We’ve been getting a fair number of clicks from twitter, for which we can thank kre8tive. We also show up in Google and Bing searches now and have had some traffic from there already. That will likely go up as we create more content.
I also have a side project on deck for a publishing platform and crowdsourced news aggregator that could be directly linked to the forum. If that ever gets off the ground I think it has the potential to drive some traffic our way. I should have more to say about that in a week or two.
To start small, I mentioned this before, but there are high profile poker players who occasionally tweet about politics. Doug Polk did some last night. We could have the unstuck account respond to those kinds of things and invite people here for a fuller discussion.
Also maybe select friends and family. I invited someone before 2nd debate but saw some posts where I thought oh shit I hope that’s not the first impression.
Not sure how to do this but a POG community might be a way to attract some more peeps. I was always amazed by the posters with the huge post counts that I never heard of bc most of their stuff was in POG. And the no-refresh software would be interesting in a werewolf.
I had an idea that patrons nominate a podcast episode once a week/month and then we nudge people to listen to it and dedicate a thread to it and take a deeper dive on the subject. Could pull in some people who are fans of that podcast looking for a discussion as most of these podcasts don’t have active/dedicated forums.
Obviously there are risks here of attracting the dork web element.
I would support a push for more sports traffic. I’m not sure why people would be sporty here, but they’ve been awfully sporty on a poker site in the past, so what the heck. They post a lot. Game day threads are great with live updates. Sports people, be more sporty imo.
That could work. I saw an author of a new book join in on twitter when he saw a group forming to discuss his book. I don’t listen to many podcasts but the comment section on a webpage isn’t a very satisfying place for discussion.
Just harder to do with a book because presumably each person would have to buy the book to contribute to the thread, although authors go on podcasts readily enough that we can select episodes with the author talking about the book and link to the book they are promoting.
Just as an example, I listened to some robot apocalypse podcast yesterday, but the guest was really really good and has a book coming out in September, that could easily work as a thread.
Tweet at AOC. She sometimes responds to nobodies if they make a good point about something important. Now for how to make a good point about something important…
We should get our house in order along the way… Three of the main Politics threads are complete AIDS right now due to dumb slapfights: Gun violence thread (Cactus & respondents), Who will run (pablohoney and some other idiots), and Epstein (Clovis and his enablers).
Put this in the first 50 or so posts of the last forum but a podcast. It doesn’t have to be anything too serious. My wife and I had a few drinks last weekend and recorded a 35 minute or so podcast on Anchor (first app i found in the play store) and I thought it turned out shockingly well for two half drunk people who weren’t really trying. Rotating regular crew putting something out shouldn’t be too hard if we are doing 1, 1 hour ep a week. This is the way the world is trending and putting out some content that is non forum based is the best way to draw in new people IMO.