Re: what would you do if you were the new owners of Oprano?
my opinion about boards:
people always seem to lose sight of the fact that a message board is about "community"... not how many posts, post counts and posting news articles all day long for a lack of anything interesting to say. no one comes to a forum because of alexa rankings. people come because of who is there and whats being said.
having a bunch of moderators who are encouraged to post turns me off more than anything else. the whole board fills up with boring threads and obligatory "feel good" replies by the same people... again and again and again. thats why i stopped reading this board. lots of threads and nothing to read.
at the end of the day, i believe you need 4-5 very dynamic personalities who can keep things moving and interesting without EVER looking like thats what they are trying to do. mike and serge did that better than anyone i have seen. the more diverse these people are in their views, the more you will have people jumping in to conversations as they will always either strongly agree or strongly dissagree with whats being said and the more they will want to be a part of conversations. the more that happens, the more likely they will come back and keep reading and keep being a part of conversations. that was the dynamic that existed with mike/serge and the others at the time. it was always explosive, controversial, entertaining and interesting.
to see to brilliant people like PD and Morgan who express themselves so well, posting news articles everyday is dissapointing.
jmho
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