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<blockquote data-quote="weem" data-source="post: 5292024" data-attributes="member: 9470">I can assume that by saying they &quot;go there to die&quot; you mean that announcements are not successful there. In that case, our definition of &quot;success&quot; is not the same. Announcements, or Promotional posts are not defined by the amount of discussion that takes place (in case that was your measure of success), but rather by the traffic they drive to the desired destination. By that standard, they are very successful - people post there daily, not only at rpg.net, but here in the RPG Industry Forum. I have posted them as well (on both sites), and can tell you they do quite well.You will notice people who make posts there tend to come back and do more - you don't waste time on that if it is not working for you.Right now, there is no difference between those two - hence labeling it as such. There is no discussion in the &quot;RPG Industry Forum&quot; - there is only announcements and promotions. You will see, most threads have zero responses and to be honest most of the people posting in there would tell you (I'm fairly confident) that discussion is not what their goal is. The goal is to drive traffic - to inform people of something new and get them to check it out.I think if you made an &quot;Announcements&quot; forum, and an &quot;RPG Industry Forum&quot; you would see all the posts from the latter, migrate to the former and you would have one very empty forum... and one with announcements.But that's just my opinion - I could be wrong, but that's how I see it based on my experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="weem, post: 5292024, member: 9470"] I can assume that by saying they "go there to die" you mean that announcements are not successful there. In that case, our definition of "success" is not the same. Announcements, or Promotional posts are not defined by the amount of discussion that takes place (in case that was your measure of success), but rather by the traffic they drive to the desired destination. By that standard, they are very successful - people post there daily, not only at rpg.net, but here in the RPG Industry Forum. I have posted them as well (on both sites), and can tell you they do quite well. You will notice people who make posts there tend to come back and do more - you don't waste time on that if it is not working for you. Right now, there is no difference between those two - hence labeling it as such. There is no discussion in the "RPG Industry Forum" - there is only announcements and promotions. You will see, most threads have zero responses and to be honest most of the people posting in there would tell you (I'm fairly confident) that discussion is not what their goal is. The goal is to drive traffic - to inform people of something new and get them to check it out. I think if you made an "Announcements" forum, and an "RPG Industry Forum" you would see all the posts from the latter, migrate to the former and you would have one very empty forum... and one with announcements. But that's just my opinion - I could be wrong, but that's how I see it based on my experience. [/QUOTE]

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