Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 15:45:29 GMT -5
From the Politics Board:
It doesn't have to happen, Raybar. There are message boards out there that have thousands of members and very, very active discussions going on up to many today. If FACTS is going to survive with eventually not more than two or three active members (although there is at least one here that would like that just fine, as long as he has an active opponent to his ideas--which I'd like to remind him is not guaranteed either) some things have got to change.
The message boards I've seen that are very successful have a number of topic sub-forums. It doesn't help that FACTS has only three very general ones. Personally, I would like to see the Politics/Rants Forum gone with more specific topic headings in it's place. But, in any case, I would like to see more specific topics, or at least sub-topics to the three forums. Of course, these are just my general ideas. I would really hope there will be many other suggestions.
I do know, from what other current and past FACTS members have reported, that folks here do participate in other forums as well as with FACTS. I have recently found a message board that interests me a lot with lots and lots of topics and very active. I will be posting on that board as well as here. Up to now, I have participated only on FACTS (exception was years ago). That does mean I likely won't be posting as much, but I am not abandoning FACTS, as much as participating here has stressed me out at times, but blaming myself for that, not FACTS.
I just really hope that FACTS can get back on it's feet and be just as active as it's been before. By the way, I sincerely believe (and have been told) that the politics on the Politics/Rants board have driven formerly active members away from FACTS. Post after post of unpopular, hard-to-take political views have turned away less tolerant-minded members than the few who are still here. And that's getting more difficult by the day.
Raybar wrote:
What I think has happened to FACTS is that many people have drifted away, each for their own reasons I suppose, but mostly they just moved on.
Read more: unfacts.freeforums.net/thread/3273/why-shut-people-who-say?page=2#ixzz4z0NdmaTg
What I think has happened to FACTS is that many people have drifted away, each for their own reasons I suppose, but mostly they just moved on.
Read more: unfacts.freeforums.net/thread/3273/why-shut-people-who-say?page=2#ixzz4z0NdmaTg
The message boards I've seen that are very successful have a number of topic sub-forums. It doesn't help that FACTS has only three very general ones. Personally, I would like to see the Politics/Rants Forum gone with more specific topic headings in it's place. But, in any case, I would like to see more specific topics, or at least sub-topics to the three forums. Of course, these are just my general ideas. I would really hope there will be many other suggestions.
I do know, from what other current and past FACTS members have reported, that folks here do participate in other forums as well as with FACTS. I have recently found a message board that interests me a lot with lots and lots of topics and very active. I will be posting on that board as well as here. Up to now, I have participated only on FACTS (exception was years ago). That does mean I likely won't be posting as much, but I am not abandoning FACTS, as much as participating here has stressed me out at times, but blaming myself for that, not FACTS.
I just really hope that FACTS can get back on it's feet and be just as active as it's been before. By the way, I sincerely believe (and have been told) that the politics on the Politics/Rants board have driven formerly active members away from FACTS. Post after post of unpopular, hard-to-take political views have turned away less tolerant-minded members than the few who are still here. And that's getting more difficult by the day.
