Where would YOU fit best?

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There's more to it then just all of that. There's also the feelings that people get when ever they visit a forum site as well.

As for me? I belong in the snarky commenter's club because that's just the kind of guy I am. XD

[Agent Z]

I am an Element of Water. I do not merely conform to what I am put in, for I eat away at my confines! I erode them, and make them rust! I slip through any opening in them with ease! And on my surface, I merely reflect what I am shown. But beneath my shimmer I hold deep and unfathomable currents and secrets. As to what I am skilled at, my Element dabbles in many talents. Polished, no. Knowledgeable, perhaps. Like my properties of water, I am spread out and cover many a land. A Jack of All Trades - Knowledge of Many, Master of None.

Put me where you wish.

[FyreeTSG]

Nov 6, 2013 3:19:43 GMT -8 @queenzelda said:

Nov 6, 2013 1:41:21 GMT -8 FyreeTSG said:

And what kind of motivation would you need?

Honestly; I don't know.. That's a good question. I think for me; less pressure to ask people to join here would be great. I keep suggesting to you that you need an advertising team but you just don't want to seem to hear me. I feel unheard about this each time I bring it up because advertising to 'new people' isn't easy for me to do. I also feel that until you can recruit a popular youtuber, or make some one a youtube star who's already a member here; you're not going to get anywhere fast new recruit wise.. I had a best friend who was lucky enough to know some one who was famous on newgrounds who advertised his forum every time he went there or created a sprite animation. Thus his forum became popular because of it but only because his friend was so famous & advertising all the time on newgrounds. So you might just want to consider asking for donations in order to fund & make a commercial for cable tv. Other wise; you have to expand your advertising reach. As I said before; running a forum isn't easy & it's not. Every where online you can find yet another Nintendo forum. What tne needs is a gimmick to have people flock to it & until that happens it's just going to be a choice few who join or who are already members here. Yea social media can help; but you'd need to expand to pintrest & other social media that people are now flocking to outside of just facebook & twitter.

I DID reply about your idea for an Advertising team(did ya see?)---and I AGREE with you, but with only 30-something members on the site, and only a handful of those members ONLINE daily, and with the free time to dedicate TO advertising and so on--DarkIce IS the Media Team leader, and the Media team IS sorta the only bit of "Advertising" we have---with Shad being M.I.A. for 2 months, we've lost a big chunk...not saying he was all this site needed, but he was supposed to head-up the Youtube channel.

(To expand:)
I didn't mean a TV commercial BTW, I meant that for each upcoming MAJOR event that can attract people to join, we could have a 30-60 second little "AD" video promoting it. Something DarkIce and I have discussed, and I know it's a simple-yet-effective enough idea to where it could work, AND could be something, if not unique, but at least creative and catchy.

Donations AREN'T mandatory, but an option, and I did say in the November Prize Fundraiser thread that there WILL be added incentive to those who feel like donating...is it necessary, NO, but with my personal funds LOW, and with events that SHOULD be attracting more attention/activity(at least from my POV), adding PRIZES could help quite a bit. Is it a perfect solution? NO...but if there were a couple bucks donated here and there, it could help.

Gimmick: Aside from the whole ELEMENT Theme, I can't come up with everything. Maybe an Advertising Team, if I might back track/repeat myself a little(which, again, would have to be able to create things to HELP advertise the site, and again, I can't come up with all the ideas myself. And with the GROUPS we already have, and other members, who like everyone seems to agree, who don't do much more tha a few posts a day--I'd need to see people DEDICATED to being out Advertisers.)---IF anyone has an idea for a creative gimmick for the site, let me know.

Hey look a lot of Nintendo forums are going through just this problem.. It's not just tne. It's because there are so many of them that the internet is crowded with too many Nintendo forum sites.

Agree 100%, and forums aren't as popular as they ONCE were 4-5 years ago, BUT still serve some purpose.

I'll look into expanding Social Media outlets, which, BTW could be done by others--so long as they share about the site in a positive light--and I'm considering popping a few people into an Advertising group, or maybe just expanding the Media Element to include ALL forms of advertising/media(social as well)--to at least see what additional benefit it may bring.


Final Thought:

I'm ALWAYS open to ideas, and I will not shut people's ideas down--cause we're ALL on the site, and we can ALL help the site in whatever way possible.

[Frostbyte]

I'd say that in all honestly we don't have enough active people to do all of this stuff. With all the teams that are being formed and all the events, there are just not enough people to spread around to everything.

I think all the teams/events are GOOD and do Help, but you also have to have the resources to put into them. I think maybe we should find a way to shift more of a focus on one solution at a time, such as getting new and active members, and then once we have a bigger community then spread it out more. Like Queen said it would help if we had someone that was widely known/knew a lot of people that would be into a Nintendo Forum site. Maybe try getting Youtube videos up. Not only of just advertising the site per say but also let's play/gameplay footage or pretty much anything we can and say something about the site in the videos or put in the description. Maybe then, and probably very slowly, we could get some attention and flow to the site.

I'm not saying backtrack either with all the groups we have. I'd say just not focus AS MUCH on certain parts as much as others.

An idea and I don't know how well it could work out. We would definitely need to have people that can record these said videos, such as Rambo does, and put them on the channel. Then just share the video around and see if it catches on.

[FyreeTSG]

1) The reason I started events before we really have a large enough member base, is to try to keep the members HERE a little more interested in sticking around longer than they would on other Forums--cause without events/tournaments to make people actually wanna be active-participating members, all there really is to do here is POST, and not everyone posts.

2) for ALL Youtube-related ideas/questions/etc: ASK DarkIce--he's the MEDIA Team Leader, and unless Shad comes back on to lend a hand, I really don't have much myself to add to Youtube. ANYONE, btw, can make videos of any kind for the site...see the ELement Videos Section. Post ANY videos of yours. And for videos to advertise the site, send ME or DarkIce the Video File on FB, or via PM so we can pop them on the Youtube channel

3) And I'm only focusing on what I know should be bringing people here, and keeping them active.

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BASICALLY: I'm asking in this thread, WHERE DO YOU FIT BEST?

Not wanting to turn this thread into too-far-off-course of a discussion on site improvements, but wanting to see where EACH Element Member feels like they would fit best.

Even if you're NOT in a User Group you can still make GFX for the site, Advertise the site, make Videos of ALL sorts(sticking to site rules, and common decency of course), promote it, tell people about it, and ANYTHING else for the "Greater Good".

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If you wanna discuss what ideas you have for the site, start a new thread--cause I'm always open to NEW ideas that I think can help--not every idea may be needed now, and like Mason said we don't really need NEW groups, as the ones we have aren't exactly a BOOM in attention-grabbing (not to sound rude), and for a NEW group to be added, it'd have to serve an immediate benefit and be worth making

[Frostbyte]

As for really where I fit, I'm basically sitting around in the back and help where it's needed. I don't really have a whole lot of time to truly dedicate as much time as would be needed to make a lot of GFX or keep up on gaming news as I would need to.

I really try helping out as much as I can, while still posting and doing other stuff and so on and so on.

[FyreeTSG]

if everyone does what they can do, thats all I really ask


BTW--I am re-hiring for the NEWS Team, and even if you can't report FULL articles, you can be a "Researcher" looking up stories on the web, and lemme know...and maybe if others want to be Article writers, we can have a News Team in some shape.