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Originally Posted by Halx
First of all, I gotta say that appealing to new users is what is going to pull us through this. However, one thing about the TFP is we've always tried to be fairly ... special. If you can say that for a general topic message board. That requires a delicate balance of meddling on my part and just letting people do their thing. I'll admit that it has limited our membership numbers, but that said nothing for the quality of experience.
In any case, I'm still dedicated to making this site the best it can be.
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Can I suggest some things I've noticed as a newb:
a) Work on the newb's forum then. If you look at that forum, and the average number of welcomes or greetings people receive in there... well it's pretty shoddy. If you're not a strong character you're going to feel very intimidated by that, and... I'm not sure how many mods you have here, but every single active one of them should be in there welcoming new people.
b) the sheer amount of different rules and warnings all over the place. For example, I wanted to post 3 different threads, but have now convinced myself not to because all the rules all over the place have confused me to where they should go, AND how they'd be received.
Just some observations. :dunno: