TMR: disrespected?

[Nick]

     Out of the majority of small 'communities' out there, I feel TMR is one of the most disrespected of all. I look at some other ProBoards/sl/hbs and notice that they have more posters. For example, Chrono made one post at all TMRs combined. He made about 10 posts on some smaller forums that had about 500 posts, while tmr has 7000.
     Other members at TMR has left months ago and frequently post at other 'small' boards, excluding their own. When invited to the new wBB TMR, they still do not post. Maybe once or twice, maybe a couple times. I've found out a couple possible reasons for why this is happening.

• They might not post at TMR because of the owner me. I probably have a bad reputation of advertising frequently and only talking about tmr. Or maybe it's because I don't post at their boards enough, or some other ****. I know this is completely true, since if a more 'intelligent' member frequently advertised the mystical realm, then the members who never posted would probably post more.
  
• number of forums. this is stupid. they think with more forums a forum is better. well, check out this board: pokemonelite.proboards5.com/index.cgi it doesn't have too many forums but still has people understand how each forum is used. I know the owner of the board well and he tells me that too many forums are first is a big problem because the topics are all over the place. Once you get a bit of activity you should be able to make more forums, but at first, it doesn't matter. Regardless of the point just said, guests frequently join the boards that have more forums. pathetic.
  
• number of posts. -- this is really stupid. people join forums with less than a hundred posts and have more posts than most members at tmr. tmr has over 7000 posts including nearly 400 threads to reply too, including long discussion like this one. still members think tmr is worthless piece of junk. I'm mainly directing this to the VGC/GQ communities out there. that's where I used to advertise most. Nothing.
       As I said, it's mainly Game Quest and Video Game Chat that I'm talking about. ProBoards seems to actually respect TMR - it was put on the top 8 finalists to win the best board award and lots of busy members joined.
  

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[Ryyaan]

I'm not trying to offend anyone, but for VGC, it might be for some because PD's on this forum.

[MoJo]

It could be due to the fact Nick I'm sorry but you ask people to join the board where as if you just advertise people will decide if they should go or not. EG: if you just put a banner, people would want to go there because they feel that thay aren't being forcd into it. BUT if you have a banner with say 'join this board it needs members' people won't join because 'it needs members'

[Nick]

Ryyaan said:

because PD's on this forum.

     As I said, it may be because of some members (including me). Members that have bad reputations on other boards drive away members. Members that don't have a good reputation don't really attract members either. If I were a really popular person then I'd get a lot of members. Just like when kkid joined RPG Palace, he got a ton of members to all of a sudden post. Was it because of his 'awesome' ways to get members? I don't think that's 100% why. When Game Quest was made tons of members followed kkid to it. So there must be something about me that makes members hate tmr.
     As for what MoJo said, I'm sure that the way I advertise affects the number of people that will actually go through. For example, if I AIM or PM members, they probably won't join, but if it's in my signature and they like it, they will probably join.

[Ryyaan]

MoJo said:

BUT if you have a banner with say 'join this board it needs members' people won't join because 'it needs members'

Good point. People join for the fun of it, not to be forced to join.