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| Site Staff Cid's Knight  |  Personally, I like General being at the top and I especially like General Archive being where it is because it carries the bulk of EoFF's history. Before I thought that changing the order of the forum would effect the activity level, but I've realized there really wouldn't be a drastic difference considering many of the newbies who come here mostly venture to the FF forums for quite some time before visiting the General Forums. I don't think General Forums give off a negative aura, but some people get intimidated by the high activity; especially when they're new to the site. I like this idea the best. Then everyone can be happy. |
08-16-2009, 09:50 PM
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| Administrator  | I bet if you took the average join date of people who post in General, and people who post in the FF forums, the join date of people who posted in General would be a lot earlier by several years. Hurr hurr, elitist oldbie circle jerk? Off course!! Or because General has better retention than the gaming forums. I am EoFF's target audience. I consider myself a HARDKORE gamer and I like to discuss games on the internet. What I do is play and discuss that game for a month, three at most, usually in the SA megathread, and if there is an EoFF/omg thread, there too. Then I move on because I'm done with that game (although I may go back to it later) and I'm playing a different one. Anyway, it's the same with EoFF. Sure, a minority of folk like Future Esthar can discuss a game for years and years, but most really can't. People join for the FF discussion, they stay for the General discussion. And that's why they have to scroll past General - so they can see the kinds of things going on, and hopefully their curiosity gets piqued and they want to stick around by the time they get bored of discussing FF. I think it's the same principle with Staff, which is mostly for the benefit of Site Staff gaining volunteers, and reference, because the Archive contains EoFF's best threads and thus is a great advert for EoFF. As a side note, FF Online is a forum of a similar size to us (although we're on user 32,000 and they're on user 44,000, but we have more posts overall) that lists the FF forums first. It doesn't look like they're experiencing more activity than us in that department. |
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08-17-2009, 01:43 AM
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08-20-2009, 07:15 PM
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