Too many threads!!!

[De Ronneman]

It depends; sometimes there aren't enough new threads. Perhaps you've just got some bad luck on your previous threads. You should take better notice of the times when people are on and when threads are created to find a perfect time to create a new one so that it sticks out.

"a prefect time"? I thought I joined a forum, not some sort of flowchart sorority...

You don't have to make a flowchart of it all, you just have to have eyes. After you've come to frequent this site long enough, you're bound to notice patterns or lulls in when threads are or are not created. Think of the thread you want to make and hold off on making it till you notice one of these lulls or it comes to a time when a lot of people are on but not too many threads are being made. Not too hard to do, neh?

As always, I am using a hyperbole. I meant to say that you shouldn't have to wait for the perfect time to be able to launch a good topic. I know you have to, but to keep tabs on good times to post seems sort of missing the point of a forum.

The point of a forum is discussing by and for the users. The users make the topics and reply to others. This works because the good topics get responded to, as the bad topics dribble away down the gutter. When people reply to a topic to say how bad it is, it stays in the upper zones of a forum, since the latest comments keep a thread up high in the list. If people would post less in these obsolete topics, the good topics would be found more frequent and the bad would not kill the good.

Obivously this seems sort of stupid, since everyone knows it allready, but to me it's kind of sad for the people who are actually hurt by the fact their brainchild didn't take flight.
To put it simple: Isn't it stupid we have to TIME a topic, to prevent it from drowning in a sea of bad?

 

[delet]

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In an ideal world we'd all get our 15 minutes of fame and blow cash out our asses. You can't have everything you want.

Think of it this way though: You have the choice between posting a topic at, say, 8PM, when no new threads have been posted for a while (On a Tuesday methinks) or 3:30AM on a Thursday. When do you think would be a better time to post your magical, super awesome thread? It's common sense for the most part.

For the few threads I've made I've found that all you have to do is make it at a reasonable time and then stay and support the thread for a while (provided it's actually a good thread...)

 

[De Ronneman]

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In an ideal world we'd all get our 15 minutes of fame and blow cash out our asses. You can't have everything you want.

Think of it this way though: You have the choice between posting a topic at, say, 8PM, when no new threads have been posted for a while (On a Tuesday methinks) or 3:30AM on a Thursday. When do you think would be a better time to post your magical, super awesome thread? It's common sense for the most part.

For the few threads I've made I've found that all you have to do is make it at a reasonable time and then stay and support the thread for a while (provided it's actually a good thread...)

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, on the contrary, it makes total sense. There's just a nibbling thought in the back of my mind that tells me it SHOULDN'T make sense. Offcourse a great seed needs some watering and scarecrowing, but, as you so vividly put it, in an ideal world we'd all get our 15 minutes of fame and blow cash out our asses. You can't have everything you want. Doesn't mena we can't dream of getting even 30 minutes of fame and finding a more comfortable hole to blow money from...

 

[Armored Prayer]

Meh, I really don't mind.

It keeps me active and gives me something to do.