Lack of new people is killing the backroom and the entire forum

[gollum]

Competitions make sense in subfora/areas where there is a core at least audience that can attract others; if there is very little core audience a competition can accommplish little. The EB forums should be doing competitions as they want and please, not by request to save the org. There are people that hang around the sword dojo and the main hall, the collosseum and the Citadel and they seasonally scatter and recollect when something is going on. For example, there was a thread about the Golden Horde in automn 2009 that revitalised the Main Hall considerably and very quickly for the 2 weeks it did a run.

While policy changes along the lines kikuchiyo, kagemusha and others suggest will make some head way to help things, taking initiatives by people who frequent sub fora will also help. AARs for TW subfora are particularly good for this, as everyone likes to read stories while at the same time it garnishes appetites to revisit the game.

Unfortunately its not all to the admin and staff hand; things can conspire sometimes against your will, and the nature of an internet forum means that people cannot be "organised" as they would in an office to take action, neither that taking action will guarantee the desired result. Its all still on a voluntary basis, it must be borne in mind.

Helping out streamlining the forum structure as it appears to outsiders and make more visible fora that are traditionally strong points of the org will also help.

Chuchip, i thought the STW skin is currently the default skin for the forum?