Stripes
Freshman
Posts: 62
Loc: Boston
Reg: 11-21-04
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12-04-04 03:30 AM - Post#556
In response to Administrator
To me the jury is out on whether it works or not.
But "working" isn't about being better or worse than the old board. This is because a daily reading of the "active topics" makes it just like the old board, so there really is no change for me.
The proof of success will be whether the new format will attract more non-Penn fans to participate and discuss their own team - something that was harder to do in the ivybasketball world where there were 10 Penn posts to each non-Penn post, and most non-Penn threads seemed to turn into Penn threads. And I don't mean to disparage the Penn fans here - you are great fans and really embraced the site...it's just that a critical mass wasn't developing for the other schools.
It may be that this change doesn't, in fact, bring in more active participants for the other teams (there is a bit of a chicken and egg challenge here). If so, then it won't have "worked", but the pain will lie on the backs of those who put it together, not on those of us who have changed our bookmarks to: Active Links.
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