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Post by alyssamilanofan on Aug 22, 2007 10:19:45 GMT -6
I think if we can think of something more original we should change it.. (more original as the current titles I mean)
BY the way, how about a discussion thread for tv shows, I've wanted to talk about a couple of shows like Ugly Betty (from which we can learn a lot by the way) and others
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Post by Zach on Sept 5, 2007 20:12:12 GMT -6
Cool Idea! Karma for you. Go ahead Jenny.
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Post by darkme on Sept 6, 2007 5:33:35 GMT -6
that should be fun... does it have to be series only? or can we talk about other tv shows like Oprah and such?? karma 4 Jenny
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Post by AK on Sept 6, 2007 6:41:39 GMT -6
I like the idea too!So what would be the name for the thread?Let's start brainstorming right away!
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Post by Zach on Sept 6, 2007 6:44:34 GMT -6
Hmm.. The YFCI TV Show Lounge. or how about the YFCI Channels or YFCI TV Channels. ?
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Post by AK on Sept 6, 2007 23:20:57 GMT -6
The YFCI TV Lounge sounds good to me.What to others have to say about it?
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Post by alyssamilanofan on Sept 7, 2007 8:16:55 GMT -6
Tv Lounge sounds good and I think it should be for talk shows as well because there's a lot of interesting and important stuff in most talk shows.. We could start by telling what we like and than you can share what you thought of certian episodes/shows of Oprah or tv shows.. anyways thnx
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Post by Takako on Sept 24, 2007 14:11:02 GMT -6
TV Lounge sounds good! I was thinking about it, yeah! I love the idea karma for Jenny!
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 22, 2007 17:05:53 GMT -6
I'm going to be very critical regarding my suggestion to what needs to be done for this forum. I'm a member of some other, much larger forums, and I can to this one just recently becuase I love the idea of students having a place to talk with eachother about what is going on in the world. But this forum, which is founded on such a great idea, is so close to death and needs some major tune ups if it wants to still be around in 2008.
First, you need to have some people commit to posting daily or at least every other day if possible (about a dozen or so) to keep the discussions rolling, others will jump right in if the discussion is moving with high debate quality material. If some people keep a discussion going, other will check it more often as well, as so not to be left out and it can take off on it's own.
Second, you need to strongly encourage those to put more of a post than, "yeah, totally." or "I agree with that." People can say that, but they should put more than that, because those posts do absolutely nothing for the progression of the thread. Also encourage people to quote other's posts, it makes it more like a discussion and less like a series of statements.
Thirdly, try to get all points of view. In the main forum that I'm in (which gets over 700 daily posts from 200+ daily posters) we're looking to get some more conservatives in there. We are a little more lenient (but not allowing them to break rules) to help them have an equal say in things. You need to get people from all sides in the debate, and have a few people that may be willing to debate an unpopular side. What good is a debate about the death penalty if everyone agrees it should be banned, that's not a debate and no one comes out knowing anything more than what they started with.
These are just the main things that need to be worked on if this forum is going to take off, and right now, with only 100 people that have actually posted things, and only 27 that have posted more than 10 posts, isn't signs of a strong forum.
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Post by Zach on Oct 22, 2007 18:26:03 GMT -6
Thank you very much for your opinion OregonElephant. More active posters is exactly what this forum needs, I agree with that. This is definately an issue we must tackle for the future of the forum. One thing you could possibly do is to promote this forum in your forum; that might help us get more active members; I'm not exactly sure.
Does anyone else have a suggestion on how to advertise, and keep members active?
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 22, 2007 23:39:52 GMT -6
Thank you very much for your opinion OregonElephant. More active posters is exactly what this forum needs, I agree with that. This is definately an issue we must tackle for the future of the forum. One thing you could possibly do is to promote this forum in your forum; that might help us get more active members; I'm not exactly sure. Does anyone else have a suggestion on how to advertise, and keep members active? I would have to disagree with trying to get more posters. There is already a good amount of advertising, I came in through an advertiser that came to my forum. We need to get discusions rolling and moving, try to encourage the current posters to post more often without just trying to get more posters. The main difference that I see between this, and the other forums that I'm on, is the posts to views ratio. I've seen some of yours that have 40 posts and 500 views. That shows that there are already a lot of people looking at it, but no one is doing anything. In the other forums, 500 views doesn't occur until about 120-150 posts. The discussion moves and people enjoy to chip in. I think the best way to go about this, is to ask some of the people that post often, to input their opinion in many subjects, even if it is the unpopular stance on a subject. Ask some confident posters to leave themselves open to debate, and have them include links to scientific research and studies and so on to raise the quality of the debate. Right now, I'm trying to input my views into most of the threads that I know at least something about, and leave it open to other comments.
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Post by Zach on Oct 23, 2007 9:55:12 GMT -6
Aha. Great. But how do we do that? Thanks for your help!!
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Post by Zach on Oct 23, 2007 9:59:56 GMT -6
One more thing: Do you think it would be harder to get the older members active because this is the discussion forum of our organization? Ugh. I don't know..
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 23, 2007 10:26:03 GMT -6
I would suggest finding a few members and administrators that have shown in the past to make strong post (stating what they believe and why they believe that) and send a private message saying, "hey, we are trying to respark some serious debate by looking for a few members that can input their opinion and why that is there opinion and some that can take a stance that no one else may be taking. You've been a strong member and have made many strong posts and we'd like to ask if you could help us out," or something along those lines. You know your members and administrators much better than I do, but I've seen, in the three days that I've been here, some people that do make those kind of strong posts that stimulate debate.
It will be near impossible to get those that came here awhile ago, but have since left, to repost very much, but if you can revive those that are currently here and not doing much, it can take off in a few months. It will be hard, because many people can't post until after school, and only for so long. So results won't jump up right away, but come winter break, if we have some people stimulating the debate, it will jump up then, and afterwards when school starts back up, people will be doing a lot of post afterschool and this site can thrive.
But to make it simple, old members that are still here, are probably your best bet along with new members that are still trying to post a lot and have discussions.
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Post by Ranjith arun on Oct 29, 2007 18:33:42 GMT -6
I can't help but giving a Karma to Mr. Oregon elephant.
I ve always wanted to write about this but felt little uncomfortable to talk about this (sent a Priv. Msg to Zach, didn know if he got me right.). I actually meant what Mr. Oregon elephant said about "adding more members" and "very short or less informative replies".
the forum has to be moderated in a much more better way.....
may be we can have a separate Library kind of storage, where all WORTH and only worth informations posted by every member are stored.
Latter we can use it to prepare reports on every single issue.
let us just not be discussing, let us bring out Ideas and solutions that will help nations.
I have to think and tell a lot of ideas regarding this thing to make YFCI better....I will.
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Post by Zach on Oct 29, 2007 19:11:02 GMT -6
Thank you very much Arun for your feedback! What do others think?
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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 29, 2007 23:40:08 GMT -6
But discussion is how you weed through the good ideas and the not so good ones. A good idea has to be able to withstand attacks against it, and it is good to know if your ideas can withstand attacks before presenting them to political leaders.
That was the issue with Cold Fusion, in 1989 it was over presented to the media before it was thoughly tested by scientists, and it turned out that the studies that were presented as facts were incomplete studies with no real conclusions, but this scientific blunder in the past has haunted and hindered new research trying to be done today. Many scientists can't get funding for Cold Fusion, because of the haste that others made in the past.
The lesson to be learned...Don't rush good ideas, make sure they are solid the first try.
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Post by Zach on Oct 31, 2007 20:22:31 GMT -6
Thx for the advice. Karma for you! !
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Post by Ranjith arun on Nov 1, 2007 1:57:04 GMT -6
"The lesson to be learned...Don't rush good ideas, make sure they are solid the first try."
let us follow this in that idea too Zach.....
If we are slow thats ok but we should be Intense.....
we should really make a considerable amount of youth think..... after we do it.
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Post by Zach on Nov 1, 2007 11:51:01 GMT -6
Exactly! Thats the message. Thanks. We can talk about this at the next Staff meeting.
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