Thread: Ideas to breathe a little more life into this place

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Let's just copy SomethingAwful, steal some features from Facebook, and buy some adspace on Google. Other than that, I don't see any free alternative besides some collective effort on our behalf either in the form of monies spent on some grand aggressive advertising campaign of a besmirchingly clever idea, or a spurious and dedicated scheme of advertising on other forums (forum invasion?).

To be honest, I propose focusing on reworking what we got here and then working to attract more people later. You know that old saying, "You attract more people with gold and jewels opposed to a dead baby and a pile of shit."

Look at our competition. From the Facebook behemoth to rogue chan boards, they all have something to offer that promotes some kind of community. If we review our predecessor, various levels of success and failure were met through an internet store that offered tangible products and services to improve a user's account, looking the other way on pirated material, a concept to turn posting into a game, an aggresive approach to expand the community amongst other communities in a spiderweb-like connection, and eventually relying on advertising and SEO[emo hair thread] to capitalize on popular trends. Ultimately, as we all know, these features failed or eventually removed, and I could only guess there was not enough compensation for David or the crew responsible for bringing any of that to LWS. Kind of a demotivating factor that just really left everything unpolished and removing the desire to take the start of those products and improve them. We can't forget that a lot of loonies posted and were eventually brought down in a public posting debacle (hi, I'm PureOwnage be my friend for SP, zeromusmog posting 1000 posts/day, extremeyaris exposed at his school by LWS detectives for cheating, etc.) really brought the community together. There were some bright minds that did make excellent posts. On top of that, a very good core mod staff especially that MadPinoRage fella who posted gore all the time. Finally, before I finish this paragraph off, Zoints really dealienated the core member base by just attempting to remove some of the popular forums out onto their own. Then David left and sold everything to that dothead, and well here we are now to learn from the mistakes of the past and figuring out a way to make this better of just being silly... and I really as I read back through my post trying to figure out where I started from and where I'm going to end this... because I'm been up nearly 48 hours, in the middle of the ocean, wondering when I can stand down to go hit the rack for some sleep operations, downing my fifth or sixth energy drink, I guess I just want to say that Final Fantasy VII is and was the greatest game is and ever made.

Originally Posted by Mad Pino Rage

You know that old saying, "You attract more people with gold and jewels opposed to a dead baby and a pile of shit."

I thought that saying was made redundant by the internet.