incoming people II

[thahawke]

you know i said that people keep coming in well they are but they never post because they have to get approved and most of the time they eventually forget about the site. does anyone know how we can help them actually get their profiles up and running. some thing like emailing the mod or somethin.

[Bleighdzes]

You know, I see that particular reason being both good and bad. Bad - for the obvious reason you stated that sometimes it takes a long time to get registered, but also good as it weeds out the fair-weather fans and appreciators. If people want membership, they should really want it. You for example - you stuck around for a long time before you got the registration completed, so obviously you really wanted it and now you're somewhat of an active person on the board despite being relatively new.

Part of me believes that if the registration process were quicker than it is presently, we'd still have people trying to join, joining the board and never really seeing activity out of them. Really not a whole lot different than it is today.

Presently, I'd say that there are definitely less than 30 continually active members on this board, despite having over 600 registered people here. I don't know that improving the registration process will improve the turn out of activity on this site. Xevoz after all is a canned project, per Hasbro. While there are those of us who like it a great deal, there's just no activity because there's no real backing anymore by even the company it's made from and there's nothing new to capture attentions. Think of it this way:

I'm sure there are people who like Go-Bots (Not the new ones, I'm talking about the ones straight out of the 80s). Probably like us, they think they are phenomenal (for whatever reason - again, just like us). But Go-Bots were canned, even despite having a cartoon made about them - Transformers blew them away. The bottom line fact is that peoples interests shift with the market. Hence the silence of over 500 registered members.

[greyloch]

And there's also a good number of duplicate accounts and sock puppets as well. Remember Daxter? I know he has at least 3 accounts. *shudders*

[Squishee Slinger]

I doesn't matter. The line has been long dead and this board is as good as dead as well except for a handful of diehards. For the most part we don't even discuss the toys anymore at all. Had that Mech Shell picture been revealed a year and half ago, there would be a ten page long thread discussing every part in detail in the first couple of days.

[thahawke]

i wish i was around in the old days