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[kinboshi]

Can we get Father Gascoigne in the well?!

Of course, assuming he is agreeable. So to speak.

Yes of course. Not sure if anyone would be interested but hey,yes.

I'd watch a TV programme about Mr Gascoigne Snr. if there was one...

[leethefish]

Can we get Father Gascoigne in the well?!

Of course, assuming he is agreeable. So to speak.

Yes of course. Not sure if anyone would be interested but hey,yes.

Looking forward to this, sure there will be lots of interest!

+1

[tikay]

Bit of an update on this.

"New Topics", which I think is where it all starts, & where the amount of forum activity comes from, have already exceeded the December Total, & are on track to be the highest since May last year.

The January Post Count will match December's some time on Saturday, (24th) so that leaves a week of "bonus".

There has been a marked increases in New Topics especially, people making an effort to post stuff, this might make an interesting thread. You can't force it, of course, the Topics need to be interesting, but we all (or many of us) seem to be making an effort.     

There have been half a dozen great threads in "The Lounge", & the "Sunday Sweat Thread" on The Rail worked well, too.

Quizzes & Comps always help, too, people interact with them more readily.

Think it's a bit like a relationship - sometimes the partners take each other for granted, & need to freshen things up a bit, do different things, maybe try some adventurous sex or whatever.

[RED-DOG]

I might take my socks off tonight.

[Claw75]

I'm a bit out of the loop - is the forum still sponsored by DTD?

[TightEnd]

I'm a bit out of the loop - is the forum still sponsored by DTD?

yes.

[tikay]

With January now complete, we can take a quick look in the rear view mirror.

Callum started this thread on January 14th, after which there was a remarkable upsurge in activity, mainly resulting from Members making the effort to start new threads, & a few Competitions (Sheep Quiz, Dog Racing, Super Bowl, that sort of thing).

My rule of thumb for Post Count is 300 posts per day, so around 9,000 per month. December had dropped alarmingly to 6,709, the lowest for neartly 10 years.

January New Threads at 190 were more than double December. (90). This is the key stat. In fact it was the highest number of new threads in a month for exactly a year.    

Post count at 9,291 was 38% above December & the 2nd highest since August. The average number of Posts per day was 299.7.

February is a short month, so 8,400 would be the target. Whether we can sustain the momentum & enthusiasm remains to be seen. If we want to keep blonde, we need to.

Great thread, Callum, you were the catalyst for the revival.  

[tikay]

Some really weird stats, as to how Poker Forums generally are coping these days.

Our traditional major rival was always The Hendon Mob.

Yesterday (31st January) there was not a single Post on it all day. On Friday, they had 5 Posts. 5 Posts in 2 days. We had 717.

"Poker Mob", which sort of replaced THM, looks to have had around 5 or 6 Posts yesterday.

This is not to knock either of those Forums, or those connected with them. But it does seem to suggest that it's uphill these days for poker forums in the UK.     

[tikay]

Diaries.

These have attracted a bit of stick, & that may be fair comment.

I have very odd tastes as to what I find "interesting", so I tended to stick weird stuff on my Diary.

I've changed that now, & just use it for genuinely personal stuff, rather than general (dis)interest. If I see something interesting, I just start a new Thread. If it bombs, so be it, but some of them have garnered a modicum of interest which, if they were in my Diary, they may not have.

Fair kop, guv.

[BorntoBubble]

Thanks for your kind words tikay, but it has been the people of blonde old new and current picking up the baton. As you said we all needed a kick up the backside to realise "use it or lose it" I've not been able to keep up with all threads at the end of the month which is how it used to be.

Looking forward to seeing February  going in the same direction!

[kinboshi]

While you're at it - submit your choices in the blondepoker survey!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64896.0

[MereNovice]

While you're at it - submit your choices in the blondepoker survey!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64896.0

... and/or enter the Super Bowl competition.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=64863.0

[BorntoBubble]

So nearly a month after I made the post, the activity has seems to stay pretty high! Lets hope it continues Ive not been able to keep up recently, partly through being busier in work but mainly due to more posts which is how I like it, I can pick and choose what i read again!

Looking forward to hopefully a blonde bash as well which should boost some life into the place.

[tikay]

With January now complete, we can take a quick look in the rear view mirror.

Callum started this thread on January 14th, after which there was a remarkable upsurge in activity, mainly resulting from Members making the effort to start new threads, & a few Competitions (Sheep Quiz, Dog Racing, Super Bowl, that sort of thing).

My rule of thumb for Post Count is 300 posts per day, so around 9,000 per month. December had dropped alarmingly to 6,709, the lowest for neartly 10 years.

January New Threads at 190 were more than double December. (90). This is the key stat. In fact it was the highest number of new threads in a month for exactly a year.    

Post count at 9,291 was 38% above December & the 2nd highest since August. The average number of Posts per day was 299.7.

February is a short month, so 8,400 would be the target. Whether we can sustain the momentum & enthusiasm remains to be seen. If we want to keep blonde, we need to.

Great thread, Callum, you were the catalyst for the revival.  

Bumped for reference, February update follows.

[tikay]

We lost a bit of ground in February.

It was a short month, so we expected less, & the number came in at 7,243.

Measured by Posts per day, that was 258.7 posts per day, down from 299.7 in January, but still way ahead of December (216.4 per day).

New Threads (134) at 4.8 per day dropped from January (6.1 per day), but again, much better than December (2.9 per day).

So, in short, far better than December, but a disappointing decline on January.

We were way ahead of target in early February, due to the benefit of Super Bowl (attracted a lot of interest), & a Sheep Quiz, and we ended with a bang, with the Live Update. The Live Update alone generated 796 February Posts (most, of course, by Tighty), which was 11% of the month total, which suggests, in reality, that those aside, we had a poor month.

With Tighty stuck up at DTD for a week, & me for a fortnight, & of course Red was away most of February, so new threads & "pumping" took a hit. It does need pumping these days, people do interact on new threads, but most prefer others to start them.

March will be interesting.

It's quite possible that "Fred" will cease (which some will welcome, as they feel it was damaging blonde overall), & in it's place, we'll work a lot of separate threads for punting on individual sports. Be interesting to see if that works. It may be that Fred continues, and we do the individual threads, too. Fred was responsible for 1,110 Posts in February, some 15% of all blonde Posts in February.   

I've changed my Diary focus, too. I used to put a lot of odd stuff on there, but now I stick such stuff in The Lounge. Some of these threads take off, some bomb, but it was in response to criticism that Diaries don't help blonde. My Diary continues, but now it's just personal stuff.

Forums, especially poker forums, are gradually dying, as I think we generally agreed, & we have done superbly when measured against similar forums such as THM.

We will have to see how March progresses.

If Members want to see a healthy, thriving, blonde, then they need to share the load, & make an effort - as many already do.

If they are not fussed - which is fair enough - then so be it. If it drops much below 300 per day long-term, there's not much point continuing imo.   

Worth remembering that it is a free facility, open to all, a genuine freeroll. On that basis, we ought to look after it if we want it to continue.