As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?

Yanderemenhera

Basically, I don't usually see the other staff bring this up but users are leaving like crazy. We get new accounts everyday but most accounts on here have zero posts or are flat out advertising gambling websites and are quite literally bots. What do you as the community want that we can give you? Please answer in this posts replys!

Raven

It happens all the time, people come and go. Honestly, there isn't much we can do.

Ameris_Blizz

I'm gonna have to agree with Raven here, people just move on.

KiwiFarmsArkavel

idk, try making smth called Achivements for every milestone you hit.

For Example: You Get 100 views in your Bio and you earned the Hundred Hearts Achievement for getting 100 views in your bio n stuff and for that, you get a group of people you hitted that same milestone.

The rarer the milestone is, the shinier the banner color will be etc etc (idk how this would work so yeah)

Yanderemenhera

eh, people are leaving because there friends are, and people are just getting bored with the forum

KiwiFarmsArkavel

@Yanderemenhera said in As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?:

eh, people are leaving because there friends are, and people are just getting bored with the forum

so how do we spice it up

Yanderemenhera

idk, i think people mostly are having issues with the site/staff team tbh, but i don't think we can fix that. maybe we should try advertising more to make up for all of the users who leave. idk how to keep people long term though

Yanderemenhera

i could be wrong though

Aries

Tbf, I think it could just be the new user base. I miss what BDNS was like when I first joined, now most users are kinda annoying and immature

KiwiFarmsArkavel

@Aries said in As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?:

Tbf, I think it could just be the new user base. I miss what BDNS was like when I first joined, now most users are kinda annoying and immature

cough cough SSL

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i think its up to the current users to be more interesting or talk abt more engaging thins so ppl have a reason to want to stay and read what others think. i personally plan on posting more abt random opinions or things i found interesting that i saw. i think these little things could make a difference but idk im just spitballing

KiwiFarmsArkavel

@_Izzy_ said in As someone who's PR department, how might we improve and keep users from leaving?:

i think its up to the current users to be more interesting or talk abt more engaging thins so ppl have a reason to want to stay and read what others think. i personally plan on posting more abt random opinions or things i found interesting that i saw. i think these little things could make a difference but idk im just spitballing

most of the new users are either bots, people that make accounts to never use it at all, and people like SSL making alt acc's to sputter nonesense

so I really don't know Abt that

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@KiwiFarmsArkavel thats kinda why its up to the users to be more interesting and engaging, bc most users are boring or lame or dont engage much with the community. im basically saying its up to US to be more entertaining in my opinion

Yanderemenhera

@_Izzy_ thats fair

sc4retic

i mean, some people here who are new gens might actually be active, but that really means we need to lock in with how interesting we need to make our topics be so they can feel more comfortable with the community.

SSL making alt acc's to sputter nonesense

bro got reborn as john wick

Yanderemenhera

@st4tic frfr

sc4retic

as for staff, some of them should be waaaaaayyy more patient with some users. i dont even mean to be rude but seriously.

for example, i've recently seen a user here (shrub, who is now banned,) having to appeal a warning that was only given to her because she said "newsletter ahh post" jokingly. sure, it was eventually revoked, but it shouldn't even have been issued in the first place since it wasn't rule-breaking at all. if you need another example, some posts talking about another forum sites (mppc) were being mass deleted in a topic, and for seemingly no reason at all. they were not mass-advertising, they weren't doing anything inherently inappropriate, and everyone in the comments was confused by it.

and another thing that i hope was changed(? i'm still kinda confused by it) was a strange dislike for shitposting. i mean, this is a silly forum site after all and shitposting is a great part of the internet. that's just how it is. you COULD argue "but this is originally for talking about tech and homebrew" but do you really think people use this site for just that? the answer is no. most people use this just to post silly topics like irl updates or talk about their favorite show, which is why different categories even exist. so like. how would shitposting even affect anything here so negatively?

and yeah, i dont mean all of the mods- but if this behavior could be changed i would greatly appreciate it. im sorry if nothing here makes sense im writing this like 1 am and my brain isnt even functioning very well atp <//3

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@st4tic i think more ppl posting abt random stuff would make the platform feel more cozy and like a intimate community and might ironically help it out

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i feel like there are alot of users but i only see post from like the same group of ppl on my feed and i dont even follow them so seeing more variety would be cool idk if yall can effect that:P

Yanderemenhera

@_Izzy_ no, there's just that little users