by Idran1701 » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:16 pm
I'm really not sure about that, honestly. I know I proposed something like that myself some months ago, but I've since decided it's not exactly the best way to promote an internet community. Affiliation with another RP site is one thing, but buying a banner ad...it seems crass. Yeah, I want to promote the forum, but through word of mouth like affiliation set ups rather than through direct advertisement.
I mean, affiliation is a more directly-targeted manner of promotion, since it's basically saying "hey, you like high-quality RPing, here's another place where you can RP". But just going out and buying a banner ad on a webcomic because it happens to be fantasy also, the average staying factor from that would seem to me just from common sense to be even less than it otherwise is (which would be a pretty impressive feat, yeah).
I do appreciate what you want to do, and it's a nice gesture, but I don't think this is the best way to go about it. Not without more thought into where to do it, at least. We don't just want to bring in a lot of people, we want to bring in a lot of intelligent people that come here for what our site provides, the majority of which will be staying around.