Membership Drive for DRTV

[tombogan03884]

Magoo, you will notice a big difference between my posts on history and politics where I am very well informed, and my posts in the gun related threads where I only know what I've worked with .

Santa, Yes, Jay is yelling at you, it's for not leaving the AR he keeps flooding you with letters about.
But considering fuel prices he should be damn glad for the coal 

[philw]

I expect most forums are at about the same percentage if you crunch the numbers. I think most have a core group of posters and a group that follows closely and regularly, but don't post a lot. If the average participation runs around 10% on the different forums, the the active members will be larger on the ones with 20,000 members versus one like us with 5000.

Like most forums, we have flat-spots from time to time. Do we need more participation? It's not vital, but I would like to see more input.... particularly from many of the members who have been here for years, but don't post.

I also agree with Jay, I try to stay informed, current and abreast of politics....but it can get downright mind-numbing at times. I'd like to see more gun-related discussion.

And yes, we need pie. 

bingo..


free beer might help...

[jaybet]

Good morning!  Actually I am not yelling at anyone, except that Santa's offerings  have been a little slim the last few years. I'm hoping for a "Makeup" Christmas morning this year.

This is one of those discussions that all lead to the same place....great place to hang and talk, and even when one of us goes too far off the deep end, it's entertaining anyway.

You guys are right...I live in quite a different world than most of you as far as 2A is concerned. It is an accident of birth and of a career path that has kept me here. I just recently started participating in the NJ Gun Forum, which is pretty good, especially for keeping up with what's going on in NJ or trying to make sure you don't step afoul of one of our many non-sensical laws. I see similar advantages as here, and similar drawbacks, although it does NOT self-regulate like DRTV. The moderators are much more active.

The discourse here is more to the point, more informative, and I think friendlier as well. And since I AM in this place, it's really great to be able to correspond with folks of a similar mind, talk about stuff, and find out the consensus from all corners of this great country.

This is a good place to hang, period.

[fightingquaker13]

bingo..


free beer might help...

When has it ever hurt?
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

When has it ever hurt?
FQ13

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[Ranger Dave]

Fellas I joined this forum in Nov 2009. I contribute my sanity or lack of  to this forum. Where I currently work I may not go into town for a couple days and may not see anyone besides the wife at home or the neighbor driving by the house all week. Then on the weekends I may be able to talk some adults who are out her with their kids camping and it is usually Scout related. So I have been able to hang here and feel like I am amongst freinds.
Thank You
Ranger Dave

[BBJohnnyT]

The site provides revenue to the owner by the ads, but it also provides a place to discuss the DR TV shows and hopefully drives up viewership, which hopefully, drives up ratings and then fuels its ad revenue.   

I like DRTV forum precisely because it's a mid-volume site.   AR-15, Glock, S&W, Accuratereloading and others have way too much traffic for me to keep up with.  I go there when I have specific questions or if I want to show off something to a very specific audience. 

This is absolutely the case for me.  I'm late to the game in this forum because I never watched DRTV and therefore didn't really know about this forum or DRTV in general.  Mostly because I didn't want to shell out the extra bucks my cable company charges for the channel tier that offers the Outdoor channel.  But I discovered this forum based on listening to back issues of the podcast.  Since viewing the forum posts, I've recently decided to pony up to my cable company just to get the Outdoor channel and watch the DRTV episodes.  So, the sponsorship and ads work, I'm proof of that.

I've also been active in CalGuns but spend less and less time there due to the insane and diminishing quality volume.  I'd rather spend my time perusing old threads here, because that's more productive.

[Magoo541]

BB I did the same thing, although I had the Outdoor Channel before and just recently ponied up to get it back.

Ranger Dave while I have more adult interaction there are just a few like minded indviduals that I interact with on a regular basis outside of this site.  This is a comfortable place, where I actually learn a thing or two. 

FWIW I think DRTV is fine the way it is but if it were to grow I would hope it would be through like minded people being invited from other forums by current members.

[tombogan03884]

Ranger Dave, Glad we can serve as your "link to society".
I'd rather be where you are than where I am.

I like the forum at about the size it is, in general if there is a technical, gun, training, etc type of question being discussed I know based on past performance who is talking from knowledge, who is thinking about it and who is just talking out their butt.
If it gets to large we lose some of that.

[Timothy]

I like it here because, although most guys know I landed on my noggin' one too many times, they don't rub my nose in it too often!

I can be a dumb ass and get through the days toils unabridged by my lack of better judgement!

"They love me, they REALLY love me!"  (Sally Field as Norma Rae)