Ideas to broaden the appeal of Sarsfields and get it noticed.

AN2 said:

No idea how to advertise a site, really

Do you have Sword's email (to send her one and ask her - What's the story?)

I've tried my way (bumping her threads, mentioning her and so on)..

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Anderson said:

Sarsfields has been going for over 3 years now.

The site Declan has provided us has been a great lifeboat for all of us, as refugees from other sites.

Sadly, though, despite being a website open to all, our membership has stalled and in some cases declined, with losses such as @SwordOfStZip.

With the closure of Politics.ie and PoliticalIrish.com, we should have picked up a fair few weary members looking for a new home. Sadly, however, we haven’t really attracted any. Even @SwordOfStZip hasn’t returned, which in itself is strange.

Declan, of course, has done great work with his YouTube channel, even advertising the site on there. Yet, despite thousands of views, very few people have actually come over to join in the discussion.

I think for the site to expand, we need to broaden our appeal. We all need to play a greater part in being positive members, and even if we disagree, we should avoid childish insults and be the bigger person regardless of others’ political ideologies.

Sarsfields does have a place—especially with the closure of other sites, including Boards.ie. The opportunity to attract new posters should be at an all-time high.

I think as a community we need to come together, actively come up with ideas and suggestions, and all play our part. Along with that, we may also need some new rules and stronger moderation to put an end to thread derailment and constant personal abuse, if we truly have the site’s best interests at heart and cherish being part of this community.

With that, I look forward to all of your input and hopefully we can, together, come up with some great ideas.

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SeekTheFairLand said:

Can I ask just how popular discussion forums like this are? Like how popular/active was Boards ie before going down? I know that apart from this site, I cant be arsed with other forums. One that I used to read was Irishrepublican.net. It was moribund for a long time and just after checking whats happening there now and it seems to have been closed down.

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Anderson said:

Not sure what Declan has done but I do know she went awol on here with no reason and was posting away on P.ie. I would have thought with P.ie dead she would have returned.

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Declan said:

She left for no reason as far as I know. I screwed up over a year ago and deleted her by mistake. She returned a month or so later.

But notice the day she left was exactly a year after she returned, that had to be deliberate

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Anderson said:

Sarsfields has been going for over 3 years now.

The site Declan has provided us has been a great lifeboat for all of us, as refugees from other sites.

Sadly, though, despite being a website open to all, our membership has stalled and in some cases declined, with losses such as @SwordOfStZip.

With the closure of Politics.ie and PoliticalIrish.com, we should have picked up a fair few weary members looking for a new home. Sadly, however, we haven’t really attracted any. Even @SwordOfStZip hasn’t returned, which in itself is strange.

Declan, of course, has done great work with his YouTube channel, even advertising the site on there. Yet, despite thousands of views, very few people have actually come over to join in the discussion.

I think for the site to expand, we need to broaden our appeal. We all need to play a greater part in being positive members, and even if we disagree, we should avoid childish insults and be the bigger person regardless of others’ political ideologies.

Sarsfields does have a place—especially with the closure of other sites, including Boards.ie. The opportunity to attract new posters should be at an all-time high.

I think as a community we need to come together, actively come up with ideas and suggestions, and all play our part. Along with that, we may also need some new rules and stronger moderation to put an end to thread derailment and constant personal abuse, if we truly have the site’s best interests at heart and cherish being part of this community.

With that, I look forward to all of your input and hopefully we can, together, come up with some great ideas.

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BIG FAT HOOR said:

Don't know how you would do this but some articles and posts are better than others .
especially sword and scolairebocht on religion and others on different subjects .

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BIG FAT HOOR said:

if you had a greatest hits page where this site historically agreed the most with the posters views and research .

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BIG FAT HOOR said:

especially research as the curious don't want to come to a wankers shouting match they want to learn and be entertained and they would like to see that subjects have little or no censorship in order to learn/inform themselves as they cannot get it on the print or tv media.
a greatest hits page showing the oddest most varied subjects especially religion and politics covered in a way not available elsewhere would attract hopefully the right sort .

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céline said:

One thing that you shouldn't do is increase censorship in order to appeal to people who are afraid of free speech.

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