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How do we save FQA
Ironchew:
--- Quote from: Stormwarden on February 02, 2014, 02:49:31 am ---1) Publicity. We'll need a lot of it.
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One possibility is making a FQA wiki that extensively documents the fundies we've run across on FSTDT and elsewhere, preferably with a tone similar to Encyclopedia Dramatica. Newfags will flood this place so fast that we'll have an entirely different forum dynamic (by all accounts, a better one).
The Illusive Man:
--- Quote from: Ironchew on February 04, 2014, 05:39:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Stormwarden on February 02, 2014, 02:49:31 am ---1) Publicity. We'll need a lot of it.
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One possibility is making a FQA wiki that extensively documents the fundies we've run across on FSTDT and elsewhere, preferably with a tone similar to Encyclopedia Dramatica. Newfags will flood this place so fast that we'll have an entirely different forum dynamic (by all accounts, a better one).
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Get a competent staff together before you create a wiki because this will turn into a fulltime job.
Ghoti:
Personally, I think we'd be better off simply talking about FQA on other forums/interwebz hangouts. It's a slower growth, but much more manageable than a newfagsplosion.
Art Vandelay:
Oh, but if we get enough of a newfagsplosion, we could charge them money for an account, like they do on Something Awful, maybe even sell basic functionality like the ability to attach images, PMs, the "report to moderator" button and the ability to view older threads separately if we really want to gouge them.
In all honesty, though, if we want to attract new blood, we're going to have to put the effort in to start and maintain the blog. I know that most of us just want this to be a place to relax and socialise rather than a major ongoing project that requires actual work (myself very much included), but the simple reality is either that or watch this place slowly wither and die.
shykid:
--- Quote from: gyeonghwa on February 02, 2014, 10:25:55 pm ---We need to stop lollygagging and start that darn blog already. If we attach ourselves to another site it's less likely we survive.
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I don't think affiliating ourselves with Rational Wiki would be too bad aside from the initial newbie onslaught. (It certainly couldn't be worse than FSTDT at any rate; sites mocking nutters inevitably attract them like nobody's business.)
I'd also be more than happy to contribute to a blog or podcast when I have the time. (I'm actually free right now, hint hint.)
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