New Staff?

[Omniscient]

Considering Omniscient probably doesn't want to deal with reports everyday on top of his other commitments

I'm here everyday even if I don't post. I've been dealing with more reports than the staff did anyways. Not that it's bad to have some extra help but unless there are 10-15 reports per day I don't see a need to add someone. We also get a lot of false reports as people mistake HF rules for SF ones. We do not have the same set of rules here.

Unfortunately I allow members to input the report reason and it's nothing but disaster. Most use it to just complain about something they don't like and not really state a rule violation.

Considering how the past few staffers don't commit very long I'm not going to be in a hurry to add anyone. But as usual I'll keep a close eye on things here as I've always done.

I don't think Omni would be happy after reading this thread.

When I read threads here they don't really bother me the way they do at HF. People talk a lot of crap there. The maturity level on SF is much higher. We can actually discuss things here rationally.

Go and click "View New Posts" and you will find maybe 1 interesting thread per week. That is a direct result of the Support Feather award (so this will change once traffic starts generating from elsewhere...but that is on Omniscient to do). All we have is mindless discussions, un-enthused staff, and a weak memberbase.

Mindless discussion is what most of the internet is made of. But I think we have more than one interesting thread per week. You've personally made a couple hundred threads which upon review are very high quality imho. And you're just one member.

No changes, no administration support, no contests, and no events. Sure, you don't need that stuff for a community. But for this one, we do need something to constantly keep the members (and sadly even the staff) actively posting and checking the board.

Unfortunately you have a point and I'm shamed to admit that but I will. We do need something here. I just gotta figure out what it is exactly. I knew removing the SF Award though would force me into action on that cause. I think we're ready for a new chapter in SF. We do have the natural traffic from search engines I've always wanted. The issue now is bounce rate. We're just not interesting enough for first time visitors to join. I need to figure out why.

Our SEO btw is very good. We rank very well for a variety of topics. I'll be examining it more closely though. I am imho very good at SEO analysing.

edit: and Breshie will never become staff.

True statement. I think he knows that already anyways. We have other members dedicated and worthy of the title.

If he would have discontinued the award after a month or so. This site would have been a better place.

I don't agree. Not at all. I think I know the path to a success a lot better than most. While not all my ventures are successful I can say that I've had multiple successes. I not only have HF but I have personally created at least 4 forum that reached the 250k post mark. This site will hit 1 million posts too.

I would say that it's not active because there's no interest from a first glance here

Problem in a nutshell. First glance there is nothing exciting here. It's a reasonable looking forum but there is no WOW factor to entice joining or participation.

I GOT IT. I've got a great idea.

It's a shame seeing the direction that this forum is heading, and has been heading for a while now.

We are not headed in a bad direction. My measurements are stats. Stats are stable and fine. The issue is growth rate. Most forum admins would be really happy at the current level SF is at. Most forums never reach this point. I was hoping to be further along though than we currently are.

If Omni spends more time on the forum then we won't need another mod. Like Fragma said, the forum is easy to moderate and dealing with a day's reports wouldn't take longer than 30 mins/ 1 hour.

I'm really here more than anyone thinks. I have literally 4 quick links on my browser. HF, Central, SF, and MyBB. Those are the 4 sites I visit most often and daily. I probably click to visit SF 3-10 times per day. You can see I have a respectable amount of time online but my ratio of time online to posts is not very good.

I don't see there being a new mod, at least not for a while.

Yeah...me too. And no mod forces me to participate more anyways and examine this forum more closely. I need to be more involved here. That's bottom line.