Thread: How Do We Get This Board To Grow?

Originally Posted by BigBroncLove

I like a lot of the ideas on ehre already. Dream makes some excellent points, and the marketing guru with the google and sig ideas also sound great to me.

If I were to make a suggestion, it would also be to do a few things that might make it unique. Maybe have a weekly main discussion thread talking about a major issue for that week of football (a new weekly thread started every week). Something that will engross the user in discussion but not something that has been talked over consistently. For example, this week everyone is talking cuts, but maybe a good "The Big Weekly Discussion thread: Preseason Wk4" would talk about who would be an interesting grab from waivers. A little different idea, but just a thought. Doesn't have to be that, but something sponsered by the mods that get the community involved in the threads on this board.

That's it for now, I'm short on ideas :P

I think it has merit.:thumb:

Originally Posted by TXBRONC

A quetion that came to me this morning is how do we get this board to grow to a point where it has some staying power?

get some growth hormone-- i hear rodney harrison can help you out. . . .

Originally Posted by dogfish

get some growth hormone-- i hear rodney harrison can help you out. . . .

I hear that he has some pretty good stuff. I'll put in a call to him tomorrow.

FWIW, the submission to google has worked better than I thought. They normally say it can take 4-6 weeks to show up in the index. I am not sure if it is because I also did some adword advertising, but I just checked Google.

A search for "Broncos Forums" results in BroncosForums.com being the 7th site listed.

A search for "Denver Broncos Forums" results in BroncosForums.com being the 14th site listed (second page, six sites down).

I think its a moot point - this board is rockin already

Originally Posted by orangenblue420

I think its a moot point - this board is rockin already

yeeaaa, we got sexy biznatches, what else do we need?


:drinkingsong:






okay, so some good content will probably help, too. . . stuff like pick'em is fun (has anybody invited deuce yet?), and if you're quick you can still organize a board FF team. . . i like BBL's idea as well. . . i don't think you'll have to do much to secure a base of people from the old Bmania site-- the best way to get new people to hang around once they're here is to have something good for them to read. . . . crank out some of those analytical threads in yer spare time, tned. . . . :becky:

Originally Posted by dogfish

crank out some of those analytical threads in yer spare time, tned. . . . :becky:

Spare time? What's that?

Originally Posted by dogfish

yeeaaa, we got sexy biznatches, what else do we need?


:drinkingsong:






okay, so some good content will probably help, too. . . stuff like pick'em is fun (has anybody invited deuce yet?), and if you're quick you can still organize a board FF team. . . i like BBL's idea as well. . . i don't think you'll have to do much to secure a base of people from the old Bmania site-- the best way to get new people to hang around once they're here is to have something good for them to read. . . . crank out some of those analytical threads in yer spare time, tned. . . . :becky:

I like the deuce and board FF thing. Just for clarification, by board FF team do you mean an FF team selected by vote by the boards or an official board FF League? If it's a league I want in since I currently lack a league due to sheer lack of effort.

If a FF League does get made, if I could make a suggestion. Now this is about 30 steps ahead, so it has nothing to do with the present, but as time goes on and there are more users who want to take part in the league, instead of just maintaining one single super league, start additional leagues and form a psuedo ring of leagues. What I mean by this is have each league have a maximum of 14 or 16 teams, and once over that limit form another league. Then at the end of the regular season you could do a few things I suppose. You could simply have the top winners battle it out during the first playoff game or Week 17 for the FF SB. That or something similar. If thigns really get rocking, then just make more legues and change the rules to best fit odd or even number of leagues....

The reason I'm making the sugeestion is it seemed to me the leagues got semi elitist at BM. What I mean by that is good portions of the posters were unable to join the more prominent leagues. I think FF is a good way to get to know new users, and would make a user want to stick around. Besides that I think it would be easier for new users to get to know other posters, and that it could create for some pretty interesting competitions. I know... I know... pretty strange rant at least a year early, but its something that bothered me a little about the FF leagues at Broncomania.

Originally Posted by BigBroncLove

I like the deuce and board FF thing. Just for clarification, by board FF team do you mean an FF team selected by vote by the boards or an official board FF League? If it's a league I want in since I currently lack a league due to sheer lack of effort.

If a FF League does get made, if I could make a suggestion. Now this is about 30 steps ahead, so it has nothing to do with the present, but as time goes on and there are more users who want to take part in the league, instead of just maintaining one single super league, start additional leagues and form a psuedo ring of leagues. What I mean by this is have each league have a maximum of 14 or 16 teams, and once over that limit form another league. Then at the end of the regular season you could do a few things I suppose. You could simply have the top winners battle it out during the first playoff game or Week 17 for the FF SB. That or something similar. If thigns really get rocking, then just make more legues and change the rules to best fit odd or even number of leagues....

The reason I'm making the sugeestion is it seemed to me the leagues got semi elitist at BM. What I mean by that is good portions of the posters were unable to join the more prominent leagues. I think FF is a good way to get to know new users, and would make a user want to stick around. Besides that I think it would be easier for new users to get to know other posters, and that it could create for some pretty interesting competitions. I know... I know... pretty strange rant at least a year early, but its something that bothered me a little about the FF leagues at Broncomania.

ahh, i think you may be referring to my leagues-- there's no "semi" about it, they're just plain elitist. . . if i'm going to put in work to form a league, i'm going to have people i trust to stick with it and manage their teams. . . in public leagues, usually you get someone who signs up and then forgets about it, or abandons their team when they aren't winning, and it affects the competitive balance of the league (i hate seeing that my opponent for the last playoff spot has a "bye" because they're playing the owner who stopped managing their team in week five, and is starting three guys who are on IR). . . .

of course, if you'd been active on the board when i was forming my leagues, you'd certainly have been invited to one of them. . . .






i'll start a thread in the fantasy sports forum and see if there's enough interest to do an official board league here. . . .

Originally Posted by orangenblue420

I think its a moot point - this board is rockin already

It rocks because the quality of the people here. :wink:

Originally Posted by dogfish

ahh, i think you may be referring to my leagues-- there's no "semi" about it, they're just plain elitist. . . if i'm going to put in work to form a league, i'm going to have people i trust to stick with it and manage their teams. . . in public leagues, usually you get someone who signs up and then forgets about it, or abandons their team when they aren't winning, and it affects the competitive balance of the league (i hate seeing that my opponent for the last playoff spot has a "bye" because they're playing the owner who stopped managing their team in week five, and is starting three guys who are on IR). . . .

of course, if you'd been active on the board when i was forming my leagues, you'd certainly have been invited to one of them. . . .






i'll start a thread in the fantasy sports forum and see if there's enough interest to do an official board league here. . . .

Naw man, I actually wasn't referring to your league becaue it was at least straight forward. It said, "league of elites" and was 100% truthfull as all those involved were top notch posters. I was talking mroe about the league of superstars II with their sticky and their lack of allownce of players with under 2000 posts. I liked your league actually, it was cool, but was refering more to other leagues personally. Count me in, on your league here dogfish.

The only way to truly make sure this board grows ....

.... is an over-abbundance of Jay x Jake threads.

Other than that, there will be enough material in the regular season to fill this board with tons of stuff.

And if all else fails, we can always use the magic turtle.

Originally Posted by tnedator

Agreed 100%. The group we have now, and maybe some more friends/regulars, we create a great nucleus to set the tone of the board and help determine policies and other decisions the board will face in the coming days/weeks. However, we will still need an influx of new members to really make this a great place.

I agree. New members are critical to the board's success and brings fresh ideas and new ways of looking at things, so we don't get stuck in a rut. However, some maturity (regardless of their age) is essential!

Originally Posted by -HW-

I agree. New members are critical to the board's success and brings fresh ideas and new ways of looking at things, so we don't get stuck in a rut. However, some maturity (regardless of their age) is essential!

AMEN SISTA!