TalkBulls relaunch Party?

[justBLAZE]

I know it's obvious. I'm just saying, this thread is pretty much Bulls, Bulls, Bulls, cry about the refs EVERY single night and I guess hating on the Heat. That's why Felix bolted. Which is a shame. But he's just a boring T-wolves fan. He doesn't fit in around here.

 

Why not have a separate Bulls Thread / NBA Thread ?

Edited May 19, 2012 by justBLAZE

[Balta1701]

Why not have a separate Bulls Thread / NBA Thread ?

Hell, we have a godd*mned separate Bulls Forum.

[Quin]

Hell, we have a godd*mned separate Bulls Forum.

 

I've tried posting there, but just no activity.

[Balta1701]

I've tried posting there, but just no activity.

I've done all I can to keep it alive, but I'm usually there talking to myself. Often while clothed.

[Jake]

I've tried posting there, but just no activity.

 

 

^^

 

I wonder if there is some way we could integrate all of the forums, without it being at the expense of Soxtalk

[Quin]

^^

 

I wonder if there is some way we could integrate all of the forums, without it being at the expense of Soxtalk

 

That's what I've wondered, at least with TalkBulls. TalkBears seems to do fine on it's own, but TalkBulls just dies.

[nitetrain8601]

That's what I've wondered, at least with TalkBulls. TalkBears seems to do fine on it's own, but TalkBulls just dies.

 

You need to link any discussion threads on here to forward you over to that website. I think that would help big time.

[southsider2k5]

That's what I've wondered, at least with TalkBulls. TalkBears seems to do fine on it's own, but TalkBulls just dies.

 

You'd have to get everyone to go over there all at once, otherwise it won't work. Plus you'd have to convince the people over there to recruit their bulls fan friends to start to build the kind of base that Soxtalk has. It can be done, but it has to be a group effort. The important things are recruiting and making sure there are lots of new topics and discussions to convince people it is worth making the switch for.

[Jake]

You'd have to get everyone to go over there all at once, otherwise it won't work. Plus you'd have to convince the people over there to recruit their bulls fan friends to start to build the kind of base that Soxtalk has. It can be done, but it has to be a group effort. The important things are recruiting and making sure there are lots of new topics and discussions to convince people it is worth making the switch for.

 

Can you make a TalkBulls message board, with a TalkBulls domain, TalkBulls layout/look, yet is actually a part of this board? The membership would be one but your google searcher will see that they are joining a TalkBulls message board and wouldn't realize until later that it is part of a White Sox/Chicago board.

 

You can't change SoxTalk to a TalkChicago or anything because SoxTalk has immense popularity that you don't want to mess with. But if you have these boards within this large board, you'd see more activity and might entice non-Sox fans to join Soxtalk to post on them.

 

I don't know if this makes sense on the page like it did in my mind.

[southsider2k5]

Can you make a TalkBulls message board, with a TalkBulls domain, TalkBulls layout/look, yet is actually a part of this board? The membership would be one but your google searcher will see that they are joining a TalkBulls message board and wouldn't realize until later that it is part of a White Sox/Chicago board.

 

You can't change SoxTalk to a TalkChicago or anything because SoxTalk has immense popularity that you don't want to mess with. But if you have these boards within this large board, you'd see more activity and might entice non-Sox fans to join Soxtalk to post on them.

 

I don't know if this makes sense on the page like it did in my mind.

I honestly don't know if it is possible to make the membership transfer over to another domain, and still be cost effective (aka basically free).

 

When we established the other boards the idea was to use Soxtalk to seed the other sports boards, and then have people bring their friends who weren't Sox fans, but fans of the other teams (bulls/bears/hawks/cubs) to those boards. The timing ended up being awful as it was when all of us were getting out of college, getting promotions, getting married, having kids etc, so not nearly enough time and effort got put into it.

 

I think a place like the Bulls site would work if we could establish a core of 20-25 people to all start posting there at once, and at the same recruit the heck out of their friends and family. It just takes a lot of time to make sure lots of new posts are going up, because that is how you establish early on that there is enough to talk about to keep people coming back.

 

If we could get enough people interested, we could enough have something like a re-launch date to push and try to get people to start coming back and in to the site.

[Jake]

I honestly don't know if it is possible to make the membership transfer over to another domain, and still be cost effective (aka basically free).

 

Yeah, the way I see it you'd have to can that website. Folks would have to re-register (not a problem since almost every frequent poster over there was a Soxtalker) at SoxTalk. I'm not sure if IP Board would allow you to make different subforums have different layouts -- if so, you could give the Bulls, Bears forums the feel of its own site. You'd still be within Soxtalk though, making the probability higher that Soxtalk users post in those forums like they do in this forum/thread. No one likes registering for separate things, as easy as it is.

 

For instance, if there were Bulls game threads in this forum, they would have been active during the playofffs because the NBA thread was. Imagine if users actually knew what the hell happened in these threads, they might participate.

 

With this, you'd effectively have a Chicago sports forum with little to no more maintenance than Soxtalk alone has.

 

When we established the other boards the idea was to use Soxtalk to seed the other sports boards, and then have people bring their friends who weren't Sox fans, but fans of the other teams (bulls/bears/hawks/cubs) to those boards. The timing ended up being awful as it was when all of us were getting out of college, getting promotions, getting married, having kids etc, so not nearly enough time and effort got put into it.

 

I think a place like the Bulls site would work if we could establish a core of 20-25 people to all start posting there at once, and at the same recruit the heck out of their friends and family. It just takes a lot of time to make sure lots of new posts are going up, because that is how you establish early on that there is enough to talk about to keep people coming back.

 

This definitely works, but obviously is easier said than done. The early stages of a message board are very delicate.

 

If we could get enough people interested, we could enough have something like a re-launch date to push and try to get people to start coming back and in to the site.

 

Interesting...that could probably get that base of users going and posting again.

[southsider2k5]

Yeah, the way I see it you'd have to can that website. Folks would have to re-register (not a problem since almost every frequent poster over there was a Soxtalker) at SoxTalk. I'm not sure if IP Board would allow you to make different subforums have different layouts -- if so, you could give the Bulls, Bears forums the feel of its own site. You'd still be within Soxtalk though, making the probability higher that Soxtalk users post in those forums like they do in this forum/thread. No one likes registering for separate things, as easy as it is.

 

For instance, if there were Bulls game threads in this forum, they would have been active during the playofffs because the NBA thread was. Imagine if users actually knew what the hell happened in these threads, they might participate.

 

With this, you'd effectively have a Chicago sports forum with little to no more maintenance than Soxtalk alone has.

 

 

 

This definitely works, but obviously is easier said than done. The early stages of a message board are very delicate.

 

 

 

Interesting...that could probably get that base of users going and posting again.

 

So let me hear from people... Who out there is interested in pushing a TalkBulls.com relaunch party? At this point we could even talk about making people mods and admins if they were willing to post over there a lot and to push the site in as many places as possible (facebook, twitter, emails etc). One thing it would definitely do is free up the NBA thread here somewhat.

[Balta1701]

So let me hear from people... Who out there is interested in pushing a TalkBulls.com relaunch party? At this point we could even talk about making people mods and admins if they were willing to post over there a lot and to push the site in as many places as possible (facebook, twitter, emails etc). One thing it would definitely do is free up the NBA thread here somewhat.

Well I'm clearly in.

[Quin]

So let me hear from people... Who out there is interested in pushing a TalkBulls.com relaunch party? At this point we could even talk about making people mods and admins if they were willing to post over there a lot and to push the site in as many places as possible (facebook, twitter, emails etc). One thing it would definitely do is free up the NBA thread here somewhat.

 

I'd be down.

[Jordan4life_2007]

I vote brother Quinarvy for any mod/admin position because he's 12 and smarter than just about everybody here (including myself).

[southsider2k5]

I'd be down.

 

Are you on the page somewhere yet?

[ZoomSlowik]

I'd be in, but I'm more of a posting/content guy than a recruiting type. I've got about as many friends as Kip Drordy.

 

[southsider2k5]

I'd be in, but I'm more of a posting/content guy than a recruiting type. I've got about as many friends as Kip Drordy.

 

 

Those are valuable as well. Discussion goes a long way towards recruiting. People don't come back to sites with no new conversation.

[Steve9347]

Why exactly is people talking about the Bulls on Soxtalk a bad thing?

Edited May 22, 2012 by Steve9347

[Balta1701]

Why exactly is people talking about the Bulls on Soxtalk a bad thing?

The thing that bohters me is that you can't have 3 conversations going on at the same time in the NBA thread, everything winds up pushed back 2 pages any time there's something people want to talk about.

[Steve9347]

I would, however, be happy to promote talkbulls.

[southsider2k5]

Why exactly is people talking about the Bulls on Soxtalk a bad thing?

 

The NBA thread was an ugly thing for most of this year. Giving the partisans a more Bulls oriented place to be could be a good thing for the non-Bulls fans and Bulls fans alike.

[Quin]

Are you on the page somewhere yet?

 

Page? You mean registered on TalkBulls? Yeah.

 

 

I vote brother Quinarvy for any mod/admin position because he's 12 and smarter than just about everybody here (including myself).

 

[justBLAZE]

I'll join, in all honesty its just hard to find time these days

[Balta1701]

I'll join, in all honesty its just hard to find time these days

If all people did was drop by the game threads rather than commenting on every Bulls game here, it'd get the board going/back to life a lot more and make this thread easier to follow.