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Jerry Jarvis	HAS THIS BOARD BEEN ABANDONED?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2 (09/04/07 08:37:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Looking for an alt place to go besides the wall and junto.
verde dero	Re: HAS THIS BOARD BEEN ABANDONED?	#1	[-]
Posts: 19 (12/28/07 22:09:47) administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The coming election year might be a good time to bring it back to life.
Marc L Chamot		#2	[-]
Posts: 437 (04/15/08 13:01:22) Prolifactics Militant Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't know Verde? SF JUNTO and Able Darts' Bathroom Wall has declined considerably. I think people are into blogging now days. I think with the stink in San Francisco, SF discussions have bored too many people. Most posters have left. If you can market your site like I suggested for JUNTO to do, which he ignored. You could pick up new readers and posters. You need to go to WIFI coffee shops and place cheap classified ads in the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly and a few in the Chronicle promoting your place on a regular basis to make it work. I really miss you guys! Best wishes from me! Last Edited By: Marc L Chamot 04/16/08 04:40:10. Edited 1 times.
Jerry Jarvis		#3	[-]
Posts: 2 (04/30/08 14:10:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I agree with you marc
Marc L Chamot	sfgate.com/Chronicle	#4	[-]
Posts: 438 (05/02/08 07:36:07) Prolifactics Militant Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thank you Jerry. What also killed San Francisco discussion boards is the Chronicle's sfgate... people comment behind articles over there just like on discussion boards do now. They have become the center of attraction in San Francisco blogosphere now. Other sites like Fog City Journal and Pat Murphy's Sentinel have allowed comments and the need for San Francisco discussion boards are dying.... that's why the Fang Asian Week discontinued their discussion boards Remember Malik Looper's Polifix? They peaked and topped and so did this one after Malik shut Polifix down. Polifix averaged 4,000 views a day! Polifix was extremely influential in its time and I know. If it weren't for Polifix and this site in earlier days I wouldn't have been able to accomplish what I did on the Fangs. That's because sfgate at the time did not allow comments on their articles and neither did Pat Murphy's Sentinel. Polifix was the place to vent about politics and mayor Willie Brown at the time was a punching bag with the Chronicle and he was a great conversation piece at the time. Now that he's gone there really hasn't been any explosive San Francisco subject matters to keep people talking about. Discussion boards are a time of the past…. I also noticed that Topix and Free Republic are on their downward slide also. I stopped posting there. I don't see them much on Google searches like I used too. What's become very popular for writers and bloggers like myself is Zimbio.com, all good postings from writers and bloggers get top google search positioning than anyone else. Zimbio is the place to be right now…. Zimbio is a Net magazine, like Wikipedia on written materials in attractive magazine form, you can post photos and make your page attractive and you get thousands of readers to read your articles, where as on a discussion board you don't. I love Zimbio! Zimbio gives me exposure that most daily papers have on the Net, my articles get the same opportunity to be found on Google and Yahoo as sfgate, the Chronicle and every one else does….

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