Hello dearest VIPPERs. This is a topic I've been wanting to work on for a while now, getting more VIPPERs here. I understand SAoVQ has a great userbase of posters as it is but I would love to make SAoVQ more popular and get more activity in here. There is not a single really 2ch/futaba-like site anymore and I would love to work towards having SAoVQ take that role but I think the main thing getting in the way is probably activity.
How do you think we can increase the number of VIP QUALITY posters regularly coming to SAoVQ?
Obviously there are some flaws with bringing in new users which have been seen on just about every site in existence so I will assure you now that I will not allow SAoVQ to become shitty due to new users. There are only a limited number of people familiar with 2ch/futaba but that doesn't mean VIPPERs can't be created out of existing internet addicts so how can we create more VIPPERs and bring them to SAoVQ? Should we also advertise on other VIP boards?
I would love to hear everyone's opinions/ideas/hate etc. so please respond! In addition to this, if there is anything else you would like to see on SAoVQ (or any way I can improve SAoVQ) please let me know! Thank you~
Love,
(・з・)
For one thing, the front page isn't all that inviting.
I like how it imitates 2channel's front page, but LISTEN TO MY VIP and the acronym SAoVQ doesn't really tell you or show you much. The random J-pop might scare away non-Japanese fandom types, but then again most people who know about anonymous textboards in the first place tolerate and MAYBE ENJOY that stuff anyways.
Do we have to clarify what this board is all about? We know it's for VIP QUALITY and textboard culture (AA and what not, etc.), but to me, SAoVQ should be a more all-general thing like 2ch's NEWS4VIP, where they talk about anything and everything there. But, with that nice SAoVQ brand of SECRET CLUBHOUSE NO GIRLS ALLOWED lemon twist. The thing is that SAoVQ is already that, it's just nobody does it because we're too concentrated on the VIP QUALITY and AA and stuff like that. We front the VIP stuff a lot, but nobody shows or knows what VIP LIFE is all about. We're too busy saying we're gangsta instead of living the thug life and showing that we're gangsta.
I'm sorry in advance for my inane, slightly drunken rambling.
I understand (・з・)-san's desire for more users but I don't believe it should be a concern for users or administrators of a site not run for profit. Advertising the site is unnecessary, the "existing internet addicts" you want to attract already use email/im/irc/rss as a way to discover new sites and content.
On a constructive note what ever happened to the VIP Quality links website from some thread? Implementing something like mfisn (http://mfisn.com/) on a subdomain like the imageboard can be a way to "increase the number of VIP QUALITY posters regularly coming to SAoVQ." A VIP links site would require VIP Quality moderators with VIP Standards to avoid another Digg/Reddit shitfest which is another can of worms.
>>2, I don't think there's anything wrong with the front page. Putting myself in the position of someone ignorant of SAoVQ I would find the front pages mysterious and inviting.
No, SAoVQ is for VIP QUALITY. More volume is not what we want, but more QUALITY.
The imageboard was a brilliant idea however.
I wasn't invited and I came here by coincidence.
I do not deem myself VIP QUALITY.
Am I the kind of people you wouldn't allow on SAoVQ?
Italian vipper is allright with me.
Italy would be considered VIP QUALITY by some.
Feel free to stay and contribute.
It's hard to say what we could improve on, since SAoVQ has just started. It's important to always focus on VIP quality, but I'd like to see SAoVQ expand to other areas, perhaps news, (not the mess /n/ was) imageboard culture/happenings, user stories ect.
As for attracting more people, I think either posting on 4-ch or world4ch would be fine. Word of mouth!
Thanks for the feedback everyone, much appreciated. I think you're right >>3 and probably it isn't something I should be concerned with; however, I think that having a decent flow of people would help the site become better overall (more people means more posts, more fun, etc.) but yes you are certainly right and it should be something that happens on its own probably.
As for >>7, I think right now it would be best to keep SAoVQ to one board so we don't spread out the posts further but I think >>2 makes a good point in saying that this board should be open to ALL types of discussion so perhaps just having a dedicated news thread or imageboard culture thread would be beneficial (same with users stories etc).
I would love to see a VIP Quality links site go up and I would be more than happy to host it on a subdomain. If there is anyone knowledgeable enough to create one I am entirely willing to host it (I would try to make one but I don't think I know enough to make it good)! I will try getting in contact with siik and seeing if he would maybe give us the code to mfisn or at least a basic structure we could build off of.
Thanks a bunch for your advice everyone. Please tell your friends about SAoVQ~~ Also feel free to recommend anything else you would like to see on the site here.
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>>since SAoVQ has just started.
SAoVQ is almost a year old lolol.
A year for an image/text board is nothing. It's still very young and needs to grow.