This forum kinda sucks

[Scrap-Metal-Forum]

I definitely do want to encourage more participation and build a forum that’s active, helpful, and easy for members to use. I am in the process of updating things around here so if you have specific updates or changes in mind that you think would make the forum more appealing or user-friendly, I’d love to hear them.

[Smf-retired-user-0043]

I definitely do want to encourage more participation and build a forum that’s active, helpful, and easy for members to use. I am in the process of updating things around here so if you have specific updates or changes in mind that you think would make the forum more appealing or user-friendly, I’d love to hear them.

Your site stats are deceiving you, yea it will inform you how many hits the site gets daily and which country those hits are originating from. What the stats won't tell ya is how many of those hits actually logged onto the site.

I suggested to you years ago the need to make the site members only, guests don't pay the bills nor do they contribute to the site.

Similar to your Scrap Room members only format. Every post I've ever made too SMF , under the various alias's used were on the public side.

Time to lock in membership, open up the scrap room. Not that i believe anything important resides behind closed doors.

The more members you have will certainly add income from your associate links.

In the past week no more than six active members participating, while the guest count was in the hundreds.

There are threads on the forum with thousands of views, the question is how many of those were logged in versus guests. With incomplete data how are you able to make rational plans for future development. Be like pissing into the wind.

[Kemper]

I definitely do want to encourage more participation and build a forum that’s active, helpful, and easy for members to use. I am in the process of updating things around here so if you have specific updates or changes in mind that you think would make the forum more appealing or user-friendly, I’d love to hear them.

It looks like you are trying to make a buck and there is nothing wrong with that. But, I noticed this posted by you recently-
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and I wonder if you even need or want more posts by members.

[hills]

It looks like you are trying to make a buck and there is nothing wrong with that. But, I noticed this posted by you recently-
Launch Special: Get Your Scrap Job Tracker Spreadsheet Now!

To celebrate the launch of this powerful tool, we're offering a limited-time discount. For the first 20 customers, get 30% off your purchase!

• Regular Price: $24.95
• Launch Price: $17.56 (Save $7!)

This offer won’t last long! Act now and start streamlining your scrap business today.


and I wonder if you even need or want more posts by members.

Cyberspace is a rather strange realm. Things are seldom exactly as they seem. Some of the AI forum bots are remarkably human like. We've had any number of advertising bots posting here over the last few years. When things are quiet ... they even chat amongst themselves.

To quote another poster : Is it real or is it Memorex ?

You might also ask yourself that same question in some of the other social media sites that you visit.

[Smf-retired-user-0043]

Cyberspace is a rather strange realm. Things are seldom exactly as they seem. Some of the AI forum bots are remarkably human like. We've had any number of advertising bots posting here over the last few years. When things are quiet ... they even chat amongst themselves.

To quote another poster : Is it real or is it Memorex ?

You might also ask yourself that same question in some of the other social media sites that you visit.

The AI Lady"s look awesome, it's when they start asking for money for airfare I begin to be suspicious.

[Kemper]

Cyberspace is a rather strange realm. Things are seldom exactly as they seem. Some of the AI forum bots are remarkably human like. We've had any number of advertising bots posting here over the last few years. When things are quiet ... they even chat amongst themselves.

To quote another poster : Is it real or is it Memorex ?

You might also ask yourself that same question in some of the other social media sites that you visit.

If you figure out what you are talking about, let me know.

[hills]

If you figure out what you are talking about, let me know.

You've been here for awhile but you haven't been active. You might have missed it. I issued a computer command in one of my posts that will cause an AI to shut down & reset.

The results were interesting.

If you're an old guy who isn't too tech savvy .... you would have overlooked it. It's something that would have been outside your range of experience so it wouldn't have made any sense.

As i was saying before ... cyberspace is a strange place. Don't assume that it's like the mundane realm of your day to day life.

I was reading an interesting article in the New York Times back in February. Most of us here are getting on in years. We all will eventually have our end. The article was talking about the digital footprint that we will leave behind and how AI's may pick up and carry on in our stead for generations after we pass on social media. It's not just the stuff of sci-fi movies anymore. It's the real deal ... the technology is just that far advanced nowadays.

The online version of that NYT article is behind a paywall now but this article will give most of the gist of how it works.

https://www.psypost.org/digital-afte...oes-that-mean/