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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:44 pm

lol....you talk like this is a small place. It's huge and run very well, you really know how to run a forum. I mean look what you did with The AF.

Old Af

New Af

The old one had more posts and members...but it also had more time to aquire that....it was a mess...it's gross looking. The new Af is clean and crisp and charming.....because you know how to run it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:22 pm

Yeah well the site itself is big, but I'm talking forum wise Iceteks is small. I'd like to see the type of activity here that AF used to have (and see it at AF too

)

I think I could arange that if I merged both forums, but then it would basically be removing AF since there's no other content, so that's why I backed off that idea when I had it in mind.

AF will also make a good test enviroment for SBBS.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:25 pm

Funny, today I went to pay my visa, I knew I owed about 50 bucks on it, but did not know the exact amount and it did not tell me at the bank machine so I just put 50 on it and when I got home, I noticed I got my bill. LOL So I now owe 6 bucks on my visa. Should I make a check or money order, hmmm. LOL

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:48 pm

Money Order....lol.

Merging the two forums sounds cool...would we also have our post count combined? lol.

I want to know how to get forum activity. How do you get people to a forum? And how do you get them posting?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:53 pm

Yeah if I would merge post count would be merged and all. I'd have to basically make this the "master" forum and AF secondary so when I combine, duplicate usernames would delete 1 account so this one would take priority, and post count of other account would be added. At first lot of stat-related stuff would be very fishy but after some time it would all fix itself.

The danger is if there happends to be somone at AF with the same username as someone here, but that they're both different people. But the ods of that are slim. To avoid it I'd probably do a member cleanup, like delete all the users who registered X days ago and have not posted. (but then our member count would go down to like 200 LOL)

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:46 pm

There's nothing wrong with that is there?

ps:
Stop avoiding my forum help questions...lol...tell me your secrets.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:55 pm

Like how to get forum activity? I've been trying that for a few years, and all my ideas dont work so you probably don't want to impliment them. Some involve months worth of coding.

(ex: the cybervillage)

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:57 am

Like how to get forum activity? I've been trying that for a few years, and all my ideas dont work so you probably don't want to impliment them. Some involve months worth of coding. laugh.gif (ex: the cybervillage)

i hate to say it but the main reason thay probly dont work is cuz its somthing that doesnt last and is not addictive enuff

try somthing like this

www.drugrunners.net
www.mobfather.com
www.midnightchallenge.com
www.topshift.com

thats just racing and drug type tho but im sure if we thought up an awsome tech ralated game kinda like those and made it then with the money you make in the beta rounds would pay for the first real rounds prize like give away PC mod's n stuff to top 3 finishers

drugrunners is in round 3 beta now and have over 3000 members playing daily lol

to top it off thay have some members buying 100's of DRC (game credit) for a buck a cred lol like i got 14 bux in it real cash for 14 drc but some of the players there buy drc like its going outta style ... main thing here is thay keep the members cuz the members have to play everyday if thay wanna get to the top ..its sad cuz its just numbers yet still works lol

just a thought

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 18, 2005 8:01 am

Yeah I need to give out prizes and stuff, it might attract people.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:31 pm

I checked into some of those games...they seem complicated.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:59 am

really thay may look a lil complicated but thay are basicly just math games lol

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Sun May 22, 2005 12:26 am

lol...like I said...they look complicated.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sun May 22, 2005 1:21 am

lol no good at math?

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:43 pm

No way man I suck at math. I wish I was better but I don't like to even think about math. Are you any good at math?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:59 pm

I hate math too, well the complicated kind anyway, like logaridams and all that crap you'll never use.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:46 pm

math and shop were the only things i passed in skewl so i kinda love it

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Tue May 24, 2005 10:33 am

Algebra is the coolest math. Yo! I learned my Algebra and left.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:45 pm

Ewww!!! Algebra...that can't be good.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:04 pm

Algebra itself isin't evil, it's all the things that revolve around that that are, such as... gee can't even remember what any of it is called. Oh yeah, factoring, that's an evil one. Common factoring is ok, but the rest is horrible, like difference of squares and difference of triangle and all that crap. Basically, all the stuff that makes my average go down by 20%.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:54 pm

lol....yea math was definitely NOT my strong point. I liked history...I think mainly because I had an awesome history teacher that made it interesting.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:36 pm

So how is everything now? What's new?
Hey Red, I see this place is still going strong. I don't know how you manage both places. You get lots of traffic.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:28 pm

Yeah not bad. I'd like to see more forum activity, but hopefully it will come with time. And it's actually not too bad since usually summer is bad. Last summer I think we got like 2 posts that were not me. You'd think it would be more busy with people off and stuff, but it's actually the oposite.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:22 pm

Red I know I've asked you this stuff probably a million times but I'm really thinking about using ads by google. It can be worth it right?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:24 pm

Yeah but you do need quite a lot of traffic for it to be meaningfull. But every penny helps so why not try it.

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ycontrol · Post by **ycontrol** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:25 pm

A lot? Hmmm like probably more than I can generate.

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