yet another suggestion

[JonnyB]

yo man,

was just thinking, we get ALOT of people joining up but not posting, they just join up, troll through for a bit then leave.

i was thinking, make most of the forum unviewable untill youve signed up.

then make a few ones 'like the beginers and production' sections unviewable untill the new user has made 10 posts or something, hopefully this will make people at least make introductions and socialise for a bit there for hopefully getting them hooked on the forum.

of course somepeople are going to signup and make 10 useless posts, but still, better then no posts at all

[CBG]

I think this is where the VIP section needs to b developed.

Have things in there that ppl really wanna get to, but cant until they fulfill a criteria

[Cupe]

the offtopic section is unviewable

how much else are we talking about making unviewable here?

[JonnyB]

nah i think the VIP section should be a further stage of membership, liek Cupe mentioned in a thread last week somewhere, the VIP area will be a pay to enter area. which i agree with just so long as there is something worth paying for,

i think my idea would be sufficiant mainly because most member joining up are looking for dj information or production information(as well as these we should close off some other highly visited threads, cept offtopic, offtopic should stay free to everyone so they can actually make those posts up haha

[Cupe]

well, you could make the whole forums unviewable to someone unless they register, that'd stop most lurkers and raise new rego's up

but it's a bit harder to make certain area's accessible after a certain number of posts.

i think given a longer space of time this place will become huge, there's just nothing else or nowhere else out there that is this focussed and directed towards aussie dj's that is worth posting on.

i reckon we just pick which ones (probably a couple more than what you said) that people would be coming here to lurk for, so we force rego's

it's a bit hard to force ppl to post though. i've seen the 'post 10 times before you have access here' shit and it promotes random shit useless posts

[JonnyB]

ive seen it on a few forums, maybe not making areas unviewable, but alot of places have All links unviewable untill a certain postcount or only the first post of the thread viewable so they get the question but cant see everyones answers

[Cupe]

well you can't see links on this forum unless you register

i like that first post idea, i can check into that to see if it's possible on this sort of CMS/forum

the area's wouldn't be invisable, you just wouldn't be able to see the posts in them, only see the sections.

like, sign out and try to view the offtopic section for example

[JonnyB]

the area's wouldn't be invisable, you just wouldn't be able to see the posts in them, only see the sections.

like, sign out and try to view the offtopic section for example

yeah yeah thats what i meant, liek the admin forum is to all us cats, we can see its there, but click on it and it says we dont have authorization.

[Cupe]

yea, well that's easy as piss

just need to pick what sections.

i reckon nearly every section except for MAYBE DJ HQ and The Music cause cunts post their tracks and lurkers will help their exposure

[ChevChelios]

IDMforums have a thing were you cant click links and open attachments until you have like 10 posts or sumint, pretty nifty

[Cupe]

you can't click links here unless you register

you can't attach shit here at all so it doesn't matter that much lol.

[ChevChelios]

haha, i dont think Id ever put an attachment anywho.

[Cupe]

Alright

The Home and The Booth are both only viewable if you're reg'd (except Comps and Interviews)

The rest i'll probs leave open, all the keywords in those posts give us good hits through google spider searches

[FabDJ]

I've stopped posting cause all my questions have been answered thanks to Cupe and Pill Chev and Johnny b and others that I cant remember.

I still browse when I'm bored shitless at work, like now.

Most likely others do the same as it seems quiet of late or do you slow down over winter with less engagements.

[JonnyB]

fab dj, how old are you really? i refuse to beleive you are an amazing old man that kills it on the decks.

why are you still at work?

'stop lieing to us

[Cupe]

i duno what the go is

depends if an advertisement and promo run is done

sometimes someone makes a post on a forum and a bunch of new users come over

i've stopped promo for now. my google SEO skills has the site within the top 5 results for most 'dj forum' type keyword searches

we just continue to grow from here and onward.

once the forums are updated to phpbb3 (it's in the works with the developers) you can set it so ppl need to do more shit to get into threads etc

but for now this is workin, right?

[JonnyB]

its working enough, e.g we always have new users registering, but we will have a week where like 4 or 5 people make introducion posts and you see them stick around, then a week with nothing

[Cupe]

maybe i'll do up a new newsletter soon to drag people back

hehehehehe :twist:

[JonnyB]

lewl!.

Maybve do a mixtape competation. get people to enter a bunch of mixtape, and have them post it in a certain thread, and the winner gets his mixtape the first to be featured on the adjf soundcloud?

[FabDJ]

Nine months and two weeks and I'm out of here

to follow my dream and make people laugh and have a good time.

Wish I was lying, the ladies dont look at me like they used to.

[JonnyB]

Nine months and two weeks and I'm out of here

to follow my dream and make people laugh and have a good time.

Wish I was lying, the ladies dont look at me like they used to.

Pardon? haha.

where you going sir?

[FabDJ]

Back home to the Gold Coast to embarass my family after a thirty year absence.

Thinking of botoxing my scrotum,make me look years younger

[JonnyB]

LMFAO.

seriously who are you.

[Cupe]

HAHAHA what a funny cunt

FabDJ start your own thread in offtopic so i can read more of what you have to say

[FabDJ]

Time for my medication and off to bed.

Perhaps some other time.

Bye for now.

Fab DJ.