"I'm Bored. Nothing fun to reply to."

[Joshua Farrell]

I've seen this phrase used quite a ton over the years of using forums (and may have used it a few times myself). What do you do to counter this particular feeling, when you are actively browsing forums daily?

What I have done in the past, is force myself to post a number of fun threads to try to get myself back into the groove and be active during my "bored of posting" moment.

 

[Page]

Now I know why you keep on posting under the fun board

I don't get bored, in many cases if there aren't any new topics/posts I mostly do something else. Example! watching, playing games and reading. As an twitch streamer most of my evenings are taken up, it's afterwards when I finnish and start to browse around on forums 😉 Unless new topics/posts

 

[Yarik]

post a number of fun threads

That's probably the only thing to do.

 

[Jason76]

There is another situation where a few posters are obsessed with a certain niche, and while interesting, it gets old and irritating!

 

[IntoxNitram]

As an admin it’s important to notice it and post a range of ontopic threads. I think to stop things like this happening you need to follow up on discussions had in threads, keep ontopic discussions going and so on. Members don’t seem to be as willing to create threads so it’s imporrant to do that yourself. Also, I think ontopic is crucial I see a lot of forums go completely off topic with the majority of discussions and therefore lose the audience they were trying to build.

 

[Page]

Being bored also means not to go around on forums spamming. Yet if you do make allot of topics/posts, keep it on topic. Threads are something that members rather not post, half the time they have no idea to post about.

 

[shreddedbullet]

I post new topics.

 

[Cosmic]

It could mean also that the site is dead af and doesn’t actually have much interesting stuff 😛

 

[Jason76]

I'm very lucky to have two obsessed nerds on my math forum! Everyone's not so lucky!

I mean, they post insane amounts of good stuff daily - and they don't want money!

 

[Page]

I'm very lucky to have two obsessed nerds on my math forum! Everyone's not so lucky!

I mean, they post insane amounts of good stuff daily - and they don't want money!

Yet I don't see any new members joining to be apart of your posting members.

 

[Felly]

I try to post new threads and generate more activity. If I can't do that, then I talk to others on the chat program if there is one for that forum. Anything to get people talking and besides, who knows, it might get some new threads and posts rolling.

If I'm really struggling to get posts done and I'm staff, I try to get some sort of event started, so it gets people talking and posting.

 

[Flannagan1992]

To be fair I find it quite hard to come up with new topics for my forum.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

I've never had this problem. I can double post about my triple post.

 

[Page]

I've never had this problem. I can double post about my triple post.

I post to that then

 

[SolviturC]

If I get "bored" I will just post whatever I wanna see. I mean, you need threads to get activity, no? It can create some new interaction. I've had quite a few quick gif wars because of it.

 

[Azareal]

Oh, I try to avoid posting too much, otherwise it might annoy people lol
The question is not how much I can post, but how much I should post, I can post entire mountains.

 

[Jason76]

Oh, I try to avoid posting too much, otherwise it might annoy people lol
The question is not how much I can post, but how much I should post, I can post entire mountains.

You mean an attention hound?

 

[Azareal]

You mean an attention hound?

Lol, when a forum is actually active and has back to back discussions as opposed to just slot a post in here and there, I can get in over a hundred posts per day. It's surprisingly easy.

It depends on the dynamics of the site. Some of those Discourse instances can be surprisingly active, these days with people just going bam, bam, bam endlessly on both sides. But they do tend to be a lot more on the close knit side.

Discourse themes can be ugly as all hell, but oh boy, can they be active.