Should promotion site staff sign up always?

[Katrina]

The title is kind of confusing, but I'm still not quite fully awake.

If you list your site at a promotion site/forum/directory, do you expect that most, if not all of the staff SHOULD sign up on your forum?

 

[Yoda]

No I wouldn’t expect them all to sign up, nor do I necessarily want them all to sign up?

Whilst it is great to have new members coming and signing up, is there much point if they are just going to sign up and never post? Or if they know nothing/have zero interest in my sites genre, why would they sign up?

 

[Katrina]

No I wouldn’t expect them all to sign up, nor do I necessarily want them all to sign up?

Whilst it is great to have new members coming and signing up, is there much point if they are just going to sign up and never post? Or if they know nothing/have zero interest in my sites genre, why would they sign up?

If it's a new forum, isn't it good to have some existing registrations for a start up instead of 2 members who happen to be the owner and a moderator?

 

[Yoda]

If it's a new forum, isn't it good to have some existing registrations for a start up instead of 2 members who happen to be the owner and a moderator?

It’s not a bad thing to have them signing up, but I don’t think it creates a great impression to have say 10 registered members where 7 of them have no posts vs having a forum with 3 members who are all actively contributing?

 

[Katrina]

It’s not a bad thing to have them signing up, but I don’t think it creates a great impression to have say 10 registered members where 7 of them have no posts vs having a forum with 3 members who are all actively contributing?

Well is it any different than a site having 300 members and only the same 7 post?

 

[Yoda]

Well is it any different than a site having 300 members and only the same 7 post?

I guess not no, but as a prospective member I’d be a little confused as to why a new site has lots of people signing up but nobody posting? It might put me off?

 

[Ravenfreak]

While I think it's a nice gesture to see staff from a promotional forum join my forums, I don't think the staff should be obligated to do so.

 

[cpvr]

It’s a good idea in theory, but I don’t think staff should join a forum that’s listed in a promotional directory.

Especially seeing how a lot of people generally join sites that they like and hope to be active on or may lurk.
Having more members and not having them post isn’t a good look on new forum.

Staff shouldn’t be obligated to do it as it’s still their choice to join a site if they like to or not.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

The title is kind of confusing, but I'm still not quite fully awake.

If you list your site at a promotion site/forum/directory, do you expect that most, if not all of the staff SHOULD sign up on your forum?

I think it would make the promotion forum more valuable if their team joined and posted on every forum that was promoted on the promotion forum.

To keep it from being overwhelming, you could require a certain amount of points.

But promotion is promotion, right? If you could accomplish that with your promotion forum, I think it would be one of those unique features that would set you differently than all of the other promotion forums. You'd just need to make sure your staff were on board with it.

I think a lot of staffers on promotion forums just want to be staff for the titles.

When I was staff here, I started getting busy and couldn't be as active as I should had been. That's why I gave it up, because I take pride in being staff on a forum and if I can't perform, then I'm out of it.

 

[Baw$e]

No, I don't ask my staff to sign up on any sites I use for promotional purposes. They have their roles.

 

[Shortie_]

I wouldn't expect them to sign up on my forum unless they wanted to and felt they could contribute to the forum in some way.

I have always been someone who likes to see people join a forum because they want to and enjoy what the forum has to offer.

 

[Nomad]

When I list my site to the directories, I list just for the purpose of backlinks and promotion, I do not expect the staff of the site to join my site.