I have no financial or time invested in this forum and IMO I have no right to tell the owner/soon to be owners how they want to use there site. I am here free of charge and if I don't like it here I'll leave... until then I am happy trading and looking at threads that deal with Magic the Gathering not a bunch of posts where people feel entitled to tell the people who have time and money tied up in this free website...
I don't see why everyone can't just get along... you don't like it either create a website of your own or find a website you can enjoy... it really is as simple as that...
I understand this line of thinking and as a "hardcore Casual" MTG player I come here for game - never played Mafia, posted in the Gutter, joined a clan. But, I think that for a long time this place has been a site not for MTG, but for the people of MTGS. So, calling for the termination of half the boards here would mean we lose a huge part of what this place is ACTUALLY about. Instead of getting rid of those I'd like to see better coverage of the game... but how?
The first thing would be to ask what makes other sites more popular for their respective format specificity, and look at their systems and culture. Ask what is a part of "Salvation's brand" that can be altered to attract more people without sacrificing what people feel and like about the "Salvation brand."
Simplifying format functions and administration processes always have an interesting effect on increasing "plug and play" dynamics. There are, however, entrenched cultural aspects that
A) people see as sacred cows and given the "free nature" of the boards people can and will leave
B) a site doesn't attract all the same kind of audience
C) more specialized sites will always continue to do a better job at their format and have the personalities that keep attracting people to the site to read
Talk with other boards, see what they see and how they function. Talk with other top ranking members of other boards, see what they say. There's always cross advertisement and other ways of marketing that's quite simple to building up user base and eyeballs. As well as figuring out how to welcome others from other sites to seed better discussion here within certain forums.
Equally establishing "why" people come to this site, which does take a bit more research and other formalities. The question is whether the time and effort is "worth it," but looking directly at what makes Salvation successful viz-a-viz other sites on an informal layer leads to certain conclusions as always.
There's also something called the victim narrative, which basically means that a group will perpetuate a legend or black legend until doomsday to get something done on an issue. The great evil, real or imagined, is always ignited every time there's a major event. The thing with the internet is that there's proliferation of the "belief structure" as you may with a culture going from parent to child. Time will dilute the issue, but we're talking years. My own informal guesstimation would be 5-7 years, sooner or later considering player/poster churn.
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I have no financial or time invested in this forum and IMO I have no right to tell the owner/soon to be owners how they want to use there site. I am here free of charge and if I don't like it here I'll leave... until then I am happy trading and looking at threads that deal with Magic the Gathering not a bunch of posts where people feel entitled to tell the people who have time and money tied up in this free website...
I don't see why everyone can't just get along... you don't like it either create a website of your own or find a website you can enjoy... it really is as simple as that...
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The first thing would be to ask what makes other sites more popular for their respective format specificity, and look at their systems and culture. Ask what is a part of "Salvation's brand" that can be altered to attract more people without sacrificing what people feel and like about the "Salvation brand."
Simplifying format functions and administration processes always have an interesting effect on increasing "plug and play" dynamics. There are, however, entrenched cultural aspects that
A) people see as sacred cows and given the "free nature" of the boards people can and will leave
B) a site doesn't attract all the same kind of audience
C) more specialized sites will always continue to do a better job at their format and have the personalities that keep attracting people to the site to read
Talk with other boards, see what they see and how they function. Talk with other top ranking members of other boards, see what they say. There's always cross advertisement and other ways of marketing that's quite simple to building up user base and eyeballs. As well as figuring out how to welcome others from other sites to seed better discussion here within certain forums.
Equally establishing "why" people come to this site, which does take a bit more research and other formalities. The question is whether the time and effort is "worth it," but looking directly at what makes Salvation successful viz-a-viz other sites on an informal layer leads to certain conclusions as always.
There's also something called the victim narrative, which basically means that a group will perpetuate a legend or black legend until doomsday to get something done on an issue. The great evil, real or imagined, is always ignited every time there's a major event. The thing with the internet is that there's proliferation of the "belief structure" as you may with a culture going from parent to child. Time will dilute the issue, but we're talking years. My own informal guesstimation would be 5-7 years, sooner or later considering player/poster churn.
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