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Forum promotion (linking)
By: MightyFool Date: June 17, 2020, 10:26 am
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Hi guys, I'm new here. After experiencing heavy doubts hopefully
this forum can help me (so far, the comment section on Feser's
blog helped me a lot without even reading Feser's books yet).
This forum was a pain to find though. I came here from a link in
the comment section on Feser's blog, then it turned out that
forum was dead. Luckily I found this forum in a thread link in
that dead forum. This forum didn't have any indication that you
needed to register to view any posts though. So finally here I
am.
How do we make this forum more known? I'd suggest contacting
some other Christian / Classical Theism sites to ask to link to
here. Also to make all threads public so you can at least read
them while not logged in.
Do you guys have any ideas?
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Re: Forum promotion (linking)
By: Mackie Messer Date: June 19, 2020, 4:08 pm
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I've asked those who are still active to make you a moderator.
You have our blessing for your ideas. Go forth and prosper.
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Re: Forum promotion (linking)
By: jd3 Date: June 24, 2020, 12:14 am
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This is an important topic that I'd like to get some discussion
on. As you may know, the previous versions of this forum were
hacked and the membership never returned. The site
HTML https://classicaltheism.boardhost.com/
had over 700 members
before it died, and this new forum only has like 50. There was
also an issue about getting people to moderate the site and pay
for hosting. So it is not a simple task to get a good forum
going. But here's a few ideas I had:
- Make the threads visible without signing up, so when you are
engaging with someone online, you can link them to a post that
may answer there question (thus, they see the forum, and maybe
signup later) Linking to the site on various subreddits (none of
them are that popular really) or strange notions could be
helpful.
- Mention it to friends who are interested in philosophy, or
just people who might have questions about classical theism.
Maybe there should be a separate page for people with casual
questions, where more experienced folk can answer, sort of like
an interactive FAQ with real people.
- Lastly, if the forum continues to stall, I wonder if we
couldn't convince someone with a better domain name and more
traffic to host the forum. For example: the site
classicaltheism.com is one of the first things that show up when
you search "classical theism" (not to mention "classical theism
forum" and other similar keywords). It is a site with podcast
interviews of various thinkers (Feser among them) and it doesn't
seem to have a dedicated forum, so maybe that's a last-resort
option.
Curious what others think about this.
-JD3
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Re: Forum promotion (linking)
By: Mackie Messer Date: June 25, 2020, 4:24 pm
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Same deal. When you get moderator status, you'll see a moderator
forum. Post about opening up the forum and one of the
administrators will help out, or at least give you a reason why
they don't want to do it. (The initial justification, I take it,
was that forcing people to log on helps us gauge the forum's
actual activity level, whereas in the past everyone remained
invisible unless posting. It also sometimes forces people on the
fence to sign up.)
Also, a correction on a point of forum history: it was the
forum's second incarnation at classicaltheismforum.com, which
was doing well, which was hacked. It would have cost over $500 a
year for hosting and security fees, so we dropped it. (Most of
us were also burnt out. I think I had even went inactive by
then.)
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Re: Forum promotion (linking)
By: Mackie Messer Date: June 29, 2020, 1:30 am
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JD3 has now been made a moderator, and MightyFool an
administrator. The administrator who made the adjustment told me
that he would be leaving it to you, MightyFool, to figure out
how to make the forums viewable to people who haven't signed in.
He apparently hasn't been able to on this platform yet.
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Re: Forum promotion (linking)
By: MightyFool Date: June 29, 2020, 2:47 pm
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[quote author=Mackie Messer link=topic=38.msg166#msg166
date=1593412220]
JD3 has now been made a moderator, and MightyFool an
administrator. The administrator who made the adjustment told me
that he would be leaving it to you, MightyFool, to figure out
how to make the forums viewable to people who haven't signed in.
He apparently hasn't been able to on this platform yet.
[/quote]
Fixed this! I'm also going to look if this could be moved
(without breaking anything) to a better domain (without
.createaforum.com).
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