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I'm not about to say these ideas are easy to implement or non-controversial but in my opinion I think the best things for this community/site would be as follows:1) Get rid of the "What's making you sad/happy/confused/hungry/angry/whatever" threads. The rest of Random Randomness is basically irrelevant with these because it discourages people to make threads about everyday chit-chat and goings on in their life as most of them fit into those threads instead. What then happens is RR becomes a dumping ground for "le cheese!!!"-tier threads that I personally feel is a waste of time contributing to and probably won't give outsiders a great opinion of the community.I'm not trying to say no fun allowed or anything like that, but it seems like 90% of posts in RR are the equivalent of either facebook status updates, or topics that are so 'random' they give no incentive to post. If we got rid of the former then it might encourage people to make slightly more inclusive chit-chat threads instead.
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1) Get rid of the "What's making you sad/happy/confused/hungry/angry/whatever" threads. The rest of Random Randomness is basically irrelevant with these because it discourages people to make threads about everyday chit-chat and goings on in their life as most of them fit into those threads instead. What then happens is RR becomes a dumping ground for "le cheese!!!"-tier threads that I personally feel is a waste of time contributing to and probably won't give outsiders a great opinion of the community.
i'd like to comment on the name rater thing but i have honestly no idea what the heck it is and i can't seem to figure out what it is either
^ I think if we're going to get new site news going in regards to Pokémon updates the articles themselves need to implement a conversational approach alongside the commentating system, just a small change in writing style could make a big difference, rather than making it come across completely serious and factual add some light-heartedness, some discursive points and whatnot to get people to comment on them and then hopefully move onto the forums for future discussions. I think too we should link in possible threads to these articles too.I think also going on what we're strong at (and I know people are busy so please don't take this as a way of "you must drop everything to do this" sort of thing) but Name Rater and Sentret needs updating because the former especially is one of the key ways to bring in new members. Plus, we can add their "opinions" and other topics of discussion as well; plus I know having talked to some of the members on IRC recently that there's still a lot of hype and intrigue behind them.
These are always captcha'd, registering allows you to bypass the captcha. I also need some new comment moderators soon.
In defense of the "right now" topics, I do agree that a lot of the stuff isn't topic-worthy. I would definitely promote that if you notice that you post something in one of those "right now" topics, and if it generates more than, like, 2 replies, maybe you should make a topic. for example, there are probably plenty of people who want to put their own two cents in on a topic like ferguson, for example, but having a lengthy discussion on an unrelated thread isn't the ideal place to do it. however, most of the time when i post stuff, it's about things that are mostly trivial or just don't deserve their own topic (ie. pooping in public toilets)
i just feel like forums in general are mostly getting stomped by facebook and stuff, and we can't expect to be like we were in 2008, just because the internet was much different in 2008. pokemon was much bigger in 2008. iirc, pokemon in general just hasn't been doing as well since black and white's release. we can also probably, like always, expect a boost in activity when r/s/e remakes come out.