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Sora

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2007, 01:28:17 am »
but my design is so cool, surely there must be some kind of content that can match it T.T
i've been talking with my friend, who is also my website partner, and we're tossing some ideas around.
i really want the site to be about mecha things, like ZoE, gundam, AC, but AC doesnt seem to do too well on message boards, gundam probably has way better things going for it than my site, and i only played ZoE for like a day >.>

i tried making a Chrono Compendium kinda super site for just radical dreamers, dreamradically.twilightskies.net , but it didnt work out too well. mainly cause the fanbase for RD is so small.

anyway my biggest problem is that the fanbase for what i want is too small, or its too big and theres already another site doing it with 10000+ members.

another thing we've been thinking about is writing like fanfiction, and origional content, but theres fanfiction.net for that...

but if i give this up i'll have no project to work on.. some reason i always need to work on something, and i dont wanna try making anymore games right now.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2007, 02:24:18 am »
Don't you get it? It doesn't matter if there's another site with 10000+ members. No site is perfect. If there's something you want to do, then just do it better. And if you can't, then spend a few bucks on some O'Reilly books and learn how to.

Resigning yourself to starting yet another generic Anime/Game/Miscellaneous forum and scrumming around the bottom of the barrel for whatever sycophants are willing to hop on board in return for being moderators in order to try and make a popular message board is just a waste of time. Not only will you probably fail at building a community of any substantial size or purpose, but there's a lot of suck-ups out there who will turn around and bite you in the ass several months down the road. That's why the only people you should have moderating anything for the first few months should be people you've built decent relations with and can trust.

Honestly, if you have a hard time finding forums that interests you, then you ought to just keep a one-forum message board for you and any friends you have to chat it up, role-play, and share interesting stuff -- no rules, no moderators, just whatever. Forget about trying to make it popular or big. Hell, instead of trying to get people to come, you should make membership by referral or invite only.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2007, 07:07:54 am »
Sorry but Ramsus is right. Your site is doomed to fail. Someone will eventually find it...but won't bother joining it. Why? Because there are a billion others sites like that. And sorry to break your spirit, but the design isn't cool. It is exactly like every other anime site out there, and every other anime site out there is also failing.

Fuck the whole anime idea and keep to making games. Maybe after your skill and experience grow, your games will grow in fame.

Or, instead of making a general anime website which god knows the internet doesn't need more of, focus on a specific aspect of anime (four person bondage hentai?) or a anime show. Maybe then people with similar interests will begin to pile up.

Oh, and lose the name Twilight Skies. Too cliche.

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« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2007, 11:44:14 am »
(four person bondage hentai?)

0_o

Oh, and lose the name Twilight Skies. Too cliche.

That, I'm going to have to agree on. If you want to make it in the gaming or forum business you're going to need an unusual name. That way, people can remember you.

Examples include: ZeaLitY, Ramsus, Chains of Fate, plus some more, but I just woke up, so I don't know any off the top of my head.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2007, 01:23:42 pm »
yea, i really wanna focus on mecha, but my graphics artist cant draw mecha, and i want OC on my site. and i've though about sticking to making games, but its way to small, i'll never be like the guy who made Warning Forever.

also my design IS cool, and my name is just fine, though i guess after i find out what my site is going to be 100% i'll need a better and more focused one.

come to think of it this place wouldnt be as good if it was SNESconpendium...  well, i'll think of something. and i had an idea for my site, making games, but that fell through, so i'm trying to fix it again so as not to fail >.<

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2007, 02:05:13 pm »
1) making games...way too small

2) also my design IS cool

3) come to think of it this place wouldnt be as good if it were

1) It depends what you're looking for. I know a kid who started up a website of flash games he made and told his friends. As more and more people visited and spoke to him about it, he created a forum that got quite popular. People from schools other than his own joined because people spread it by word of mouth. Now, this is all on the assumption you want children on your board, but from your attitude, spelling, punctuation and grammar thus far, it seems that's exactly what you're going for. The general consensus I've heard from experienced people and owners of successful sites is that you build the content and the visitors up THEN introduce a forum, ONLY if it's necessary, just as this site grew off all the discussion ZeaLitY stirred up (not unreasonably) at OverClockedRemix and even then, the Compendium was the only place that fostered what its users wanted and aimed to become a giant media hub (correct me if I'm wrong, experienced Compendiumites).

2) Again, you're just thinking "I, I, I". You need to think in the shoes of your visitors, and consider what they want. It's also advisable to get the information, media and site up and running before you attract visitors. One reason for this is that visitors who come and see a shitty, unfinished site will be discouraged and won't be likely to come back.

3) Use the fucking subjunctive. In fact, try using English without fucking up every other word in a sentence. People will pretty much never criticise you for using correct English, but are very likely to think and say you're a worthless adolescent dumbass if you don't. Additionally, if you want a community of dedicated, intelligent users, as there is here, you're going to scare them away if you offer three line, poorly written content.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2007, 06:27:00 pm »
2) Again, you're just thinking "I, I, I". You need to think in the shoes of your visitors, and consider what they want. It's also advisable to get the information, media and site up and running before you attract visitors. One reason for this is that visitors who come and see a shitty, unfinished site will be discouraged and won't be likely to come back.

Exactly what I stated before, making a site about what you want sounds like a MySpace link to me, and I hate MySpace.

If you want a site, that will be popular, think of the people, not yourself.

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« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2007, 06:35:30 pm »
but2002: Indeed you did say it before; I was agreeing with your point, which is why I said "again".

twilight_skies: In order to ascertain what your users want, you can run polls or give them the option to send email suggestions.

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« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2007, 04:28:04 am »

That, I'm going to have to agree on. If you want to make it in the gaming or forum business you're going to need an unusual name. That way, people can remember you.

Examples include: ZeaLitY, Ramsus, Chains of Fate, plus some more, but I just woke up, so I don't know any off the top of my head.
Chains of Fate is pretty cliche. But yeah, if you look at it, the name Wii is something that, no matter how many people hated at first, was very memorable and people grew to liking. "What's a Revolution?"

EDIT: Another thing gone wrong: http://www.twilightskies.net/forums/index.php?topic=30.0. What the hell? First of all, playing NFSU doesn't make you a pro at cars. But that isn't my problem. The fact that you deleted every single post in between yours...what is going on! :shock:
And 30 Seconds to Mars sucks.
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« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2007, 04:31:49 am »
but2002: Indeed you did say it before; I was agreeing with your point, which is why I said "again".

I knew that, and I was agreeing on your agreement to my statement. XD

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« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2007, 02:43:22 pm »

That, I'm going to have to agree on. If you want to make it in the gaming or forum business you're going to need an unusual name. That way, people can remember you.

Examples include: ZeaLitY, Ramsus, Chains of Fate, plus some more, but I just woke up, so I don't know any off the top of my head.
Chains of Fate is pretty cliche. But yeah, if you look at it, the name Wii is something that, no matter how many people hated at first, was very memorable and people grew to liking. "What's a Revolution?"

EDIT: Another thing gone wrong: http://www.twilightskies.net/forums/index.php?topic=30.0. What the hell? First of all, playing NFSU doesn't make you a pro at cars. But that isn't my problem. The fact that you deleted every single post in between yours...what is going on! :shock:
And 30 Seconds to Mars sucks.
that was a joke with one of my IRL friends, and alot of his posts disappeared for some reason, i didnt delete them.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2007, 03:31:47 pm »
It took me a few minutes to realize what IRL meant. That's what's wrong with you self-absorbed Internet weenies; you don't realize that the Internet is just a part of real life.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2007, 01:48:58 pm »
I guess I'm not really ready to have a site after all. -.-|||

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2007, 04:34:06 pm »
I guess I'm not really ready to have a site after all. -.-|||
You think?

In all seriousness, I could have told you this from the start and you wouldn't have spent whatever money you've spent on hosting. Really, if you're going to do anything like this, you have to be willing to put in the work, you have to keep your interest in it--something I know all too well can be damned hard to do--and you have to make sure it is viable. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

I, for instance, have loads of writing ideas about every little thing all the time, but most of them would be projected into these long novels (One idea was a novelization of the Back to the Future movies being rewritten with Chrono Compendium theories on time travel instead of the inconsistant ripple effect stuff and what have you utilized in the moives) and I would probably lose interest half-way--or even part of the way and just stop completely. It's happened before, certainly.

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Of course, on that same token don't be afraid to take an idea and run with it...as I seem to be lately. (I haven't written anything at all in at least a year.) Just make sure said idea is viable.

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Re: become a mod today!
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2007, 05:44:02 am »
Short version: You're a fucking idiot. If you're going to be lazy and inept and start yet another worthless forum with no purpose other than to pet your own ego, then try at least stringing some actual words together, you worthless fuck.

Lmao, owned imo