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General & Fun => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Nemrud on March 07, 2018, 01:34:45 AM

Title: Why not many active here
Post by: Nemrud on March 07, 2018, 01:34:45 AM

So why are not so many active here? There are 9000 + members and only maybe 5 active here.....

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: ASHOOR on March 08, 2018, 12:36:31 AM

A lot of people are into social networks. Though a lot of these people still visit and read but rarely post. We have to keep posting interesting and compelling materials in hopes of getting people to get engaged. 

Also, a lot of people who used to be teenagers a decade ago, have moved on their lives, most of whom have gotten married and even have kids. So they don

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Joe25 on March 10, 2018, 08:26:52 AM

Quote from: ASHOOR on March 08, 2018, 12:36:31 AM

A lot of people are into social networks. Though a lot of these people still visit and read but rarely post. We have to keep posting interesting and compelling materials in hopes of getting people to get engaged. 

Also, a lot of people who used to be teenagers a decade ago, have moved on their lives, most of whom have gotten married and even have kids. So they don

Ashoor, for a long time now this place has been flooded with kurdish and arab trolls who post their propaganda all over threads and even make anti-Assyrian remarks without getting banned. This has not been adressed by the moderation team at all I don't think as I still see these trolls on the active threads. What's worse is a couple of the dummies we have here keep taking the bait and escalate the trolling.

I can imagine anybody interested in coming back here seeing this and thinking: screw this embarrassing display and logging off because it's not being solved.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: mrzurnaci on March 10, 2018, 10:41:54 AM

I'm still active.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Cascade on March 14, 2018, 01:55:32 AM

Quote from: mrzurnaci on March 10, 2018, 10:41:54 AM

I'm still active.

Well you have always been a faithful regular in here. Lol

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Barwarneta on April 10, 2018, 10:16:10 AM

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Kelba on April 10, 2018, 08:18:45 PM

There indeed have been a lot of trolls in the past year or two. I recall one guy telling us we should go back to Ashurism and that Christianity was a Jewish lie. Then there was "ProudArab" who would do nothing except type racist things and illogical comments. 

To be honest though we have had some legitimate users say bad things as well. I recall one of our younger posters make comments like "we should kill all muslims"

So I agree the quality of conversation has been low here. I don't blame Ashoor though, if he moderated heavily, it would be bad as well. I think there just needs to be an effort by the regular posters to try and contribute higher-quality content, and to not let every interesting thread slip into an argument between 2-3 posters.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Crocodile Bani on April 10, 2018, 09:45:21 PM

Whilst some of the issues have been addressed as to why people are keeping away, the biggest reason I would say is that the forum was down for at least a month.  The rest of the site was up but the forum was offline. Just checked now to see if the forum was back online and I saw this post, thiking it would explain why the forum was down.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: ASHOOR on April 15, 2018, 10:26:34 PM

Coincidentally, enough, today is our 19th anniversary. Assyrian Voice was founded on this day (April 15) in 1999!


ASHOOR

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Crocodile Bani on April 16, 2018, 09:13:50 AM

Quote from: ASHOOR on April 15, 2018, 10:26:34 PM

Coincidentally, enough, today is our 19th anniversary. Assyrian Voice was founded on this day (April 15) in 1999!


ASHOOR

Congratulations.  Still remember a young Ashoor telling me what an awesome website I had.  Such a compliment considering what you have achieved in the last 19 years.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Kelba on April 18, 2018, 04:42:06 AM

Congrats Ashoor. Crazy to think you have run the website for so long. It may literally be in the top 10% of oldest websites still active on the web or something

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: mrzurnaci on April 18, 2018, 09:56:01 PM

Quote from: Kelba on April 18, 2018, 04:42:06 AM

Congrats Ashoor. Crazy to think you have run the website for so long. It may literally be in the top 10% of oldest websites still active on the web or something

for real

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: atourina on April 19, 2018, 11:18:58 AM

Quote from: ASHOOR on April 15, 2018, 10:26:34 PM

Coincidentally, enough, today is our 19th anniversary. Assyrian Voice was founded on this day (April 15) in 1999!


ASHOOR

Congrats!

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Crocodile Bani on April 20, 2018, 10:21:06 PM

I think Ashoor will eventually beat Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger's record.

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: Phenomenon on April 22, 2018, 02:50:30 PM

I come in and read sometimes.

As mentioned, busy with life, work and family. 4 kids for god's sake :)

Title: Re: Why not many active here
Post by: mrzurnaci on April 22, 2018, 06:58:12 PM

Quote from: Phenomenon on Yesterday at 02:50:30 PM

I come in and read sometimes.

As mentioned, busy with life, work and family. 4 kids for god's sake :)

understandable :)