ngt wrote:when sites start going down hill, I always notice it's when the regulars run out of things to talk about and start stupid sexual back and forths between guys on their computers.
maybe so but ...................................
when you have a forum thats just dedicated to one type of thing ( arcade, arcade gaming, games, tech ) people will run out of things to talk about, there is only so much you can descuse about a game or a tech issue before its fixxed or everyone as played the game, if you have 200 peeps in a forum and only 20 of you post it just wont work and itll die, you need multiple topics in a forum for all types of people, youv gotta remember that everyone that joins isnt a pro on arcade stuffs and tech and wont understand what your on about, this is where the off topic would come in, console gaming section would come in and general gaming, the rest the user will pick up after alot of reading over time ( just like i did ) all youv gotta do is look at BYOAC to see how things are different there with the ammount of things there is to talk about, a forum does not have to be just about arcades and gaming, look at KC, topics there consist of many different things from ( show up your tv setup ) & ( show us your desktop ).
a forum can be fun if its made to be fun.
and also like this forum, its dedicated to the naomi, ask your self one thing, how many people do you know that owns one, even i dont own one and i post in here because theres a off topic section, if theres a post ill more than likley post back to it, the rest i know nothing about and this is why im saying this, i can look at things in this forum as i person that knows nothing of this system, to get punters to join and post here you need to draw them in, dont make it a dedicated forum where people just talk about one thing ....... the naomi. :smt018
all i can go off really is like my self, i own 2 cabs and 5 fruit machines, i know that im the only person in my area with arcades machines in there house, there isnt a cab in every house old, if there was this forum would be bursting at the seems with members, keep it real, theres not millions of folk out there with naomis.