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There was a post over there asking for a moderator for that forum. I noticed it's still getting spammed like crazy, and the poor folks have no one really helping them with legitimate history questions. I e-mailed the guy and asked if we could take that site's traffic or perhaps I could even buy that forum (I'd then do a 301 redirect to this site). I hope the owner of that site is cool about it….it would be awesome to get that kind of traffic over on this site!I might need some of you guys to suggest this site to the owner of AHF if need be. Standy by....
Snatch it up! It is time for the Emperor to set out on an expansion campaign. Hail Caesar!
Indeed! But it's more like Hannibal going up against the Romans....we are formidible in our own right and are kings of this side of the Mediterranean, but we are still poor in the history forum world. 🙁
Perhaps the ultimate thing to do would be to merge AHF, WCF, and CL into one forum. That would probably make it a little bigger than NJO. But is it feasible?
Perhaps the ultimate thing to do would be to merge AHF, WCF, and CL into one forum. That would probably make it a little bigger than NJO. But is it feasible?
I don't know how well that would work. It seems that forums work best because they are communities along the lines of a certain theme, and CL's strength in theme is different than what the strength of a history forum might be. I think what you'd have would be a big history forum that pushes out the core CL posters or threads. Of course, we don't really discuss religious history here, so that would be something that CL could be grow in. What do you think? I think there are ways of marketing CL that we haven't done yet (that I know of). For example, if we hit the blogs and comment on stories, we can often link back fo CL. People who like what we say might then follow those links and see what we have to offer. I've tried doing it a bit on history blogs for WCF but there really aren't a whole heck of a lot of history blogs. I do believe there are a lot of Christian-themed blogs, though.
What are they doing over at AHF that is bringing in all the trafic?
Good question. I do know that the owner (Jolly Roger) has a lot of forums set up and so he must have a lot of links pointing in his direction. I think people follow his main site (http://jollyroger.com/) and if you visit it, you'll see that the guy's got dozens of other sites set up, some of which have their own forums. I believe AHF is one of those forums. The problem is that the guy just sets them up and lets them be, and they're therefore not really moderated well.
I suppose it would be a better idea to have a link on the WCF site pointing to “religious history” and have that go to CL. It might not be a bad idea, as they might send traffic back and forth. That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea – you're directing communities without tainting the central theme of either of them.
I suppose it would be a better idea to have a link on the WCF site pointing to "religious history" and have that go to CL. It might not be a bad idea, as they might send traffic back and forth. That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea - you're directing communities without tainting the central theme of either of them.
Would that be like a web ring?
No, not quite a web ring. More like a web empire. Now there's an idea we might be able to adopt....
I've been kinda doing this over at NJO. Purchasing domain names, setting up webrings and link farms. The wiki idea was the best one because it has generated a poop load of links. I wish more folks would post on the wiki. Maybe a History wiki is needed here?
I recently began creating a wiki for a commercial site I run. It can be a lot of work. The one problem with a history wiki is that it might compete with Wikpedia, in which case we would lose every time. You really need something that is unique and covers some ground which Wikipedia doesn't already cover. I thought the gun wiki would be a good idea because although Wikipedia does cover guns, I thought that NJO users would be able to give their own personal opinions on guns which might make it more of a tool for rating and purchasing.Which wiki did you say gave you a lot of links....the old NJO wiki that didn't really get off the ground or the gunsandall wiki?One more thing - the problem with buying up domain names can be that a) they can add up ($7 a year can add up over time) and if you don't make a site, it will simply go to waste and you'll end up letting it go in the end. I have done that where I don't use it after a year and just let it go. And a "wiki" is just a web site where many people can edit and contribute to it, like Wikipedia.
