Posted by Termingamer2-JD

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I don't care about any 'lack of activity', because 'activity' is just a number, remember?

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Posted by Quick Curly

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What harm does Board 2's existence do to you?

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Posted by cderp4

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the true owner of the board is Acmlm. just take a look at user id 1. Acmlm created the board, therefore he is owner. Xkeeper (from what I can see) managed Acmlm's Board I3 (until he resigned). anyway, blackhole89 is indeed the manager/"upkeeper" of the board

anyway, "extremely weak" was supposed to be figurative language or whatever. anyway, just a board being "extremely weak" doesn't make me immediately leave, you see. i check other board's way more than this one, so in the end I'm not really that active.

and I'm sorry, but it's not us who are supposed to be iniciating discussions. We try to do that sometimes. No-one ever responds to them, probably the result of nobody even checking the board that often.

sure, I'd like it if I had another board that was active. but what really is a solution? you can't just try to bring up an "interesting topic". nobody checks the board enough to respond to it.

So uh, let's see. Advertising? most guests think the board is dead by reading the stuff here, so they don't bother joining. Nothing really happens here. And no, us taking action doesn't do much. Blackhole himself is the manager of this board, and as well as the staff they should be more active theirselves and investigating into the problem of why it's inactive. When no-one responds to the problems here, they simply grow.

Posted by Quick Curly

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What harm does Board 2's existence do to you?

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er, I'm just going to say that when a board gets little to no activity, and that activity is simply complaining about their being little activity, then why even let it survive? this board has had problems with activity for years on end, and it's starting to become clear that nothing really is changing. there also needs to be things making this board unique. Why should the users come here? What makes board2 a more fun board than other boards out there? That's the problem. Nothing happens here, and that makes nothing really all that unique.

And board implementations aren't going to work either, given that pretty much everything that might actually be useful is either in Jul or 2.5.x already. (for example, descriptions next to items in the item shop and a better quoting system in Kafuka) so basically, that stuff that's useful is already out there.

Now, ACS would be pretty cool. Problem is, how does one get it out there? How do we get new, interested people to actually come to board2 and participate with things? And how do we know it won't end up in postcount++ crap?

So in the end, there aren't that many solutions. Sure, we could take a gamble, since there's nothing really to lose..

But anyway, this board closing (not completely dying, just being archived. there's useful stuff in those romhack sections.) wouldn't really do much but close the case. It's much easier to close it than to throw everything you have, including your energy into the board simply for it to not be dead in terms of activity.

It's not like many staff are active here, anyway. They need to come on and make a change if they really want the board to have activity, or decide something, etc. but the board simply needs leadership that shuts down spammers/spambots, encourages logical posting, and other good stuff, instead of letting the board walk around like a zombie.

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Sure, Board 2 hasn't been archived for all this time similar to its previous incarnations. But, then what? Would "Board 3" be created, be active due its newness and freshness, and then the novelty would quickly wear off to result in the same current state of here and now? Would active ROM hackers, with Board 2 gone, have to choose between Romhacking.net, SMW Central, Jul, and Kafuka? Plus, that's if they haven't already long ago.

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Yes, I agree that we as staff members are responsible for encouraging logical posting as well. However, regular members also have to put forth that logic and act upon it. Plus, all of us as unique members, staff and the rest of the community alike, are all responsible for the conversations that do take place, and the projects that we share and build. The most recent community effort was likely the Board 2 collaborative hack, which did bring about Board Fight. However, there was barely any true community involvement. Not as much as a collaborative project should truly have and encourage, anyway. So, not to open old wounds for the 17th time, but in a case such as that, who is truly at fault? I wasn't a part of the staff here at the time either, so do keep that in mind. I was simply a regular member, still trying to do my best with what I had to work with given the free time I had available to help promote and keep the board that holds a special place in my heart alive in the way that I still believe it can blossom. As one person, what more could I possibly do? Plus I have even less free time now than I did then.

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However, potential projects and community involvement can only be as successful as collective, collaborative interests shared between multiple unique individuals of said community. With that in mind, what exactly would you find interesting and like to see here to become involved in? If you don't ROM hack, how did you find this board, and what encouraged you to join it? This information can be useful for trying to appeal to other potential future members as well.

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