Re: An Idea
I think Introduce Yourself, Off Topic, Your Work On The Web, and your idea could be merged into a "Members Only Lounge", that isn't visible to the unregistered lurkers. Chat addys, podcasts, blogs and whatever could be tossed in there as well.
There are other ideas that I have about how to consolidate while improving membership participation, but I'd have to sit and whiteboard my thoughts out. But I probably won't bother since no one would listen or care.
Currently there over 17,000 members, of which about 1000 have more than 20 posts. Of that 1000, I'd say somewhere around 100 actively post anything more than short, non productive content, i.e. "Nice shot." There are at least three services that PC offers that are unknown and unused by most forum members, and some that are used by those that do not contribute to forum content. We also seem to suffer from a bit of an identity crisis. Contests have been utter failures, and must seem like a let down to the sponsors.
That said, this is still a great place, but there has so much flux around here, that I'm not sure how long it will last. I bring these things up not to criticize, but to hopefully bring attention to what can be improved.
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