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Advertising Your Website - Right or Wrong? - Dysartes | |
| In order to understand why I'm writing this, let me transport you back to just after the April update went live. I went to a small number of places, such as Portent and Eternity's Gate, to promote the update. My resident PR monkey, Yellowfish, did the same on 40kforums and Bolter & Chainsword, amongst other locales. In three out of the four cases mentioned above, the threads on the subject were locked, and in one instance, Yellowfish was instantly banned from the forum (40kforums) for doing it. Let me recap - we've tried to promote the fact that we have just put a load of new and, hopefully, interesting articles on this website. By posting about it on various forums and other such sources, we are trying to make sure that as many people as possible can benefit from the hard work we've done. The immediate response by three out of four moderating teams is to lock the threads. Does this strike anyone else as odd? Everyone in the hobby has their own ideas and their own slant on how to do stuff. There are people who are great at modelling, painting and converting, people who are intuitively and innovately tactical, people who can write great fiction. Very few people are good at everything, so almost everyone can find something on the net to act as inspiration, or to help with improving their current skills. Closing off the channels by which they may be made aware of these resources strikes me as counter-productive, and unfair to the users of the forums. However, no amount of censorship is going to prevent people posting adverts for their sites on your forum - it happens, get used to it. Surely it'd save your mods some time, though if you had a dedicated board for advertising, where people can post their adverts. At the start of this month, nowhere seemed to have cottoned on to this idea. In fact, one forum was using the fact that no-one else let them advertise as a justification for why they wouldn't let us advertise. Well, that argument doesn't work any more. How can I say that? Simple. If you take a look on the forum, we now have an Advertising board on the forum. We at Dysartes.com embrace the fact that we need to share knowledge, and we've decided to make it easier for people, hence this board. Hopefully we can convince other forums to do the same. I for one don't believe that something like this will hi-jack the users of a forum onto another one. Strangely enough, though some mods or admins can't seem to grasp the fact, it is possible for visitors to look at more thaan one forum. What a revolutionary idea - let your users join the forums they want to and look at the sites they want to. I know that I personally look regularly at eight forums, and irregularly at two others. Multi-tasking isn't impossible when it comes to forum-browsing, and it allows you to pick up more material than looking at just a single forum would do. Admittedly, you tend to see the same arguments and discussions from forum to forum, but each tends to come up with a different spin. If any other webmasters are reading this, I urge you to consider putting an advertising forum on your own site, if only for a month as an experiment. WHo knows - if more people start doing it, we might make a difference..... | |
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