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File: c62b368c56a6401⋯.jpg (63.81 KB, 640x577, 640:577, 1265013041413.jpg)

 No.28856

The problem

You're probably aware that 8chan's community is small and highly fragmented. This is a terrible combination. Small forums work best when they have a small number of sections. Big sites can afford to have many subforums. While we enjoy the freedom to create and customise our own boards, the current model of infinite boards plus a stagnant community has resulted in a situation where the vast majority of boards are not as active as they could be. This is a pity, because imageboards are a great and versatile medium, and out of all imageboards, 8chan has the most potential.

Unfortunately our growth model so far has relied on various waves of exodus from other communities, mainly from 4chan. By its very nature, this model doesn't guarantee constant growth, and actually makes growth almost undesirable, because when it happens it's so big and sudden that the influx of new users can be difficult to manage. What we want is slow and steady growth.

The solution

We need to start spreading the word about 8chan. The keyword here is "we". The administrators won't do it because they don't make any money from this site, so it's not in their best interest to advertise it. The big boards won't do it either because they already enjoy a good number of PPH (posts per hour) and they're scared that any new visitor might ruin their 'culture'. From their point of view, there's nothing wrong with the current state of things. Most boards on the other hand would greatly benefit from a bigger community, but we have to make it happen. We have to realise that if we don't do something about it, nothing will change.

Now, due to the fact that most small boards represent niche interests, broad advertisements won't be particularly effective. Instead of advertising for 8chan as a site, we want to target people who are already interested in our niche. We can do this for free by mentioning our boards in places where our target audience gather. It can be Youtube videos, forums, blogs, etc. The more exposure, the better. We can create original content that contains a link to our board and share it on as many sites as we want.

Do we really want to recruit from outside of imageboards?

Yes! Remember that we were all newfags at some point. I discovered /v/ and /b/ through a Pokemon forum around 2008. Where did you come from? Everyone has his own story, but the point is that there's no reason to be afraid of newfags. We just need to make sure that they understand how things work around here. I'm currently working on a 8chan guide for newfags. Once it's done, board owners can add it to their boards as a page. I'll post my finished version and you'll be free to modify it however you see fit.

I encourage every small board to participate and contribute to this operation however they can. Cooperation will be key to our success. If you wish to discuss strategy and methods, please it do here so that this information is shared with everyone.

 No.28857

If you make an /x/ group on deviantart, it might pull in some people and maybe people to draw stuff. This could be harmful though, like draining honey to discover there is poison inside. You may of seen the cringy creepypasta fan bases on there full of middle school girls, so be careful with the bee hive.


 No.28858

>>28857

I'm not familiar with deviantart's userbase, what little I know about it is what I've read on /co/ and it's usually not very flattering. But then again deviantart has millions of users and they can't all be autists and middle school girls, right? Right? The idea has potential but like you said it can't be executed too carelessly.


 No.28861

>>28857

Fa/tg/uy here. I don't like your idea.

>Do we really want to recruit from outside of imageboards?

>Yes!

No! I wish /tg/ were a little faster, but even immigrants from this very site's main boards are usually low quality posters. I can't imagine what kind of shitposting mouthbreathers advertising on other sites could attract here. In my opinion, this can't and shouldn't be done without an even temporarily strong moderation that makes clear what's acceptable behavior and what isn't. But then boards that do this are desperate for users and will tolerate any activity they can get.

I wish I were wrong, but I'm afraid there's some kind of Gresham's law that applies to imageboard users.


 No.28862

>>28856

Newfags are a double edge sword. The 'good userbase' moved here because we didnt like how things happened on halfchan, not because we found a spicy meem advertisement on youtube

That said, if we advertise on the right places (not youtube, not twitter or shit like that, and definitely not reddit unless we want to end up like leftypol) it might work. So, what are those right places? Because I have no idea

And btw, as far as I remember all slangs for fullchan were filtered on halfchan and mods delete anything related to it


 No.28863

>>28861

I think it would depend on how and where we chose to advertise. Let's face it, /pol/ /v/ and /b/ are not exactly quality boards, so it's to be expected that their users would only bring more shitposting to your board. You wouldn't advertise on /b/ for the same reason you wouldn't advertise on /r/funny. Every site has its fair share of retards and a small amount of intelligent people, including 8chan. The nice thing is that we're in charge here, so even if by chance we ended up attracting the wrong users, we could just as easily kick them out.


 No.28864

>>28862

>The 'good userbase' moved here because we didnt like how things happened on halfchan

True, we came here to escape censorship and corrupt moderation, but that's not the reason we originally moved to 4chan. Anyone who's a 'good user' today was once a newfag who had no idea what an imageboard was. I believe that limiting ourselves to advertising on other chans would be a mistake, for at least a couple of reasons: first, someone who's already an imageboard user might be less receptive to our message, and second, our threads/posts would probably be removed since they link to a direct competitor.

>So, what are those right places?

Like I said, I think we need to think in terms of communities rather than sites. I don't see anything wrong with advertising on Youtube so long as we do it in the right comment sections. Let's say 10k people see your comment/video, 1% click on your link, out of those 100 half are subhumans, you ban them and you still gained 50 good users.


 No.28865

/fur/iend here. We've already been working towards this by sharing content we make on e621, FA, and SoFurry. Not to say things are optimal.

>>28861

As long as users trickle in gradually, the quality of a board won't change overnight. Newfags will either adapt to the community or the worst of them will be pushed away.

However, wise moderation is certainly a part of that.


 No.28867

>>28865

>We've already been working towards this by sharing content we make on e621, FA, and SoFurry. Not to say things are optimal.

That's interesting. How did it work out for you? Did you see an increase in the number of users? Do you put a watermark on the picture or a link in the description?


 No.28868

File: 935fd93907032c0⋯.png (157.78 KB, 1820x1080, 91:54, 1436965911520-4.png)

not him, but also /fur/iend

We create art for our board mascots, they have a personality, sometimes a story, users get interested and look it up


 No.28869

>>28868

obviously meant to reply to >>28867


 No.28870

>>28868

I like that approach. You have fun, contribute to board culture, and promote yourself at the same time.


 No.28871

it was actually very effective when /furry/ was up. Now we are trying this again, with more characters for /fur/


 No.28872

>>28867

It's too early to say as numbers tend to fluctuate a bit, but it seemed to have worked for /furry/ in the past.

We need to get more creators involved and rebuild the momentum /furry/ threw away.


 No.28875

hai!! thx for the invitation i came here frm gaia. this place is SUPER cool its like im on 4chan r somethng lol. can you gaiz post some good creepypasta that i can share with my friends?

(USER WAS CURSED FOR THIS POST)

 No.28876

>>28875

Shit, I forgot about Gaia. I used to troll /a/ with Naruto threads and they'd tell me to go back to Gaia. Good times.


 No.28877

of course. What kind of creepy pasta are you looking for?


 No.28882

>>28875

Artistically written.


 No.28889

>>28857

>full of middle school girls

Sounds fine to me fam


 No.28893

Owner of /tight/ here.

I've not been able to recruit outside of 8chan since there isn't anywhere I know where I can do it. I think people are interested but nobody is online at the same time, and they come for pics. I have plenty of those, but I don't want to dump all of it all at once.

I'm trying generals. It's hard to get a porn board off the ground. If you're interested, pls come.


 No.28895

>>28893

You could try Tumblr, Imgur, Reddit. But I think you should advertise on 8chan first. Make a thread on /b/ and any other board that will allow it, dump your best pics and mention that if anyone's interested, there's a board specifically for that fetish.


 No.28898

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

I have, in the past, said that recruiting from sites like reddit or tumblr is a terrible idea. It's pretty much just that they're garbage people.

The problem is that a lot of us grew up on imageboards, whereas these kids were born into a world that already had the internet. They're different from us. They refuse to learn because they think they have nothing TO learn. Ideally we'd just start a new site with fairly strict moderation and a set number of boards where the old people could go back to. 8chan has proven to be terrible and we can't exactly go back to 4chan.


 No.28900

>>28895

I don't have accounts for shit like that. I just grab anything useful and stay here.

I posted a thread anyway. This is the first time since 2014 that I have even considered advertising my board. I thought it was impolite to do so.


 No.28902

>>28898

This kind of elitism will doom us to extinction. Every community needs some fresh blood from time to time, if nothing else, to replace the people who leave. A closed community is like a country where people stop having children because raising them is too bothersome. It might work for a while, but in the long term it means suicide. Starting a new site where only oldfags are allowed is like starting a new country where the only citizens are a bunch of 80-year-olds. Who wants that?


 No.28910

DON'T

DO

THAT

Exclusivity is what protects us. Influx of newfags was the reason why 4chan went to it's current state. If this shit continues i will call /pol/ to raid your board into oblivion. Seriously, heed my warning.


 No.28911

>>28910

>influx

"Gradual growth" as been the keyword for a reason.


 No.28913

File: 8ace6f6bdebec07⋯.jpg (33.83 KB, 259x279, 259:279, 1260383470985.jpg)

>>28910

This is going to happen whether you like it or not.


 No.28915

File: 0375719748efa1f⋯.png (13.21 KB, 150x222, 25:37, 1465015018246.png)

>advertising the board

This is a very bad idea. Advertising boards will turn this place into the underage b& normie memer cesspool that halfchan has become. Open the catalog. Now open the catalog of 4chan's /x/. Compare them. Do you see the difference? Look at the sheer amount of shitposting, roleplay, retarded underdeveloped opinions and faggotry. This is what happens when a site gains a certain level of popularity; it dredges up absent-minded followers from the bottom of the barrel to get swept up in the new shift in trends. These people can't contribute original content, or intelligent discussion, or creative thoughts. They can only regurgitate, follow, spout memes and lower the quality of discussion. To a website, they are like free-radicals, sparsely forming and contacting the body at random. One of them inadvertently stumbling onto specific niche sites will try to troll and spout memes, before either failing to get attention or getting banned and returning to the cesspool they normally frequent. When shifts in popularity open up the floodgates however, they swarm like an infestation, lacing the new flow of traffic and infecting the site. They are the cancer that kills every group and movement, a tumor that bogs down every community it touches until it collapses and dies under its own weight, leaving an empty carcass from which they wait to latch onto the next group that catches their empty parasitic stare, as the few surviving original members reminisce about 'the old site' and how things used to be. Your increased traffic won't bring a golden age. First, the board's traffic will slowly increase over months. Gradually however, your board will start to become bloated with low quality posts. It won't be sudden, but it will become more frequent as the board becomes known among other infested communities (carcasses) that it's a 'new' place where you can find 'x' thing and that it's totally cool cuz nobody knows about it. You will be hard-pressed to delete shitposting as the trends increase, and there will be in-fighting and conflicts within the board as to what is acceptable. In other words, a reactionary response will begin, though it ultimately won't be enough to reverse the damage. As the advertised board starts to grow disproportionately bigger in traffic to the other boards, the other boards will start to suffer as the new shitposters wander onto other areas of the site. Eventually the advertised board will become terminal, and refugees will flee the rotting board along with new strains of shitposter trash to infest other corners of the site. From this point, the board will slowly wither away and die. If you want quantity over quality, then go back to 4chan.


 No.28916

>>28913

Eh. Despite what you may think all you will accomplish is complete degradation of the site. I do not know if you do it out of purpose or sheer stupidity but all you will cause is another migration. Is that what you want?


 No.28917

>>28915

>This is what happens when a site gains a certain level of popularity

No, that's what happens when the mods don't do their job.

>stupid kids fill the board with stupid low-effort posts

The mods ignore them.

>/b/ spams the board with "hey /x/, is this paranormal?"

The mods ignore them.

>annoying tripfaggots try to make every thread about them and piss half the users off

The mods ignore them.

I was there, and this is why 4chan's /x/ was shit. It's always been shit, because there were no rules and the few good users were forced to live side by side with the shitposters. Our efforts to make /x/ a better place were frustrated by the lack of moderation and the fact that we were outnumbered, our posts got drowned in a sea of shit and we had nowhere to go (except for the Sanctuary, but it was dead). This incarnation of /x/ is different, smarter, a bit more focused. All we need to become the best paranormal forum on the internet is more users. And since nobody is going to advertise 8chan, we'll have to do it ourselves. Just like /pol/ or /sp/ take care of themselves, /x/ will too.

The shitposters will be dealt with. Standards will be enforced, if necessary. But seriously, you people seem to ignore that most users on 8chan right now are basically shitposters. Go take a look at /pol/, which is probably the most paranoid board on this site when it comes to outside influences. How many posts add any value to the board? If anything, new users, fresh minds, would do it a lot of good, and it's difficult to imagine how they could make it worse.


 No.28918

>>28916

I think you're greatly overestimating:

1. The amount of newfags that this operation will end up bringing here.

2. The quality of 8chan's community.

I expect at most a few dozens users over the span of a few months. Some will get assimilated, some will get bored and leave, some will get banned. The few that will integrate into 8chan's community will probably be good posters. Relax, this isn't the end of the world! For the big boards, and for any board other than /x/, nothing will change.

>all you will cause is another migration. Is that what you want?

I don't think there's going to be another exodus, unless the administrators do something really stupid, or /pol/ and /v/ finally decide to tell their mods to fuck off (which seems unlikely at the moment). The idea that a small board like /x/ could cause a site-wide migration is frankly laughable.


 No.28919

To add another argument in favour of this operation: /furry/ already did something similar in the past, it worked for them and it didn't kill 8chan.


 No.28921

File: 63bd5cfa58c2550⋯.jpeg (Spoiler Image, 8.6 KB, 247x204, 247:204, pi.jpeg)


 No.28924

>>28876

Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive shipping faggotry and DARKNESS. The normal anon can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad.


 No.28926

>>28856

/hover/ here. I discovered 8chan through another site than 4chan. However I did discover that site through 4chan /x/.

When I got here /boards/ was active and the board owners were talking about board rings. That can work for similar boards and also for board alliances between different boards. I posted on some boards and they posted on /hover/ so it worked to an extent.


 No.28934

File: 8cbf771aa5786c9⋯.jpg (159.8 KB, 1600x900, 16:9, 161143347eda8619ecda38226a….jpg)

>>28872

>>28871

>>28868

>>28867

>>28865

>>28919

Forgot to mention we also posted advertisment irl too in many places around the world. I had more pics but I lost them.

Alright. /fur/iends confirmed masters of propaganda


 No.28935

>>28921

This


 No.28947

>>28926

Yeah, I remember that. I think board rings can work if your board is new and nobody knows about it. But the two main boards for occult/paranormal stuff are /x/ and /fringe/ and everyone already knows about them.

>>28934

I like your style.


 No.28951

File: 9572611155a87ed⋯.jpg (48.51 KB, 400x340, 20:17, Yahweh.jpg)

>>28856

lol, how's your dead board working out for you, christcuck? Your pathetic e-begging campaign won't bring users to your Jesus-friendly /x/-lite.

Suck shit.


 No.28971

File: ddc1ba8f739c62b⋯.jpg (39.38 KB, 444x455, 444:455, 1384000576914.jpg)

>>28951

I'm a pagan actually. I have no idea why you're so butthurt but if you want to insult me, you should do it in the meta thread. And if you want to insult christians, you're in luck, there's a board specifically for that: >>>/asatru/


 No.28975

>>28917

A better example of a board going to shit because of a lack of moderation would be /v/, where most threads either have nothing to do with the topic the board is supposed to cover or have someone shitposting/screaming about something and trying to fuck the threads over. It would be far better to get people from small places that cover similar topics rather tangentially related content simply because it's larger.

>>28861

Blame /pol/ and /v/ not having the lurk more attitude as strong as they should, /pol/ will just scream [insert boogeyman here] and slap you with a ban and /v/ will just shitpost the thread to death instead of turning it into something decent, and having all of the attention directed on them will result in the troglodytes from around the internet come and shit it up further.

>>28902

There's a difference between expecting new users to be like 4chan/Reddit/Tumblr along with the refusal to learn about the community before interacting with it and going 8/a/ or 8/jp/ levels elitist.


 No.28980

Now if I fuck this model

And she just bleached her asshole

And I get bleach on my t-shirt

Imma feel like an asshole


 No.28988

File: d23dd6969582b23⋯.png (3.7 KB, 323x260, 323:260, MANSEATD.png)

>>28856

If low traffic and user retention in small boards is the symptom, then a lack of advertising isn't the root of the problem, it's that most new BOs either don't know how to start a community, or don’t realize that that’s what making a board entails.

As >>>/tg/291185 pointed out, 8chan's users are doing board creation backwards. Instead of meeting demand by building boards to suit it, we have hundreds of anons supplying boards and expecting demand to roll in on its own. "If you build it, they will come" doesn't work if you're trying to build a community. A board itself is not a community, it's a service that brings social content and interaction to the users. If there isn't any interaction or content, the service fails.

Legacy boards had it easy. They inherited the brand recognition of 4chan's boards and gave refugees a familiar place to go. There was a specific demand for /v/ with blackjack and hookers, and they flocked to 8/v/ because it gave them exactly that. New BOs have to start from square one; this means finding a group of people who have an unfulfilled need for something like an imageboard, then selling them on the idea of having their discussions on a newly founded board. It's not advertising, it's direct sales, except you're asking for their time and attention instead of their money.

And in case anyone's thinking that impersonal advertising can still fix the traffic problem, well, you're technically right. But remember that passively recruiting random outsiders is a crapshoot. Many outsiders think 8chan (or 4chan, whatever-chan) is all shitposts, memes, porn dumps, calling people faggots, and being dicks about things. Those who don't decide it's not for them and leave will bring that attitude with them, and if the new board they go to is empty, the worst-case is those shitters will be the core of your new community if they even bother to stick around. Either that, or you'll be handing out bans at a clip that could scare off those who'd ordinarily stay (and possibly encourage anons to offer /yourboard/ with blackjack and hookers while telling you to go back to 4chan).


 No.28989

File: 8724ec703cda0c2⋯.gif (4.11 MB, 300x168, 25:14, 447016bd5643acc712108495bc….gif)

>>28856

>>28988

New BOs should first understand what exactly they're getting into before they start their boards. You want quality traffic in your little slice of Hell? Do some legwork first, and learn how to be a responsible mod.

1. Pick a deeply held interest of yours that either isn't represented on 8chan or is over-represented on the site and needs a place to go. If it's the latter, go to step 3, you've probably found your core contributors. If not, make sure there really isn't any place to discuss this interest, including the big, generalized boards like /v/, /a/, /tg/, and so on. /b/-alternatives are overdone.

2. Find people who earnestly share this interest and aren't already well-established on a comparable site. Talk to them. Discuss things. Make friends. Socialize. You should be wanting to socialize with them anyway. Also, if they're not on 8chan already, see if they'd be a good fit (for example, if they're super sensitive, they wouldn't like it here).

3. Keep meeting like-minded people until you have a sizable number of them whom you regularly contact, either individually or in groups. 20 is a decent number to start with, but never stop meeting more. Ask them if they'd be interested in going to a new board on 8chan to talk about [interest] with some other like-minded people. Sell them the idea. Some will love it immediately, some might need some convincing, and some just won't do it. Shoot for getting at least 15 to the board.

4. Make the board. Keep discussion going just as before so PPH and unique poster count stays high. If the founding anons were in groups, make sure to discourage namefagging and anything else that ties posters to fixed identities in order to encourage the new posters and the founders to mingle. Cliques stunt board growth and cause drama.

5. Keep the board running smoothly. Prune spam. Burn pizza, ban pizzaposters and spammers. Don't powermod, let anons be anons. If you picked a good founding community that values discussion, that attitude will carry over to curious new users who hopefully become regulars. Even so, participate as an anon and steer discussion naturally. Check in at least once an hour to see if there are reports of spam. Consider taking on a volunteer mod if the board gets big enough that you need to worry about reports while you're sleeping. Keep the discussion going. Meme responsibly. Enjoy.

TL;DR: if you want good people in your board, find some good people yourself and bring them there. If you're around, BO, I'd like your feedback on this list.


 No.28990

>>28988

see

>>28980


 No.28997

>>28988

A community naturally starts when there's enough interest in a certain topic and a place to discuss it. I agree with your argument that creating a board and expecting users to come to you is a recipe for failure. I can think of very few cases where that worked. Most of the time the board owner overestimates the amount of latent interest in the subject and his board fails to attract and retain users.

It's also true that 8chan has a bad reputation, but I'm counting on the fact that a lot of people might have never even heard of us before. Even so, when one asks for attention, one has to accept that some of that attention might be unwanted. There's a risk inherent in casting a wide net, but to that I say, it's not like 8chan already hasn't its fair share of troublemakers, and they tend to confine themselves to the biggest boards anyway.

I like Chrow's idea of consolidating many small boards into one. In practice I don't know how feasible it is. For example, how would you convince many non-English-speaking boards to consolidate into one big international board? And some boards might look similar enough to an outsider, but actually be too different to fuse together (for example, /x/ and /fringe/).


 No.29001

>>28989

To be honest, that sounds like a lot of work for an uncertain reward. Finding individuals who share my interest, becoming friends with them, then selling them the idea of moving the discussion to an anonymous imageboard… Even assuming a high conversion rate, maybe 10% would follow me. So to start the board with at least 15 users, I would have to find and socialise with 150 people that I thought would be good fits for 8chan. What if I wanted the board to grow to 150 users? This process doesn't scale very well.

An easier way would be to create a thread for my interest in a big board, and if it's successful it could become a general, and after some successful generals a board could be created around that subject. But we'd probably still have the problem of how to grow the community. I think advertising is unavoidable.


 No.29004

>Yes! Remember that we were all newfags at some point. I discovered /v/ and /b/ through a Pokemon forum around 2008.

Fucking ponies in my case, through a LoL forum, but that's history.

While I generally agree that newfags aren't any more cancer that we ourselfs are, the problem with integration has always been numbers. That goes for any kind of integration, dump a bunch of slavs into mexico and watch then squat together, not with mexicans.

Sure, we have the added benefit of Anonymity, you can't form a group here that easily other that circlejerk threads that may easily catch an anchor.

What I'm saying is, we always integrated newfags who were willing. Didn't make it easy, see stuff like gore and loli and generally being highly offensive we don't even think about words like faggot, autist, nigger and so on, we always try to chase them away. Same thing happened to us after all, you make it though that and ignore it since hell, it's not going away anytime soon.

So, we integrate by filtering out any who are weak and keep the others.

I simply fear that when we start lots of ads, we loose the ability to filter as we are overwhelmed. Summerfags, if you will, exept this time much, much worse.

If anything, advertise /b/. Yeah, /b/ is a fucking disgusting mess and I don't go near there with a rented mouse, but most of us started there, found generals I don't think /b/ calls them generals, but they nontheless are and eventually were led off to other boards. On 8chan easier than ever since there's a board for everything and if not you make it.

Also, while we may advertise in diffrent places, don't do so at once. Advertise for a long tie, but only a little to keep the influx of newfags low.

Just my two cents

Your daughteru

/ebola/


 No.29005

File: 9e54274e08ce6bc⋯.jpg (10.28 KB, 175x290, 35:58, 1259030329501.jpg)

>>29004

>If anything, advertise /b/.

How would you advertise /b/? It's just a generic porn/shitposting board…

>Do you like cute girls? Frogs? Repeating numbers? Come chat with us at 8ch.net/b/!

>The newfag's face when he sees the front page.

Anyway, I think you're forgetting that the purpose of this initiative is not to make 8chan as a whole more popular, but to help the smaller boards. From this point of view, advertising /b/ would be very inefficient. Even if you got hundreds of new users, the vast majority of them would end up on /pol/ or /v/.


 No.29027

File: 62ea73b416d1506⋯.png (2.97 KB, 267x326, 267:326, GAMEPLAN.png)

>>28997

>>29001

>I'm counting on the fact that a lot of people might have never even heard of us before.

I disagree. I tend to see the site as more of a speakeasy than a sekrit club–those who need what it has have a way of finding it. Many of the anons who end up being a good fit for 8chan are resourceful and curious enough to find out about the site on their own. I feel this is where some of the resistance to the idea of advertising comes in.

I'm actually glad you suggested the process with generals here >>29001 because that got me thinking about how many boards the average anon frequents. It's true that there aren't enough anons to populate every board that exists, but I'm wondering how much individual board traffic a single user brings. I made a quick poll to see if I can get any data on that, because this means one anon brought in from outside could seem like, say, 7 new users, each one on a different board. (And yes, I think making a general to get some in-site interest is an overall good idea.)

http://poal.me/s7h0bc

>What if I wanted to grow the board to 150 users?

Start with 15 or so, even if they're from elsewhere on 8chan. Interest in the board picks up when it's active. With more regular users, it's less of a chore to get people to join because there's already some activity there, and the process of vetting people from outside gets shorter until all you have to do is link some threads from your board before they're sold. On top of that, if the community is solid enough, advertising for that board would be way less likely to harm it, and you'd get that slow and steady growth you're wanting. Advertising isn't out of the question, I just don't believe it's a good choice for a board that has yet to establish its identity.

It's a risk to do things this way, yes. But I'm making the assumption that the motivation behind becoming a BO is "I want a place to discuss [interest] with anons," not "I want to run an imageboard." I fear those in the latter camp are far more likely to become powermods, and I'd rather see potentially awful BOs stick to their insular groups than create new boards that either bring cancer or immediately die. I see your point, though.


 No.29028

Just for fun, I've searched for 8chan in /r/redditalternatives. To my surprise, some absolute madman made a thread advertising us 1 year ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/39frai/8chan/


 No.29029

>>29027

Interesting idea for a poll but you should post it on some bigger board (preferably multiple boards).


 No.29044

File: dd2a0c0b7e598fb⋯.png (4.65 KB, 151x175, 151:175, That's kinda spooky.png)

Another thing that may help us is making OC for the board. Half decent OC or at least some fuckable John or Jane can pump life into anything, be it bad game or that astroturfed as hell cat lingerie.


 No.29046

>>29044

Agreed. I have some ideas but I suck at drawing. I'll probably end up posting something anyway.


 No.29084

>>28856

>We need to start spreading the word about 8chan

No.

>>28902

>This kind of elitism will doom us to extinction.

Says the guy who is exactly the reason why we don't want to advertise.


 No.29177

File: 6b0c907ba8f17fa⋯.png (11.47 KB, 266x238, 19:17, ClipboardImage.png)

File: ba5c58e5f6bcf05⋯.png (101.6 KB, 636x764, 159:191, ClipboardImage.png)

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>>28934

IRL posts writing just "8chan" will no longer work because Jewgle removed the site from indexing during the Fappening, if you're looking for a reason the site is stagnant that would be it. It doesn't stop /leftypol/ from letting in a whole bunch of cancer from reddit when they shill from and try to subvert that site. This is a shitty way of handling newfags I would want to avoid.

/fur/iends have taken the approach to utilizing the e621 indexing system. It's already a highly popular furry website of both nsfw and sfw furry art, and much like 8chans own boorus but has a much bigger reach. This way we already know we are hitting our audience and it can only have positive growth via the index. We don't shill the board everywhere in your face, just leave it in the source or the description. Since e621 already has 8chan as a tag from when 8/furry/ and 4/trash/ advertised we just use what's already there to build off of. For us that's as simple as adding a /fur/ in the drawfag picture.


 No.29183

>>29177

Searching "8ch/fur/" gets a link to 8/fur/. That'll be effective for IRL advertising.


 No.29186

File: 64f58b5da91265b⋯.png (28.25 KB, 600x437, 600:437, 8chan net logo.png)

>>29183

/fur/iend here again.

I'm almost shocked no one has made a modified 8chan logo to use. Since now we can't rely on Google we have to advertise like the 80s and use the url. Thankfully 8chan's domain is very short so this is easy to make a minor adjustment


 No.34121

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 No.34763

>>28861

>>28861

fa/tg/uy here, I was out of the Chan's for about four years and only recently returned. Gotten into /x/ just recently. Still lurking. On jobhunt atm to get some books and start. Tough considering the ever greater issues and escalations I am afraid cancer will spred or the net might get cut if anons are to troublesome. We won't have the chans I used to know…

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE



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