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Anything good in that collection, like a list that is lurking about somewhere?

http://idforums.net/index.php?act=donate

Check the stuff there, anything that isn't listed as sold is still available (presumably.)

I could actually purchase them someday... only if Pear was actually online more often. (I know, he's in China right now)

Yes, Perry is currently in possession of the CDs. I have no plans to acquire them, either.

Sorry about the earlier double post, didn't realize it until after the fact. Just trying to come up with some ideas to drum up more interest in the site

I'm sure this has been brought up, but what about making this place a little less Intital D centric and put the focus more into anime / video games...whateva?




Casey

I think it's already pretty non-Initial D-centric, but more focus on Anime discussion would probably be a good idea. It's the only part of the forums that are really lacking in activity when it shouldn't.

Yeesh, I really wasn't paying attention then. I had no idea there was a soundtrack contest thrown.

Used to lurk the most in the Automotive and General ID section but with the decline in activity, my attention drew towards the Gaming and General Discussion boards.

Random thought...

As far as contests go, how about setting up a reference contest, where you add a "referring member" field on the sign-up form, and whoever gets the most referrals who make X number of posts by Y date wins something? We'd have to keep a close eye on IPs to catch smurf accounts, but at the end of the day it would generate traffic from old members and create active new ones as well.

I like this idea. What better way to generate more traffic than by getting some fresh blood on here?

Spaz...I knew there was a reason I liked you




Casey

I like the sound of being recognized for referring new people here. I just want to add something to that idea. It would be better if we keep track of the posting activity of the people being referred, and in order to count as a referral they must make at least a certain amount of posts.

I think that's better than just blindly accepting a flood of new registrants.

Don't you remember the WME contest at all? That was one of the ways to get points!
Even Perry's idea was implemented - the referred members had to work up a post count. Anyway, I think it's a pretty good idea, but I don't think it worked for WME so well in the long run (most of the referred members never really came back, as far as I know.)

One could argue that this would be justifying spam.

However, I did bring back two of the biggest spam threads of all time, so my concern has little weight.

Way ahead of you, Perry!

At this point I don't think spam would be such a bad thing...as long as it was at least semi constructive.





Casey

Truth, hence the big spam threads have been revived. The forum needs activity, and I don't intend to do anything about spam posts unless they're truly spam (bots, ads and such).

Blind refers should account for nothing.

Anyone wanting to run a contest, feel free to have a look at the rules of the one I ran some time ago :

http://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=42...hl=extravaganza

Here were the rules I used :

The one thing that I think promotes participation in forum activities the most is the last one, but I did not have any luck with it, not many people went for those points.

Speaking of climate change...

How's it going, Mobius? Planning to stick around?

I think stage 5 may have saved this place!

I would have to disagree. I think IDW could have lasted a lot longer before this Fifth Stage announcement was made. We've all been prepared to wait a long time for it to start, so this was even a bit early to some of us.

I have to say hats off it's an amazing resource, i'm downloading some of the europop as we speak. Thank god it was kept going.

yes and negatory..

negatory because it has survived for such a long time without ant new Initial D releases and the community is quite vibrant on the current manga and arcade stage release discussion as well as off topic stuff, automotive and general gaming

yes of course with the influx of new members after the 5th stage annoucement was made, and the awesome return of so many great old school members

nonetheless good times are ahead of us very very soon, i'm very excited about this too!!

I don't know man, where is this influx of new members and return of many old school members that you are talking of?

This post has been edited by Möbius on Aug 10 2012, 02:33 PM

Geese Mobius, it's like you've been covering your eyes or something.

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You guys must be used to smaller forums.

Influx would be huge, I've seen maybe half a dozen new members actually post? Is that supposed to be huge?

Where's the "many" old school members returning?

Steve posted twice, which is just about his norm, and Kev posted three times?

I haven't seen anything to get excited about ( not yet anyways ).

Not being pessimistic, just looking at things the way they are.

Edit : Numbers are not biased, if you do not believe me, then believe the numbers :

One new member made the top ten ( requires only 4 posts! ), and one returning oldish member.

If said "influx of new members" that you imply is happening already, then they are all just lurkers. All I am saying is that it is making no effect on activity. Forum is still as dead as it ever was.

This post has been edited by Möbius on Aug 10 2012, 05:13 PM

Please check the Fifth Stage threads in Announcements as well as Initial D General Discussion. Many old members have come back as a result of the news.

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