I just want to say that you are totally right Guardian, the activity of 4th Gen is dying if not dead. I probably shouldn't, but I take full responsibility for the activity of my section and appreciate any help I can with boosting its activity. I haven't been very active lately due to real life stuff, but nonetheless it is one of my forums and thus my responsibility to ensure its running well (which honestly it isn't at the moment.) So I really appreciate you bringing this up.
First I think it's important that we identify the problems with keeping activity up:
1) As you've already mentioned there's an influx of threads that do not get many responses but sit there and prevent the creation of new threads.
Solution: Ditch the one month revival rule.
2) Lack of events/competitions?
Solution: Let's get some events up and running. If anyone has an ideas, pm me and I will be more than happy to help set it up. Any event that can attract some activity is welcome. I will definitely try to devise some events to attract members.
3) Lack of new and interesting topics. *This is hard, considering you can only talk so much about one thing before things are regurgitated.
Solution: We need to establish interest using the above so that people will want to and do, post interesting threads that aren't the same regurgitated topics.
In regards to the merger, I too disagree, simply for the reasons stated above by previous posters. I'd rather not merge them all together and create a massive graveyard of stagnant threads.
Regardless of being put separate or together, mods should* try to raise the activity in each sub forum individually via activities such as contests and whatnot. *Again, I am not saying they SHOULD, I am just saying they "should" do it if they want to raise activity of those sub forums.
Most definitely, and I will try and make an active effort to raise the activity of the section through events and increase posting. However, I'll need all your help!
That's looking at the glass rather half-full, though. I'm not a regular of either of these forums, but as a quick note, if there's not much interest/discussion going on as far as older gens are concerned, then part of me feels rather pessimistic that contests/events are going to do anything to remedy the issue, because there'a always the possibility that there's not going to be any interest in said contests and/or events.
Newer generations and their respective games release, and as a result, overshadow the older ones due mainly to general interest. Could also be due to the fact that Nintendo W-fi is also dead so that limits what you can do with fourth/fifth gen games even further, so there's that.
If anything I'm saying is in error, please do bring it up! Only making a guess here based on what seems to be the "trend", so to speak.
There is definitely no error here! You're definitely right,it is a small forum and the hype of the past generation games is drying up. Perhaps events won't raise much activity. but it is worth a shot. What other artillery do we have to combat the fact that 4th Gen and previous generations will never draw in as much activity as more current generations.
I think what's important to note is that there's not a lack of threads for discussion to be had in, it's just a lack of posting and interest to post which needs to be remedied. How that can be remedied other than posting in threads myself and holding events is something I do not know, so any further feedback/suggestions would be fantastic. Thanks for the feedback guys.
