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I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

What motivated you to post on any forums you frequentBoredom and a desire to be noticed.
and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?Complete freedom to post whatever you want (within legal reasons) and people running it who can constantly make interesting threads.

Money, donate 1 cent per post to people :)

That would motivate them :D

A clean, fast-loading interface that is easy to read. Like NSG :)

I know you are asking about the "culture" which encourages people to stick around and post regularly, but I just have to mention this, because I've seen forums where the quality of posts is fine but I really don't want to spend any more time than I have to reading tiny grey text on a black background and having ads flashing at me.

BOREDOM.

Forums, all they are, just a place for bored people to do something.

Good spam. As much as allot of posters claim to hate it (and do), it does calm allot of posters nerves which tends to mean that debates take longer to degenerate into flamewars.

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

Usually it's a forum that interests me. On RP forums, I kick up activity by starting a war (I am the admin of one). Or I'll start useless spam threads in the lounge (off-topic forum). That way at least people log on for something, if not an RP. I hope they will make the leap of faith and make and IC post while they're at it.

Revenge.

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

I'm looking at your healthy post-count. I'm picking the words "alternative energy" out, and really wondering why you aren't getting more enthusiasm here. You'd think NSGers would be happy to help ...

I'm really too junior and not enough of a technician to really say what makes a forum work. For one thing, NSG is the only forum I post on, so I can't make useful comparisons.

But I can answer your inquiry as to what motivates me. I enjoy research, I enjoy learning new things, but it takes a bit of a nudge to get started sometimes. Putting my arse on the line by expressing an opinion is generally all it takes to get me engaged with a subject and learning stuff, even if no-one takes me to task for it.* It's a bit like physical exercise: I love it once I'm doing it, but sometimes it takes an external event (like a job requirement, or running out of milk) to get me started.

Being an attention whore ... :eek:

All of the above but really it's because I simply enjoy writing - I like writing neatly, encapsulating a point with the least, yet judiciously picked, words possible - I suspect I fail 90% of the time but I enjoy trying.

To spark interest on a forum, it's probably best to form a point of view, some angle you can use to provoke debate - if everyone's just agreeing with each other it makes for poor discussion.

At worst get a pet troll to provoke debate - instead of writing about how good alternative energy is, why not raise how bad it is and, in rebutting you, people will naturally cover many of the issues.

Addiction.

Watching Flamewars and adding random spam to hopefully buffer the full effect of the posting.

That, and garnering support for Lex Luthor's presidential bid.

The Jews wont find you here.

Being an attention whore ... :eek:

What, people pay you for being allowed to pay attention?

Where do I apply for this job? Or related jobs, eg Attention Harlot, Attention Slut, Attention Gold-digger, Attention Solicitor ...

Watching Flamewars and adding random spam to hopefully buffer the full effect of the posting.

That, and garniering support for Lex Luthor's presidential bid.

One does not garnier support. If one is a twee little consumer, one might perhaps garnier one's hair.

It's got nut in it, or something.

Random spam, and butter. And Garnier FuckTruss.

:sniper: :D

The Jews wont find you here.What're you on about? There's literally thousands of them connected to desktops.

Revenge.

o.0


Time for another anecdote thread, it would appear.

What're you on about? There's literally thousands of them connected to desktops.

That's impossible. Computers don't work for Jews.

It's like vampires and mirrors.

That's impossible. Computers don't work for Jews.

It's like vampires and mirrors.

Or like Borat and national anthems. *poke*

Or like Borat and national anthems. *poke*

Borat is an honourable dignitary that has done many good things, such as bagging Pamela Anderson, and bring awareness of his country's (What's that place?) superior potassium to such places such as Canada and also North America.

Borat is an honourable dignitary that has done many good things, such as bagging Pamela Anderson, and bring awareness of his country's (What's that place?) superior potassium to such places such as Canada and also North America.

Hey. Don't forget the pubis.
He almost harvested Conan O'Brien's.
*nods emphatically*
And remember, he has a *glorious* cock!

Hey. Don't forget the pubis.
He almost harvested Conan O'Brien's.
*nods emphatically*
And remember, he has a *glorious* cock!

Glorious cocks! That's motivation to come here!

Glorious cocks! That's motivation to come here!

Damned right!
http://azoony.com/hattrips/seaside/big_chicken_amusement_park-sm.jpg
http://www.richardcmoeur.com/bigtrip/1999/gchicken.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izM6kBnsSTk

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

I post to increase my post count.

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

I post to increase my post count.

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

not having to post productively but being able to run off at the keyboard about any subject that intrests me.

real energy alternatives DO intrest me however. as do real transportation alternatives. and lots of things and ways of doing things that would be more compatable with nature and its cycles of renawal that we could be doing as matters of policy with tecnologies we have now.

er so where is this forum. i want in.

not that i have any kind of big time engineering background. just an intrest i've been focused on pretty much all of my life.

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(p.s. cameroi would VERY greatly appreciate being tm'd a linc, if you don't want to make it public, or jolt/n.s. won't let you. otherwise if they will and you want to, please do.)

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I post, therefore I am: Posting validates my existence.

a desire to be noticed.

Did somebody say something?

If I don't post the gnome will hurt me.

Coz I Like Shouting!

I enjoy reading interesting discussions, which occasionally appear on this forum. I also enjoy making humourous comments.

I enjoy reading interesting discussions, which occasionally appear on this forum.

Man, you managed to type that without laughing?

Man, you managed to type that without laughing?

:p

The comedy aspect of this forum often outweighs the interest from intellectual debates.

I enjoy reading interesting discussions, which occasionally appear on this forum. I also enjoy making humourous comments.

Then you must practice! See my post above, so transparently and lucidly sticking it to a brand of shampoo which has probably been banned everywhere but my own colonial backwater.

My point being that you aren't funny. No, not even a little bit funny, except in the sense of strange. Nope, you are as humorous as a hippopotamus fart. You are as witty and entertaining as that Marx brother, the one I can never remember the name of ...

You know I'm hitting you right in the face because I like you, right?

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively. What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent, and what could those forums do better to get your attention and posting time?

Your postcount is huge, and your manner humble. I don't think anyone would seriously call you a spammer for mentioning the URL of your new forum and suggesting we go check it out. Or a practice run of it, if you and your friend don't have it properly hosted yet.

It's not like it's a direct threat to the politics core of NSG. Every NSGer who cares about sustainable energy could walk right out and never post here again, and I doubt anyone would even notice.

So, where's this forum then?

If I don't post the gnome will hurt me.

Faster!

*threatens with whip*

I've been reading NSG for about two years now, just lurking around. I can never remember to keep up with my nation, though, so my accounts keep getting deleted, lol. I'm going to try to keep up with this one, and even post a bit :D

I'm a prisoner. It has been made clear to me that should I stop posting, I will be kidnapped and kept in a large glass jar in a dark basement with nothing but an internet connection and a weekly bucket of fish heads to live on.

:eek:

I'm working with a friend to come up with ways to encourage members of a forum on alternative energy to post regularly and productively.

I would be interested to know where this forum is, as I have a friend who does a lot with alterntive energy and would really like to see it and post.

I come here mainly to see the amusing trolls. When a troll ceases to be amusing, he/she/it should be tossed aside.

That and because someone here just has to share my interests.

Thank you all for your responses. The forums aren't up yet but I'll be happy to get a link to any and all of you who are interested when I have one to give. At that point I'll probably look into getting permission to post the link publicly, but if not telegrams should work fine.

Then you must practice! See my post above, so transparently and lucidly sticking it to a brand of shampoo which has probably been banned everywhere but my own colonial backwater.

My point being that you aren't funny. No, not even a little bit funny, except in the sense of strange. Nope, you are as humorous as a hippopotamus fart. You are as witty and entertaining as that Marx brother, the one I can never remember the name of ...

You know I'm hitting you right in the face because I like you, right?

Err, ok :confused:

What motivated you to post on any forums you frequent
People who aren't me are wrong a lot. I enjoy correcting them.

I post to increase my post count.

And you do it quite well, O Two-For-The-Price-Of-One Champion. That would make you something of a post-whore. As opposed to a regular whore...