[quote author=Cookie Monster link=topic=281.msg6990#msg6990 date=1231552378]
Looking at the website now, I noticed no one posts links to the forum in their articles. Threads should be created for every article posted. Then hyperlink the thread to the articles, and just say something that will encourage further discussion in the forum concerning said articles.
@Avatar: Great Justice.
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Actually, I disagree - that was the original setup on ACF, yes, but I personally believe that news-related discussions should go directly onto the frontpage. This'll entice people to go visit the frontpage more often to check on new discussion and whatnot, instead of holing up in the forums. More discussion on (and member interaction with) the frontpage will both increase its worth and make it look a lot more interesting than it does right now (as in, from an outsider's perspective, it looks pretty dead).
This was btw my initial and main concern for setting up the forums - it would distract from the frontpage, cause less activity thar, and create two separate entities - the forums and the frontpage. I'd like to develop a proper frontpage / forum integration, but I haven't been able to be arsed, and the forum software is very uncertain, :/.
On expanding our coverage, this too has been a (small) point of discussion, and I personally believe TLS should remain Compilation and Compilation-related only. The more focussed a website is, the more people who actively search for that subject will find and enjoy it.
It wouldn't be hard btw to set up a 'sub'-website for other FF-related news though, a similar approach, but with wider news coverage. We could just add a subsection for that subject onto the forums ( I don't think creating two separate forums just yet is a good idea, although it wouldn't be difficult to do it ).
But then we'd also need additional active staff and translators and whatnot, and the site's low on both of those as it is,
. Well, not low, just that the majority of site staff doesn't seem to be doing much (not the translators, not Mako, etc). On that, I was going to do some kinda (frontpage) staff review thingy, and (temp?) demote inactive staff, as was indicated to them by either the 'staff wanted' page or the staff information document, which btw I still haven't updated due to cba / don't care,
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On involving the members, I laid eyes on this thread and already figured Someone must've chucked into the elitist bastard section instead of one of the general sections, as this is a subject that concerns everyone. Move it poasthaste, unless you have serious issues with that,
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But yeah, as Monster says and as I've indicated, poast links to discussions on the subject (if (remotely?) associated with the poast), and vice-versa. If I cba, I'll go through the existing frontpage poasts and try to add links to forum threads.
On clubs activity and whatnot, I personally don't / wouldn't really care where the activity was if there were ads on the site, but only care about the amount of pageviews and overall activity,
. But on a moar serious note, as I or someone else said when the clubs were decided upon, discussions that could warrant their own topic, such as I dunno, the pen0r size of seffiros, should be split from the clubs thread and chucked into its own thread in the appropriate section. As indicated before, that would be the club leader's main responsibility - A note should be added in the club thread whenever a new topic comes up that reminds the club leaders of that.
Also, I should probably create a post with some detailed stuff about the clubs in the section, i.e. the responsibility of the club leader(s) on the content of the club and new topics and whatnot.
