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Originally Posted by BBBAD94ZR1
We need some excitement around here  . I love this site but I have to say it is getting boring  . Im not pointing any fingers at anyone but we need to have some fun here.
Any ideas or new post ideas? Seems like less and less posts.
After all we have some of the baddest cars on the planet.
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Periodically we have this discussion, and the reasons seem to remain static.
I have a feeling we are dealing with two things that keeps our forum slower than CF's. First is that the forum is cyclical with heavy use (for us) at times, then very slow times. We had the most people online here just a few short months ago, but now we average a smaller number. As the weather gets better, or more events like BG are going on, things slow down here just as they do on CF. When everyone is cooped up things tend to pick up.
The other main reason things are slower here is due to many of the same members going to the CF ZR-1 section first because they feel there is more activity over there and they will get faster and/or more responses to their threads. I visit there as well, but have curtailed most of my posting to here where as others post there first with our forum being secondary. Some of our members have increased their posting here as opposed to CF and it has made a difference, but not enough of us have made this their primary and first forum to visit.
We have tried to do some things that CF does not such as contests with prizes, having a racing and babes section, added extra forum features and it has all helped to a degree. However until the majority of people that post in both forums makes this their first choice, we will remain in the same boat.
We are certainly open to ideas from anyone who thinks it will make the forum more interesting as long as we remain primarily a ZR-1 forum. We considered stopping the listserver, and Dave polled everyone with a majority wanting to keep both. The old saying of "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink" applies to that idea. Sure we would increase activity here, but some people who enjoy the listserver and do not like a forum format will not come here regardless. Conversely, there are members who do not like the listserver because of the volume of emails, or talking directly to others via an email format.
My short term suggestion is to link informative threads here to the other forums rather than directly responding in those other forums. Then when the person comes over here, have your discussion. I do that to a certain extent, especially with new ZR-1 owners that happen upon CF first and do not know about us. It works, and we have gotten some of our most active posters to come here that way.
We might consider consolidating some of the individual sections into the ZR-1 General section akin to what CF has if you all think it might help.
The suggestion box is open.
