Site Publicity

DarkCloud · May 20, 2003, 21:12

MarkG- just wondering, an idea to get more people posting here (in the ontopic areas)

perhaps you could do liek Tordenskiold's Historic-Battles.com and have a bot email all registered members with a [pitch to come back and see Civ III/GalCiv/MooIII/RoN?

(Assuming that apolyton needs/wants more traffic

) It might liven up the CivIII general forums again!

and maybe get some new democracy gamers!

Zopperoni · May 20, 2003, 21:30

...or have an on-topic post count for two!

H Tower · May 20, 2003, 22:15

how about not having extra junk email in my mail box? The civ3 forums are dead for a reason you know.

Inverse Icarus · May 20, 2003, 22:15

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Originally posted by Zopperoni
...or have an on-topic post count for two!

SEVEN. MY FINAL OFFER.

War4ever · May 20, 2003, 22:42

why did we stop counting the otf posts anyways..was it purely spam?

ixnay · May 21, 2003, 01:43

It was to attempt to make on-topic posts more meaningful and more of the focus of the forums.

Skanky Burns · May 21, 2003, 03:15

And speaking of spam, there is no need for Apolyton to resort to that.

DrSpike · May 21, 2003, 05:07

Don't worry, I'm sure RoN will lead to a few new members joining.

Maniac · May 21, 2003, 08:34

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The civ3 forums are dead

~~So people have commons sense after all.~~
But the Civ3 forums dead?

If only SMAC had so many visitors!

Harry Seldon · May 21, 2003, 08:40

Word of mouth should be sufficient. It increases traffic more slowly and doesn't create ill will with unwanted email. No sense in bringing Settler II down after it was just put into play. I still wake up sweating with nightmares of no 'Poly.

Dauphin · May 21, 2003, 09:05

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
And speaking of spam, there is no need for Apolyton to resort to that.

I like the irony.

orange · May 21, 2003, 09:49

"Apolyton" needs a 50% PCR and a 2 month ban, stat!

VJ · May 21, 2003, 10:14

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Assuming that apolyton needs/wants more traffic

No?

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"Apolyton" needs a 50% PCR and a 2 month ban, stat!

Yes.

Spiffor · May 21, 2003, 11:49

The news of the next expansion for Civ3 ('Conquests') has made the Civ3 general forum suddenly more lively. It is normal that the Ci3 general forum is slower now than before, since most of the general concerns have been adressed already, and discussions about those are generally brought up by new players who are increasingly rare as Civ3 gets older.

I don't visit the strategy forum, but I have heard it is as lively as before. Also, I remember the demogames were extremely active a few months ago, and I don't think it has changed very much.

Panag · May 21, 2003, 17:04

hi ,

, site pub , well just make a small add to go on the bottom of emails you send out , .... thats bound to get loads of new people , .....

have a nice day

atawa · May 21, 2003, 17:51

Poly is slow enough as it is, do we realy want to grow that much more?

DarkCloud · May 21, 2003, 20:32

well, it would at least bring back some oldies- wouldn't you like to see your old friends from 2001, 2000 return?

Skanky Burns · May 21, 2003, 21:48

If they wanted to return, they would.

Rasbelin · May 22, 2003, 01:18

You can already rejoice that Jimmytrick has returned yesterday/today.

Now is it EvC or Yyyyh next?

Well, promoting Poly isn't my business, but AFAIK Poly is very visible on major search engines, web directories (e.g. ODP), other websites and then we have word of mouth. Currently what's hot in strategy is RoN, while second popular are AoM The Titans and Civ III Conquests which will come out soon. RoN is indeed covered by Apolyton in a nice way, but there's many dedicated RoN websites and among the more RTS directed communities, ACS' RoN coverage is abit unknown as this is not a traditional RTS site. Now RoN is currently a game which could bring more people here, but that would require word of mouth and getting linked to by others sites. I assume the Brian Reynolds interview did rise the awareness of people about ACS' RoN coverage, but that's about it. Most other sites with RoN are network run which gives them an advantage, but which also means they're bound to the network. So all in all Poly has the advantage of being an indepedent RoN community, but yet that won't increase the popularity. What do I suggest? Passive promotion via word of mouth and good contents. Also such special things as RoN/BHG chats and interviews will help.

Harovan · May 22, 2003, 03:11

EvC has been back for long, although under a different handle. Who knows for YYYH...

Skanky Burns · May 22, 2003, 03:48

YYYH is too. Or so I heard.

Rasbelin · May 22, 2003, 05:30

I know that EvC is back. Just pointing at him getting back his EvC account like Jimmytrick is back Jimmytrick.

Anyway, back to the topic.

Panag · May 22, 2003, 09:16

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Originally posted by atawa
Poly is slow enough as it is, do we realy want to grow that much more?

hi ,

why not

plenty of topics and choices around to please most people , .....

have a nice day

mrmitchell · May 22, 2003, 18:41

Ideas for Apolyton:

(1) Ban Amnesty - Unban all banned, see whut happens.

Uh...I had another good idea but I forgot it.

oh yeah!
(2) GET THE IRC BACK!

DarkCloud · May 22, 2003, 22:12

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If they wanted to return, they would

Some may have forgotten... it has been many years since 2000.

YYYH isn't back- that's spink you're thinking of

YYYH doesn't want to post here, like The Brain

and UltraSonix can't post here becuase he's too busy... but some people like him (Perhaps Empress) just forgot about poly and would liek to return...

Tuberski · May 22, 2003, 22:31

I can't seem to see DarkCloud's last post in this thread.

I can now that I'm replying, but not in the thread itself.

EDIT: After I posted, the problem corrected itself.

ACK!

Skanky Burns · May 23, 2003, 03:17

Browser fart.

Panag · May 23, 2003, 12:12

Quote:

Originally posted by DarkCloud

Some may have forgotten... it has been many years since 2000.

YYYH isn't back- that's spink you're thinking of

YYYH doesn't want to post here, like The Brain

and UltraSonix can't post here becuase he's too busy... but some people like him (Perhaps Empress) just forgot about poly and would liek to return...

hi ,

, maybe someone should mail them or send a PM , ....

great way to keep people , if you have not posted in thirty days you get an email and pm , ....

have a nice day

Ben Kenobi · May 23, 2003, 14:29

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If they wanted to return, they would.

More evidence of AH's DLs?

I think the site grows quite nicely already.

DarkCloud · May 23, 2003, 18:53

Yeah, I've been thinking about creating a list of disappeared legends and then emailing/bothering the people

Would only do it though if I got some people to help me with the compiling/sending