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Spicing Up Ab
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Complaints that AB, and in particular the News section is being commandeered by a few people obsessed with Brexit, Boris, and the perceived ills of the government, abound, so here's an idea. If enough of us post other, unrelated news, that which is either sending us to sleep or driving us to distraction will no longer dominate. If we don't make the effort to change it, it won't change, so how about it?
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Sounds like a good idea.
As you were posting this, I was responding to the current in an endless tedious list, of Gulliver's shock/horror that Mr Sunak is not admitting that the Tories are going to lose the election.
He is now using the site as his own political platform, and the sooner his piffle is buried under something (anything!!!) else, the better.
As you were posting this, I was responding to the current in an endless tedious list, of Gulliver's shock/horror that Mr Sunak is not admitting that the Tories are going to lose the election.
He is now using the site as his own political platform, and the sooner his piffle is buried under something (anything!!!) else, the better.
I've long thought that the predominance of a few posters in 'News' isn't to be dealt with by banning them, suspending them or removing their posts but by bringing in more members to the site as a whole, so that their posts only make up a tiny percentages of what's on the site.
AB is run by a firm that makes its money from advertising but it's INCREDIBLY poor at advertising the site itself. We need the site owners to promote it by, for example, running a competition that's only open to members. Such publicity might only cost, say, £100 for a prize, with details of the competition being circulated to both print and online publications (together with those websites set up specifically for quiz fans to use). We'd obviously get many people joining the site solely to enter the competition but, hopefully, we'd also find that some people were staying to ask questions in 'Travel', 'Technology' etc.
If we can get back to the days when there were perhaps a dozen new questions in 'Technology' each day, along with two or three in 'Travel, one or two in 'Law' and a sprinkling of others elsewhere, the presence of a few point-scoring posts from Gulliver, TTT, Hymie, et al in 'News' will have far less impact on the site over all.
AB is run by a firm that makes its money from advertising but it's INCREDIBLY poor at advertising the site itself. We need the site owners to promote it by, for example, running a competition that's only open to members. Such publicity might only cost, say, £100 for a prize, with details of the competition being circulated to both print and online publications (together with those websites set up specifically for quiz fans to use). We'd obviously get many people joining the site solely to enter the competition but, hopefully, we'd also find that some people were staying to ask questions in 'Travel', 'Technology' etc.
If we can get back to the days when there were perhaps a dozen new questions in 'Technology' each day, along with two or three in 'Travel, one or two in 'Law' and a sprinkling of others elsewhere, the presence of a few point-scoring posts from Gulliver, TTT, Hymie, et al in 'News' will have far less impact on the site over all.
Thanks choux.
Chris, I said here years ago that AB isn't advertised enough. For the time being though, there are enough regular posters around to seek out more interesting stories than those currently dominating the News section. Given a little effort, between them, they could rid it of the current tedium practically overnight and generate some interesting conversations into the bargain - which would hopefully encourage contributors to keep coming back for more.
Chris, I said here years ago that AB isn't advertised enough. For the time being though, there are enough regular posters around to seek out more interesting stories than those currently dominating the News section. Given a little effort, between them, they could rid it of the current tedium practically overnight and generate some interesting conversations into the bargain - which would hopefully encourage contributors to keep coming back for more.
