Supromote
A Q&A with Twisted Fairytale and Red Herring
Questionnaire:
We do not have many services offered by the staff at Supromote. How crucial or non-crucial do you feel the quantity of offered services is to webmaster and promotion forums, and how are we executing that?
Bit of a tricky question, I would say. In the end, however? No, I would not say that a unique or wide variety of services are crucial to running a promotion forum. Don't get me wrong. A wide variety of services, especially unique services,
helps. It certainly helps. But it is by no means the foundation of a promotion community, as many might be led to believe. What really matters here is the quality of those services provided to the community, as well as the quality of discussion available. If those two things are exceptional enough, then the quantity won't matter as much, at least, not on a "crucial impact" level. Supromote could most definitely benefit from addition services or otherwise innovative ideas, but they are not required.
As for how well Supromote executes its current services and discussion, it's a bit too early in the game to make a definitive judgement. So far, however, I'd have to say that it's not making a particularly astounding impression, with no disrespect intended of course. My reasoning will be provided in your next two questions.
Looking at our current staff, how do you feel about the quantity of staff and their activity versus the quantity of members and their activity?
Hm. Well, the actual staff-to-member ratio itself seems optimal enough. By its very nature, a promotion forum requires a rather extensive staff roster to maintain the services and content it provides, so it's quite expected to see new promotion forums with a larger staff ratio. Activity, however? That leaves something to be desired. The current Lead Packager, for instance, has not been active in over a week. Most of the staff members do have more posts than the regular users themselves, but then, they're supposed to. And although they do in fact have more posts, a lot of those posts are in regards to performing their service and many of them do not make the effort to create any actual discussion threads of their own, which is undesirable for a freshly-created forum. The only individual who's activity I could truly praise is the Lead Moderator's, with a staggering 500 posts and having created many of the actual discussion topics. Everyone else appears to either be average or lacking.
Again, I mean no offense to anyone within. It's simply my honest perspective as an outsider.
How do you think Supromote fits in with other new, startup webmaster and promotion forums, and what makes us different, if anything?
Again, at this point, it falls into more of a "too early in the game to tell" category, but from what I've seen over the past month of observation, Supromote hasn't been doing a whole lot to distinguish itself. When it first launched, it broke off into a fairly nice sprint, but that has since declined into a slow crawl, and it feels as though stagnation is already beginning to build. There is nothing unique about it as a promotion forum
(the most I can see is the "Staff Reviews" section, which has run into a couple hiccups). In fact, it seems quite minimal compared to others, which there's absolutely nothing wrong with in of itself. But the quality of service, and more importantly: discussion, hasn't been phenomenal either. Package quality feels both artificial and quite minimal in its posting. And many of the actual discussion topics are ones I've seen on Forum Promotion or other promotion forums. And lastly, what might be the achilles' heel, things seem to have simply...how shall say..."stopped"? For such a fresh forum, the atmosphere already feels as though it's existed for so long, to the point where nothing's really occurring within it anymore, beyond discussion for the sake of discussion. A new forum is something that should be excited and eager to build upon the foundation it just laid down. I'm simply not getting that feeling from Supromote.
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