- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I remember when everyone used to be active and had good educated discussions. Now people are inactive and I can understand that. But now its all competition to try and raise your rank. What is the point in rank? I hate hearing the question over and over again "Can I get my next rank?" I'm going out of my mind. But I at least figured out a way to make it so that you have a great group with no competing in it. * Warn all of your members to not ask for promotions under penalty of blacklisting * Try to make a group that actually has a purpose and is unique * Make it so that your group does stuff outside of the group like a clan, tournaments, or making movies. * Always send a pm to everyone in the pending members list with a question like "how will you contribute yourself to the group" and stuff like that so that you can tell if they are active and imaginative. If they don't reply to the pm after about a week then you know they aren't going to be active, besides if they do reply you can tell them to just rejoin the group. * Never try to reward your members with promotions. Reward your members with content. * Keep advertising so that you may grow and gain activity. * Never advertise like crazy or else you may keep away good members who want a good group. * Only advertise in the classifieds once a day at the most. Don't try to be on the front page, because true members search back several pages in the forum to find a good group. * When you advertise don't give away too much stuff in your group or else people will steal your ideas. Just give a general description about your group and put a link to your articles and/or FAQ section to make people actually look around at your group. * Don't make too long of an advertisement or else people won't read all of it.