I still go once in a while and see if anyone's posted, but since no one responded to my post back in March (the last post on the forums, I think), I guess I just didn't feel like it would be worth it to post more.
For me, the main thing that would keep me coming back is response. Any (well, most) sort of response to what I post. If my posts are ignored by everyone else, I will have no reason to keep coming back. But that's what a community is about, right? People posting something and other people commenting on it. So I guess that's what would keep me there: the community.
Also, I liked the monthly challenges. :) I also think it might be fun to have weekly "writer's block" questions like they do on Livejournal. Hell, you could even take the questions from LJ and use those; I don't write them on LJ but I might in a smaller community like Halflit. More often, anyway.
Yeah, a big thing is getting the community to a point where it has enough momentum to keep people coming back and engaging, not only conversationally but also in critique. I have more to offer than just the forum and forum games, though, too, which I hope people keep in mind. Blogs, wikis, webspace, ftp access, community/collaborative projects that are beyond, or housed separately from, a more general forum from the Rookery... I hope this stuff will give people a little more impetus to want to be part of it, rather than Just Another Thing to check which will eventually lose attention to things like FB.
What environments would you be most comfortable posting/interacting in? Would you prefer totally open-access readability, or a members restricted nucleus? Also, is there anything non-message board based that would be a useful tool for you? Halflit can, and I hope it will, be a lot more than a glorified EZBoard, which is why I'm paying for web space and a domain name, so I'm also looking for anything that people might find useful - now or in the future - that would set our community apart from more generalized 'social media' systems. I'd like to give people ways to start marketing themselves as writers, establishing a platform, and also getting experienced, constructive feedback from an established community where those conversations can be two-way.
I wish I could tell you that'd I'd be helpful and useful in this endeavor of yours but, I feel like I'm heading back to the solitary route. Best of luck on this round.
I know I seemed so enthused when you invited me for Halflit, but there's only so many crash-losses and move-losses and brain-losses I can handle when it comes to my works. Every time I start or continue a project, my work is lost in some manner. Papers get packed; files lost; disks scratched. Seriously, it's like a sign. A giant, ball-breaking, nerve-wracking sign.
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For me, the main thing that would keep me coming back is response. Any (well, most) sort of response to what I post. If my posts are ignored by everyone else, I will have no reason to keep coming back. But that's what a community is about, right? People posting something and other people commenting on it. So I guess that's what would keep me there: the community.
Also, I liked the monthly challenges. :) I also think it might be fun to have weekly "writer's block" questions like they do on Livejournal. Hell, you could even take the questions from LJ and use those; I don't write them on LJ but I might in a smaller community like Halflit. More often, anyway.
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I know I seemed so enthused when you invited me for Halflit, but there's only so many crash-losses and move-losses and brain-losses I can handle when it comes to my works. Every time I start or continue a project, my work is lost in some manner. Papers get packed; files lost; disks scratched. Seriously, it's like a sign. A giant, ball-breaking, nerve-wracking sign.
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