Post by bluemoth on Jan 11, 2011 7:56:15 GMT -8
Looks like your site is geared more toward children then adults. Like the role playing or talking about cartoon caricatures from Japan in your forum. I would never talk about these things in your forum. Most of us on insect net are adults and strictly discuss insects. You only offer a place for trades only and no classified adds to sell or request insects. You seem to have limited your members that choose your site by the forum topics and options you offer. I must say though some of you topics are very good for adults. I do not mean to discourage you. If you can think up some things that insect net dos not have and make your forum more geared toward adults then you might get some members. To be honest with you our mediator Clark has don a wonderful job making this site. It would be very hard for you to get any one to leave because it is so good and thorough in forum topics, classified adds and even an on line auction. If you can think up some thing better maybe you will get some action at your web sight. One thought of mine would be a general hobby site. You could have many different hobbies ( there are hundreds of them out there ) listed for the forum as main categories. When a person clicked on the main category you could have a lot of sub categories they could post in. Example - main category - shell collecting - sub categories - field trip reports, cleaning shells, identification, how to display sells, labeling shells, fossil shells, photography, rules and regulations, selling and trading shells. So see you could still have a nice sight just change it up a bit. There are some of us here that have other hobbies we would like to talk about. your sight could be just the perfect place if you make some changes.