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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearl Trade
I don't think a PM will do much, Cyn. Whenever I get something impersonal, which would be the mass-new user-PM, I skip it over without reading or thinking about it. Maybe other people read the fine print, but I don't.
For an answer to the question to get people to register/post: instead of allowing non-registered users to see everything (all posts, new and old), would it be possible to limit them to see only the past few weeks active topics? That suggestion is for the non-registered users lurking around. A suggestion for the non-posters would be...well, that's a toughy. If they're registered and not posting, it's because they don't have anything to add (from their POV, at least). Would a PM or email encouraging me to post more actually get me to post more? Probably not, I'd say the chances are between zero and five percent.
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How do you know that it's impersonal? For a good long while we have a few staffers that send a birthday greetings on someone's birthday. It is a personal touch that someone felt would be good to do.
I have already limited what non-registered people can see to the point that it locks them out and asks them to register. The large number you see of guests, isn't all people. Most of it are bots and spiders crawling all over our forum posting back to their site in hopes that someone will search and find something on their search engine.
I too wanted to find out who these guests were and I was surprised at how many there were that were just spiders and bots.
I've been pondering the wedding a bit more, and the more I think about it the part where I was entertained by someone else was what was making it fun. Everyone dressed up and there were some funny bits with toasts and the bride and groom made Trivial Pursuit cards for themselves using them as name plates for everyone. It was fun to read them aloud and it got people at the table talking to each other. We were at the Dungeons and Dragons table and they said they played D&D with some of us but wouldn't out us. Well, isn't that a good ice breaker right there? I had to know if Lela the hot chick was a D&D player. It was something that was provided by the hosts... but once it was up to us to be responsible for ourselves to some degree, it was lost.
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