(July 9, 2015 at 11:53 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Y'know what you can do to prevent a thread from getting buried? Make it a great thread from the offset. Make it a thread which people *want* to comment in, and the thread will always be high up in the list.
^^ This. Look at 'my' "What's everyone up to..." thread. One drunken rant made at a low emotional ebb and I suddenly tapped into the forum zeitgeist, creating the second most popular thread of all time which is still going strong. On the other hand, I've posted many threads in which the only post is mine. You can't make people engage with your threads if they don't want to; but you can make your threads more appealing.
So blaming the sub-forum for apparent lack of interest doesn't get you anywhere. Neither does insulting the Staff - and especially the owner! - for trying to help.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
