Encouraging guest to join

		Quote:			Posted by Cornelius
	I invited all my friends from the Treasure Net . And believe me that is quite a few . But..........they are divers and salvagers ,  mostly interested in the shipwreck forum . They looked and saw only detectorists  , so they quit posting . We may get a few more members interesting in detecting ( and I hope so ! ) but unless we get more wreckdiving stories my friends will stay away .  Cornelius

Hello Corenlius,

well, I persoanlly I don't this this is a reason not to join or a problem. Take TNet for example. Probably 95% of their members are metal detectorist and the remaining 5% will have different interests such as e.g. wreck diving etc.

However this doesn't prevent your friends from posting over there.

I think the bigger site will get, the more attractive it will become to others as we will have more postinsg or in other words a great archive of existing topics / information.

Best wishes,

Christian

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It seem's to be more electronic and yam topic's has of late ,I  don't see people really posting much find's here anymore   ,,,And i am bad for that not getting out much  ,,,sure we , have over 4000 people  But many have joined in 2006 and never returned  ,,Account's that  have been inactive since then should be deleted even more so the one's with no post.s should be gone  ,,  Other then that so far this has been the best summer so far with 149 etc logged in every day
 


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@ James: I think recently there have been posted lots of nice finds. Just take the thinns MikeK or M.Simposn have shown to us for example.

@ Cornelius: I'm sure that some of the Tnet folks are soon going to join us

Overall I think the website is developing fantastic recently, taking a look at the stats for the past year:

Monthly Summary     New Topics New Posts New Members Most Online Referrals Page views

August      249    2399    188    111    4    249209
July 2009    387    3367    377    102    2    516874
June 2009    300    2376    355    95    7    496683
May 2009    297    2953    340    90    0    440886
April 2009    360    2872    337    88    0    319524
March 2009    364    2789    372    100    0    370926
February 2009    383    2584    450    78    3    0
January 2009    373    2094    471    60    3    0
December 2008    79    328    49    22    0    0
November 2008    68    243    52    29    0    0
October 2008    18    58    58    41    0    0
September 2008    9    17    67    52    0    0
August 2008    5    12    39    48    0    0

I am sure that by the end of the year we will have 250 members logged in each day and much more going on here!

Regards,

Christian

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Hello Cornelius, Outback, Golddigger, Christian and others-
When I started this post I was hoping to find ways ( suggestions from others) to make this site better. I have only been a member a couple of days. I just wanted to let ya'll know that I made a suggestion to Christian about Norton and how it was grading this site negatively. I have just got to tell everybody that by the next morning Christian had already fixed the issue. Christian my hat is off to you because you are on top of it. Norton is giving a green mark in the search engines. Now that I said that - I noticed the large # of members on the roll. I started to suggest the deleting of non active members. I am gled someone else brought it up. I just want to thank ya'll for welcoming folks like you do.

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Well, personally I think deleteing non-active old members has a negative side effect. It is a psychological effect but imagine you would like to join a forum: One has let's say 2000 mebers (with half of them being actuve) the other one has 15.000 members with only 1000 active members, too. However which one do you think might look like the BIGGER hence more powerfull (in terms of being a source of knowledge) one?

Again, that's of course only my 2cents and I may be wrong.

Best wishes,

Christian

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