Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaker on April 15, 2016, 10:22:20 AM
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I see we have a new member (which is sadly an all too rare occurrence round these here parts) - welcome Bramble - hope you dive into the fray and get stuck in with the posting :)
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Welcome to the forum, Bramble, where you lead hopefully many others will follow. :)
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Hurrah,and welcome
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Thank you all for your kind welcome. I've just been composing something for the introductions thread, which I'll now post.
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Bramble how did you find us?
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I find it very surprising that so few people have joined us in the last year or two. I wonder what the problem is?
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Dear Floo,
It's you, God has put a block on the forum, he is in a huff about you calling him an evil ditty. ::) ::)
Gonnagle.
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I find it very surprising that so few people have joined us in the last year or two. I wonder what the problem is?
Lack of advertising, I fear :(
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Lack of advertising, I fear :(
But nglreturns still attracts new members, even though it can go for a good while without any new posts.
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Hello Bramble. Nice introduction. :)
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Welcome Bramble, I love your name.
Floo, I think the reason there are few new members is that forums are less popular than they were because people communicate more by Facebook and Twitter. This forum is extremely active compared to others and I like that because I prefer forums, I think it's easier to have discussions than by other types of social media but we are a dying breed I'm afraid.
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Welcome Bramble, I love your name.
Floo, I think the reason there are few new members is that forums are less popular than they were because people communicate more by Facebook and Twitter. This forum is extremely active compared to others and I like that because I prefer forums, I think it's easier to have discussions than by other types of social media but we are a dying breed I'm afraid.
It still doesn't answer the question as to why nglreturns is still getting new members when hardly anyone posts there now.
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Shaker, I've been a lurker for a while and often thought I'd like to post something, then last week I finally decided to do so. Unfortunately, registering was not as straightforward as I thought it would be and it took four attempts and a week to accomplish. I have no idea how typical my experience was but I can imagine that some folk wouldn't have persisted and this might at least partly account for why there have been so few new members lately. There are typically more guests than members viewing. Perhaps some of these have tried unsuccessfully to join up.
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Shaker, I've been a lurker for a while and often thought I'd like to post something, then last week I finally decided to do so. Unfortunately, registering was not as straightforward as I thought it would be and it took four attempts and a week to accomplish. I have no idea how typical my experience was but I can imagine that some folk wouldn't have persisted and this might at least partly account for why there have been so few new members lately. There are typically more guests than members viewing. Perhaps some of these have tried unsuccessfully to join up.
Maybe Jakswan, the owner of this forum, might look into the possibility that difficulty in registering is resulting in lack of members.
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Maybe Jakswan, the owner of this forum, might look into the possibility that difficulty in registering is resulting in lack of members.
As Gordon has posted before on this the problem is the number of spam joiners. Given the current set up it's difficult to avoid.
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As Gordon has posted before on this the problem is the number of spam joiners. Given the current set up it's difficult to avoid.
I have been on other SMF forums which have had problems.
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I have been on other SMF forums which have had problems.
have you missed a 'not'?
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Thanks for persevering, Bramble. As NS points out, it's the insane volume of spam that clogs up the system.
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have you missed a 'not'?
No, SMF doesn't seem a very good forum provider.
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No, SMF doesn't seem a very good forum provider.
OK, then you can understand what the problem is.
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OK, then you can understand what the problem is.
But why should SMF attract much more spam than other forum providers, if that is the case?
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It still doesn't answer the question as to why nglreturns is still getting new members when hardly anyone posts there now.
No idea floo. You could start a thread asking people why they register and don't post though I doubt you'd get many answers. From past experience on other forums, people do sometimes join because they find a particular topic interesting, or know someone else on the forum and are maybe invited, then other things intervene and they forget about it.
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No idea floo. You could start a thread asking people why they register and don't post though I doubt you'd get many answers. From past experience on other forums, people do sometimes join because they find a particular topic interesting, or know someone else on the forum and are maybe invited, then other things intervene and they forget about it.
That has already been done.
http://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=11839.0
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But why should SMF attract much more spam than other forum providers, if that is the case?
Ah, I see, they don't. It's a combination of the numbers that forums attract of spam, and the kludge solution that SMF have for winnowing out the spam from proper joiners.
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Dear Rhiannon,
Just a thought, off the top of my head, do the Mods need an extra pair of hands, a sort of secretary to deal with this kind of problem, and no, not to sit on Gordon's knee ::)
Gonnagle.
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No, I'm the forum person for sitting around looking decorative. I don't think anyone's noticed that I never stop painting my nails long enough to do any work.
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That has already been done.
http://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=11839.0
I saw that one but it is about this forum. Sorry, I thought you were wondering about the nglr forum. Well, you were puzzling as to why it gets new members who don't post and could start a thread on there asking them. I don't think you'll get much response though.
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I saw that one but it is about this forum. Sorry, I thought you were wondering about the nglr forum. Well, you were puzzling as to why it gets new members who don't post and could start a thread on there asking them. I don't think you'll get much response though.
I don't post on nglreturns anymore.
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Oh fair enough, it doesn't really matter then. We all fade away from forums but I like this one, it's lively and has an interesting cross section of posters.
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Oh fair enough, it doesn't really matter then. We all fade away from forums but I like this one, it's lively and has an interesting cross section of posters.
I think this forum is the best one on which I post.
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Me too though I only post occasionally on one other but this is certainly very good.
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Me too though I only post occasionally on one other but this is certainly very good.
Hi Bramble,
Welcome to the board.
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;D to you Stephen.
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Hi Bramble. Just read your introduction. Hope you enjoy yourself here.
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Welcome Bramble 🌹
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But why should SMF attract much more spam than other forum providers, if that is the case?
I (more years ago that I care to think about) was a Mod on a site related to a Pagan Group and for every "Real" membership request the site received there were, at the very least, twenty-five or thirty spams - most from eastern Europe.
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Welcome to the forum, Bramble!