Trezu said:
recently not many of my threads are getting comments and i dont know how to get good threads going.
Do you guys have any suggestions on improving mine and other people's threads and dont do this for me.
Imagine all the other people who have trouble with threads.
So please Help me and other's like me.
Please Criticise i wont report.
sorry i don't really know what i should write for this thread at all.
Well, listen to everybody above me.
And with that: The forum search function is your friend. If the same type of thread that you want to start has already been done in the past few weeks, don't start one like it. There are many types of threads that are done to death, relationship and things that have to do with religion. Even though people begrudgingly end up posting in them in the end, they will post in them if it has been at least a month, I recommend waiting longer.
The reason I'm okay with letting threads die to be replaced by copies a month or so later is for freshness. With an old thread, you will get people quoting people that commented in the thread ages ago. I find it annoying because I'll get quoted and asked about something that happened so long ago that I don't even remember what my mindset I was when making the post. I usually don't quote somebody if what they said was more than a week old. I think it is common courtesy.
Another tip, think about the proper place where your thread should go. It feels at times that people on here just don't know what the heck they are doing, granted that they are usually newbies that are the offenders. What I am talking about is the slew of political or religion threads that are posted in this Off-topic Discussion forum. Put threads where they are suppose to go. Edit: The ones I am speaking of obviously got in the Politics and Religion forum.
Though a lot of times having successful threads also means having some luck. I've really only had one moderately successful thread about words that people seem to be addicted to. It worked because there wasn't anything like it and it turned out to be a fun and interesting thread. But I have started a couple other threads that even though there really was nothing like them in the forum, they survived about as long as a giant pancake would in a tornado.
One last thing. Unless somebody has said this in the time I was writing this, I'm going to be the first to be "that guy", "the proper writing nut". Right now the only real problem I see is you skimp on the proper capitalization. Your first and last sentences need the first word capitalized, and on top of that you need to capitalize your "I's". I know this is just an internet forum, but I take to heart what one of my college professors constantly told the classes I had him in, "If you don't write well and proper, nobody is going to take you seriously." Another thing, I tend not to post in threads where the OP doesn't have a somewhat well written post, and if I have that mindset about posting, than I bet there are hundreds more people like me in that respect.
