So, I want to bring this discussion back to eventually bringing more people in here.
I would like to have more people around here. I don't know about you guys, but I see the same people around here that have been around here since the beginning and I see maybe one or two stragglers coming in every now and then that didn't think this idea was the best when it was suggested, but wanted to try it out anyway after some time had passed. It's getting stale, like its been said by one or two or three or four or probably more people.
For now, I don't want to open it up to omgeveryone, because I don't think that that way will work out the best. A new forum usually means high traffic, because people are curious about it. Doesn't mean that they'll post, but given the nature of the forum, I think we'd get a lot of people who would post.
So, while eventually I would like this to be open for everyone, doing it all at once would be overwhelming. I had a passing thought earlier, which I posted here, of allowing more people to request access to this forum by requesting to join a usergroup. Some of you guys may remember that beta Wifi center Audy was working on. Remember that? Well, for those who don't, it was a beta forum that Audy was testing out that would have replaced the Trade Corner in the way that threads were dealt with. Anyone could gain access to the forum by requesting access to the beta usergroup. That could be done in the group membership page of the User CP (
http://www.pokecommunity.com/profile.php?do=editusergroups). Members of that group gain the ability to view that beta forum.
That's what I would like to do with this forum. Allow members to request access to this forum by requesting access to the usergroup. They'll be accepted based on the activity level here. If they aren't accepted, we'll shoot them a PM explaining why and to just try again at a later date.
So we'd pretty much be inviting them in in little herds.
Before I bring this up in HQ as a way of adding more people here, I'd like to gather thoughts on it. Thoughts?