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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Shauk
But mostly, I agree on the point that if the stress is getting to you, or you feel you lack the time/desire/expertise to be a community leader/builder/promoter then get more help from people who are enabled to do so, find volunteers.
Simply put, TFP isn't what it once was, and what you guys tried to turn it in to, doesn't seem to be working if it results in threads like this. I'm not mocking the situation, I've just seen it happen before and instead of adapting, or as you put it, evolving, they just gave up and became graveyards for spammers and bots.
Another idea is assigning content generation via volunteering/voting in forum leaders of the focused forums.
Say for instance, people who are really in to gaming or writing game reviews could be invited to post those reviews in the gaming forum on a regular basis. People with a focus in music could write album reviews or various studio methods, or share interesting youtube videos they came across.
As long as they accompany the post with original commentary, I think it would really help in the long term.
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I've tried some of that, but really those larger contributors just need to continue to contribute. I'm surprised that Weaponry gets as much traffic as it does. I think that it's own sub community contributes and participates very differently than the rest of the sub-forum posters and participants. I have asked some of the main contributors to become some sort of "staff" or noted "contributor" and they declined.
That's kind of the problem for the other areas, no one wants to be responsible for them. This is as much as a lean back experience or a lean forward experience. It's the member's choice to decide which it is. The crux of this point that I'm raising is that if there is no lean forward experience, there can be no lean back experience.
I'd be happy to try that, would you be interested in doing something more for music?
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