I think we have to market ourselves as a more of a general content community with politics rather than politics with some LC material. Perhaps designing the site in such a way that the LC threads are the first ones you see rather than the political material can be more appealing. Changing the name to make it more vague, conveying a sense of community to all while not specializing in a single area.
We also have to get some clear rules and knock off the bureaucracy when developing them. Just put up some common sense rules and roll with it. Along the way they can evolve. Basically, just have people click this link.
Because they have established relationships with others here going back years. No other reason really. I doubt very much itās the diversity of opinions and content.
I donāt know what add words are so Iāll defer to you on this one. Not sure Iāve ever clicked on a banner ad in my life, tbh.
A dollar a click doesnāt even sound that outrageous to me. 1000 clicks would get maybe a dozen people to stick around. Sounds good to me. Thatās like a 20% uptick in users!
Anecdotally, Iāve tried to direct people irl to the site and the common response is āew i dont like politicsā
Which is why I suggested changing the domain. We can still keep unstuckpolitics, but i wouldnāt mind if the root domain was unstuckforums or something.
Iām not sure it is - how many regs didnāt come from the other place? How many regs would have stayed if it was a new forum where everyone was new to them?