The ambiguous future of Sythe

Categories need to be chosen and selected more carefully than they are now. There's been years for each section to be modified and grow there's no reason for sub forums that have minimal activity.

There's at least 7 or 8 sections that could be added to the off topic sub forum.

 

There's a new forum rework like every few months it seems. There is no reason to keep trimming down the forum. Making it smaller just causes problems and restrains topics from being seen.

 

If runescape tanks then sythe may change their forum focus on a different game. Most likely league of legends

 

If a sub forum is getting two or three replies everyday it's not worth having around. It just makes the forum look less active and old. I'd rather see the main mmorpg games with their markets and discussion sub forums, then the rest under off topic and a couple other sub forums. Then obviously the two or three subforums for help.

 

Who does that affect?

 

It makes the forum look less active, old, as out of date.

 

How do sub forums make the forum look less active? They are sub forums for a reason. < Not active enough to have it's own forum. If we get rid of sub forums because they lack activity, are we not contradicting the implementation?

 

You basically just answered your own question and I already told you how they do in the posts above. When a forum with 700+ users on at anytime has a sub forum with one or two replies a day it's not worth having around. It's worth combining it with other sub forums with a different title that might attract more of the user base.

A loose based example I'm not saying to do would be instead of having a sub forum called Graphics Gallery have a sub forum called Art Gallery. So maybe instead of 2 or 3 people out of 700 posting in it daily you could get 10 or 15. Also moderators and admins need to stop closing threads and ending discussions which results in less activity. There's no reason to close a thread unless you have a good reason. Closing a thread because people are arguing on it isn't a valid reason to close a thread.

By the way in not talking about the little links you click under a forum I'm talking about the big ones.

 

Combining does more harm than leaving it alone. When you combine forums, you're restraining the potential activity of other topics. This is relevant in the Runescape forum.

Graphics Gallery is not a sub forum, it's a forum within a forum category. Showcase Archives is a sub forum.

You can't expect topics to always hold activity. That's totally dependent on the person who makes the topics/replies.

 

That's what I've been talking about, the forums. It doesn't have to even be combined just reworded like I made an example of earlier so or attracts more of the userbase. 2 or 3 replies for a forum a day is just poor managing on the sites part.

 

I don't think you understand. A forum cannot function without it's users. If the users do not contribute to the site, you won't see growth. No matter how many times we "manage" the forums, there will be users who are not satisfied, suggesting the same things as you.

Graphics Gallery
Display your artwork to the community and offer advice.

No need to reword the forum if the caption explains what the forum is for.

 

This forum is runescape based. It cannot survive without runescape. No matter how much the "users" contribute. Once runescape dies. This forum dies. Sure we have other market places but look at the activity. Plus there are other sites that are much better for LoL and other mmo's and crypto currency.

 

Well no shit a forum can't function without its users. So do you have a reason why there's 200 members and 700 guests online at any given time and there's only 2 or 3 posts in a forum daily? It's definitely not because those guests are interested enough to join the forums. I'm not trying to be rude by I'm done talking here because what you just said makes you sound special ed because you just reworded everything I said and made the point yourself. Also there was a reason I said loose based example. There's forums I know of with the same software as Sythe with no problems with activity. MMORPG's, online gaming, and the virtual world is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. An update to Sythe chat isn't going a different lol. A forum reflects it's productivity based on how well it's managed and looked over in almost every situation. Whether it's being smart or being lazy. There's no reason Sythe should be going downhill, if you have better moderators and more attentive admins you'll have a better site. Then after the hard work is over you sit back, get rich in this situation, and watch the community function like it should be without any activity problems.

 

This site can be anything with how many users and guests are online everyday. All it takes is smart people and hard working admins to make it happen. That's why I think 2/3 of the staff needs to be re-assigned because they're actually decreasing the activity of the site.

 

Those guests are mostly banned users lurking. This is a blackmarket website. It seems people forget this. The market is the main priority of the site, the non market topics are optional boards that users can discuss with the community. You can't force people to reply or create topics that hold no interest to them.

 

If everyone thinks all the guests are banned users then I'd think of adopting another forums method of instead of banning them from the entire site just give them a scammer tag. I know that's something that'd definitely increase activity and posting from everyone. It'd also increase activity because instead of people having to go through probably a 10 month process of refunding a user and being able to use the site again where they'd almost definitely lose interest in the site, they could repay the user and have the tag lifted. I'd think a lot more people would get refunded from getting scammed too. I know as time goes on people who scam who aren't really like that in the real world would rethink what they did or become more mature and post a thread and repay the user. The process would probably take one or two weeks instead of nearly a year.

 

"Mostly", not all. A "scammer tag" doesn't discipline the user for their actions. Why would you want scammers roaming around the forum? Wouldn't that contradict your whole argument?

 

That's true in a way, Runescape is the biggest market on sythe.
I think it would be booming even more if more people actually knew about sythe. I actually stumbled across it by chance, and if that wouldn't have happened, I would have probably never even been on this site. Needs more 'advertising' in a way to say the least, on gold sites, by word of mouth etc. Imagine if all of the 1000's that visit sythe daily told a couple of their friends each who didn't know about sythe, about what it is and what you can do on it, it would be hugely beneficial for sythe.

 

People have been saying this shit for 5 years.

 

This.

The site is still really active.