Opinions Wanted

[IAMCAPER]

Hey Gang,

I'd like some opinions on some ideas for helping to encourage more postings on our board. Until I can find some Admin Staff who have time to devote to helping me I have to find things that don't take up an enormous amount of time.

One suggestion I have is a sort of Role Playing Game where each member is a character in the game. There will be certain stats which will be increased for every post you make on the board. The higher your stats, the more powerful you are.

Another idea is to have a sort of Post Shop where you can gain certain priviledges for a certain amount of posts. For example, if you have made 50 posts you can use them to purchase your name in bold when you message. Or, for 200 posts you can have an avatar added to your profile. Things like that.

Any ideas would be listened to so let me know your thoughts.

Oh, one more thing, I've realized that to keep a site from looking boring you have to make changes so I've decided to design some Holiday skins for the board which will be used for certain holidays. This will hopefully help eliminate any boredom with the board.

Also, I haven't forgotten about our idea to have a radio station hosting local Cape Breton music. That is something that will take some time and money to get off the ground so I'm waiting until I have enough of each to devote to the project. I did add a link to the CJCB Radio site which airs the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles games. This link can be found in the new "Cape Breton Radio" section of the main board

Cheers.

[NewsHound]

Personally, and this is no offense to you, I think you need more active members. If more people posted here I think you would see a snowball effect. The board has to be active if you want more people to show up. I guess that sounds like a catch 22. I think more Cape Breton related stories will help as well.

Have you thought about doing up a website that would have a link to this message board? Maybe a URL that is easier to remember would help would it not?

[colleen]

This is not a suggestion but a question tha may lead to a question later. Confused? I just want to know how much we need to stay "on topic"? You may have noticed that I tend to expand the topic quite a bit, some moderators don't like that too much. But what can I say? I'm the queen of bunny trails and I like to see conversation progress naturally. I appreciate your response, and if it's the wrong answer than I'll give you some suggestions! lol just kidding....mostly

cheers, cj

[IAMCAPER]

Well, Colleen, ideally I'd like to keep topics as close to "home" as possible seeing as it is a board about Cape Breton. However, I guess a loophole would be that the board is for Capers living on and off the island which makes it hard to keep all topics solely about Cape Breton. To be perfectly honest, I catch myself posting things that have nothing to do with Cape Breton just to try to add something different to the board.

Anything that makes the members happy, and anything that can bring new, and active, posters here is fine by me.

[cbisle]

IAMCAPER - Just wanted to say I'm liking the Christmas touch to the board. A nice change.

[IAMCAPER]

Thanks, cbisle, I'm going to try to have a different look for each holiday if I can. It might help spruce up the place and maybe bring in more active posters.