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How long has this silence went on?
Topic Started: Dec 20 2015, 01:09 AM (1,165 Views)
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I don't really know what I hope to accomplish at this point, but I'll just look for something to ease the depression I have everytime I return here.

But on the topic at hand, I have lost track of the history of the forum. Where has everyone gone and how long has this gone on? I look back at some of the older posts and I believed it was merely a few months before everything just stopped, but further research seems to date this around June. It's been so long since I've seen many of the older members or even interacted with many of them because of school being absolute hell. This is a legit question I had in mind for a while, what happened and when did everyone lose the motivation to talk?

I would love to help with the few weeks of time I have because I don't want this place to just die now.
Edited by Aura, Dec 20 2015, 01:11 AM.
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I feel the same as you do, Aura. :/

According to me/ my personal analysis, this place remained ptd-related and new members stopped coming.

If we take this forum top high to make it an all Pokemon forum with different sections dedicated to different means/ media in the Pokemon world.. We can have things like Pokemon fanfic, pokemon roleplay, pokemon anime series talk, pokemon nintendo games talk (with each section dedicated to a generation of games), Pokemon wii, pokemon cards game, pokemon live online tournaments, ptd, our own chat room (most importantly) and then, another forum dedicated to non-pokemon related stuff like serious discussion or round table conferences or Dare to share forums, we could attract more people into this place and with it, more activity.

According to what I have felt and seen, everyone got bored of talking to the same person over and over again, for over an year, only about 7 to 8 active members existed and for that whole year, we 7 people have spoken about anything and everything we ever could have and everything is boring now, cause we know each other and this forum only too well.. Nothing is interesting or enticing enough to reply to anymore...

People got so busy that even shops got closed and there is nothing to buy or trade here either...

The forum has hit a huge bump. But, no one said we can't get up again!

We need our activity back and I know that nobody can bring activity back better than an Admin..

Gforce is busy with his work and family, and this is a very hectic part of his life right now, we cannot blame him.

But, can we not at least temporarily pass the Admin duty to someone (a co-Admin) who can make the changes and handle the duty for now?

Preferably a super active person who knows us/ pokemon or at least, Gforce well?

Probably someone from Gforce's friends sphere or even someone from this forum to stand for co-Administration?


I know, easy to suggest all this because I know how busy I am and I know that other than giving suggestions, I can practically do nothing else, and probably so many others are also in the same situation as I am...

But, I'm really hoping for something to happen... : /

Currently, I am trying to submit a project to college. It will be done by 28th Dec.

If I can be more active after that, I am going to hold a huge award ceremony here

Because that is what had attracted me to this forum in the first place... When I first joined and saw the awards ceremony under way, little snowy's my eyes were sparkling with inspiration and the will to bank those awards herself myself one day!

Maybe we need a celebrations corner and a kick-starter like that?

Speaking of which, WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR YEARLY FORUM CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS, GUYS!?

Because this place seriously rocks and there is no other forum that can make a place in my heart like this one ever again... I am forever a PROUD PANDORIAN! *crobatface* *mewgiaface*

P.S., Although, I am to blame too... I cannot be active enough to hold a "who's that pokemon" contest for the New Year or anything else right now... But, I hope to soon!

Let see them members burst in again! >: D
Edited by Master Snowy, Dec 21 2015, 07:21 PM.
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Our yearly traditions have just disappeared since last year. Would be cool to see them around, but we hardly have anyone to join in one big tournament.

Now for my controversial response. (Disclaimer: I don't think anyone here has really done a bad job individually. What I want to mildly criticize below is what we might have failed as a community. Sorry if I said something wrong in these next excruciatingly long paragraphs)

I'd disagree on that part where having only 7-8 would be boring. I'm sure we all have friends that we can spend lifelines talking to about all sorts of subjects. The problem is that we all speak together as a forum and to bring up discussions, we have to make topics or re thread on older ones. I made an experiment some time back to see which part of the forum is most popular. Obviously, it was the General Discussion. I love putting topics on there and I usually get a ton of replies. People love that section because of how broad it is. The only hassle is making a topic in the first place. Sometimes we want to talk about very minor things and aren't sure if we want to express them as a big topic.

This also applies to the Forum as a whole. For about 3 years we discussed about the forum's focus. I personally don't like PTD anymore but I like the community. I and some of the other members wanted the forum to be a "gaming forum". I believe G Force agreed to this and even renamed the place into pandoragaming. We had tons of console topics and sub sections where Pokemon wasn't involved (although it continued to be a big part of the place). Unfortunately the site has been severely inconsistent.

The only people we get are people from PTD and even now, I'm not even sure if it's a big thing anymore. I don't like blatantly advertising to other websites nor can I really bring up conversations with people in real life about this place. I had a few friends come but they were put off by the fact that this place had such a focus on PTD. (which is not the problem I'm presenting here btw) Because the forum cant consistently focus on just being a gaming community and hell a Pokemon community, it's hard to advertise what this place is.

Thinking back to how I got so addicted to this forum in the first place, the solution is a simple concept yet very difficult to execute. I came here as this nerdy kid who saw one of G Force's Kyogre giveaways from the original PTD game and signed up to participate. Hilariously, I actually was too late for it. I stuck around for a while after seeing tons of conversations I wanted to be a part of. What really cemented me to this site was the personality of many of the members here. While there are some bad eggs here and there like the human race normally is, I loved the community and stayed for... holy christ 4 YEARS? At some point I just stopped liking PTD and yet there was still so much here that I never got sick of. This place stopped being a pokemon place for me years ago despite the design saying otherwise. I know not all people are the same but I think alot of people can agree that it's fun to talk about very unspecific things. But for the sake of focus we really have to make this place about just "games". Or just "Pokemon" that works too : )

TL:DR This place needs to live up being a GAMING forum.
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*sighs*

There is nothing that I agree or disagree with there, there are two sides to every coin, two stories to each thing, and I don't want to argue either.

So, here's the question:

What next?

What do we do now...

P.S., Gforce has said in another thread that he will be back soon after Christmas. So hopefully that should bring some light back I suppose..

My current idea is that Gforce somehow always ends up bringing activity with him, be it in the form of a new member or whatever it is and I can try and take it from there and keep the place alive, even if only for two people. I'll think of something...

If you have different suggestions, feel free Aura! :) It is always awesome having you around.

And to speak honestly, I finally feel so relieved that you are here now... If we didn't have a good chance of things brightening up earlier, I'm sure we'll have a good chance of it now! : )

Hope everything goes well in the end, though..

Take care man and keep rocking as always! : D
Edited by Master Snowy, Dec 22 2015, 04:34 PM.
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