Ask an Admin THREAD 2008Follow

Is there anything you guys can do to motivate me to become a Premium Member? I mean, make it something so awesome it would make people jump on the Premium bandwagon immediately.

Bonus question (answer if you feel like it):

Also, do Premium members' extra accounts also get Premium benefits?

With the recent decline in posts, have you given any thought in doing something to bring back posters and gain new posters?

A note about a premium donation you made that I'm not sure you want them to know about. You have to remember int he grand scheme of thigns Admin notes are a fairly new phenominon.

I don't know if this was asked yet. the site had a bit of a problem for a little bit, so i just came to the last page.

Do you guys get wierded out the first time you see a fellow admin in RL, or is it really like you know them well?

Also, if 20k gets admin, what can i get for 10k? the economy is a little shaky atm.

Planks knows that I bought his premium, as do a lot of other people here. I don't see why it would need to be a secret.

Shame the admin notes weren't around a couple years ago, I'd have pages of them.

Warned for personally attacking an admin.
Warned for spamming a video starring a man and a horse everywhere
Warned for fighting with an admin
Warned for rating a poster up 1200 times
Warned for poking the FFXIers a little too much
Warned for spamming the asylum
Warned for creating multiple sockpuppets
Warned for having multiple ratebots
Several Hundred Posts destroyed by Danalog

Just to name a few, and that was just 2005. Edit: Noting that having been threatened with a permanent IP ban, I smartened up and have only done minor things, rarely, often while under the influence of something.

Edited, Dec 1st 2008 3:31pm by Driftwood

Edited, Dec 1st 2008 3:35pm by Driftwood

Forum population is something I watch on a regular basis. There was a huge, huge decline immidiatly after the site was sold, primarily due to the issues with that, and the lack of functional servers. The 8 month delay in server procurement cost us roughly 4,000 regular forum posters. We have been slowly growing since then, though the increased implementation of at work internet filters has slowed that somewhat.

We are actually on the rise again across the main forums. Some of the population has shifted to WoW or Warhammer, but the numbers overall are up.

We have been trying a variety of things to bring back more regulars. some behind the scenes, some more overt. And some are still in the works. I think from a forum perspective, one of the key things will be some enhancements to the forum system itself. Minor bugfixes, better image system tracking, better markup controlls, things like that. Unfortunatly i'm on the bottom of the stack for programmers at the moment.


Just wondering. If I come up with any idea's kao I will let you know.

Other things, we should probably try a few more "free premium" weeks, where people can try everything.

Another thing that should be done and is theoretically still in the works, is merging this forum system with that of all the other zam netwrok sites. With preferences and a post count that followed you all over the place, our population would quintuple overnight, and that would be the boost we need to start upward growth again.

Forum poulations are a gestalt. The faster the forum moves, the more time peopole stay interested, and the more content they generate.

if anyone has other ideas, by all means PM them to me.

When is DF gonna post her rack that we hear so much about?

Individual admins feel free to answer, I guess:

Do you secretly enjoy drama threads, and if so which one is your favorite? Wether that be game-specific or just e-drama in general matters not.

Have you ever given any thought to the fate of your immortal soul?