Flushing out the forum lurkers
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Noticing a underground trend for ‘word association’ threads on forums. Not new but noticing it more of late. These kind of threads are a cunning way for forum owners to bring ‘lurkers’ out of the woodwork. I.e. People happy to view but not to reply. This is low-barrier way of having a say, and when you input, you’re more likely to check back. An interesting way to see who is actually on your forum and drive activity etc.
Anyway, here are some examples, see the one at the bottom too ‘Three Word Story’.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/community/Forums/Categories/Topic/?&topic-id=320078
Average posts: 20 replies. Word Association post 4,600 replies
http://www.golfmagic.com/forum/forummessages/mps/dt/3/UTN/4834/last/1/V/1/SP/364232436629450466692
Average posts: 20 replies. Word Association post 14,409 replies (90,091 views)
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=1253486
Average posts: 70 replies. Word Association post 1,581 replies (23,370 views)
A variation with a ‘Three Word Story’ …
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40749
Average posts: 70 replies. Word Association post 10,494 replies (108,640 views)