How to improve activity on Zelaron (vote, discuss and ideate)

I was considering tossing up this website on a few of the Car Forums that I post on somewhat regularly .. most of them have Gaming/off-topic sections, but they are highly moderated .. they could have a great place to vent here at Zelaron

Do eet!

I brought up zelaron on this basketball forum I go to (insidehoops.com) - it's got about 500 active members. We'll see if anybody makes the transition.

Edit: I'm also against the Adult forum. There's no need for it. It will just bring in teenage idiots like kyeruu, not respectable, intelligent members. I can only see it working against us.

Damn, good point .. But having more iditos does make it more fun sometimes to bash on them, but in the end the quality of posters goes way down, and that sucks.


So Chruser, when should we expcet to see some of these changes implemented?

I think an adult section wouldn't be bad. Not necessarily porn or whatever but to talk about experiences and such.

I don't really want people I know to get on here because its where I bitch about them and tell stories about them lol.

And i think the store is a great idea.

It's not like we can't talk about sex in a general conversation forum. It's porn that is 18+, everything else should be fair game in the general conversation forum.

True dat. The only purpose the adult forum would serve would be to post NSFW pictures which could get most people on here in trouble.. (me, D3V, klo, KA, etc). If you do decide that it would be best for Zelaron, make it so you have to subscribe to view the adult forum. I'd still be against it, but it's only my lone opinion.

I think the best idea up there is the Zelaron Shop. That could be really entertaining.

Remember that search engines will provide us with visitors interested in the particular content we have on the forum. If we have lots of nonsensical chatterbox spam threads, those will attract plenty of members interested in posting more of that kind of content (because they searched for "brain fuck", "Europe could as well be a country" or similar things). If most members would start posting informative, content-rich, useful threads... I think you get the idea.

To get some kind of idea of what topics are popular among users who ultimately find Zelaron on Google or Yahoo, here are last month's top 20 search terms, listed by usage:


3.15% zelaron
1.13% starcraft no cd hack
0.95% guild wars access key
0.57% cd key grabber
0.53% funny ascii
0.53% funny asian names
0.53% rm2k3 download
0.47% wow lag
0.37% rpg maker 2003 download
0.37% zerg build orders
0.35% wall papper
0.32% debockle
0.32% scrolling pics
0.31% pindleskin
0.30% brain fuck
0.30% cd-key grabber
0.30% starcraft hacks
0.29% rtpe.exe download
0.28% suped up cars
0.27% starcraft sucks

So Chruser, when should we expcet to see some of these changes implemented?

The Quick Signup and Zelaron Shop would take a while to develop (we have to write new code, come up with t-shirt designs and so on), but the rest are fairly straight-forward and could be added really soon.

If we have lots of nonsensical chatterbox spam threads, those will attract plenty of members interested in posting more of that kind of content (because they searched for "brain fuck", "Europe could as well be a country" or similar things). If most members would start posting informative, content-rich, useful threads... I think you get the idea.

Get rid of Mantra.

Being the new guy, my opinions should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but here goes...

I'm with Thanatos on the adult forum. While it could potentially increase activity, it wouldn't necessarily be the kind of activity this site is looking for. At the same time, I guess it could be good for a laugh.

I'm definitely down with the Quick Signup and Archive Quick Reply ideas, as well as removing thread expiration. I know that I've found lengthy signup processes to be a deterrant in the past, and when stumbling across random, archived threads, occassionally want to throw in my two bits, but don't get the chance because of expiration. I do agree with Lenny's idea of placing a limit on the number of posts available to "guest" accounts. There needs to be some form of structure.

I have no particular problems with any of the other ideas. Sorry Chruser, not entirely sure I'm ready to be a mod just yet, but I'm more than willing to start (what I consider to be) stimulating threads. In case anyone was wondering, I'll be sticking around. I like the atmosphere here, which is more than I can say for most other forums I've checked out.