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Ideas to stimulate membership? Things are getting pretty quiet around here. |
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I know it doesn't matter now, but in the future, one way to avoid killing your own site is to avoid asking meta-questions like this one! Does the StackExchange service give you a "meta" sister-site automatically? There is a uservoice page that can be used for meta discussion: http://outflopped.uservoice.com/ I will keep an eye on the discussion and try and keep tabs on the meta talk. Thanks for the suggestions all.
(Feb 08 '10 at 01:29)
Mr. Flibble
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Stackoverflow achieved success because its questions and answers became canonical, meaning that the Stackoverflow answer to a question was often the best and most complete answer available (on the Internet). As such the site picked up a ton of inbound links from discussions in "looser" formats (like blogs and forums), where you could reference a StackOverflow Q&A as the authoritative answer. Plus Atwood/Spolsky parlayed a lot of their popularity into an initial boost of dedicated users which gave the site the critical mass it needed to achieve wide and deep content coverage. IMO if Outflopped.com can generate a lot of these "canonical" Q&As, traffic will follow. |
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Spolsky/Atwood once suggested the secret to getting a site like this up and going is to have a steady stream of good questions. A suggestion to the site owners: Put together a list of 20 or 30 good questions. Ask them at the rate of one a day. The answers will follow. Hopefully this will achieve critical mass. Plus ask more people like codingthewheel to give you a recommendation via a blog post. |
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One thing that would help would be if the existing visitors would vote more. With the current level of activity it takes effort for new users to even reach the minimum reputation requirements needed to be able to comment (50) or edit community wikis (100). We don't want people voting or adding comments for the sake of increasing activity though. People need to vote more because they believe what someone said is generally a sound opinion they agree with, not because it'll look better by people visiting the site.
(Feb 11 '10 at 01:28)
CoyMeetsWorld
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If you post on other forums it would help if you added a link to here in your signature. Or even create a thread about it. |
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I think the best thing to do would be to run a few events on pokerstars. You can run private tournaments with passwords. My suggestion is to run a few outflopped.com private tournaments, and have the passwords available here on the site, run some low buy ins as to grab the crowd who asks more questions (newer players) and make it known in the description that the password is in fact available here. Agree completely on avoiding meta-questions. Digg/Reddit might help too if you can get enough upvotes. Sams comment about existing visitors voting more would help too. I'm not sure if there is a way to encourage this easily though. |
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Find a way to embed poker hand histories and videos. If we could do this, the site would immediately rock. Videos are embeddable already (http://www.outflopped.com/editing-help). There's a decent enough converter for hand histories too: http://www2.outflopped.com/converter
(Feb 20 '10 at 00:43)
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It only helps if people actually do it.
(Apr 06 '10 at 16:43)
Douglas Zare
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It may be worthwhile to add a forum of some kind to the site, to add additional traffic. Many poker sites have been successful due to the community they create. In the "Question and Answer" only format, much of the community aspects are missing to round the site out. Here we are using this Question as a sounding board more in a forum setting than actual answers. Not that we want to transform this site into 2+2 or anything, but build around this already great idea. |
