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From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment
The initial conversation
shane t says: alright...
shane t says: yeah.
shane t says: I had thought of bebo as a good way of raising publicity for the site
shane t says: but bebo is more the problem than the solution
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yes it's easy and sort of amusing
shane t says: tis true
shane t says: but the problem is not that we're not getting any visitors
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: I know I know, however if you can chagne the problem to the solution that is the ultimate overcoming, I would say
shane t says: we're getting more than a thousand unique visitors every month
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: the problem is no-one wants to stay
shane t says: and they don't because there's not enough activity to make them want to
shane t says: it's a vicious...thingy
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: quadrangle
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yes, yes
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: perhaps
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: we could make lots of dummy accounts to make it look like there's more activity than there actually is to attract people, and then unveil the brilliant secret when lots of people are regularly coming?
shane t says: yeah...
shane t says: see, then exams coming up is the problem for me. but once they're done, people won't be on the internet as much
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yeah I know zee exact same for me, I'm currently avoiding study myself...
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: another side of the quadrangle
shane t says: will
shane t says: well
shane t says: one of the original problems is that no-one was moderating the forums properly
shane t says: moderators are supposed to start new threads and keep things fresh, etc
shane t says: secondly, the forums that exist aren't necessarily attractive to visitors
shane t says: or they aren't any more
shane t says: they used to be. last april we were getting three new people joining every day
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: hmnm the world has moved on, or back?
shane t says: the world hasn't changed
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: well something has
shane t says: yeah
shane t says: the site surely hasn't gotten worse... has it?
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: no it hasn't
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: it's gotten bigger, I don't see how that could be worse
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: the wiki thing is fun
shane t says: I wonder.
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: you do.
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: but wonder not, senor of wonder, I know that this is only a trench and the site is willing to spring back up to unforeseen heights soon
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: it'll just take the right prompting and twisting and blanket-posting and promotion and stuff
shane t says: yeah
shane t says: tis funnt
shane t says: because in the early days it was simply people telling their friends
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: I found one of the flyers
shane t says: we could have a competition
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: like the free chocolate one?
shane t says: no I mean a more public competition
shane t says: and I still don't have your address!
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: the first person to join with the secret word in their username gets aprize?
shane t says: no
shane t says: I mean, a competition on the website
shane t says: and advertise it through bebo
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: hmm interesting, interesting
shane t says: that way it's not just "hey biatches, visit this site"
shane t says: it's "hey, visit this site and win something"
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: "we're not a cult we swear"
shane t says: we could make it one of those "forward" things
shane t says: you know
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: ooh but would people read it?
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: probably actually
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: I do sometimes
shane t says: people will read anything
shane t says:if everyone who's on bebo who's on theultimatecomment sent this out to everyone we know...and there was a decent enough thing to win...and an insane enough competition premise... there could be a decent number of respondents
shane t says:I could possibly acquire a large box of tesco wine cheaply enough
shane t says: people like drink
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: they do indeed. that is not a bad idea at all, sir, not a bad one at all
shane t says: right. so how do you enter?
shane t says:the competition
shane t says:is it skill or random
shane t says:it would be good if it was something a person could do that could be showcased on the website
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yes indeed
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: maybe a photo competition, something to do with the gods?
shane t says: that way people interested in the competition (and their friends) would check back often
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: or a drawing competition
shane t says: a drawing competition
shane t says: something creative
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yes
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: drawing / sculpting / making competition
shane t says: I might try find softwarew that lets people draw using flash. like the white board thing on bebo
shane t says: we could accept lots of different kinds of media
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: yes indeed!
Blue Hugh the Scurvy Peppermint Pegbeard Dog, AntsInYourPantsDance(Soc) says: who would judge?
shane t says: a panel of judges
