The activity on forum has been lately quite "low" even when there are giveaways from admins, domains sugestions and many other things you wont find on many other forums.
So my question to ALL MEMBERS is : WHAT would you like to see on a2s ? WHAT would you like to ADD ? What kind of informations, threads, improvements, activity would you like to see.
Simply put, what would you guys make more active here ?
ALL ideas and inputs are greatly appreciated
I would especially like to hear inputs from old members like [MENTION=4]Danger Devil[/MENTION] [MENTION=3743]legendclaw24[/MENTION] [MENTION=5303]Aback[/MENTION] [MENTION=4426]Bun4ld1m[/MENTION] [MENTION=4331]Doekoe[/MENTION] [MENTION=4079]fedi96[/MENTION] [MENTION=4361]feerbau[/MENTION] [MENTION=4866]mongol[/MENTION] [MENTION=4219]narcislb[/MENTION] [MENTION=33]Nokutisu[/MENTION] [MENTION=3506]onsali20[/MENTION] etc.
*Not mentioning admins/mods because its a given for them to comment :ryu:
I really would like to see the implications of user groups. It would be nice to have my own group dedicated to just talking about anything and everything related to gaming instead of posting in the general thread. Like having our own private area to just talk about whatever but mostly gaming. :)
We also are in dire need of new content and new ways to make money. I feel like the latest posts box could be a little bit bigger and maybe space out a bit cause it's hard to read sometimes. We need to find maybe another coder or botter to make bots along with Chilli so we can have new bots all the time if possible.
I agree with Nokutisu and also, i think the site needs to be advertised.
[MENTION=1]Angemon[/MENTION] just taging you
Hello. I daily check the forum and I generally enjoy it. Honestly whenever there is something really interesting in the recent post, it is for AngeClub. And it is, at least for me, is expensive. Because of the differences in currencies. But of course it is in fact cheap and necessary in order to meet the needs of domain and hosting etc. Anyways, I generally like the forum. I believe once it was pretty crowded because of the nice PtC bots of Chillivanilli and others. People are always into nice tricks and getting free money. But of course he's busy... I would love to see nice guides, tactics that takes place in the posts which could be guided afterwards too. Rather than the ebooks.
So generally I agree with [MENTION=33]Nokutisu[/MENTION]
Alright; here comes my opinions....
There must be some achievement trophies like make 50 useful threads and you get this... Beautiful badge and trophies like system..
Ability to make some kind of group in forums or team.... Or you can say community within community...
Most important.. There must be a competition; anything like logo making or graphic design or best method or something. It will greatly attract some interest of other roaming around but not registered graphic designers plus it will greatly motivate the current registered and teamed up graphic designers.... It will also help them to check their work level....
Another suggestion if you grab and implement the idea to make a group facility then there must be a leader with some site facilities plus some responsibilities like to do this much job within a certain period of time otherwise someone else will be the leader and etc...
Let me know what you think then answer... [MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1]Angemon[/MENTION] I will share other ideas if you like this much.... Plus feeling so sad I was not mentioned for the suggestion in this post, lost my importance :Emoji4-100:
Aanh wrote too much.... Gonna die soon... :p
BlackGrimReaper;31605 wrote:Alright; here comes my opinions....
There must be some achievement trophies like make 50 useful threads and you get this... Beautiful badge and trophies like system..
Ability to make some kind of group in forums or team.... Or you can say community within community...
Most important.. There must be a competition; anything like logo making or graphic design or best method or something. It will greatly attract some interest of other roaming around but not registered graphic designers plus it will greatly motivate the current registered and teamed up graphic designers.... It will also help them to check their work level....
Another suggestion if you grab and implement the idea to make a group facility then there must be a leader with some site facilities plus some responsibilities like to do this much job within a certain period of time otherwise someone else will be the leader and etc...
Let me know what you think then answer... [MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1]Angemon[/MENTION] I will share other ideas if you like this much.... Plus feeling so sad I was not mentioned for the suggestion in this post, lost my importance :Emoji4-100:
Aanh wrote too much.... Gonna die soon... :p
Thabks for the input, appreciate it (as from all others)
the reason i didnt tag you was that u tagged all old users who were displayed as online in last 24 hours in the footer, so dont take it personally =)
I agree fully with blackgrimreaper. I think competitions are going to make users much more active, but the lack of free time is the biggest problem I think.
First of all , thank you [MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] for the thread , I really wanted to hear our member's suggestions.
For [MENTION=33]Nokutisu[/MENTION] , I really don't think allowing private groups in this time will be a good thing , as we already have a low activity and if a group of people create their private space to talk , then the other members will be lifted behind which will cause less activity , as I know creating groups is done when a forum have a huge amount of activity and users decide to take some private boards to talk.
Also [MENTION=4950]BlackGrimReaper[/MENTION] suggest providing more tags , personally I find it irritating to see a poster with useless tags , that he earned by spamming , I prefer less tag with more privileges , we already have the Elite tag for posting and I'm willing to give more privileges for such usergroup , we have the Reviewer , Coders and soon to add the Authors tag, but each one is given to the right users, not just for random posting.
For competition we already start that , we have e-book writing contest for FREE subscription because that's what I'm good at , I was hoping to see some submissions so I can help the authors to improve their writing skills , and I was willing to share my new ebooks after seeing some submissions , because I don't like to be the only author here.
May be [MENTION=28]Chillivanilli[/MENTION] can start a coding contest , or [MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] a gaming contest , I just know about writing and tricks and that's why I've only started that competition.
For me I guess that's the biggest problem is that you guys and I are becoming more busy with our life or our other projects , all of you guys who did suggest competitions or tags won't even enter or participate , I really appreciate all your suggestions and feedback , but the users we are hoping that they will participate aren't even interested at all , as I have seen only the members I personally know did reply to Ryuzaki thread , the others just read and leave , and we can't make anything work with such users , even if we provide them free upgrades, tricks or even cash.
I agree with [MENTION=4331]Doekoe[/MENTION] that the forum need to be advertised , and I need to hire someone who can do such work , as I see I've been doing it wrong, all the new users register to download , not to participate.
[MENTION=1]Angemon[/MENTION] i agree with you that people register here just for downloading the ebooks they need but I think the community must be like so much awesome and entertaining that those users are forced to become active and for competition only giving them free subscription is a good idea... Prize money or gift cards and other things must be taken into consideration too.... Because not everybody wants a free subscription sometimes people wants other things too.. And i like you thinking about giving and making extra badges for stammers and I totally agree with you so I am gonna leave it..
But I suggest you to launch one competition on gfx for example with some prize money ofcourse and the conditions to enter could be to share the competition on other sites plus thier artwork and the winner can be decided by public vote. :)
[MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] thanks for correcting me and letting me know I am not thrown out. :D
AND thanks to others too who supported me...
BlackGrimReaper;31613 wrote:[MENTION=1]Angemon[/MENTION] i agree with you that people register here just for downloading the ebooks they need but I think the community must be like so much awesome and entertaining that those users are forced to become active and for competition only giving them free subscription is a good idea... Prize money or gift cards and other things must be taken into consideration too.... Because not everybody wants a free subscription sometimes people wants other things too.. And i like you thinking about giving and making extra badges for stammers and I totally agree with you so I am gonna leave it..
But I suggest you to launch one competition on gfx for example with some prize money ofcourse and the conditions to enter could be to share the competition on other sites plus thier artwork and the winner can be decided by public vote. :)
[MENTION=3767]Ryuzaki[/MENTION] thanks for correcting me and letting me know I am not thrown out. :D
AND thanks to others too who supported me...
To give you an idea what kind on members we have here , how about you start a competition yourself and you set the rules , I will be the sponsor , means I will pay the prize.
In my opinion, there should be more methods, guides or even bots for making money. I think the main purpose of this forum is making money online. But 99% of new threads are about anime, video games...
I personally don't like such threads but I still visit a2s daily. There are a few quality content here bit you need to pay, and for making people to pay for that content you need to offer something else.
Do you think anybody will buy subs when they see there are no active threads about making money???
We don't need giveaways, we don't need competitions, we don't need private groups. We need good tips, tutorials and guides for making money so people can share their journey. That's my two cents.
Angemon;31618 wrote:To give you an idea what kind on members we have here , how about you start a competition yourself and you set the rules , I will be the sponsor , means I will pay the prize.
Getting a bad feeling about it, let's see what kind of members we've got here :) in between how much is the budget for the competition. :D
On another forum they have really a lot of small badge and to have them you need to like share a2s.in on your signature in another forum, share a2s.in on your skype, share a2s.in on your facebook/twitter etc its a good way to free advertise but the forum should have more content to let new user stick, when i landed the first time and start reading thread i discovered that they are all pretty old and saturated right now.
in summary what i think will benefit the forum
-more content tips/tutorial
-only one paid subscribtion ( can't understand the value for 2 and the i'm rich tag)
-remove the coin it was a good idea if the forum was big but right now i find it very useless
-implement badge like small icon under the avatar so it won't disturb the user view ( yea i want cool badge ) and some user is more inclined to do something if he have a cool badge for a prize
-this is more a question but why is domain appraisal and request for paid user?
-stop advertise these 2012 old ebooks most of them are useless
I can't think of anything else right now, i will update if have something new
it will be great to see you sharing something [MENTION=7809]Enoch[/MENTION]