Advertise pictures of Wookie’s cooking.
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Maybe, but we’ve also had the opposite complaint: too many mega threads, I can’t keep up.
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How much would advertising cost? We really need new ppl here.
Yeah I think the mega threads are probably a slightly worse experience but probably generate more engagement
Of course (covid too). Everyone here flocked to the various Trump threads because there was always some new terrible thing to read/talk about.
With Biden there’s not much to talk about because the changes are few in number and people end up having the same conversations over and over again.
A quiet UP is probably a good sign.
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I’ve been lazy about updating the money thing, but my work life has recently calmed down and I’ll try to post something today or tomorrow. I would love to figure out a way to attract new users here. A couple of random thoughts:
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I think referencing good UP posts on twitter or reddit could be useful. Like, I think a recent post that I wrote in the stonks thread about the prevalence of very large, unprofitable companies was substantive and would be interesting enough to attract one or two clicks.
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Mega threads can be really intimidating to people like me who are scared of jumping in someplace new mid-conversation, but who are also unwilling to read the first 30,000 posts in a thread.
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I’m in favor of more non-politics content and users, particularly since politics has receded from a lot of people’s minds since 2020.
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Of course, I should try to be the change I seek, and actually contribute to more off-topic discussions if that’s what I’m looking for. I think what I’d like most is an active low-content thread that is explicitly non-politics. I am probably a lunatic, but I enjoy reading about other people’s experiences/preferences related to mundate things like:
- How frequently do you purchase a pineapple, procrastinate cutting it because you’re lazy, and then find out you’ve waited too long and it’s all rotten?
- Where exactly is the optimal place to cut your toenails?
- Where do you draw the line between a barber and a hair stylist? (A reasonable decision rule would be that if they wash your hair, they’re a stylist.)
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Isn’t this the LC thread? Oh, I guess politics is allowed in that thread, but that’s where the toenail discussion would happen.
It’s partially a matter of what topics are discussed and it’s partially a matter of organization. The main LC thread is classified in the Politics & News section. (This doesn’t matter for people who display threads on chronological order, but it might matter for people new to the site.)
As for content, even as a regular user here, I feel super weird jumping into a LC thread that’s talking about something moderately serious like, say, NY politicians’ knowledge of local housing prices, to talk about something stupid like pineapple cutting or toenail clipping.
Yeah, fair.
I think the plan is to make this more of a general chitchat board than just politics.
There’s no “plan” but this wouldn’t be a bad thing. You could still make politics the main topic, but have a rich off topic community. Kind of like what 2p2 became.
I think the much more intimidating factor for anyone who comes in here new is that they don’t know anyone here and we all do. And it’s because of this:
Right now our brand is “People who were kicked off 2+2”. That’s it.
If someone comes in here new, unless they are vouched for like Nano, they’re going to be bombarded with “Why are you hiding your 2+2 username?”.
I don’t have a solution, but I’m near certain this is or will be a significant barrier to any ideas of expanding the user base here.
Do we have a single user who joined that had no affiliation with 2p2?
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I’ve been watching The Majority Report hoping to see the name of the caller as “Bettlejuice” or “StimAbuser” of unstuckpolitics.com, I’d think a genuine caller would get through if they mentioned all about the forum on the intro, if that’s how your vetted etc.
I was going to call some, but I’m a terrible speaker all told and would not be as fluent as most here.
Let’s try the free stuff 1st, before committing to spending a lot unless if the advertising is minimal, go for it I say.
Benjamin Dixon Show
Naomi Konst
(TYT) I’ve not seen there show in a long long time, but I’d try Anna kasperian
And all the other progressive YouTube shows 
In short, UP is up its own arse and can’t attract new non-22 users because of it.
When people dare to disagree with the group think they’re invariably run off the forum by a pack of wild dogs/schoolboy bullies trying to impress each other and empowered by malignant moderation, who then revert back to lamenting the lack of diversity here.
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Had no idea that we had a LC chitchat thread.
The link you posted I had always thought was zara’s equivalent to those 2+2 House of Blogs threads.
Here’s a banner ad for 2p2.
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Yea the google clicks could go way up. 6k clicks in a year seems lol when we were getting more than a million site views a month. It’s probably from our own users too.
I don’t know anything about SEO though.
This came up:
Are we doing any of the stuff referenced here?
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thin_slicing and Cactus come to mind, although thin_slicing self-nuked and Cactus is Cactus so…
I haven’t been posting or reading about politics much since there’s no Grandwizard-in-Chief actively trying to burn the country down. It’s like when you finish a marathon or 5k you need to rest for a bit. I imagine it’s the same for a lot of people.
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