![]() ![]() What I think is the most urgent problem is the cash flow. It’s not my turn this week but I’m posting it anyway. I’ll work on making it make me better while I work on making it better.Īnd I would counter that with, even if the place is decorated nicely and the staff is friendly, they’re still going to get lousy food and not come back, and will tell their friends that it stinks. The board fills a major social need for me, so I’m not leaving. As ultimately pointless and futile as all this reading and writing is, how much more pointless and futile if just in service of those 3 topics? Just whining about RWs in general and Trump in particular while hiding from COVID.” It pains me to admit that. If I was forced to be more specific in my answer to her it’d probably have to be “Not much new. Over the last year or three when she asks “What are the Dopers up to today?”, my only answer is “not much new” as I struggle to come up with something, anything, that we actually talked about or anything memorable that I wrote. But the content was still there and the experience was still fresh. By that time I’d been an active member for a decade, so the novelty had long since worn off. ![]() Likewise, if she brought up some random topic or event from her activities I could usually say “You know we had a thread about almost that same thing a few months ago and …”. ![]() When I was active here in the early 2010s I was forever telling my wife about some interesting convo on the Dope that day about something or other. I don’t think I’ve been seeing the better side of the board lately, or the better side of myself. And I think the least I can do is try to engage differently and see how that goes. But if you then see weird cult artwork on the wall, and unpopular political signs hanging, and the staff are having a loud argument for all to see about ‘them!’ they are likely to turn around and walk right back out.īecause as I’m sitting here reflecting on everything that’s been said, I’m questioning whether this is all worth it to me. To use your analogy, a restaurant may have bad location, lousy food and rude staff - but they may still get walk-ins who don’t know, because they stumbled upon the place at the right time. Yeah, it’s not in any way of addressing the long term of adding members, but it may increase the trickle as it stands without requiring an investment of time/money/etc. The thing though about fixing some of the cosmetics (the forum names and some of the stodgy imagery for example) is that they (if we were willing, which is a huge if) are quick fixes that might help retain the few ‘new’ people who are still currently stumbling in. I’m going to respectfully disagree, but I see your ( and EoD’s) point. ![]() It’s like blaming a restaurant’s decor for why people aren’t coming in, instead of the bad location and lousy food and rude staff. I think Eyebrows is saying that we need to think of a viable way to get new posters here before we start worrying about the cosmetic stuff. We should try to appeal to the people who would fit in here rather than try to appeal to a certain age group. I feel we should stay true to that purpose even if it means the website ‘ ’ dies a slow death. There’s not really another place on the web like it. The magic sauce of the SDMB is that it’s a place for people who like to delve deeply into topics and have passionate, serious debates. No doubt their ratings are higher, but the channel is unrecognizable from what it was before. They used to have real history documentaries, but now it’s all shows about Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Aliens. It would be like the transformation the History Channel went through. I don’t doubt that the SDMB membership can be expanded by tailoring it to appeal to young people, but that focus would likely change what this board is about. There’s no point in changing the SDMB to appeal to young interests since there are so many places on the web which are much, much, much better suited to them. I don’t think we should be targeting a young demographic. ![]()
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