Making a commitment; critical mass

The quick-reply feature certainly makes things easier. Thanks!

Thanks, M. I really appreciate what you've put into all this for us. And I think a members only area is a great idea... for all the reasons mentions... and to keep a bit of that elitist flavour alive...


Edit... I just checked and you cannot see the forbidden fruit if you are not logged in. Is there someway to show it without giving access to it? It's not an incentive if people don't know it exists.

Very happy with the quick reply feature. Thanks for implementing that!

lalala2004 wrote:

Very happy with the quick reply feature. Thanks for implementing that!

I concur. Well done.

So many people online, so little posting. Everyone must be posting in the 00 section. ;)

Louis Armstrong wrote:

So many people online, so little posting. Everyone must be posting in the 00 section. ;)

Nobody posts in the 00 section. They just gawk. And stuff money in G-strings.

I never sign out... don't know if that makes it look as if I'm online or not though. I popped in here for the first time yesterday in about a week.

retrokitty wrote:

I never sign out... don't know if that makes it look as if I'm online or not though. I popped in here for the first time yesterday in about a week.

ditto. Though I seem to be here everyday. I burned my 00 locker down.

ambler wrote:

However, as we soon found out, problems arise when members sit back and read but don't respond. (That is the way of most things, of course; the majority of people prefer to consume rather than contribute.)

This has been lingering with me recently, since I've often noticed top members searching through the forum, but not posting.

This place has hit an impasse, which will only get worse when the summer properly kicks off.

Anyone got a remedy? A pulsating rhythmical remedy?

Sharky wrote:

ambler wrote:

However, as we soon found out, problems arise when members sit back and read but don't respond. (That is the way of most things, of course; the majority of people prefer to consume rather than contribute.)

This has been lingering with me recently, since I've often noticed top members searching through the forum, but not posting.

This place has hit an impasse, which will only get worse when the summer properly kicks off.

Anyone got a remedy? A pulsating rhythmical remedy?

Perhaps a good 'ol Greatest Film tournament along with discussions can increase the buzz. I reckon with the membership here the results would be more interesting than in such tournaments on KTBEU in past years. I'd be up for organizing something like that, but I don't think I'd be able to keep track of it daily.

GeneralGogol wrote:

Sharky wrote:

ambler wrote:

However, as we soon found out, problems arise when members sit back and read but don't respond. (That is the way of most things, of course; the majority of people prefer to consume rather than contribute.)

This has been lingering with me recently, since I've often noticed top members searching through the forum, but not posting.

This place has hit an impasse, which will only get worse when the summer properly kicks off.

Anyone got a remedy? A pulsating rhythmical remedy?

Perhaps a good 'ol Greatest Film tournament along with discussions can increase the buzz. I reckon with the membership here the results would be more interesting than in such tournaments on KTBEU in past years. I'd be up for organizing something like that, but I don't think I'd be able to keep track of it daily.

Perhaps also a Greatest Film score tournament? That hasn't been done before.

Sharky wrote:

This place has hit an impasse, which will only get worse when the summer properly kicks off.

I've already made far too many posts and I need to earn a living, not having one of those terrific UK public sector jobs that pay you a wage while you play all day on T'internet.

Tournaments won't do much good, we need some proper discussion. Apart from a few threads, many seem to struggle to get beyond a few pages.

Salomé wrote:

Tournaments won't do much good, we need some proper discussion.

True. I'm all out of one liners.

Fresh meat required.

We urgently need MOO7RE.

Sharky wrote:

We urgently need MOO7RE.

Yup. I don't think that ship's coming. Bloody tsunami.

The only advice I would give here is that too many forums reduce the traffic on each of them to unsustainable levels. When thinking about forums, err to the side of fewer rather than many. You want to concentrate traffic, not disperse it.

Stilicho Bias wrote:

The only advice I would give here is that too many forums reduce the traffic on each of them to unsustainable levels. When thinking about forums, err to the side of fewer rather than many. You want to concentrate traffic, not disperse it.

Hmmm, I thought we had rather the opposite problem. For instance, Tux has made 701 posts, but 699 of them have been in the Star Trek thread. :)

Wasn't there a Star Trek episode called The Trouble with Tuxes?

Sequel to City on the Edge of Whatever

good news, I had to look this site up via Google today
and it appeared near the top of the second page
which is a big improvement over the last time I tried to find the site that way
:)

Good job people! The last few days have been great on the forums, with the amount of posts and the rather healthy number of members on at the moment!. :D

Incidentally, we just busted our old record for most users online, which was 45. Yesterday we got fifty.

Ed Tom Kowalsky wrote:

Incidentally, we just busted our old record for most users online, which was 45. Yesterday we got fifty.

Yes, that's absolutely outstanding to have had fifty people viewing the forums at 2am (UK time, at least) in the middle of a working week. And for the forums to achieve that figure with limited search presence and no big Bond news at present, it's a great sign that word of mouth is getting around. The members here have done a truly fantastic job in bringing this about.

This month, we've had our highest influx of new members since March, and our highest post count since April, with some key stats for this month almost doubling the stats from back in May. I think the forums have now truly transcended their "MI6 Refugee Camp" status of May, and become something far more fulsome and wide-reaching. If these forums can become the go-to place once discussion of Bond 23 really hots up, then I can see a really bright future for this place.

Again, brilliant work everyone.

Likewise, M. I honestly can't imagine anybody running this show better than you have to this point. Keep up the good work!