IceForce said:
I don't really care one way or the other, to be honest.
Hell, it wasn't that long ago that *I* was a 'newbie' on this forum. I still think of myself that way from time to time, it's a difficult mindset to shake.
You're still a newbie in my eyes.
Misericorde said:
That's a sign that your forum isn't bringing in new people, i.e. not doing well.
You know those people who seem to get giddy over the possible repeat of the 1983 North American crash?
Well, if people can be spiteful enough to watch their whole hobby burn, a forum isn't necessarily shocking.
shrekfan246 said:
I mean, it's already been pretty well determined that a lot of "oldies" have basically stopped posting here entirely. Chances are they're not going to be coming back, and the ones who are still here but just don't pay much attention to the forums anymore likely have their reasons which still haven't really changed. So if the "newbies" stop posting as well, we've just got a situation where oldies and newbies alike come into the forum and see that there are no interesting topics with no interesting posts being made and no interesting discussions being had, and then stagnation and the eventual slow heat death of the universe.
Usergroups may actually be a bigger issue than attrition. I know several oldies on here who post solely in them, and a lot more who post mostly in them. They don't really want to bother with the forums anymore for one reason or another, but they like community members.
stroopwafel said:
Hence why it's a smart move of both Jim and ZP to migrate to Youtube.
Smart for Jim and Ben, but not necessarily for The Escapist.
It was LRR that got me to sign up and post here, and to a lesser extent Zero Punctuation. A lot of people signed up based on such content, even more recently. I mean, hell, Jim Sterling didn't even start doing The Jimquisition on here until 2011, and people hated it at that point and wanted him to go away. A couple of years later, though, and he was a fairly big draw. And that's not too long ago.
But when shows leave, and when shows are also shown on YouTube, you run into the problem of "well, why even go there?" or even sign up. YHou have strict forum rules here, but you can go on Jim's YouTube channel and call someone a ******.
'bout the only content I follow on here these days is Critical Miss, and I can't help but think I might be more involved if there was still a host of shows I gave a crap about. And I doubt the news is particularly a big draw here. I mean, I read it while I'm here, but only because I'm already here and opening up another news site with the same announcements is more effort than I can be bothered with. But I honestly can't see the news on this site as much of a draw.
Well, there are exceptions, but for reasons best not gone into here.