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Health issues sub forum

possibly ._. but health issues could social,physical,mental.

Health Issues could fall into social, but that might make some not realize that it's even around in the guild. Sorry about the lack of posts, sometimes I just don't know where or what to post.

I just thought of something. Would you guys like a 'Satire' subforum? You know, like a Chatterbox but for funny stuff?

Hi Jerba, thanks for the notification.

You are mostly right in your message that this guild is small in comparrison to other guilds out there. This can easily cause boredom as discussions on the basis of what most of us look for in here require several different opinions. But this is not the problem with the guild. You are also right when you say few people post often, or even check up often in here, and once again I have to say that this is not the problem with this guild.

Before I get to my problem, let me explain to you how I use Gaia.
I long ago aquired the items I wanted in Gaia, the gold side of the site now means nothing to me. This limits how much I will post and gives me less incentive to post, but it also makes me only want to post if it's something I feel strongly about or desire to discuss. I regularly check in the ED, and it's various sub forums (namely S&T and M&R) but I will rarely post. Now I don't think I'm alone here, I presume that there are many people that like to browse discussions such as myself. This then creates a problem with your guild.

As many people will be coming in predominantly to read and not to create content, it then falls onto other people to do that side of the work. It requires people to make topics of contriversial or debatable material and start a discussion so that the browsers, such as myself, may be drawn into a topic and will feel the need to reply and truely discuss. The question then though comes down to who to nominate for these responsibilities.
-Guild members (ask for voulenteers)
-Guild staff
-Naive people from the ED
...Okay so the last one is a bit of a push, but honnestly we all sigh and facepalm when someone falls into the M&R screaming about the non-existance of God through their air tight logic that they just thought up on the toilet. But it gets us going! It's annoying sometimes yes, but it sure does make for fun content. Same in the S&T when people rave about global warming and other such topics. Perhaps a few itchy-trigger-fingered teenagers would liven the place up.

But one of the most important things here is that I can go into the EDmain, S&T or M&R and find a debate or a discussion that I might not find here. Also I might find something interesting that I again might not find here. So you need to give this place a little something of it's own. Give it a reason for people to want to come in. Invite new members, advertise, promote discussions and eventually the guild will run itself.

Just my two cents.

Jay

Eeeeevveeeeennnttttssss!
Let us see about making some form of Event!

We need buzz, headline, something regular and exiting to pull people in!


And so I did post.
I'll make sure to wander in and out here and there.
;D

yeah
like we could have a "best quote(must be your own)" contest and stuff like that