20th June 2005, 7:15 PM
That may be true for you, but for most of us the story lies in the past when TC was actually attached to something that would attract us.
Namely, I came to this forum because it was an old forum belonging to... Nintendoeye right? Anyway, I came there because it was actually being directly linked to by Nintendo.com. At the time, I had NO way to know outside sites existed. The only way you can find anything is by random chance or a hyperlink when it comes to onlineness. The random chance was me typing in Nintendo.com to see if there was a site. The hyperlink part started a chain reaction that led to uncovering things like Penny Arcade. Anyway, the only reason I found this place was because after becoming bored with the main site I wanted to see what the heck a "forum" was, and after that I joined because at the time I wanted to see if anyone knew how to find Mew. (Turned out it worked because I now have an army of them.) Anyway, that's how people find this site.
Of course, ordering people to come here works sometimes, but not nearly in the numbers you get from things like a two link step from a VERY highly visited site.
So maybe that's the thing we should do eh? I think Nintendo stopped offering a listing of Nintendo fan sites (the sheer number would be a major preventer), but we could do something special maybe?
I dunno... I can't think of anything really unique we could offer, or any standard thing other places don't do a million times better.
Namely, I came to this forum because it was an old forum belonging to... Nintendoeye right? Anyway, I came there because it was actually being directly linked to by Nintendo.com. At the time, I had NO way to know outside sites existed. The only way you can find anything is by random chance or a hyperlink when it comes to onlineness. The random chance was me typing in Nintendo.com to see if there was a site. The hyperlink part started a chain reaction that led to uncovering things like Penny Arcade. Anyway, the only reason I found this place was because after becoming bored with the main site I wanted to see what the heck a "forum" was, and after that I joined because at the time I wanted to see if anyone knew how to find Mew. (Turned out it worked because I now have an army of them.) Anyway, that's how people find this site.
Of course, ordering people to come here works sometimes, but not nearly in the numbers you get from things like a two link step from a VERY highly visited site.
So maybe that's the thing we should do eh? I think Nintendo stopped offering a listing of Nintendo fan sites (the sheer number would be a major preventer), but we could do something special maybe?
I dunno... I can't think of anything really unique we could offer, or any standard thing other places don't do a million times better.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)