The Crow

There will no longer be official post counts, because Fanforum is doing away with them. In time, the plan is to install a program that will display the post counts for each message board every week right on a page here that will rank all the message boards by post count. Doing something like this should be seen as being positive motivation, because mods and posters will be able to see how how their boards rank in relation to everyone else.

In the meantime, over the last few weeks, the post counts on all of the message boards here were checked to get an idea of how they are doing. Listed below is how the Comics board fared during that three week span.
Comics
Week 1: = 74
Week 2: = 60
Week 3: = 125

Fanforum is going to continue to monitor the traffic on the boards on a regular basis, and any board that has less than 100 posts per week four times in a given three month period will be closed, and we’ll be applying that same rule once you get to monitor your boards yourselves.
Post counts won't start until early March to give us time to “rally the troops” so to speak and do what we can to increase traffic on this board. Post counting will resume on March 6, and we will post the counts for each week until the software that will allow weekly post counts is installed (or until we get closed down).

It is encouraging that we improved in the final week, and I hope that we can build on that success to make sure that our board stays around. On that note, if you have any ideas on increasing traffic, be it bringing in new members or getting people from other boards to stop by, or just getting our posters rallied up to post more, anything you can contribute will be appreciated.

Chris

Thanks for sharing this information with the posters Crow.

wanderer78

Thanks for the information Crow. Hopefully, we'll band together and be able to beat this...again.

Chris

Just a reminder that the post counts will start tomorrow. It's important to the Management Team that this website remain current and fresh. Active, thriving message boards are the best indication that we're providing an inviting place to people to come and discuss their interests. You need to achieve 100 posts a week. If you fail to meet this minimum four times over a three month period, the board will be closed.

The Crow

Thanks for the reminder Chris. Let's get posting everyone!

wanderer78

Thanks for the heads up Chris!

thescoobygang

I'm back to help.

I just got over a nasty 2 week flu, so I should be back to more frequent posting at FF in general.

wanderer78

thescoobygang, , I hope you're feeling better! Thanks for helping us out. It's always great to have you around.

General Discussion March 6 to March 13

Comics – 5,174 – 5,396 Post Count = 222

Thanks to everyone for their help! Keep up the good work.

The Crow

Woo hoo. We did great last week. Let's keep up the good work!

Chris

Excellent work everybody!

wanderer78

Hopefully, we'll be able to sustain this over time.

The Crow

General Discussion March 13-20

Comics – 5,396 – 5,575 Post Count = 179

Down a little from last week, but still well over the 100 post limit. Great job everyone!

wanderer78

Yes, thanks to everyone for posting!

The Crow

Post Counts - March 20th to March 27th

General Discussion

Comics – 5,575 - 5,732 Post Count = 157

We went down a little bit again, but there wasn't much of a drop off. We are still well over the 100 cut off. Thanks again, and keep posting.

wanderer78

I'll admit, I haven't been around as much as I wanted. I'm *hoping* that'll change this week.

Thanks to everyone who's been posting.