As for adding new members. That's something I recall ELA and I discussing on the old board as kind of a hard challenge. Because an insulated board can't really be stumbled into without a popular front page. And without this, the community does risk losing members faster than it gains.
So how can we grow to ensure our future and insure all the work the cfb51 team has put in? Well there are ways, but which are most practical?
Badge mentioned finding old posters and folding them back. And that's real. It could work. But the ratio of work finding them to payoff when they become active here must be kind of disappointing.
Alternatively: We could bring our brains together and find a way to advertise for free to attract the right kind of people. What might that look like? I'm not entirely sure. I doubt any of the big boards will ever let us post a thread to recruit away from them. And even if they would, and even if we crafted that message the best way, the obstacle of clicking from there to here is SO EASY that we'd almost inevitably gain a disappointingly high fraction of dumbasses.
Maybe the best way is to advertise with specific language for the kind of people who'd be attracted to a place like this and put it on something that is NOT electronic. Like a paper flier. Which may sound stupidly old-fashioned but because it takes more effort to go from reading that to visiting, I think that we would still gain members (albeit probably not super fast) without the disappointment of a high dumbass-to-justaguy ratio.
What might such a flier look like? Here's a 10-second mock-up that we could distribute **in low numbers** (5-10 at a time total!) each time one of us visits a new P5 university.
CFB51.COM
Are you a Big Ten fan?
Do you post online?
Are you tired of the fanboy accountz at ESPN and 247 that inevitably flame good conversations?
Looking for a community of nice-enough, normal-enough people (representing every team in your conference) to productively talk football?
Then check us out.
It's always free.
