Getting people to engage

[AlZilla]

This morning, there are 602 "Users Online", of which 6 are logged in. This isn't at all uncommon.

I know some of that is going to be bot traffic but how do we get the 99% to actually sign up, log in and post something??

I hate to suggest one of those "Log In With ..." buttons. I have no idea how much of your soul you give up to have one on your website. But if it gets people to engage instead of lurk ...

This place is the best archive of Leathercraft on the net. And it's not subject to some petulant techie or CEO deleting things.

[MarshalWill]

I'm on another forum that was inundated with bots. They put a Captcha to verify you're a human at the login and that eliminated just about all bots. I don't know what's involved to do that but it is one solution to the problem. Maybe it would be a good idea here.

[AlZilla]

3 hours ago, MarshalWill said:

I'm on another forum that was inundated with bots. They put a Captcha to verify you're a human at the login and that eliminated just about all bots. I don't know what's involved to do that but it is one solution to the problem. Maybe it would be a good idea here.

Well, Boss Lady has the bots that register to spam us pretty well down. For the moment ...

Posting activity here of late has been pretty quiet, even with a steady trickle of new users registering.

Even a few short years ago when I first joined there was so much activity, it was hard to keep up. Maybe it's just seasonal.

I don't know, maybe after 20 years, most of the questions have been answered.

 

[MarshalWill]

I've seen a slow-down in several other forums. It doesn't seem to be limited to this one.