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Can I ask a question?

14 Feb 2012 06:07 #26196 by fats
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hi all,

I've noticed a slow down in hte number posts in the last few months. What i would like to know is.

What can I do in terms of improving the site would result in you posting more?

Is there something missing from the site?

Is there something blocking/preventing you from posting on the site?

Are you finding the site boring/dull to look at and it's turning you off from posting?

I would REALLY like to know as it's good for me to know the information as it will help me make this a better site.

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14 Feb 2012 06:42 #26198 by Esteban
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Sorry that the first answer is from someone who doesn't really post at all ;)
I like the new design of the page, maybe topics like the "Super Asian Girl Thread" are a bit worn out. Well, I can only make poor guesses about why some of the really great participants here post less.

But I can tell you what bothers me about the new site:
-The forum is so slow, I open other pages in parallel tabs to browse them while I wait for the recent posts in the forum to load. And that's only for the hot topics listed on the front page... browsing the forum is absolutely not pleasant for me.
-I don't look into the story bank too often anymore, many of the old stories are missing and the newer ones just don't work for me, too few evil girls ^^
-Also, I can't tell you exactly why, but the new story bank doesn't feel easy to browse

I don't mean too much criticism, I'm more kind of a leecher trying to get the ice broken ;)
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14 Feb 2012 08:17 #26201 by inactive
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I can't speak for anyone else. My reasons for posting less are personal.

It's dark, the holidays took too much energy, work has been crazy, and my recurring depression is recurring.

I wish I had made more progress with submitting older stories, but I always end up fighting with the story submission interface for some reason. It would be nice to have a simple list index to the stories as well as the "snippet" list.

- GeekSeven
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14 Feb 2012 09:11 #26202 by Sarge395
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If I have slowed down it is only because of my current internet speed. There is less posting overall but there is some great stuff coming up that I see with the return of Conceptfan, the Steeles building on their massive photo legacy, SSH updating again, ProjectSuperwoman, and the HeatherEffect. Love re reading the older stories. Especially the evil girl types. Transformatrix was a wonderful time on the old site.

Love the new Magic Girls Saga. Mainly good girls doing magical things to each other and to normal people. Hoping for an alternate path with some bad girls in control of things or under the sub current of the currently dominant good girls. Just biding their time and staying out of attracting attention.
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14 Feb 2012 09:14 #26203 by Berkhart
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I don't think there is anything wrong with the site/forum itself. Definitely not an expert on these things, but I imagine it's just a slow period, and activity will return to a higher level at some point.
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14 Feb 2012 09:37 #26204 by Raa
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I never been one for posts to any forums, but atleast for it it has nothing to deal with context. The whole dyslexic thing I guess.

As for everyone else I don't know. Maybe it goes in swings. I do know the start of the year, after the holidays, a lot of people just veg. Just an idea, I'm sure it will be back in short order.

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14 Feb 2012 11:58 #26206 by oldHarmonyMotion
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I'm always lurking... I don't know why I don't contribute on the forums much. It's a disease, really.
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14 Feb 2012 14:59 #26208 by Woodclaw
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As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with the forum (although parallel navigation is a bit slow).
I think that the big reason for slowing down was that after Xmas we were all a little drained (this happens to many forums) and the first 6-8 weeks of a new year are usually a big trouble in terms of free time. I hope everything will straight out by the beginning of March.

Rihgt now I'm guilty of not contributing to the reseeding, to my defense I planned to reseed some of Julie/AK stories, but I can't get in touch to obtain the permission.
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14 Feb 2012 18:24 #26210 by eJm
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I personally agree with this. We should be more worried if we reach March-April and noone shows up anymore.

Anon wrote: As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with the forum (although parallel navigation is a bit slow).
I think that the big reason for slowing down was that after Xmas we were all a little drained (this happens to many forums) and the first 6-8 weeks of a new year are usually a big trouble in terms of free time. I hope everything will straight out by the beginning of March.

Rihgt now I'm guilty of not contributing to the reseeding, to my defense I planned to reseed some of Julie/AK stories, but I can't get in touch to obtain the permission.

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14 Feb 2012 18:53 #26211 by hunterbr2001
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I agree with Anon. The forum is ok. I just don´t look for stories. The rest is going just fine. Of course I could post more, but I´m in vacations
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14 Feb 2012 19:21 #26212 by yohashuan
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It could also have to do with the fact that there's only so many times a person can post "I like when chix get super hot and bulletproof and crush steel with their tits" before it starts feeling a little redundant. :evil:
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14 Feb 2012 20:38 #26213 by njae
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"Sort by author" may be a good addition to the storybank. But I doubt it will increase the number of posts ;)
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14 Feb 2012 22:14 #26216 by Random321
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I agree non SWM workload has been an issue for me.

There has been less heroine stuff happening in the news to report on too.

I sometimes wonder if the short “recent topics” list actually encourages people to reply or post new topics less.

I also think there is a *lot* of content out there. Not our style and focus – and not quality like we get in the story bank – but I wonder if people are dividing time.
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15 Feb 2012 17:41 #26237 by Scwank
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Just a guess, but I wonder if the less prominent location of the forum has anything to do with it? Before, when you came to the site, the forum was what you got. Now, it's pretty easy to find, but you still have to go look for it. I'd suggest giving the forum its own entry in the main menu.
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15 Feb 2012 23:28 #26243 by JKIJ
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I'm not and don't think I ever will be the most prolific of posters. I probably would post a bit more, but as with several others I've got personal things going on which can be quite distracting. I don't think there's anything wrong with the site and there's certainly nothing about it that keeps me from putting my oar in when I feel I have something to say.
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16 Feb 2012 07:25 #26248 by bionicskillz
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I'm as always trying to finish some new art I am working on and post it too. Sometimes I think members here may get annoyed with me since I rarely finish my ubergirl related stuff.
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16 Feb 2012 08:58 #26250 by oldHarmonyMotion
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I realize that I never answered the question on the original post. I think the site looks great. The core of the "problem" isn't what features the site has or doesn't have... it's that content is wholly dependent on us. We will be the sole generators of posts and submissions, and, well, it's hard.
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16 Feb 2012 09:07 #26251 by steelknight3000
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It's just a really slow time in general. Underworld was the only super-strength related thing to come out recently in terms of media. Don't know about comic books.
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16 Feb 2012 11:56 #26254 by Sarge395
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Out of the blue thought.

Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.

Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'

Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.

I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way. :woohoo:
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16 Feb 2012 23:03 #26261 by Random321
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I posted a special COATS video bonus for "SWM Members Only" back in the day - I'd be willing to contribute some more solid content to a "Premier Members" section.

However - the last thing I want are people posting things like "+1" just to up their post count - so I think a post count and Karma combo might be smart.
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17 Feb 2012 03:14 #26268 by The Highlander
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Like most of the other people here I’ve just haven’t got around to doing very much over the last few months, and there hasn’t been much posted that wanted to comment on. But I have found some more good source pictures, so I might be posting new stuff soon (if I can get around to making it!).
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17 Feb 2012 03:33 #26269 by fats
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i can easily set a special section for members who have hit certain level for the forum, i could even change the access levels for the current forum sections to give members incentive to engage more in the forum.

I could have a separate menu for the forum but it would look ugly and and i want to keep the menu as tidy as possible.

The speed issue is one that is being looked at my the developers of the software and will come in the next major version, it should be out around September.

The storybank software is about to be released, i'm just waiting for the new version to be released, it will speed up that section substrancially, during tests on a dev server that i own I've recorded a 45% increase and a 25% reduction in the server load so we will see improvements there, also the sort by author will be fixed for that and i'm also looking at a new story entry page and a story view page so there will be improvements there.

when I started this topic it was to see if there was anything that i was doing that was stopping people using the site, i'm glad that on the whole it's noting that I've done but a general malaise int he genre that reducing the post count, hopefully that will go away and we will see a general improvement.

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17 Feb 2012 05:39 #26270 by njae
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Sarge395 wrote: Out of the blue thought.

Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.

Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'

Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.

I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way. :woohoo:


I don't think this will increase activity but instead encourage spam. A limit like "reach 25 posts to access this area" doesn't account for one-word-posts which aren't really usefull in most threads. If you also take Karma and/or Thanks into consideration it will become too hard for newcomers to fulfill these requirements.
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17 Feb 2012 06:17 #26271 by Grayface
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njae wrote:

Sarge395 wrote: Out of the blue thought.

Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.

Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'

Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.

I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way. :woohoo:


I don't think this will increase activity but instead encourage spam. A limit like "reach 25 posts to access this area" doesn't account for one-word-posts which aren't really usefull in most threads. If you also take Karma and/or Thanks into consideration it will become too hard for newcomers to fulfill these requirements.


I agree with njae, I think it would keep some people from posting, and some people would just spam +1 post.

like others have said the reason I'm not posting to much right ow is life got a lot of pressure on me at the moment and I haven't felt all posty lately.

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17 Feb 2012 07:07 #26272 by Woodclaw
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I agree with Njae and Grayface, creating a sort of "veteran only" section of the forum will probablly fragment the community and/or increase the amount of potential spam.

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