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Well seeing that Opening Day for all of the teams is just around the corner, this question came to me. Does anyone have any suggestions to increase traffic there?

Some boards like Milwaukee, the Cubs, and both New York teams are doing well already, as is the General Discussion Board.

Okay, we're talking about the slowest game this side of cricket being hosted on a site dedicated to one of the fastest moving games in the world.

That, in itself, is a hurdle.

On the Royals board, there's a thread from opening day of last year still visible.

Jakay wrote:Okay, we're talking about the slowest game this side of cricket being hosted on a site dedicated to one of the fastest moving games in the world.

That, in itself, is a hurdle.

Well that is your opinion and it has nothing to do with the thread title.

Many posters do not post at new boards because they see that the board is inactive. If many people feel that way, it will never be active becuase boards grow exponentially, and it cant go anywhere at 0. And if you take for example another popular message board, prosportsdaily, its baseball posts outnumber its basketball posts by about 40% in total. So I am sure baseball is still very much popular.

So, to make the baseball boards more active, we need to make the baseball boards more active? Eureka!

Time and word of mouth.

RealGM, initially, wasn't the top basketball site on the internet. It started out slow, got a few regulars, got a few more, those people told other people, and in a few years, it grew to what it is now.

miller31time wrote:Time and word of mouth.

RealGM, initially, wasn't the top basketball site on the internet. It started out slow, got a few regulars, got a few more, those people told other people, and in a few years, it grew to what it is now.

When I joined, it was just about as active as my old home @ justbball.com. That site is now dead, and RealGM is #1. I think with time baseball and football boards will catch on.

One thing I notice that hinders growth of the NFL and MLB boards is the realgm basketball boards that still allow OT threads about the same cities baseball and football teams.

The best way to attract new posters would probably be word of mouth, and in order for word of mouth to occur, there needs to be more activity on the boards. That is impossible if the main forums' mods (the individual team forums) allow their posters to discuss the other sports on the basketball site.

This obviously isn't every board, for example Bucks and Bulls and several other boards are great at re-directing baseball topics to baseball forums. But I have still seen several examples of this occurring on other boards.

tell people to post there?

I post there. I make good threads. It's active enough imo.

Post links in the team boards. Like post a link to the Dolphins board in the Heat board. Other than that just work the google machine.

ALSO......

RealGM built itself on letting anyone join. An alternative to the pay email system should be made. There has to be a simpler system. IPs, log in cookies, and allowing mods to can >one month posters (or just put on 24 hour suspensions) would be a good idea.

Baseball fans are an extremely dedicated lot. As such RealGM is late to the baseball message board game and, right now, offers less lively discussion than most of the bigger boards out there.

There is no quick cure-all that

ReddBogutCharlieV wrote:On the Royals board, there's a thread from opening day of last year still visible.

All of those posts added together are still more then like 7 NHL boards... I so want to be awarded the admin of the Business Board on there... noone listens though

haha how bout the NHL BOARD???

That forum shouldn't even exist...

on second though, no one even notices its existence so I guess it doesn't matter if it's there or not.