May 14, 2017

So in the last few months I've been pretty inactive, due to a combination of irl responsibilities and a general lack of interest. While I was "away", I used other means to get my music news, most notably fb groups. What I would consider to be the "main" fb group I used saw insane success and growth (from 3k to 8k in a matter of days) and it got me wondering how a fb community could do so well but a site with an admin team as dedicated as ours can't. I think I've figured out the main reasons and have ideas on how to fix them.

-First of all, there's a pretty obvious divide in the forum. There's Em SXN, and then there's everyone else. Now, ofc, there are some great Em SXN regulars who contribute, but they're few and far between while awful cancerous shitposters are a dime a dozen. Now, to my understanding, the argument for keeping Em SXN is that its our biggest sxn and we'd be losing a huge chunk of our members, but that huge chunk is the whole reason the rest of the forum hardly experiences any growth. I'd say around 90% of Em SXN posters are so cancerous they actively discourage new members from signing up EXCEPT for other equally s--- users who share their view. We're turning away dozens of @Jehovah's and @Thy's to accomodate ppl like @ConspiracyGang and the like.

@Koolo I'm sure you're familiar with the expression you gotta spend money to make money, well in this case you gotta lose members to get members. No one wants to join a forum where its 3 dudes discussing new music and 12 ppl saying it's s--- and recommending MMLP2 instead.

-Secondly, and I mean this with as much love as possible, our marketing is horrendous. Our biggest means of exposure are our fb pages for the respective SXNs, half of which are dead (the pages not the sxns) and the ones that are popular post normie trash "the mind, the heart, the soul" type memes that only draw in more normie trash stans like we got after TPAB. If we want to draw in new GOOD members through those memes, we need a total overhaul in that department. You can still post all the Kendrick and drake memes in the world just don't share the ones my weird uncle who preaches about reel hip hop shares, because then you're gonna get 100 new members who only f--- with REEL HIP HOP. As I've mentioned to staff before I'd be more than willing to help in this department.



Tldr, we need to trim the fat from s80 and market ourselves towards ppl who listen to music this decade otherwise we're gonna remain stagnant. If staff disagrees pls don't lock thread I'm just tryna create a healthy discussion about the future of our site.

(also a lot of what I said of em sxn could apply to cole but em sxn is the more pressing issue)

 

May 14, 2017

yOu KnOw WhAts CoOl ReAdInG Op BeFoRe YoU pOsT

 

May 14, 2017

You know what's cool? Reading op before you post.

 

May 14, 2017

I mean go ahead and try it out but I guarantee getting rid of the eminem section won't make the site grow

And where are all these Stan attacks and Stans flooding the board and threads with Stanism? I can't see that anywhere but the Eminem section. Where are Stans intimidating new users? It's literally not happening. If anything Stans are the meek submissive b------s getting run off or confined into their section. The more aggressive 'bullying' posters hate eminem

And I really don't think guests seeing the eminem section makes them not wanna join. It's just one section. Who the h--- does that? The logic doesn't make sense at all

But I'd be happy to get proven wrong let's delete the section and see if it increases traffic

 

May 14, 2017

Already some woat users itt

 

May 14, 2017

in addition we should IP ban all eminem stans & reel hip hop heads alike

 

May 14, 2017

Like srsly do you rly want this

Over this

 

May 15, 2017

Rockstarx3000 was a legendary poster and he was like 9

 

May 15, 2017

of course.

but dreaming about Royce and Paul means you are 100% a fa----

 

May 14, 2017

"TES is such a classic though bro!! I haven't even listened to an album that came out this year yet though."

 

May 14, 2017

how tf do u have more posts than likes when joel exists didnt no this was achievable

 

May 14, 2017

half the forum got the section on ignore anyway so what wold be the difference

 

May 14, 2017

This forum was founded on the Em SXN..its not going anywhere...theres plenty of other forums for young thug and other faggets who think they can rap

 

May 14, 2017

We can have a containment thread for Eminem in Music SXN tbh.

I'll make it my mission that his s--- doesn't flood that board.

 

May 14, 2017

Em SXN is a containment board. If anything, we need more of those.

 

May 14, 2017

btw the forum is more active than ever u just got to click the NSFW section and boom its lit

 

May 15, 2017

J Cole is as boring as eminem is bad though how come they get a pass

 

May 14, 2017

What is there to even talk about in Em SXN right now? The man drops one album every couple years and does maybe two features in the meantime. Can't see how it's fun to talk about years old songs over and over. Definitely doesn't need to be a permanent section.