least 40 ads per day. so i'm just going to constitute the slowdown to us not being a shiny new site anymore. but yeah... what do you peeps do different?
/honestly has always wanted to see a big thread filled with wtf people do with their sites