Chatbox Kills Member Activity

Right now BD[Bleach Dynasty] is suffering a wave of member inactivity.
Or member dehydration.
And I may have the source, the chatbox.
I have seen a number of sites in my life time, and once they install a chatbox post activity goes down. In most cases it does.
And I think this is another one of those cases.
If you want member activity to rise, you need to somehow limit the chatbox or even get rid of it.
Isn't the point of having a forum up to have people use it.
If people aren't using the forum what is the point.
And if you don't want people to use the forum well then issues solved, just remove all the threads and have a black background with your chatbox.


Also I wanted to add, and this has nothing with a chatbox, but I would like to an RPG section that isn't dedicated to bleach.
Something we could put general RPGs in.

It is the holidays so not necessarily everyone puts 10 hours a day to BD, we all have families and friends to visit during holidays

Second, the chatbox helps to avoid spams to occur in the forum. Besides, the holidays could be one of the main causes for activeness dropping.



Cantin, I had edited your post because some of the contain is inappropriate. -Moonstone-

Well, the truth of the matter is, activity has grown, and we've had that chat box there for quite some time now, so sorry to break this to you, thats not the real reason for sudden inactivity.

Inactivity is caused by lack of reasons to stay, and the chat box makes people communicate with each other faster, thus might convince them that BD aint that bad a place, plus it lessens SPAM.

and about the RPG section, we did have them hazou, only BD is too inactive to start other RPG's while the divisions aren't that inactive them selves.

We will open it back up when more members come, so patience, as for the chat box, no, we wont remove them.

I agree with Ruru, chatboxes aren't the source of inactive members. Many people don't go online often just to post for hours straight. Members have lives & they have families. Also the holidays are right around the corner and about to finish up. The holidays are the second source of inactive members. The 1st is either school, work or even both! Many of the members are juggling school work & a job work. So they don't have the time to post, also just because you don't see people online doesn't mean they aren't active, people get on different hours of the day.

I think you´ve got good point, Hazou...

This place is sometimes so empty, but some members just love chatbox, so we can´t take it them... they would kill us LOL

Okay...I´m neutral for now...but I just wanted say Hazou´s opinion is not so bad....

I think it's true for a certain part. But deleting the chatbox will cause spam to rise, or maybe in this case, some people might not even check the forum anymore, because they use the chatbox to "wait" for response on topics they posted to.

seraphim wrote: with each other faster, thus might convince them that BD aint that bad a place, plus it lessens SPAM.

and about the RPG section, we did have them hazou, only BD is too inactive to start other RPG's while the divisions aren't that inactive them selves.

We will open it back up when more members come, so patience, as for the chat box, no, we wont remove them.

All this means is that I have to invite over some of my friends to this site, so we can get an RPG section going.
I promise you won't have an inactive forum when I get these guys on here.

More members=activity
Or more of the right members=activity

Which I shall do.

OK! hazzou, i guess thats a deal XD.


i'll keep this open for more opinions regarding the chat box

I pointed the same thing out that Hazou said when everyone was discussing wear the chatbox should be moved to...
Yes it useful when someone is in between posts or waiting for responses, but roughly 75% of the time I see people in the chatbox, none of them are even making posts in the forum itself during that same time period that they are on, and if they do post, it's mainly in the Feedback area, Introduction corner, or the Central 46...

The main cause of inactivity could be that we aren't all on the same time schedule, so when some people come on, they don't see anyone else on and that discourages them from staying on that long... I mean, I check BD roughly 3 times a day (once when I first get on, once whenever I have the most time to, and once before going to bed), but if I see no one on and I'm still waiting for replies, I don't even feel like staying on long enough to see if anyone does pop on and make a post... So most of the time I just scan the main page, if there isn't anything for me to reply to then I just go do other stuff and forget about checking back here, and that exact pattern repeats itself a lot...

When it's morning where I live, it's typically afternoon or sometime nighttime for nearly all of the other members that I see being active the most often... That meaning, when I wake up, most of the members are just heading off to go to bed or at the very least barely on long enough to trade greetings with...

Then maybe it isn't that the chatbox is there.
Maybe we can have the chatbox, but on the bottom of the forum instead of on top.
So the chatbox isn't the first thing the members.

sadly we cant move the chatbox anywhere but there.

we also tried placing the chat box in a different area, like a separate area for them, however, no one visited it XD

seraphim wrote:sadly we cant move the chatbox anywhere but there.

we also tried placing the chat box in a different area, like a separate area for them, however, no one visited it XD

Could it be that its chatango's chatbox service instead of making your own chatbox?

it is chatango's chat box, BD has a built in chat box, only its too slow, adn it has many bugs, so we dont use it, chatango works quick , but i think i'm gonna change it soon >.<

but its bothersome for many too

Well no wonder you can't move it anywhere.
As I have said before I own my website.
And chatango sucks, okay...sucks.
It was there for temporary chatango, cause my friend was fixing our chat.
The forum was built from scratch the ground up.
And we have over 100,000 members.
We have about 1000 members logged in daily.
And guess what....advertising is allowed on my site.
So I have put in my advertising thread BD, lets hope people come check it out and register.
I am also currently talking to friends about in a PM.
You know the first question I got was, "Is there an RPG section?"
lol!

I can move it, just not on the bottom.

since forumotion is stupid and all *sighs*

well that's that XD

Oh so you blame the forum now.

HAHA, yes blam the forum, there built in chat box sucks >.<

well i hope they fix the bug

So if it will be possible...you´re gonna move chatbox on the bottom? Or?

This chatbox makes an annoying click noise when everyone is done posting.
If possible when you fix the sites own chatbox, please don't put that as an option.
I have to listen to my music loud just to drown it out.

Hazou wrote:This chatbox makes an annoying click noise when everyone is done posting.
If possible when you fix the sites own chatbox, please don't put that as an option.
I have to listen to my music loud just to drown it out.

You can tick that sound off =)

I dot really see the importance of having this chatbox does anyone use it? I think the site would be better with out it anything u post in the chatbox can easily be posted in a off topic thread.

Dark wrote:I dot really see the importance of having this chatbox does anyone use it? I think the site would be better with out it anything u post in the chatbox can easily be posted in a off topic thread.

Everyone uses the lemons chatbox.
They don't use the forum.
I don't see the importance of the forum.

can you post a simple "yes" on an offtopic thread dark?

you don't see it's significance?

we do have a spam rule, and it makes things easier for people to communicate with each other.